The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-07
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Life used to have a rosy hue,
But now it's turning green
neasiy verdance meets my view
In each domestic scene.
m pretty sure never thought
1 had the self-restraint
That 1 have shown since Mary bought
That gallon can of paint.
She bought it to renew a chair
That age and use had worn,
And ever since with blank despair
And range and grief I'm torn.
The color isn't to my taste,
But Mary doesn't like to waste
Shes using up that paint
Perhaps a pint had been enough
Perhaps a little less:
But there's a gallon of the stun
That causes my distress.
She's freShened this and freshened that
TIL it would vex saint
1t is green as grass all through the flat
Since Mary bought that paint
Chicago News.
Tourist and the High Priced Candles.
A tourist was shown to room in a
hotel in Brussels, where he found
twenty candles stuck in a chandelier.
AS it was dark, the attendant lighted
them all; but the guest had been in
continental hotels before and made
him put them out Immediately.
This was of no avail, however. In
his bill next day he found them
charged, Twenty candles, 10 francs"
The tourist thereupon went back to
the room and took out all the can
dies, wrapped each one in paper, and
put them into his pocket.
When he was about to leave the
house he found the servants drawn up
in two lines in the hall, ten man ser
wants on one side, ten maid servants
on the other, all smiling and ready
for the expected tip. Then he drew
out his package and distributed the
candles, one to each.
'Allow me- monsieur" he said with
a bow; permit me, mademoiselle.
They are very superior candles, as
sure you. 1 paid half franc apiece
for them" and he left them all star
ing at the. candles in their hands like
so many altar boys@Tit Bits.
Hearing Restored by Bass Drum.
During a euchre the hearing of
Mrs. Amelia Menu, living on the North
Bend road, Cheviot, was suddenly re-
stored to her. She has been almost
totally deaf for the past twenty years.
sickness. Mrs. Menu IS sixty-five years
old, and is the wife of a well-to-do
farmer.
She was playing in a euchre given
in Rabenstein's Hall, near her home,
last Tuesday evening. While occupy
drummer gave the bass drum a re-
sounding thump. AS he did SO some
thing seemed to snap in Mrs. MEMS
ears, she says. and the noise in the
room sounded so boisterous to her
that she says that it almost made her
deaf again.
She rushed from the room and
stayed out for some minutes in order
to accustom herself to the new condi-
ton. She says that she can now hear
even low-voiced conversation
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Fought Rather to the Death.
Wilbur NJ. Tuttle, aged twenty-six,
had a frightful battle with a rattle
snake within the city limits this
morning. Although he killed the
snake, which measured more than
four feet in length, futile may lose
his life, as he was badly bitten, one of
natural size. Tuttle was walking down
California avenue this morning when
he heard a kissing sound, followed in
a few seconds by a warning rattle.
futile jumped aside, but the snake
struck at him again, this time burying
it's fangs in the right ankle. Although
suffering intense pain the young man
went after the snake. For thirty
minutes an exciting battle was fought.
Finally, when he was almost uncon-
scious from pain. Tuttle managed to
kill the snake with a stone, and then
tainted. He was taken to a physi-
clans office by several men who found
him lying on the sidewalk.-Pitts-
burg dispatch to New York Herald.
Wins Bet on Keeping Silent.
The open season for fool bets is on
in st. Charles, a suburb of ST. Louis.
That's the reason for the queer antics
Of Edward Boston.
Boston went to work at Z O'Clock
this morning to furnish diversion for
a big crowd at Fifth and Decatur
streets, the busiest corner in town.
On a wager of IS with six young men,
whose names he would not divulge.
he agreed to work ten hours without
speaking to any one.
All he had to do was to pile six
bricks on the curb on one side of the
street and then carry them over to
the other side and pile them up there,
and back again, and back again, all
day long.
Several hundred persons watched
him as he trudged back and forth
with the bricks. They asked him
questions and hurled taunts at him,
but he kept his lips tightly shut. and
at d. m. he had won the bet.-St.
Louis dispatch to New York Times.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
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