The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-25
HERE AsD THERE.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad has
been finished to Gunnison, Colorado.

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been finished to Gunnison, Colorado.
The phenomenal occurrences of this
exceptional year continue TO multiply.
An Ohio man named Lee, has been re-
called as consul at FranklOrt-On-the-
Maine.
The remotest possibilities of physical
anguish have been comprised by the
Dayton journal, which suggests that
Gniteau be compelled to sleep between
blankets.
Verify, the processes of the human
mind are past finding out A new York
man abandoned his purpose Of commit
ting suicide by drowning because the
bay was infested with sharks.
If we were not afraid of creating a
panic among supersiitious people We
should take pleasure in stating that
there were no stage rObberies cOmitted in
Missouri yesterday, and only one murder
in st LOUIS.
The Kansas City Journal vOuchsafes
the following prescription: "If you
want TO get squeezed, buy or sell corn"
That paper is evidently making a stall
wart effort Ia inspire an interest among
its lady readers in the local grain mar
l~ket.
A lady at Saratoga is said to be the
envied pOssessor of 800 dresses, which
are cared for by six maid-servants. That
she enjoys the confidence of her hus-
bands bank account to very intimate
extent Is proposition which we submit
for consent rather than argument
A western paper whose editor is prob.
ably up in the manipulation of reptiles
says: "If you grasp ratilesnake firmly
behind the head he cannot harm you"
The very general neglect of this prccau-
ton in Kansas is probably owing to the
prohibiIory amendment.
There has been much Incorporate dis
cussiOn as to the age OF SOjourner Truth,
but that ancient lady has successfully
silenced all cavil regarding her hOary
antiquity by filing IN affidavit to the eff
feet that she knew Susan B. Anthony
when the latter was q young lady.
A lady at Pine Knot, Kentucky,
while preparing for her wedding, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
This awful warning will possess pecul-
lar significance for ladies who have
failed to develOpe commanding talent
for the accumulation of husbands.
A New York paper says that the best
young ladies at Cape May always wear
bracelets on their arms while bathing.
And yet hypercritical press persists in
calling public attention 10 the manner
in which prOpriety is shamelessly violat-
ed by female YOtaries of the surf ut
fashionable watering places.
The perpetual motion lunatIcs will
find a germ of encouragement in the
announcement that a man living near
BottOfOrd, Georgia, claims TO have q
piece of mechanism in his house that
has been running continually for five
years. This apparent impossibility can
only be explained upon the theory that
his wife is victim of chronic insomnia.
A farmer living near Bellefoniaine,
Ohio, has q pig with but two legs, which
it walks around on without apparent in
convenience. The partislity manifested
by Mr.. Hayes for his own state in dis
pensing the political patronage attaching
TO the presidency had tendency to
stimulate u boom in the production of
porcine b;peds in the Buckeye State.
which, it appears, has not entirely sub
sided.
A singular dilemma EXISTS in fami-
ly residing at Oakland, Tenn. Two
girl babies were born at nearly the same
time in the same house, the mothers be-
ing sisters closely resembling each other
During the excitement attending the ad-
vent of the little ones they became
mixed before they were dressed or in
any way marked for Identification. The
children are now three months old, and
neither of them develops any resem-
blance to either of the fathers, and their
exact parentage is likely to remain in
doubt. The last method spoken of 10
decide the question is by lot, but the un-
certainty in the case will still remain.