The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-28
HERE AND THERE.

An immigrant has landed at New
York for every minute since last New
Years
The woman who ordered new dress
from the Kansas City type foundry was
not the wife of an editor.
The Hebrew Union at Chicago, the
other day, resolved TO raise $5OOOOO for
the endowment of a Hebrew college.
The "Alsatian Rest" is the latest
fancy dance. II is said to be the ''diz-
ziest' that has yet struck the country
They never have the yellow fever out
in Arizona, but the Sweet Singer of
Michigan is "summering" in that un-
happy territory.
From the numbers of weddings that
are constantly occurring in Kentucky,
we infer that the law against lotteries in
that state is practically imperative.
Probably the most prosperous news
paper in the west is the Denver Tribune.
At least it has two libel suits on hand
for hundred thousand dollars each.
If God made the country and man
made the town, it becomes matter of
perplexing interest TO determine who is
responsible for Clay county, Missouri.
A Chicago banker telegraphed to De-
troit asking about draft. The reply
was, MAN on which draft is made is
all right; look out sharp for maker,
he's bad"
Elmira Free Press: There arc just
two classes of men in this world Half
of them were the first to discover the
comet and the other half have been shot
through the liver.
In Cleveland, Ohio, 5000 irrepressi-
BILE boys and young men carry firearms.
This accounts for the fact that the under
takers of that city all live in brown stone
fronts on Euclid avenue
Nevada, which has been backward in
the raising of vegetables and which has
had few such gardens as may be seen in
Utah, is beginning to furnish garden
truck which is superior to that sent from
California.
Clipped: Guiteau's early training,
his conversation, religious life and
strictly temperance principles spoils the
material for one of the best Sunday
School books ever contemplated. Small
boys cannot be warned by his example.
Before lady guests are admitted to the
principal hotel at Narragansett Pier
their pedigree is examined by commit
tee of ladies, who decide whether they
shall be admitted or not. 1t might not
be bad scheme for Mr. Conkling TO cut
this item out and paste it in his hat.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is said to have ex-
pressed purpose of devoting TO benev-
client objects all of Maud SIS earnings
on the track this season. It is needless
to state that the queen of the turf has
become an object of sudden and tender
interest among the journalistic Fraternity
of Kansas.
| At Topeka they call it sea-foam. And
the way the fellows who take on board
any considerable quantity of it lurch
from one side of the pavement to the
other would seem to indicate that in
choosing nautical term for a very COM
mon article of commerce, the eternal
fitness of things was by no means ig-
norcd.
Guiteau says he must have at least
three daily papers. AS there seems to
be a general desire on the part of the
public that the would-be assassin of the
President be subjected to the very refine
ment of cruelty, how would it do to
send him the Kansas State journal, the
Leavenworth Standard and the Atchi-
son Patriot?
| A female physician advises the doc
tors TO cut into the Presidents body, ex-
tract the ball and permit the pus TO flow
freely. A woman's fertility of sugges-
tion is available in every field of human
effort, from the adjustment of stove
pipe up to the solution of questions in
volving the most sacred interests of time
and eternity.
An Israelite prophet" in Utah says
that the comet betOl1ens the forthcoming
of the tribe of Ephraim and half of the
tribe of Manasseh, with the Prophet
Elijah at their head, from between the
icy mountains of The northern regions
whence they are now coming toward
America to build up Zion for the per.
sonal coming of the Messiah This is
obviously important. if true.
'These Greenback fellows" says the
Detroit Post, ''are only imitators of the
rebel Secretary of the Treasury as the
facetious scoundrels making war ON the
government used to call Meminger'
, This Secretary" Bob Toombs says
twas very economical man. He used
to hire niggers 10 print the Confederate
, money, but instead of paying them fol
, their labor, he gave them The use of tbs
, presses at night to print for themselves