The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-27

If days were long as mortal aim,
If hearts were strong to bear
But night comes on and strength is gone,
The task unfinished there.
So short the day,
So swift the sun,
So much to do.
So little done!
Newark Evening News.
Weman's Way of Escape.
Two men sat next her table at
luncheon. They were suburbanites,
and Suburbanite small talk engrossed
their tongues and attention. She was
careful, though not intrusive listener
SO she seemingly bent her head to the
business in hand the while her ears
mentioned small talk
In few moments she learned that
the topic of conversation was a won
derful suburban ball game played be-
tween a married mems nine and a sin
Won. ---0-' -''-0
81 tell YOU" said one, 'it was a great
game. Do you remember when Jim
mle batted that liner out to left field
ninth, and how went after it and
caught him at second?'
You bet" replied the other, that
coup decided the game in your favor,
but the thing can't understand about
1t is that your nine, you old married
men, won out!''
"Oh. that's easy returned the
Benedict. I'VE married men are well
cared for. Our nerve is always with us.
We don't have to watch the grand
stand for the approval of a sweet
young thing just as a beautiful f1ier is
soaring toward u.s.
The young man disputed the point,
and, though friendly, the argument
waxed warm. Finally the elder man
espied the young woman. 81 tell you
what" said he, 'Ill leave it to that
girl
"All right" chimed in his vis-a-vis:
TASK her.
The attention of the entire tea-room
was centered upon them by this time,
and with the turn in the conversation
| the young woman was now the cyno-
put the question to her, but being a
discreet young woman, as well as
wholly unentangled. she threw them
into confusion. much to the delight of
the onlookers, by slowly folding her
napkin, rising slowly from her chair,
and with a whitening glance at-her
fiabbergasted interrogators, stalked
proudly from the room.
Amid audible giggles the men soon
followed her.-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Saw Frogs.
A white faced boy rushed into the
st. Francis hotel on Saturday after
noon and told Chief Clerk McDermott
that it was raining frogs outside. He
had hardly madeN the announcement
before a guest who had been strenu-
ously endeavoring to corner the liquid
stock of the cafe for a week crawled to
the desk and begged McDermott to
come up to his room on the top floor.
When the clerk got into the room,
the guest said, pointing to the bureau:
"Old man, look at that, and tell me
II there is big green frog on top of
it or If only think so. Don't be afraid
to tell me if it isn't really there, and
III go right down and sign off for a
year.
McDermott looked at the bureau,
and sure enough, there was a large
frog on II. It was alive and had evil
IDENTITY not been long from the water.
soon as Chef Victor Hertzler heard of
the excitement he at once made a bee
line for the roof and disclosed the
cause of the mystery.
Hertzler makes a speciality of dishes
the bases of which are frogs legs, and
the demand for them has been so great
that he decided to have a "froggery'
on the roof. There were about 200
frogs in it on Saturday morning, and
they must have discovered some way
out. for none were left when Hertzler
looked for them in the afternoon. The
remains of two frogs on the sidewalk
and the one in the guests room ac-
counts for three them, but where the
n
Hertzler was looking for them with a
lantern in Union Square in spite of the
fact that any frog who made the leap
from the roof Of the hotel to the park
would not be likely to move very far
from the spot where it landed.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Proof That the Moon Is Uninhabited.
The moon being much the nearest to
US of all the heavenly bodies. we Gan
nrnn0I1nPo daf7nif0fxy in re
| than in any other. We know that neither
| air nor water exists on the moon in
quantities sufficient to be perceived by
the most delicate tests at our conf
mand.NIt is certain that the moons at
mosphere, if any exists, is less than the
thousandth part of the density of that
around us. The vacuum is greater than
any ordinary air-pump is capable OF
producing. We can hardly suppose that
so small a quantity of air could be of
any benefit whatever in sustaining life;
an animal that could get along on so
little could get along on none at all
But the proof of the absence of life is
vet stronger when we con-'.:ar the re-
suits of actual telescope observation.
An object such as an ordinary city block
could be detected on the moon. If any
thing like vegetation were present on
its surface, we should see the changes
| which it would undergo il the course
of month. curing one portion Of which
| it would be exposed to tbs rays Of the
uncIouded sun. and during another to
the intense cold of space.-Professor
Simon Newcomb. in Harper's for Au-
gust.
Appendix Becoming Rare?
How many verIniform appendices are
| there in the world today? A few savage
and semi-civilized nations retain them,
but the supply in lands where the sur
geons flourish must be small, for Slash
| er has been at work all over. Like
Mr.. Joseph Kidd, NJ. D., of England.
rises and cries reserve the appendix"
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