The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-15
AYHAWKER UTS

An Atchfson travelling mans favor
lite story is that at the poorest country
hotels the landlord, in his shirt
sleeves and smoking a cob pipe, will
say: well, did you get everything
you wanted?"
When the young men in Spring Hill
imbibe too freely they indulge in
shirt tair' parades through the prin-
cipal streets Of the town. The Spring
Hill New Era threatens to print some
of their names II they do not quit
their disgusting" practices
The Meade Globe apologies to the
two or three thousand new settlers in
that county for the weather during
May. 1t states positively that never
before was such measly weather fur
nished the county and promises a
better variety in the near future.
monstrosity in the shape Of a calf
was born to a common farm mich
COW down near Ports recently. The
animal had two we'll developed heads.
four eyes, six legs and two tails but
could not bear up under the strain, so
died before 1t had chance to do
much good for this world. The own
er refused $500 for the carcass of the
strange little calf. He no doubt would
have been offered much more for it,
had 1t only lived.
A combination of tragedy. senti-
ment and sensational news from the
Usage Public Opinion: about 10
o'clock Saturday night Usage City had
suit of too much booze, when, in the
twinkling of an eye. Frank Samuel
son, well known here, was hurled into
the great beyond by a bullet fired
from a 32-caliber revolver in the
hands of his nephew, Joseph Sahlberr
in cold blood at the rear
of the Dumas billiard hail.
A few days ago, says the Emporia
Gazette, when L. H. Barnes, mail
carrier. opened one of the big square
mail boxes that are on some of the
corners in the residence parts of town,
he found a package that few mail
carriers are ever called upon to de-
liver. 1t was big black cat, and did
mt wait to be gathered up with the
rest of the contents of the box. but
made a dive past Barnes shoulder
and got away.
papers in Chase county developed
some interesting geographical data.
Among the answers reproduced by the
Cottonwood Falls Leader were these:
The equator is a line drawn around
the earth, the hottest place on earth.
Equator is hot place run
ming through the earth.
Equator is where the sun is near the
earth and it is very hot. A
glacier is a mountain that travels at
Equator is a pole standing in the CEN
ter of the earth. The at
mosphere is the circumference of the
air. Wichita, in southern
Kansas, is the home of the insane.
About a month ago Sam Magaw
caught wounded sea gull, while
making his rounds on route No. 1,
and brought it to town. It had either
been shot or flown against a telephone
wire, one of its wings being broken
at the first joint. Mr.. Magaw took
the bird to Wards livery barn and
Mort Taylor took it home. He am
putated the injured wing at the first
joint and the foreigner seems to be
getting along just as well as though
it were in its native home on the coast.
He feeds it worms. corn, bread
crumbs. etc, and keep a tub of wat
er handy for it to play in. The chick
ems and pigeons are it's only compan-
ions but it seems contented. 1t has a
sharp bill like a chicken and feet like
duck. A man over near Russell
found an injured sea gull just the 9TH
er day and it attracted no little atten-
ton because they are seldom seen in
this section of the country.-Downs
Times