The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-20

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"A baby grand piano, Myl
They must have lots of dough;
S Wond raT,+ who on earth they are?
1 Just see the lovely chairs they have
I'd like to own them all:
L wonder what her husband does?
III be the first to call"
The second van arrives and still
Ehe nefghbor watches there;
Her eyes are glued upon each rug
And fastened on each chair.
A rapid metal ti list list ii'|'
Then mutters as the doors are closed
I hope they play bridge whist"
Sport in Egypt.
At first sight, perhaps, one would
hardly be inclined to associate resi-
dence in Egypt with the practice of
any form of sport dear to the heart of
the average Briton. The Land of
Pharaohs is so proverbially dry and
sandy that few people who have not
visited it would dream of finding any
thing there worth powder and shot.
But Egypt, like many other parts of
the empire, is a maligned country, and
as matter of fact it's borders contain
plenty of game for those who know
where to look for it. There is even
hunting, of a sort to be had in certain
districts, but any one who expects to
find hard 40 minutes run, with a
Kill at the end in LeiceSterShire style,
had better stop at home, for he will not
find anything of the sort between AL
exandria and Khartoum. Still, if Rey-
nard is conspicuous by his absence.
there are plenty of wolves; hyenas,
jackals and wild boars to act as SUBJ
stitutes. Then, the fertile Delta dis
trict swarms with quail and snipe,
while only few miles to the south of
the Pyramids of Ghizeh, the ardent
Nimrod will encounter all the duck,
partridge and sand grouse he is likely
to bring down in a days march. The
low-lying shores of Lake Birket Karum,
not far from Cairo, are also a region
where birds are to be found in abund-
ance at certain seasons of the year.
Disciples of Izaak Walton, too, can test
their prowess (and patience) with rod
ana line; eithar in the brackish waters
of Lake Menzaleh, where it joins the
Suez canal, or there is the Nile itself
ready waiting for them. Here, at any
rate, there is always the added excite
ment of the possibility of hooking a
Wyndham, in May Recreation.
Overloaded.
Senator Hale had been inveighing
at a dinner against long speeches.
But, Senator" said a congressman,
you can't accuse me of ever having
made too long a speech, can you ?"
Senator Hale smiled.
perhaps not" he said; land again
But did you ever hear about the
"Well, you must know that there
was a temperance lecturer in Maine
who came TO Ellsworth and lectured-
He hit out pretty hard from the shout
der at these so-called moderate drink
ers, and at the end of his remarks an
Ellsworth man took him aside and
said in an aggrieved tone:
Look here, Jim, L am moderate
drinker, as all the town knows, and to
MANY people it is going to seem as if
a good part of your lecture was point
ed straight at me. What did you
want to do it for. Jim? You never
saw me with more on board than
What's tfat?' said the temper
ance lecturer.
you never saw me with bigger
load than 1 could carry, did you?'
1.-THE lecturer frowned.
""Well, no. he said slowly; but I
have seen you when I thought you'd
have done better to go twice for IT. y
The Insane Aeronaut.
Orville Wright, the aeronaut, shook
his head good humoredly.
mo" he said; 81 can't be inter
viewed
, but pleaded the reporter. when
I've come all the way to Dayton ?"
Mr.. Wright smiled.
eff 1 were to talk aeronautfcs with
every reporter who asks me to-" he
said. I'D soon be in such condition
that-thal-
s'I'u illustrate with a story the con-
1ition 1 mean.
"a visitor to a lunatic asylum saw a
Young man running about catching |
flies.
What is hep said the visitor. An
omologist?'
"'No,' said the superintendent; he
IS an aeronaut
AN aeronaut?'
eyes, sir Very sad case. The
1ificult questions put to him by the
reporters drove him mad in the end.
Il is his idea now, when he catches
enough flies, to harness them to a
;oap box, and so fly over the wall and
escape.
Ducks in China.
There are more ducks in China than
n all the rest of the world. CHINA,
literally. is white with these girds,and
With their metallic and scornful
-oices.
Children herd ducks on every road,
m every pond, on every farm, on ev-
ry river. There is no boat, little or
-reat without it's duck quarters.
Even in the cities of China ducks
bound. They dodge between the |,
ooIies' legs. They fit squawking out +
# the way of the horses. Their in
ignant quack will not unseldom
rown the roar of urban commerce.
All over the land there are great
luck Matching establishments, many
f them of capacity huge enough
o produce so thousand young ducks
very year Duck among the Chinese
3 the staple delicacy. 1t is sailed and
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