The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-16
HERE AND THERE.

jorities.
CASTLE soap is now made anywhere
but in CASTLE.
The sick man of the. east is now con-
coded to be Lord BeacOnsfield.
Temptation is the name of saloon
in Troy. A good many men are led
into it.
Chicago has had another blaze, the
financial dimensions of which where
100000.
BARLEY Campbell was Galley Slave
himself once, when he worked in print
ing office.
The loss by fire at Minneapolis, on the
9th inst, was 100000. Spontaneous
combustion.
Indiana rclic-hunters will pay $40 for
a pair of old boots which Il man had on
when murdered.
General Grant has accepted an invita-
ton from the colored citizens of Mobile
to visit that city.
Jay Gould will soon control S,1G6
miles of railroads. That's sort of man
you can't side-track.
1t costs Harpers $1,000 per month for
magazine cngravings, and the pictures
are good for nothing but to look at.
Alex. Stephens defends his thinness by
saying that saw-dust is worth only two
cents per bushcl when delivered inside a
mans coat.
Secretary Sherman electloneers by re-
ducilg the national debt $10,OO0,O0 per
month, and it's by no means bad re-
commentator.
Three elephants have lately been land
ed IN this country for menagcrics. Each
one will start out AS "the only ever born
in this country"
Memorial services, commemorative of
the celebrated Unitarian divine, Rev.
DR. Claiming, were held at Newort, r.
l., on the It'll inst.
Davis, the bigamist, doesn't part his
hair in the middle, nor lisp, nor wear
two-pound slcevc-buttons, and yet see
how he mashed 'eni
Belva Lockwood is very kind-heartcd,
and when she sees u poor sick woman in
Washington she always inquiries, Have
you Ben Hill, dear?"
joaquin Miller has purchased an in
terest in brass foundry in Baltimore,
and he win cut his hair, pare his nails
and cease writing verses.
Grave robbers are plying their nefari-
Gus avocation ut Ottawa, Canada The
medical profession must be looking down
in the Queens Dominion.
Chicago will have at least 1000 mad
dog scares this summer. She has order
ed all CANNES to be muzzled. and that
will help hydrophobIa to get a bully
start.
The longest the Car ever gave man
TO get ready for the journey to Siberia
was two hours, and this included 157
minutes, IN which they were trying to
find him.
The citizens of Vanceburg, KY, fight
fire with pals of water, and they have
become so skillful that they can float
COW off her feet in a stable in about nine
minutes.
Miss Jennie Flood, daughter of the
California millionaire, will have an in
come of 100000 year when married
She is more than ordinarily anxious to
get married on this account.
Some of the companies in the regular
ficers make their details for bootblacks,
cooks and scrubs, there is only one pri-
vate left to do the fighting.
At the hanging of negro in Washing
ton, the other day, for wife murder, the
body being of ponderOus weight, upon
the fall of the drop the head was instan
taneously severed from the body.
A Harrisburg lad was led out of Sun:
day school for eating peanuts and blow
ing on a mouth organ. Had he been a
heather IN Africa they would have
wrcstled with him for a whole year.
A lot of gypsies eneamped near Prince
ton, Indiana, to tell fortunes, and in two
days they set seven pairs of lovers to
quarreling, separated two families, and
caused two old maids to commit suicide.
The idea has been suggested of max
ing General Grant Bishop of the Meth
odist church; but the pronounced anti
tobacco views of that communion seem