The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-22
boom in earthquakes is in the interest of
the publishers of the revised edition of
the New Testament.

boom in earthquakes is in the interest of
the publishers of the revised edition of
the New Testament
Chicago Tribune: An exchange pub
fishes an article headed "How 10 tell a
mad dog" We have nothing To tell a
mad dog that we cannot communicate
by telephone or postal card.
More Sioux are coming in. and they
say there are more TO follow. The army
and the public are only beginning to
realize how big nuisance Canada has
relieved us Of for two OF three years.
Whitelax Reid, who proved himself
too white livered to marry Anna Dick
inson, is striving to retrieve his reputa-
ton for valsr by throwing down the
gage Of battle at the feet of General Sher-
man.
Small waists are no longer fashionable
and tight Iacing is frpwned down by SEN
s:ble women. Il may strike the reader
as suPerfiuons to add that short-armed
gehtlemen are becoming corresponding
ly obsolete.
4 telling blow has been aimed ut the
evil of cheap silver ware, by Prince
William, of Prussia. who refused over
5000 wedding presents aud, in fact. pub
llshed 6 notice that he could not accept
any, even from his frien,ls.
Robertson, Conkling, Malone, Riddle
berger, and Ben Hill are really actors in
one great conspiracy 10 disturb the peace
Of newspaper men. But for them there
would be no topics going except the
weather and reform in Central Africa.
w. c.. Webb, a banker of Indianapolis,
has sued the st. Louis Republican for
libel, claiming damages to the amount
of $4,000. So far as we are informed
that is the handsomest tribute that has
ever been paid to the influence of that
journal.
There is talk now of Alaska gold
fields, and the Washington dispatches
say that movement of miners toward
that region has already begun. The
quantity of gold, or the appetite for it,
will need to be great 10 insure an exo-
dus to Alaska.
Mrs. Langtry, the famous English
beauty. is said to be charming only
when she talks. 1t must be an infinite
source of satisfaction for her to reflect
that the conditions which eonduce TO her
attractions render forbiding and formid-
able SO many Of her sex.
A Swiss journal jus;ifies the sending
Of undesirable characters to this country
on the ground that America is Europe's
reformatory. For GOODNESS this heats
anything on record. That newspaper
Office must be on a glacier with ava.
lanches chasing one another around the
back yard.
An eastern exchange says that the
Canadians have come TO like the Mar
quis of Lorne very much, assigning as a
reason the fact that he has abated his
reserve and is no longer shy. We should
expect some liberty of action from a
man whose wife is absent thirteen
months out of the year.
Reference to the revision of the
manual of Winks," in connection with
soda fountains, under the new temper
ence law, seems to have been omitted in
the published proceedings of the recent
convention of Kansas druggists at To-
peka. This part of the work was prob
ably accomplished in executive session.
The only hope now entertained by the
public of getting out of its winter fan
nels is predicated upon the absence of
the letter ST" in May, and reliance up
on the old tradition that this orthograph-
icai feature is always attended by tenn
perature which is highly inimical to the
eligibility of the oyster as an article of
diet.
VIM. Means, the newly elected mayor
of Cincinnati, is budding as q Democrat
ic candidate for governor of Ohio this
fall. Good Deacon Richard Smith, of
the Gazette. who supported Means in
the late municipal election, may have
an opportunity of sampling some crow
before he is through with his Bourbon
protege.
Professor Proctor has sued the Wa.
bash railway upon which he suffered in.
jury from an accident some weeks ago
for $4,000 damages. II seems that even
an insolent corporation can transcend
the limit of its privileges, and may he
held amenable for shaking up a fnnc
tiOnary who assists in the regulation oil
tbs solar and planetary Systems.
London World: "a Briton on duty
especially if on duty as satellite, ha.
the faculty, 1t must be owned, of max
| ing himself disagreeable beyond any
other specimen OF the human species
j He is formal, he is iimid, he is dIplo
matte, he is apt to be 'cussed > he il
pretty sure to be pretentious, and he act
as if he conceived the habitable gIob
were track specially macadamIzed b,
a discerning providence for the eere
monious transit of the great personag
of whom he is an attache"
The leading spelling reformcrs @
Germany are thinking of holding a
international congress in Berlin at ia
same time as the congress Of OrientaIisi,
in September. The subjects suggests
for consideration are the formation of
common alphabet for Europe, of o com
mon alphabet for the east, and, finally
of a universal alphabet. The prim
movers in this progressive scheme ar
possibly living in benighted ignoranc
of even the existence of such town a
LeavenwOrth, but the utter futiiity {
any enterprise looking toward pc
manent amelioratiOn of prevailing syl
tenn Of photography, without the C,
operation of Col. Dan Anthony, is pc
fectly obvious to every Kansan OF tn
most common order of intelligence.
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