The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-28
AYHN WKER .WT.S

The University of Kansas has about
$500 graduates.
A book shower at Coffeyville result
ed in $50 new volumes for the public
library.
According to the Eagle the North Side
Dickens club at Wichita is studying
Tennyson and the West Side Dickens
club is studying Shakespeare.
About this time of year the water
wagon has usually been pretty well re-
Heved of its load, but down at Newton
John Walton has just climbed on the
water wagon and is sprinkling the
streets.
According to the Stafford Courier a
bachelor there has discovered that there
is no difference between sparkling" a
girl and carving a turkey, as a man is
apt to get both in his lap before he is
through with them.
Over forty-three per cent of the stu
dents of the University of Kansas are
wholly self-supporting or partly so. The
paying their own way is a fraction over
twenty. 1t is estimated that about one
hundred students earn their expenses
while in attendance.
Two Atchison families who have been
friends for years have quarrelled. One
family has cup and saucer which
they claimed to have received from a
member of the Japanese nobility. Last
week the other family got cup and
saucer out of a package of breakfast
food and the pieces are exactly like
those sent by the nobility"
First 1907 snake item, by the Sabetha
Star: Mark Terrill brings in the first
snake story of the season Last Satur-
day while he was helping put up ice
for Will Soden he stepped out on the
bank of the creek to pick up a saw, and
there Law a garter snake of about two
no
and squirmed around lively when he
picked it up.
Atchison Globe: Ex-Governor Bailey
has rented the Henry Diegel house at
Fifth and L streets. and will be here
with Mrs. Bailey next Monday to re-
main. His household goods will be ship
ped the latter part of the week. The
Diegel place has a large yard, and will
remind the Baileys little of their farm
in Nemaha county. They nave also
purchased COW. The governor leaves
this evening for Topeka, but will return
to Raileyville Thursday to finally settle
up his affairs.
An lola story: A woman made COM
plant to the local police Saturday af-
ternoon saying that she had been heec-
ed out of the hair she had given TO
woman to make up into switch she
saws that a woman came to her house
saving that she was in the business
She wanted her combings that she mad
saved to make up into a switch. she
would do this for small sum of money
BUT when she went to return the switch
there was but about half the amount
of hair that was given the woman
..Tbe Spirit of Departed Saints"
writes Bent Murdoch from Topeka to
his paper, have quite often Whispered
to me in dreams that at some time IN
nv life 1 would become famous. Wen,
the longed-for time has arrived
charming-of course she is charming
assistant superintendent of the Topeka
public schools, after having assembled
a countless number of Topeka >high
school girls and high school boys in the
auditorium on the 22nd of February
Washington's birthday-announced that
che would read to them a short story
written by a famous Kansas writer
and she read in a clear voice and great
effect nv story printed in these columns
last week entitled The Axe Was Laid
at the Root of the Tree Little MISS
Hurley. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs ]. E
Hurley told me about it today. Bless
the fair damsel who read the story TO
the school girls and boys. L will send
her a bunch of choice flowers Monday.