The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-16
LAYHAWKER JOTS

County Attorney Kreamer Of Cowley
county blosscmed out wit ha straw hat
last Thursday-and the next day it
almost showed.
The coal strike is having its effect
in Concordia. Owing to a shortage in
fuel the electric light plant now runs
only till midnight.
Tom Ellis fears that added to the
horrors of the eruption of Vesuvius,
some one may take a notion to write
some more Last Days of Pompeii.
A minister at Pratt preached on the
subject, THE Seven Devils Of Pratt, .
and Mack Gretchen thinks it must be
pretty tough on the old town to have
seven devils and only two printing
Offices.
Homer Hoch recalls an unpleasant
subject in this way: Tt is not consid-
the Seeing Topeka" car calls any spe-
cial attention to the Kansas avenue
pavement
This much is noticeable anyway, $
says the Coffeyville Record. The OF
tawa Herald has been improved won
derfuIly since its editor H. J. Allen,
was defeated for congress and began
giving the paper his personal atten-
ton
An old sandstone Indian pipe was
found near Ottawa recently. An IN
dian chief is supposed to have lived IN
that locality at one time, and the Her
aid has n theory that the pipe dropped
out of his smoking jacket while he was
strolling around.
Editor ingalls, of the Washington
Register, gives out this information
The candidates are hereby notified that
a part of our garden is still unspaded-
Any candidate who uses up five min
utes of our good time is. expected TO
spend ten minutes with the spade. a
discount will be made on long calls
1,-t,are announcements has been paid for
in advance.
The Iindsborg News says thai the
many conversions at Mcpherson and
the fierce attack by Rev Oliver against
the billiard hall has shown reInaFK aIs PIE
results. While before the revival there
used to be about two hundred young
men at the pool room Saturday even
ings, there were scarcely more than a
dozen last Saturday night This IS re-
ported by a young man who used 10
go there.
The saIina Vitrifed Brick company
uses crude oil in burning its brick. IL
usually requires about two carloads OF
oil to burn a kiln of ESQ, 900 brick. The
oil is piped to the kiln from a large
tank near by and is burned from thirty
jets. These jets burn constantly from
the time the kiln is started and the heat
obtained from them is intense. Birds
dvfn1 over the kiln while 1t is burning
are killed by the heat and it is almost
impossible for a man to remain long on
the edge of the top of the kiln while it
is burning.
The Sabetha Herald has learned that
the most eff1cacious plan in sleeping on
wedding cake is to write five names on
a piece of paper, also a blank and ar
unknown Put these with the we'd
ding cake under the pillow, and pull
out a slip every morning. The last
name is the fated bride or groom, as
the case may be. Seven Sabetha girls
tried this after recent wedding, and
Zach pulled the blank the last time
The blank is an indication of what you
draw and presages a life Of single
blessedness. This is considerably more
trouble than the old plan of simply
dreaming about your fate on a piece OF
cake. hut it is said to bring better re-
suits. as do modern methods in other
less vital matters.