The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08
HERE AND THERE.

ing the lecture field
For little man, Malone measures up
uncornnonly well with the Tall Syca-
more of the Wabash.
The only hope of break in the senate
deadlock, seems TO be founded upon
Mother ShiptOn's prophecy.
4 Missouri man who has just lost his
sixth wife has in contemplation the cs-
Enlistment of private cemetery.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thinks that
the stone baby recently found at Eureka
Springs must have been rocked to death.
The metropolitan journals are trotting
out their stereotyped matter announcing
the symptoms of another Cuban insur-
rection.
The Brooklyn Eagle eagerly remarks
that the Democratic party should either
give up the crockery business or securely
| tether It's bulls.
Wyandotte wants a frst-class hotel.
There are comparatively few towns in
Kansas that are not bowling with the
same aching void.
We should judge, from the amount of
calOric that is surging around Washing
ton, that carly vegetation must be very
much advanced at the national capital.
New York Herald; Is the presidency
OF the Worlds Fair Commission only
implied the political control of a few
voters what a rush there would be for IL
Cincinnati Commercial: If Attorney
General McVeagh insists upon kicking
himself out of the cabinet, he will justi-
~ what his enemies have said of his i'm
practicability.
Elk Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, Is at
present in Ncrth Carolina, managing a
gold mine with success. He has also
invented machine for extracting gold
from quartz rock.
Mr.. Blaine, as an editor, is described
as having been one of the readiest and
versatile of men. He never kept any
body waiting for him and seldom made
alterations from copy.
The severity of the past winter seems
to have stimulated such boom in Gre
NATION, that the lie Moyne furnace at
Washington, Pennsylvania, is TO be en-
larged and new retort put in.
Texas will soon be suing insurance
companies for defamation of character if
there are many more refusals to cash
policies on the ground that the deceased
met his fate in the Lone Star state.
Governor Colquit. of Georgia, would
like 10 succeed Senator Hill, but the
highest interests of the Republican par
ty, and, consequently, of the country,
demand that Ben should be his own sue
cessor.
In Worcester's new dictionary, among
the 1900 words admitted, the word
''boom" has a place. 1t is defined as
meaning ian enthusiastic and spontane-
Gus movement in favor of a person,
thing or cause"
There is comparatively little danger
from cyclones in Kansas while the senate
remains in session. There is not enough
wind in the country to run a western tor
nado, after supplying the demand of the
Brigadiers at Washington
There are still resources in the way of
news that have not been canvassed by
the enterprising disciples of the press.
The Washington correspondents have
not yet announced the contemplated res
ignation of President Garfield.
Fifty years ago Frederick Douglass
was almost mobbed in Vergennes, Yer
mont, for attempting to disseminate
abolition sentiments. Now that town
has u negro sheriff, a French mayor, and
a young woman as town clerk.
The editor of the Mcpherson Repub-
lican seems to be about the only thor
oughly God-fearing journalist in Kan,
sas At least his paper stands alone in
not yet having committed the common
outrage of killing the peach crop.
The physicians of Lord Beaconsf1eld
are now hopeful of his recovery. These
doctors never did have any idea of the
cost of typographical composition, OF
the wear and tear involved in the con
struction of first-class obituary notice
The chances for political corruption
in Kansas are intellectually diminished
by the fact that as many as half dozen
rural journals display, at the head Of
their columns, the significant legend
"Hew to the line, let the chips fall where
they will"
A Chicago communist predicts that the
red flag of the commune ais destined in
the near future to occupy higher posi-
ton than the star spangled banner" 1:
this to be construed in the light of an
early bid for the candidacy for president
on the National ticket in 1884?
A popularity Of the Austrian Empress
is said to be her morbid aversion to noise
and hustle. If Her Majesty is pro
foundry pious, and employs her great in
fluence as its giver intends she shall, il
! may be the happy privilege of the royal
lady to go to st. Louis when she dies.
When Kansas editor is unsettled in
his views regarding current politics,
and runs afoul of problem whose con.
sideration would impose disastrous
tax upon his cerebrum, he promptly pro-
ceeds to evolve q convincing leader on
the paramount necessity of planting
trees.
Lord BeacOnsield, says the London
World, never dissipates or impairs his
energies in superfiuous solicitude. As
he holds enthusiasm to be hot distem.
per of the blood, so he considers regret
to be a proftless consumption of power
He is master of an art of which Mr.
Gladstone knows nothing-the economy
of force.
The people in the vicinity of Paines-
Vile, Ohio, recently witnessed an extra
ordinary spectacle. At the time it was
showing fast and furiously, when sud
denly the heavens were lighted up by
the binding glare of electricity, which
in the driving snow made all things seem
weird and CHASTITY. Startling peals OF
thunder followed. flash succeeding flash
and peal following peal in quick sue
cession.
Miss Deuel., the Iowa faster, already
leads Tanner one day, and her condition
is such that she may hold out for week
: or so to come. As, in addition to hel
, abstinence from food, she has not spoken
word in three years, it is only reason
able to suppose that she likewise dis
: counts the abstemious Doctor in the
number of proposals of marriage which
she has had, since her rare domestic
qualifications have become known to the
world.