The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-07
.AYHAWKER JOTS

| The Oberlin Eye has a single girl who
has worked for it for six years. She is
still single-but the Eye is afraid she
| won't be always.
| A boastful Wichita man who told of
| having killed twenty-seven ducks at
one time, is trying to sidestep the game
warden now by insisting that the occur
renee was several years in the past.
The injury to a Topeka girl caused by
| the explosion of a can of tomatoes leads
Charlie Blakesley to suggest that the
| next legislature may be asked to enact
a law requiring tomato cans to be
painted red.
Correction cheerfully made by the
Vinland Vine: 1t is an unintentienai
error in our last issue to say that Bill
Sincaller and Jake Duzenberry lost
their tempers at the same time and had
fight. They had the fight all right
enough but the truth was that each
man was in possession Of all the temper
he could muster. That was why they
fought.
The dilemma of the lola woman who
wants to apply for a divorce but does
not know her husbands name, reminds
]. L. Brady that last summer when
social times were dull a Lawrence girl
was called UP by the telephone and ask
ed to go out boat-riding. She accepted
very promptly and then asked Whats
the name, pleaEe?" The man had runs
off by that time and she did not know
with whom she was going until he
showed up.
that he once borrowed a Winchester
rife and started up the street a few
days after to deliver the weapon to its
owner. Tho delinquent subscribers got
INTO their heads that he was on the
warpath and every one he met insist
ed on paying what he owed him. One
man wiped out a debt of ten years
standing. On his return to his office he
found load Of hay, fifteen bushels of
corn, ten bushels of potatoes a load of
wood and barrel Of turnips.
Major Beck's idea of soft snap is
Pullman car conductor. All he seems to
have to do is to take up the tickets of
from six to two dozen passengers and
give them a check instaed. He has a
porter to do all the work and the pas
sengers are expected to pay the porter
his wages in tips. Only once" he says
have we seen the Pullman conductor
earn his salary. On that occasion two
women held tickets for the same lower
an UPPER, that conductor wore haunt
ed haggard expression Of countenance
for the next twenty-four hours"
Beloit Gazette: Rev and Mrs. Fin
ney are in receipt of letters from their
daughter, Miss Minnie. a missionary in
Egypt, who has been enjoying her va
cation travelling. Her letters are very
interesting. She mentions a drive in a
spring wagon from Tiberius to MAJ
areth. passing through Cana of Galilee,
where her party was refreshed with
water drawn from the we'll where the
water pots were supposed to have been
filled with water at that wedding feast
at cana, SO many centuries ago. She
speaks Of a trip on the Sea of Galilee |
which was very impressive to her on |
account of Cnrist's association with the
disciples there. The most interesting
trip she speaks of was a hard one, as |
it was a two days ride taken on horse |
back from T1berius through Samaria |
and Judea to Jerusalem, touching at |
Nazareth. She also mentions an in |
teresting trip starting from Jerusalem |
and driving to Jericho, passing Bethany; |
also driving out to the Dead Sea, In |
which they took bath. and TO the river |
Jordan. They also visited Bethlehem |
and the city of Zelza, where Saul was |
born. She has certainly had delight |
full vacation, and took UP her school |
work in Alexandria. Egypt. October /, |
with probably more zeal and interest |
for having taken such trip.