The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-25
HERE AND THERE.

England seems to be considerably
Boer-ed over her South African war.
Cincinnati is trifie depressed as to
pork, but is wild over Gerster and the
Operatic festival
II begins to look as if the time-lock of
the Pennsylvania legislature had been
set TO run till the first of March.
The man Who will get up first-class
imitation of eggs will escape ali the per
secutions that have beset the propagators
of OleOmargarine.
The cabinet makers are starting off
with considerable vigor on the two
weeks squirt intervening between now
and the 4th of March.
Sam Wood differs from volatile gas,
In the respect that the latter Is largely
employed as e utilitarian agent, and
evaporates when uncorked.
The Democratic donkey has only one
more first-class show for its white alley.
1t might get up little breeze by flop
ping its ears at the Inauguration.
New York Tribune: Looking out
for the Deestrict" always has been and
probably long will be, the most absorb,
ing occupation of the American states.
man.
New York Herald: Where there is
great noise on the ice fish are reused and
go to the surface. generally freezing fast
to the ice. Little politicians should new
er rise to big noises.
While the new temperance law seems
to have been framed with view to keep
ing out whisky, there are alleged doubts
in the minds of its antagonists as TO
whether it will hold water.
The Omaha Republican, hearing that
Dan Rice is dead, aims a telling blow at
Ingersollism by observing that the de-
ceased veteran of the saw dust arena,
will now have . worse show than ever.
The Santa Fe VailFoad company may
derive consolation from the fact that
Vennor is no respecter OF localities.
Every considerable snowfall in New
York City costs 100000 for its removal.
The extreme severity of justice in
California is indicated in the case of one
Wheeler, of San Francisco, who has
been found guilty OF murder in the first
degree. for strangling his mOther-in-
law.
The civilized world joins in one uni
SeFsal prayer, that the woman, who, as a
spinster Of sixty-three, developed the
gushing sentimentaiity Of the Baroness
Burdett-C outts, may never, never, be left
a widow.
The strenuous opposition ofthe Kansas
City Times to the passage of the whip
ping post bill in the Missouri legislature,
leads US to infer that lying must be
penal oHense in that state. viii The
political editor of that paper please en-
Tighten usF
One of Brigham Youag's cops has
been indicted for poiygaRy, aud as his
first wife is not OF the stun from which
Mormon wives are usually made there is
but little chance of the ends of justice
being defeated by intimidation of the
principal witness.
Vennor, the Canadian weather proph-
ct, is described as being strawberry
blonde. of a very pronounced type. The
student of the laws of cause aud eject
will find il question of inviting per-
piexity to determine how . red-headed
man can turn out such deucedly cold
weather.
''The blaze OF diamonds In which
Mrs. Grant recently appeared Ut the
Peabody dinner in Washington, doubt
less enhanced the effect OF the superb
velvet in which she was attired, but
whether they were especially becoming
when considered in connection with the
donatiops which from time to time inter-
pOse from private Sources between the
ex-pFeSidcnt aad the alleged wolf at his
door, we will leave the reader to deter.
mine.
1t has been stated upon pretty reliable
authority that General Hancock will be
present at The Garfield inauguration.
There "a . Fashionable curiosity on the
part Of the AReFiean people to see the
man who pronounced tbs taFiE ; s'local
issue,'' and who thought he could hold |
the Democratic party by the tail, and the
full assurance OF the Generals presence
would doubtless very largely augment
the throng At the national capital on the
Ath Of March.