The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-07
AYHAWKER JOTS

A wagon loaded with pumpkins is
such an unusual sight in Burlington
that it attracts attention of newspa--
per there to the, extent of an eighth or
a column.
T. R. Wainwright, who lives four
miles north of Cherryvale, took a twig
of an apple tree into that town the
other day which called forth comment
even from apple experts There We're
| sixteen apples on 1t.
at am always willing to concede that
a man may differ with me and yet be
honest" observes old 81 Chestnut of
the Sedgwick Paragraph. but I
can't get rid of the idea that he is a
blamed chump, all the same"
The highball season is close at
hand. The highball season. is the
time when the innocent young thing
who has married a man to reform
him detects the odor of cloves on his
breath, says the Salina Journal.
While the Democrats were holding a
rally in the hall over the general store
at Morehead. one night recently, re-
lates the Ottawa Herald, a masked S
man walked into the store and held the
proprietor up for $50. The mans
identity could not be discovered, but
the police are suspicious that he may
have been General Adversely. who is
known to have been following the
pdIl diOuHo-
A poultry note from the Emporia
Gazette: "All the town hens have gone
dry and are laying no eggs, now that
eggs are worth money. 1t is always
the way with town hens. They are alb
surdly industrious and go around lay
ing all sorts of plain and fancy eggs
when hen fruit is so plentiful that you
can't give 1T away to charity organ
ization, but when the price goes up
and eggs would be worth while, the
fool critters spend their time shedding
their feathers One set of feathers
ought to last a hen a lifetime; just
think OF the time wasted every fall,
getting rid of the old feathers and
growing new ones, and nothing doing
in the egg department. There ought
to be law"
Colonel L. w. johnson, the auction
eer is the fisherman and hunter of the
town. says Wellington newspaper
He went out the other night with the
expectation of bringing in a mess of
fish. He took his gun along in case
that he did not have his usual luck in
fishing and while strolling along the
bank looking for good place to fish he
spied tree which looked suspicious as
a rendevouz for coons and he stopped
suddenly, threw away his fishing para
phernalia and skinned off his coat and
climbed the tree and rousted the coon
out. After an effort he succeeded in
getting the said coon in position where
he could use his shotgun and took a
shot at him. The first shot brought
him to the ground dead. The coon was
killed on the Wilmington place west of
town and weighs "a rounds.
The police in Wichita in raiding a
Douglass avenue Joint captured a
very rare and valuable recipe for
fine old whisky The Beacon. always
ready to benefit the public generally,
publishes the formula, which is as fol-
lows: Fluid extract of Quillaya, one
dram; fluid extract of Cannibis India
two drains; tincture Of Guinea Pepper,
eight ounces; Acetic Ether. three
ounces; tincture of PeIlitory, one
ounce; Sulphuric acid. five drops;
powder opium. thirty grains The rec
ipe is changed slightly TO make what
is called chemical whisky. The chem
ical whisky recipe follows: New
whisky (proofD, one gallon; tincture
Cayenne pepper. five ounces: rain or
soft water. one and three-quarter gal
Ions; laudanum one ounce; bark of
Prickly Ash, one ounce