The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-27


Speaking of law enforcement. Mem
aha county is to have a new jail.
A girl in Hiawatha has saved three
pounds of pennies She has the coin,
all right
Old General Apathy is not in evil
dence In Stafford county, says the
Stafford Courier
The Alma Enterprise was % years
old last week. but you mustn't imagine
that this IS "23" for the Enterprise.
It is said that an employe of the Bell
Telephone company In Sabetha is so
elegant and up-to-date that she spells
it Belle.
Muscotah swells up and walks
chesty every time 1t happens to think
that Joe Tinker. the great short stop
of the Chicago Nationals. was born
there in 1880.
Some Frank farrell thinklets:
When there are cobwebs on the walls
of house, the woman guests always
discovers them, The rea-
son people don't practice what they
preach is because 1t is easier to preach
no Jackson county politician has
charged his opponent with horse steal
ing. Politics is improving
Troy Chief Everybody in Durant
is seeing snakes. Recently a snake
enarmer visited that city with one
AdAAQI0u reptiles All sizes ana COlOIS.
He also brought his wife. He left the
city but did not return. She tired Of
waiting, became entangled in the coils
Of another chaTmer, and left the city
with him. The ''varmints'' were left
behind in charge OF blind man. The
snakes escaped from their prison.
Everybody in that city carries a club
and can "see 'em" without the assist
ance of a black bottle.
Funny" stories about people being
lost in Kansas corn fields are common.
but the Horton Headlight comes for
ward with a really and truly one A
little child in family near Everest
WAS missed about o o'clock one morn
ing and it was found about shutdown In
corn field about a mile from home.
The entire neighborhood was out
looking for the child. but without sue
cess. About shutdown a neighbor who
was looking for the child went to the
back part of his farm to see II any
stock had broke in. and accidentally
found the child wandering about in
the field. The house dog was follow
ing the child and the tracks showed
that the dog had been with the child
all the time 1t had been lost.
Sabetha Herald: DR.. Lyon, of Sa-
betha, has the newspaper collection
fad. He has newspapers from London
and Liverpool, England, from Edin-
burgh and GLASGOW, Scotland. and
from Basic and Lucerne. Switzerland.
and a copy Of the Egyptian News from
Cairo. The latter newspaper is print
ed in three languages, English. French
and Arabic. Arabic looks very much
like American shorthand. The hero
glypIics are Identical with the Scott
Brown shorthand system in many in
stances. Whether the meaning is the
same we cannot say. DR.. Lyon also
has many letters from celebrated peo-
pie; among them are John ingalls,,
President Benjamin Harrison, Dr. E.
W Barridge, a famous English physf-
clan, and many other foreign doctors
whose names would possibly not be
familiar to many readers. Mrs. Lyon,
his wife, has a treasure which would
doubtless make little girls scream
with envy and delight It is a dolls
bureau about q foot high made of
genuine mahogany and inlaid with
satinwood. The four drawers work to
perfection. The bureau was made by
the famous cabinet and furniture
makers. the RandOIphs. Mrs. Lyon is
a descendant of the Virginia Ran
dolphs, many of whom have been
celebrated American statesmen. The
Virginia John Randolph claimed to
be direct descendant of Pocohontas.
When John Randolph died in his will
he liberated over three hundred slaves
and provided for their maintenance in
a free state. Mrs Lyon played with
the little mahogany bureau when she
was a little girl, as did also her moth
er and her grandmother.