The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09
HERE AND THERE.
He Blooms best who booms last.

HERE AND THERE.
He booms best who booms last.
Mining stocks are rapidly making
Tom Ewing millionaire.
The Monroe doctrine has only reached
It's first ditch.
Chicago had thunder. lightning, rain,
hail and snow, all in one day.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is tall,
AN galar and square-shonldered.
The Hancock boom is ready to be
stuffed and put away as relic.
The puddlers' strike in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, is virtually ended.
The Democracy seems 10 have exhaust
ed its stock OF backbone statesman.
The Springfield, Illinois, Board Of
Trade. was formally opened on the Sd
inst
No less than nine public executions
took place in the United States on Fri
day.
Congressman Townshend, of Illinois,
is young and brightlooking aud dresses
we'll
Illinois has nineteen candidates for
governor and many counties yet to hear
from.
Thurlow Weed has reached 1850 in
his autobiography. Weed like to see it
completed.
Gen. Sheridan was so seasick On his
gulf trip that he almost threw up his
commission.
Mrs. VanCott, the revivalist, IS now
said to be manufacturing and selling
patent medicine.
A monument to the late Prince I'm
pe-ial will be erected in South Africa by
the British colony.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, is tall, with
strong voice, ready speech and well up
in parliamentary rules.
The Democrats have once more reach
ed the conclusion that az corpse Tilden
is IA most disappointing failure.
The great difficulty in obtaining re-
crIits To the Salvation Army seems to lie
in its posthumous pension system.
The Rev DR. Hall says that every
blade of grass contains sermon. That
must be the reason why hay is so dear.
\ large party of Germans went over
the Fort Scott road Saturday, stating
they were going TO the Indian Territory.
General Garfield is building himself a
handsome and picturesque new house at
Mentor, Ohio, having torn down the old
one.
Senator elect Malone. Of Virginia,
weighs only ninety pounds, beating
Hon, AlexaRder Stephens by few
ounces.
Anna Dickinson says she will never
marry until she can bake loaf of bread,
and that she will never bake bread while
she has her senses.
The aged Peter Cooper says that right
is certain 40 triumph For strictly orig
inal expressions keep yOuf eye np Peter
Cooper.
The MormOns are making converts in
almost every land and they openly boast
OF haYiag . stronger army than the
United States.
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague is described
as looking as stately and handsome as
ever. She has not gone into general So
ciety this winter.
Krupp, the German gunmaker, has or
ders ahead for 5000 cannon, and yet all
the crowned heads are writing taffy let
tiers to each other.
The Chinese soldiers are poor fighters
but their great hold is in hanging on un.
Ill the enemy gets tired of killing them
and leaves the Geld
The Prince of Wales. in late talk
with Genevieve Ward, the actress, said
that he always thought the American
ladies the cleverist in the world"
Mr.. Parnell would very much prefer
taking his eggs internally, He does not
tackle very kindly to the barbaric
innovation of applying them to the sur
face
Henry Leussing, young Chicago
gymnast, lifted recently 1851 pounds
from the floor without harness or straps
OF any kind, the next largest "hand-lift''
on record having been 800 pounds.
Judge Hiltou's splendid place at Sar-
! atoga is being rapidly enlarged, and the
: hundred acres surrounding are being
tTaasfoymed into grand park open to
the public.
Willis Scott, the oldest settler noAV iiE-
ing in Chicago, has just celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday. He went to Chica-
go in 1926, when only five white families
lived there.
Fish poles are now made to resemble
walking canes, and where the Lords
prayer is engraved on a plate on the
head Il Sunday fisherman's conscience is
greatly relieved.
7 Twelve or fifteen Republican conven-
tions were held in Iowa on the Sd inst,
and returns received from eight indicate
that the state will give ia delegates in
structed for Blaine.
Upward of twenty-one thousand i'm
migrants landed at New York during
the month of March, being more than
double the number for the correspond
ing month last year.
The Territorial Republican commit
tee of Utah met at Salt Lake ON the Sd,
and elected two delegates and two altern-
ates to the Chicago convention, all of
whom are for Blaine.
So long as the national debt keeps van
ishing at the Fals Of tel millions a
month secretary Sherman's boop viii
continue to be an energetic factor in the
political situation.
How foolish for artists to represent
Cgpid as the god of love, when we all
know thai IA Old stocking full of money
| has moro Influence than Cont H,,,;d,