The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
AYHAWKER JOTS

One of Herington's plutocrats is OF
| fering no less than $40 reward for the
return of a coon hound that is miss
ing. Some coon hound, that
Funny how things will grow on a
man. remarks the Wellington News. A
few days ago Will Savage bought a
| car and now he has a carbuncle.
This surely must be love, especially
on the girls part. According to the
Hiawatha World, a Hiawatha man,
who makes $40 a month, has just mar
ried a girl who made $50 a month and
had money besides.
We are disappointed sometimes, says
| the Concordia -Kansan, in reading what
we uppose to be an obituary notice
of a prominent citizen in some of our
exchanges to have it turn out to be a
writeup of a candidate for office.
It isn't always true that talk is
cheap, insists the Lindsborg News, AMI
it backs up its position in the premises
with the following: A cablegram of
ten words sent from Lindsborg TO
South America, recently cost the SEMI
er, $17.S5.
Were Diogenes still on his hunt for
an honest man, he would find him in
the vicinity of Osborne. In a recent
issue of the Osborne Evening News
appeared this advertisement: Found
Umbrella, one mile south of Ports.
Call at News office.
1t will be a sorry day for the auto
mobile II it ever supplants the horse
entirely. as the following from the
Russell Record sh OWs: Luther Lam
don stuck at the river ford yesterday
while coming to Russell in his big car.
A four-horse team was necessary to
release the machine and set it going
again.
Ledger, MIR. Boz" was Good, does not
refer to Mr.. Rober: Good, the editor
of that paper. buc to a school play
that was staged in that town recently.
You can't do up a rival by talk
ing about him and telling what a
mean man he is, advises the Meriden
Ledger. The only way to defeat him
is to be more industrious than he is,
more agreeable and more honorable
in your dealings.
Old Bill Allen White makes a fine
show of entertaining a feeling of horror
in regard to standpatters in Kansas,
but he Snuggles up to them mighty
close when he gets away from horne,
writes Charlie Scott in his lola Reg
lister. He has just bought a summer
home out in Colorado only a hundred
yardp from the shack hat the editor
of this paper owns. Maybe somebody
won't have fun roIlin' rocks down on
his roof next summer
Related by the Fort Scott Tribune
This winter a certain school teacher in
this city, while walking to school got
her feet wet and realizing that sre
would be uncomfortable all day and
catch cold, gave one of her nu-
pills a quarter and asked him if he
would go to town and get some hose
Number 8. The little boy was gone for
some time n finally came back with
out a thing. Walking up to the desk
he said. You didn't give me enough
money. Mine feet of hose cost over
a dollar"
As wheat grows in Kansas. Uncle
Jimmie Miller, reports the Muscotah
Record, brought from his farm, south
OF town, two punches of wheat. the
product of two grains. There were ca
stalks altogether, or 80 stalks to each
grain. Surprising each stalk to pro
duce a head of wheat averaging 20
grains to the head, there would be IN
increase of $40 per cent. These stalks
are about % inches high or about one
half their full height. Uncle Jimmie
has Al acres of just such wheat. al
though he has a larger acreage of
wheat on bottom land almost as good