The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-08-11
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
In Iowa Methodist church is ded.
icated every two weeks, the denomination
having $1,000 communicates in the
State.
Tue undertakes and lawyers Of the
country will learn with regret that the
Norwich Pistol company has made an
assignment.
Collector Robertson, OF the New York
Custom House, is already oVerrun with
ofice-seekers, but as yet finds no reason
to make change.
Chicago uses 100000 gallons of
water daily. Half of it Is used in max.
ing beer and the rest in scalding bristles
of dead pigs.
Twenty years ago, Mrs. Mary A. Liv-
ermore says, there were but eleven en-
ployments open TO women, and now
there are no less than 387.
Nearly true: There is something ias-
cinating about science. One gets such
wholesale returns Of conjecture out of a
trihing investment Of fact.
Schaberle's comet is approaching the
earth at the rate of s, OO0, 900 miles day,
and will be at its brightest about August
Goth, when it will be visible to the naked
eye.
The Lowell Citizen says that you can
bet the next Worlds Fair will not be
held in New York, and IL the next world
has a fair il won't be held anywhere
near that city.
Clipped: Gideon was the great civil
service reformer, and IL may possibly be
remembered that, after brief competi-
tive examination, he smOte the spoils-
men hip and thigh.
The days of summer are waning fast
and the voice of the politician and the
brilliancy of the torchlight procession
will soon supersede the song OF the mos
quito and the interest in the watermelon.
The Boston Post man says that matri
mony is a game at which only two can
take hand. We are at aloss to determine
whether it is the wife or the mother-in
law who has been ignored in this est
mate.
AEorth Carolina farmer saw The tents
Of . railroad surveying party, and think
ing that they belonged 10 a military
camp and tina. the comet had brought
another war, he turned back toward
home.
Il
The Missouri Pacific railway cOmpe
ny will build machine shops at Sedslia
A contract 70 this effect has been entered
into between the attorney Of the compa
ny and the city government The city
Is to donate to the company, when the
stone foundation is laid. $4,000 cash.
. The new York Herald Is sOmewha
better pleased with the treatment Of thu
, President. bat declares that ian em
barrassed respiration standing out IS q
individual fact at . tiHe when metas
. tasis of suppurative action ~ The lung
! may possibly be apprehended, Is fac
to fix attention"
my brethren," said Western minil
ter, sthe preaching Of the gospel to som
people is like pouring water over
{ spOnge-it sOaks in and stays. To 9th
ers it is like wind blowing through
chickencOOp. Ny experience Of thi
congregation lie that IL contains NOR
; chicken-cOops than spOnges."
A Chicago man claims TO have inven
ed . velocipede propelled by an electri
battery carried in the riders pocket
speed Of twelve miles an hour has bee
: attained, and when the invention
thoroughly perfected cheap means {
locomOtion Is promised the world Tia
viii abolish the horse and his brew
brother, the mule, for AL but heavy dEAf
= ing purposes
n AhchisOn Champion: Sitting Bull h
, Q boy seven years old, whose name
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