The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-18
HERE AND THERE.

An eastern paper says: THE Amerl-
can people pay presidents $4,000 year
damages for the libels circulated about
them during the campaign"
In another hundred years collectors of
bric-a-brac will be exhibiting phono-
graphs, telephone machines and electric
light lamps which .'came over in the
Maytiower."
When an elephant has cold they give
it five gallons of whisky, and that's the
reason why some men who have been
to see the elephant carry such peculiar
odor about them.
Kansas City and Atchison are talking
CT sending delegations to the national
capital to pat Secretary Blaine on the
back for the heroic stand he has taken in
behalf of western hogs.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Bernhardt and
Fanny Davenport appeared in Detroit
the same night, and the people, desiring
to go where they could see the most,
gave Fanny the largest audience.
A saloon census has been taken in St
Louis, and it estimated that 43S, 0O0, 900
glasses of beer are annually swallowed
in that city. 1t IS somewhat difficult to
determine whether these figures reflect
the depravity of the citizens or the water
in that town.
1t is stated that President Garfield has
written a letter to James Russell Lowell
osl,;un I,i,,, tO rafaip his DOaifiOn "a
American minister to the court of st.
James. AS Mr.. Lowell is not an Ohio
man, the nature of his reply is involved
in more or less doubt.
The only and original Jere Black is
posing before the startled public In the
highly dramatic attitude of leader of an
anti-monOpoly crusade. The intense
novelty of this spectacle will continue
to challenge competition till Satan as
sumes the Presidency of christian
association.
The rumor, current in our exchanges,
that Professor Proctor is going to marry
a St. Joseph lady, would seem to indi'
cate that the great scientist has incurred
the deadly enmity of some invidious
newspaper reporter, who has taken this
dastardly method of wreaking his ven
geance upon the distinguished astrono-
mer
The Chicago Inter Ocean says the mad
dest man in the country over President
Garfield's cabinet is Lieutenant Cover
nor Hickenlooper, of the Buckeye state
who, in the anticipated event of Cover
nor Fosters assignment to portfolio
would have stepped into his shoes az
chief executive of the United States o.
Ohio.
The Egyptian obelisk, at Contra
Park, has been very thoroughly scruti
nized by the most profound achseOlo
gists of the country, but as its cabalisti'
inscriptions fail to embody so much a
even a reference to Susan B. Anthony
it is entirely logical to infer that thu
reign of Cleopatra was not cursed by tn,
agitation of the female suffrage issue.
Appearances indicate that the advo
Gates of woman suffrage will carry tn,
day in Wisconsin. The legislature q
its present session will doubtless sub
nit q constitutional amendment to tn,
people admitting women to the fran
chise. The leading Republican paper
in the state favor its passage, and tn
scheme will probably hare an intelligen
trial.
Parnell has forwarded written ar
peal to Victor Hugo for his sympath.
and support. If the distinguishe,
Frenchman answers, and the agitator
attempt to unrayel the full meaning O
the letter, England may REASONABLE
hope for prolonged cessation Of hosti
. tiles among her Irish subjects. tn
. author of Lies Miserables'' wields an il
, tensely erratic goose quill.
5 Col. Dan R. Anthony, the journalist
: | Nestor of the Leavenworth Times, hs
not been recognized az yet by the ne,
e administration, but he has more to boa.
: of in this direction than most of his q
temporaries. He has the bulge on thel
f to the extent, at least, of being q fello
. townsman of Hon. John A. Haldermal
who has been reappointed consul I
i Bangkok, Siam, by President Garfield.
r The humane impulses Of the publ
C are equal to the suffering entailed by Il
e lacerated feet and over-taxed calves
K the contestants in the go-as-you-plea
e walking match in progress at Ne
d York, but the spectacle of three grinnir
lie bipeds, with sticks in their hand
Of WALKING around q saw-dust track, has
IF tendency to unsettle the moral found
II tons of society by overthrowing the "a
y ric of orthodox theology and confirmir
q the Darwinian theory.