The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-23
HERE AND THERE.

rockets Ofsmcn WHO commit SulcTue
resemble one another wonderfully in one
rcspect-lhcre is no money in them.
Mrs. SybIl Tlcknor, of Cornwall, Ct,
who is in her Tooth year, is said TO he the
oldest Methodist now living. She join
ed the Methodist church in Derby, CT,
when she was IS years old.
We regard it as quite possible that
Adelina PATHS determination 10 visit
this country next season is due-tO the
knowledge on her part that EmPoria is
to have u new opera house.
Mother Shipton's reputation will
sOOa be dead. This old earth is altOgeth-
er too wet to buTn just now. The old
lady probably meant we'll, but who could
count on such damp season?
David Davis is annOnnced TO deliver
the address on Indepe ndence Day at
Bloomington, Illinois. A couple of
piIe-drivers have already been chartered
by the committee on the construction of
the speakers platform.
New York Herald: A Canada mar
has built an ark in anticipation of the
world being drowned in the near future.
Let him improve upon his illustrious
predecessor by not taking in any cats 20
make misery in the moonlight of the
new world.
About this time, when ali the colleges
arc holding graduating exercises, look
out for the regular annual crop of young
men who know just how TO edit news
paper so that all competing journals
will sink dejectedly into the wrapping
paper business. 4
Salt Lake Tribune: According to
one of the Mormon papers the European
slaves were brought to the Salt Lake
Market in several freight cars. The best
looking girls will be auctioned off to the
thickest necked polygs while the mcn
will be parcellcd out on the Church
ranches"
The asperities of the Ohio canvass
have already developed TIE fact that
Nicholas Longworth, the Republican
candidate for supreme judge, carves,
paints and plays on the violin. 1t Is
needless ~ add that the Democrats are
preparing to make the most of these
damaging revelations.
According to the Democratic editors
the Republican party is dead again.
We should suppose these indefatigable
gentleman would weary of killing a
party which has arisen from its grave
with singular regularity every four
years for the last quarter of century,
to click the stuffln'" out of the hard
listed BOurbons.
General Grant is credited with pref
erence for John A. Logan as a presiden-
tial candidate in 1884. The ex-President
has apparently overlooked the fact that
serious question regarding the eligi-
bIlity of the Illinois senator is liable to
arise in case he should become Il candi-
date, in view of the fact that he neglect
ed the vital precaution TO be born in
Ohio.
The Winfield Courier, an exchange of
pronounced scientific predictions, has
raised the question whether it is posi-
BILE for a cyclone TO occur in the night.
An Emporia man who is addicted to
"keno," and who always finds his wife
and the mop-stick sitting up for him on
his nj Chilly return tn the bosom of his
family, regards the phenomenon in ques-
ton rs almost exclusively nocturnal in
ia character. s
A rusty haichet hes been dug up on
the site Of WashingSDnss Birthplace and
presented to the Mount Vernon Ladies'
Association. It is supposed TO be the
Ratchet with which he cut down his
fathers fhvorite cherry tree, and goes TO
confirm the tale told by Writ in his
life of Washington" and which those
who sit in the seat of the scornful have
sneered at as too truly good. If the
stump of the cherry tree should next be
dug up it will be conclusive that the
tale of early piety and prObity had its
foundation in fact.