The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-19
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Chanute can't find anyone who wants
the job of dog catcher.
A Downs woman has Matched out
1860 young chickens this spring and Is
still at it.
There is a suspicion that this row
about running the Ottawa chautauqua
on Sunday is for advertising purposes
The graduating class of the Everest
high school must have been un1nter-
esting this year. 1t was made up en-
tirely of boys. Not a sweet girl grad.
in it,
A land patent dated March 8. 1855.
and bearing the signature of James
Buchanan as president of the United
States was filed with the register of
deeds at Emporia recently.
The town of Burton has a club
known as the Jack Rabbit club The
constitution of the organization recites
that Jack Rabbit was the name Sc
lected because the jack rabbit is a ma
tive of Kansas, is accomplishing, and
can go some"
An old-timer in Jewell county in re-
calling a big 4th of July celebration
he'll dat Jewell City in 1876, speaks
of w. D. Street, one of the first set
tiers of that county, who had engraved
on his gun stock: wild Bill from
Smoky Hill. Never worked and never
WILL This gun stock story is a new
one on Street. who, with the advance
went before it out to Decatur, where
he has been a prominent factor in the
conquest of northwest Kansas, work.
ing hard at the job. He was speaker
of the house in the POpulist legislature
of 1897.
A Kansas paper quotes every dollar
in a mans pocket as saying to him:
IF you will let me stay in this town
I'll circulate around and do lots of
good You buy a big beefsteak with me
and the grocer will buy dry goods and
the dry goods merchant will pay his
doctor bill with me, and the doctor
will spend me with the farmer for
oats for his horse, and the farmer will
pay his subscription to the editor of
the local paper, and the editor will pay
for his last summer trousers and buy
a pair of socks. In the long run you
see, I'll be more useful to you here at
home than IL you'd sent me away for
ever
VIII Palmer: Besides all his other
chores a normal man has to breathe
10000 every day, and if you miss do
ing your stunt for one day you can
never catch up again. 80. An iceberg
sometimes lives 200 years. An ice
berg always keeps cool and never al
lows itself to get excited about any
thing. If a bug could talk we
would like to ask him what he thinks
a light is, anyway The way to
accomplish anything is to keep peg
ging away. The human heart isn't
any bigger than your fist but it pumps
nearly eight tons of blood every day
The bugs have eaten seventeen
crops of leaves off the box elder trees
but the eighteenth crop is coming on.
Atchison Globe: In looking over the
session laws of 1907, Judge Adams be-
lieves he has discovered where some
father, who has been kept awake by
young men counting his daughters got
in his good work. In new law
against trespassing, "loitering'' is
made a crime unless the loiterer has
the written consent of the man on
whose property he is lettering. The
fine for violation of the law is from
IS to $25. Judge Adams has two
daughters growing up, and conse-
quently is interested. He will get up
a blank form. something like the fol-
lowing: Whereas. Mr.. in
search of a wife, does desire to hunt
and loiter upon the premises lawfully
IN the possession of the undersigned;
and, whereas, I am one of the parents
of the girls who inhabit these premises
do hereby give my consent to Mr..
---, in search of a wife, to hunt
and loiter upon my said premises
aforesaid, provided he shall depart in
peace on or before o'clock D. m.
This consent is given to comply with
chapter 195 of the laws OF 1907. Sign
ed - Judge Adams idea is to
print these permits in vest pocket edi-
tions