The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-29
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the country.
HERE AND THERE.
Strawberries are plentiful in New
York Al $1e5 per bushei.
Burnside seems TO have. a whole cord
OF wood on his shoulder and invites But
Ter 10 knock it of
Kansas City Journal Russia should
follow the example Of Kansas and make
fron-cIad laws against ':bnms.' =
The Independent party win spend the
summer in California, for which place
David Davis expects TO start ia a few
weeks.
1t seems that, aside from the author
ship of"Loihair." The life of Lord Bea-
consfeld was singularly free from re-
proach.
The Suez canal shares bought by the
Beaconsfield government at ~ in 1915
are now worth IS. profit Of oser $780,
O00.Ooe.
Chicago Tribune. We are patiently
waiting for Jay Gould 10 absorb all the
baseball clubs in the eolistry. There
are some kinds of monopoly that the
people can stand.
Kate Chase Sprague is writing biog-
raphy OF her father. II is safe to say that
this is more than win eyer he done for
that brilliant but un!iaRpy woman, by
any of her children.
A prominent citizen of Ohio, by the
name of Locke, recently died at Cincin-
natl. We believe the News observed in
recent issue, that dead-locks were be
coming fashionable.
It is reassuring to note that the psuai
mad dog has been killed this week again
down in Greenwood county. Tie Eure-
1a papers are working The hy,lraphobia
racket for all there is ia il.
Chicago Intsr-Oeean: A good many
saloons in Kansas arc I,Iacarted, For
sale, low, for cash or {, uniry produce.n
When saloon-keepers come 10 grief, il
means others viii be llappier.
weare not advised as tpwheiher Moody
and Sankey are as harmless MS doves,
but they have manifested The wisdom of
serpents in refusing to risk their reputa-
ton by graphing with Kansas City.
The United States district court has
been in session at Topeka the last ten
days. FiIfy-Cour cases were disposed of.
Three persons were sent 10 the pepiten-
tiary and five to the Shawnee county
jail.
An iIlnstrious example of consistency
is furnished by the Chicago Tribune,
which keeps up a prolonged howl over
Tie destruction of American forests,
while 1t stimulates thelemand for wood
pulp by frequently using half bundle
of paper for a single copy of its Sunday
edition.
London Spectator: Religious ex-
citement win always produce some sort
of physical excitement in half-dcyelopcd
minds. It of the greatest importance
that physical excitement should run
off in well devised channels. and not he
driven in so as 10 produce hys,ctical
consequences"
The repeal Of the bankrupt law has
not proved as disastrous 10 the business
interests of tho eountry as was feared by
many persons at the time. OF its oblitera-
,tion from the statute books. We notice
by an eastern paper that three hundred
and fifty saloon passengers went to Eu-
rope on last Saturday.
The most profound students of ancient
history now agree that the fame of Solo
mon as the wisest man OF his time, was
predicated very largely upon his ability
to maintain his commanding position in
the masonic order, and at the same time
conciliate The prejudiccs against secret
organizations, of seven hundred wives.
Lord Beaconsflcld is mentioned as
once being present in a company where
the faults of certain nobleman were
discussed. Pardon me, said the Earl,
'.you don't quite understand Lord
He is very peculiar mani he is one of
those who entertain such a sacred re-
gard for truth that he viii not use il too
freely"
A French savant advances the theory
that precociousuess is an indication of
mental inferiority which is pretty GER
tain to develop itself in later life, pos
ition which is abundantIy confirmed by
the allegation that General Hancock en-
tertained remarkably intelligent views
on the subject of the tariff at the tender
age of ten years.
The country is beginning &c. realize,
since the publication OF the Memoirs
of Jefferson Davis. that the United
States government made a fatal error in
letting slip the golden opportunity offer
ed it at the close of the rebellion, of
lettering with halter, the depraved lit
erary propensities of the chief of the
Southern Confederacy.
Anxious wife: Yes, history records a
well authenticated case of man in the
enjoyment of ordinary health and pos
sessed Of the powers of locomotion, who
spent forty consecutive evenings in the
bosom of his family. His name was
Noah, and he was prominently identified
with the shipping interest of Asia, at a
very primitive stage of its development.
Ex-Governor a. a. Glenn, formerly of
Illinois, who recently got bill through
the legislature of that state. paying him
for services for Governor while Acting
Lieutenant Governor of the state, has
just been elected Police Magistrate at
Wichita. Kansas. Il is hard to tell what
will happen in this world. Who knows
but what David Davis may some day
become justice of the peace in EN-.
poria2
WILL READ EITHER WAY.
The London Truth submits the follow.
ing as specimens OF sentences which
make sense when read forward or back.
ward:
solomon had vast treasures silver and
/ gold things precious. Happy and rich
and wise was he. Faithfully served he