The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-10
HERE AND THERE.

ment that the aquatic idiot, Paul Boyn-
ton, had only seventeen people to hear
him lecture.
The mills of the gods seem to be
grinding very slowly in the Star Route
cases. But the American people still
have enough confidence in the ultimate
triumph of right and justice to expect
an exceeding fine'' grist.
The heavy smiling thus far seems TO
be all on the side ofthe defense in the star
route cases. We are glad to see Brady
and his pals getting in their cachinatlon.
at this early stage Of the prosecution.
He laughs besL who laughs last,
A Connecticut pastor declined an adj
dition of 500 TO his salary. for The rea-
son, among others, That the hardest part
of his labors heretofore had been the col
lection of his salary, aud it would kill
him totry TO collect 500 more.
A sarcastic Georgia editor, in Dotic-
ing a fair which recently came off in
Macon, says: "One- of our cotemporar.
les took very valuable premium, but a
meddlesOme and firm policeman made
him put it right back where he took il
FROM"
The Headlight describes a party who
is visiting Thayer as a large, handsome
man, bearing remarkable resemblance
to Col. Dan Anthony, of the Leaven
worth Times. We should think that
such human paradox might be made
the interesting nucleus OF one of the
greatest shows on earth"
Atlanta Constitution: Bill Arp sug
gests Georgia colonel's day at the ex
position. William should bear in mind
that Atlanta has made no arrangements
10 entertain every male citizen in The
stale at one time. But if they will come
in squads of ten or seventy-five thou
sand they can he accommodated.
A Chinese student at the Marietta
Ohio, college became involved in q love
affair and committed suicide by taking
choral. And yet there are people who
steadfastly claim that it is moral i'm
possibility for Chinaman to become as
simulated to the customs ofthe American
people or to feel any sympathy with oul
Republican institutions.
Kansas City is agitating the question
of night schools, as "a means OF educat
ing her street gamins and saving then
from the vicious courses into which
they are drifting. AS an only hope of /,
moral revolution in that town is will
the rising generation, it isdevoutly to b.
wished that the proposed scheme may
be pushed forward to successful ter
mination. IS.
The Prince of Wales, it is said, ha.
distinguished himself by designing
new plaid in green, red and white anC
his wife and daughters encourage hin
by wearing suits of it. This evidenc,
of dawning craftsmanship must be in
tensely gratifying to the English people
Mattresses in the Denver hotels com
formed a combination to secure easiei
hours and lighter labor In a regIor
where domestic servants are much scarcel
than gold mines strike of this sort i.
no small matter, and the girls are likely
to have their own way, or at least secure
o compromise.
Mr.. Hayes, who was recently inter
viewed at Newark regarding the new ad
ministration, esteems the president as {
man of thorough integrity and expressed
the fullest confidence in his ability Il
fill with credit to himself and the coun
try the lofty station TO which he has bee1
called. Mr.. Arthur's opinion of the ex
president has not yet transpired.
The demand for confederate bond.
has been stimulated by adventures who
are purchasing them on "spec." Theil
scheme is to create an excitement re
garding these worthless securities .anC
to sell out at small advance. The
chance for their redemption is about a!
good as that of man who wears paper
dickeys and picks his teeth with table
fork.
The wreck of the magnificent passen
ger steamer War Eagle is the second dis
aster which has occurred on the Missis
sippi within ten days. A convention fol
the improvement of steamboat captains
and their crews seems to be the para
mount need of the hour. The Father Of
Waters is not exactly what it should be
but it is evidently better than a fair pro
portion of the fellows who are bowling
oyer its depravity.
The Kansas City journal invests with
some Importance the statement that 8
family at Wabash, Indiana, have been
eating dog meat for some time and pro-
nOunce it very savory article of diet
There is nothing strange or startling
about that. There are a great many
people all over the country who are
a great many people all over the coun-
try who are grossly addicted to bologna
sausage.
The New York Tribune draws the
following graphic pen picture of well
known citizen of Missouri: six feet
tall, broad shoulders, broad, straight
back without the slightest incli-
nation to stoop and tapering toward
the waist, high forehead, blue eyes,
prominent brows and cheek bones, a
nose like an eagles beak-such arc the
physical characteristics of Jesse James,
the notorious train robber, outlaw and
general devil" sF ~ a
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