The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-30
.AYHAWKER JOTS

NOT .ayen dentist could kill the
nerve of some people, thinks Brother
Shoemaker.
When you hunt skunks, says the
Peabody Gazette, be sure TO pull your
trigger first.
Real etiquette. insists Herb Cavaness.
is looking out the window while your
guest drinks out of the finger bowl
An opinion from June Bellman, Of
the Winfield Free Press: Happy Is tle
man who is henpecked, and not only
knows it but likes It.
There is one thing to say for the
store that doesn't advertise, says the
Cunningham Clipper. The clerks always
have plenty of time to wait on you
The Hiawatha World is certain that
advertising in its columns pays me
in the paper recently told where there
We're some chickens Thieves cailed lor
them.
A tonsorial hint from the Blue
Mound Sun: To remove icicles from
whislxars shave off the whlskers ana
soak them for twenty minutes IN not
water.
Leap year may be all right for a
Joke. saws the Sterling Bulletin, nut 1t
will be hard on the modest girls who
get married this year. 1t will be hard
matter for any of them to convince
their friends that The" popped the
question.
A woman in Wa-Keeney was heating
a ing of water to use as foot warmer
in bed. relates the Western Kansas
World The jug was corked- When the
water got to boiling real lively she got
her face directly above the jug ana re-
moved the cork. Result: one burned
mouth. two blistered cheeks, one
scorched nose, one singed head and one
doctor bill.
If this mania for straw votes con-
tinues, thinks the Kinsley Graphic we
will be shorter than ever of cattle feed
Your case is nOlle pressed, SAID
Police Judge Church White to a pris
oner the other morning, relates the At
Gibson Globe 81 don't know what that
i isl replied the prisoner, but ] think
I ought to have a chance to consult an
attorney before being handed bunch
| like that
one more rabbit story, this tirne from
| the Liberal News: a Liberal nlmrod
out with a rifle Saturday, saw the head
| of a jackrabbit in a rick of haffir
corn He took careful aim and when
| the smoke cleared away saw the rabUtt
still there He shot twenty-five times
before the rabbit disappeared Gong
nm to get his dead hare he discovered
| TWENTY-FIVE of them. each shot square
| between the eyes AS fast as ne killed.
one another took its place
Some political reasoning by Mrs Tom
Thompson in her part of the Howard
| Csourant: If they would but think of 1t,
Roosevelt. Gaynor. Folk and other
Americans must know that 1t is useless
to deny their candidacy for the presi-
dency. All Americans are candidates
Every mothers son of them, from the
time he was big enough to wear patch
es on his pants. was launched with the
| conscious possibility always in view
that THAT child might some day be
come president of these United States!
Not candidates. indeed OF course they
are candidates!
About the biggest joke we have heard
| in a long Tina came to our ears last
week. says the Beaver Valley Booster.
Some of the county officials want the
manual training class of the High
School to make some office furniture
a roll top desk office table, chairs. etc
They seem to think that any freckle
faced kid taking manual training for
the first time can saw out an Eifei
| Tower. If such articles We're made. it
needs be done by Prof. Ellis. who by
the way, was engaged to teach mathe-
rnatics and we do not blame the pro-
fessor for objecting to the extra work
| involved. The high school is kept up
by the county of course. but so are
these same officials. Better get a saw
and hammer and go to work them
salves Charge it up to stamps. The
next request will probably be for book
keepers and stenograpll from the
commercial department. We'd lay a
few that the work would be more eff
ofa