The Holiday Visitor from Topeka, Kansas • 12

mm THE, HOLIDAY VJSITOR. GLOVE FLIRTATIONS. BOStORTH BOBBINS. HOLIDAY VISITOR L. A.

HEIL, Publisher. TOPEKA, pECEMRER 25,1876. IDIOTS' IN CHURCH. A clergyman was annoyed by people talking and giggling. He paused, looked at the disturbers, and said "I am always afraid to reprove those who misbehave, for this reason Some years since, as I was preaching, a young man who sat before me was constantly laughing, talking, and making uncouth grimaces.

I paused and administered a severe rebuke. Af ter the close of the service, a gentleman said to me, 'Sir, you have made a great mistake. That young man was an idiot. Since that, I have always been afraid to reprove those who misbehave themselves in church, lest I should repeat that mistake and reprove another idiot." NOW IN STORK OUR Dropping one of them Yes. Putting them away Im vexed.

Tapping the chin I love another. Dropping both of them I love you. Turning them inside out 1 hate you. Tossing them up gently I am engaged. Striking them over the shoulder follow me.

Clenching them (rolled up) in right hand No. Drawing half way on left hand Indifference. Striking them over the hand I am displeased Folding up carefully get rid of your company. Biting the tips I wish to be rid of you very soon. Holding them loose in the right hand be contented.

Holding them loose in the left hand I am satisfied. Smoothing them out gently I wish I were with you. Using them as a fan Introduce me to your company. Left hand with naked thumb exposed do you love me? Right hand with the naked thumb exposed kiss me. Twirling around the fingers be careful we are watched.

Holding the tips downward I wish to be acquainted. Second Winter Stock OUR GREETING. A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. According to promise, we 43am make our appearance with the Holiday Visitor. We are happy to present the public with a 82-column instead of the 24-column paper issued last year.

We were enabled to do so by reason of the increased patronage which we have re-cieved. For its mechanical appearance, we are indebted to Mr. Frank A. Root, of the North Topeka Times from which office the VISITOR was issued, and wish to return thanks for many favors shown us by that pleasant and obliging gentleman. In (n our columns will be found represented the leading and most1 substantial business houses in Topeka.

You owe them at least a call, for theirs is the credit for the publication of this free illustrated holiday paper. Bought at the The article most commonly sold at fancy fairs is the visitor. Go to Kendall's for buckskin gloves and mittens. The largest room in the world is the room for improvement. Go to Kendalls for table linens and napkins.

A marriage on a railway train may properly be called a railway tie, You can always get fresh butter and eggs at Harlans, North Topeka, Sulphur comes from Vesuvius therefffie it is good for eruptions. Wall paper at F. C. Bowens, North Topeka. She temperance movement on Long Island is entirely surrounded by water.

1 Great Eastern Closing Sale! Bargains in Dress Goods Go to Kendalls for the cheapest goods in Topeka. "All the pay we ask for the Holiday Visitor is, that should you be led to visit any place of business or answer any advertisement seen in the paper, that you will mention the fc.t to such advertiser. Bargains in aterpr oofo 1 The Visitor is for gratuitous distribution, and our aim is to supply every family in Topeka and Shawnee county with a copy. It can be had free by calling at the North Topeka Times office. Bargains in Flannels! ATTENTION TO THE OLD.

Lltislins, Jeans, Etc. 2-Battoa Eli Gloves lor 50 Cli, A little thoughtful attention, how happy it makes the old. They have outlived most of the friends of their early youth. How lonely their hours 1, Often their partners in life have long filled silent graves often their children they have followed to the tomb. They stand solitary, bending on the' staff, waiting till the same call shall reach them.

How often thev must think of absent, lamented faces of Jhe love which cherished them, and the tears of sympathy which fell with theirs, now all gone. Why should not the young cling around and comfort them, cheering their gloom with songs and happy smiles. -Corset for 75 Cents I Immense Stock LATEST ELECTION NEWS. -F- COMING HOME TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS. SHORT of Holiday Justice has At last been done, and fraud and intimidation rebuked.

Vesper by unanimous consent have been accorded the certificate as the best confectioners and dealers in all kinds of holiday goods, toys, fruits, oysters, candies, in Topeka. Everybody should go and see their lay-out for Christmas, which for variety and quality cannot be excelled, and prices way down with the present low rate of gold. Cur Santa Claus, on the first page, lays in his stock there, and gives them a special recommendation. Speaking trout there reason to fear that the following, which comes from New Hampshire, as the newspapers say, too good to be true As two men in Enfield, in the. upper, part of Keene, were crossing a pond, in pursuit of a moose, one of them being, thirsty, and perceiving a hole, which had been cut through the ice by some he.

stooped down to drink. Being possessed of a long red nose, a fish supposed ht had same bait, and made bold to snap at it, when the man suddenly throwing his head back drew out a trout which weighed three pounds and four ounces Groods! LOW PRICES I POWER OP CONSCIENCE. A follower of Pythagoras once bought a pair of shoes from a cobbler, for which he promised to pay him on a future day. On that day he took the money but finding the cobbler had died in the interim, returned, secretly rejoicing that he could retain the money and get a pair of shoes for nothing. "His conscience, however, says Seneca, would allow him no rest, till, taking up the money, he went back to the cobblers shop, and casting in the money, said, "Go thy way, for though he is dead to all the world besides, yet he is alive to me.

Why is Sunday the strongest day in the week Because all the rest are week days. Full line of diaries for 1877, at C. Bowen's. Naturalists claim that the crow is one of the bravest of birds, because it never shows the white feather. -Go to Kendall's for all kinds of drygoods.

Now, may it please your Honor," said a young Topeka lawyer, I dont believe these facts are true, Choice of all kinds of chewing tobacco at Chas. Nymans, Old State Row. When a lady stands at the hymenial altar with her intended, you may know she is about to draw her beau into a knot. Don't fail to see Chas. Wolf premium beef on Christmas eve, all decked off with ribbons.

Charles Lamb, when speaking of one of his rides on horseback remarked that "all at once his horse stopped, but he kept right on." Go to Kendalls for all kinds of holiday goods. A horrible cannibal advertises for a good girl to cook. Holiday presents at Bartel 119 Kansas avenue. The best of cigars and beer at Old Bills, just south of 6th street. Santa Claus buys his toys of F.

C. Bswen's. Do not go and pay High Prices for yonr The canvassing board has given Jockheke the certificate as the best hotel-keeper in Topeka. He has just newly furnished from cellar to garret the Planters House, a new hotel on Kansas avenue, north of Fifth street, and has the best located and ventilated rooms in the city. Attached are first-class tables and good bar.

Board by the day and week, at reasonable rates. Give him a fair count. HOLIDA PRESENTS I Boswortb Mins, C. G. Scott, corner Sixth and Kansas avenue, does a general real estate business, rents houses, sells lands, pays taxes, etc.

also sells Fort Scott, Osage shaft, Carbondale shaft, and Scranton shaft coal. Leave your orders with him, and you will receive prompt attention. As you pass along the street you meet with a familiar face say good morning, as though you felt happy, and it will work admirably in the heart of your neighbor. Pleasure is cheap who will not bestow it liberally If there are smiles, sunshine and flowers all about us, let us not grasp them with a misers fist and lock them up in our hearts. Rather let us take them and scatter them about us.

225 Kansas Avenue Good photographs for a few days more for 60 cents a at R. G. Gardeners. DeccmVr 1876. Go to Kendalls for Wencks perfumery..