The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-19
AYHAWKER JOTS

A man went into a Kansas book store
and asked for a joke books. reports the
Salina Journal. II haven't joke book"
said the dealer but here is a Missouri
Pacific time table,"
The Claf1in Clarion, evidently having
the right idea that nothing which hap
pens in town is too insignificant to call
to the public's attention, reported re-
Gently that Mrs. Pringle's baby Is cut
ting teeth
]. S. Balyeat. who owns fine farm in
Franklin county near Ottawa, will de-
vote all his time to making model
farm out of it. This includes not only
farm methods to be used, but division
of tracts, buildings, stock, etc. 1t VIII
be a sort Of demonstration and expert
ment farm, and it would be a good
thing If there were score OF them In
every county.-Garden City Telegram
One of the colored men at Manhattan
started a new business the other day
that worked all right. He procured
number of whisky bottles and f1lled
each with water and brown sugar. AS
the passenger train arrived at the depot
he would slip into the smoker and sell
a few quarts. The standard price per
quart was "a, and he did a good bus1-
ness until captured. He may go free,
as there is no law in the state against
selling a man a quart Of sugar. and wa
ter for "a If he is willing to pay the
price.-Alta Vista Journal.
Bill Sincaller, the philosopher and
publicist who confldes all his thoughts
and ideas to the Vinland Vine, is now
agitating a few reforms. Il am In
favor Of consolidating some Of these
holidays he said the other day. Lin
coins Birthday, Washington's Birthday
and Fourth of July could be CONSOLE
dated. Grounding Day, April Fools
Day and Valentine Day could be made
another Thanksgiving and Christmas
could be combined and law enacted
prohibiting excursions more than once
in a summer"
"a few years ago." tells the Lawrence
Journal "a Kansas man, a man of the
usual good sense, started In to argue
that heat was an entity. He wrote and
wrote until he exhausted the patience
of everyone, and finally became good
deal of a nuisance. The Journal one
time asked the man in all kindness why
he happened to hit upon that particular
reform. He replied: saw men max
! ing their regulations at things just as
| foolish. I thought had something that
men could talk about endlessly and
never reach a conclusion. It looked
good to me and I invested my mental
capital in it, That is the way with too
many reforms. Each fellow wants to
be a leader.
"It's open season the year round for
| lightning rod sharps, fire extinguisher
frauds and such game" says the La
| CySn6 h0COTu w ucH d HldA COIIlSS "
your house and wants to leave some
sort of machine with you for a week or
so taking your receipt for same, the
sane thing for you to do is to kick him
through the nearest window, across the
horse lot and into the middle of the
duck pond; and If he demurs, use the
axe On him A chap recently left fire
extinguisher with farmer near La
| Cygne A little later his confederate
came along and asked the farmer to
| sign a receipt showing that he had the
| extinguisher He did so, and the re-
ceipt' promptly turned up at the bank
in the form of a promissory note for
| e16n'