The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-18
HERE AND THERE.

The Garheld's are packing their s
runks.
Last Saturday was Peter Cooper's
birthday.
Stanley Mathews will be one OF the
assets" of the Hayes administration.
Professor Richard A. Proctor says he
believes that with good telescope one
may see hundred million suns, each
The center of universe.
An Emporia man complains that
when his mother-in-lsw goes away for a
months visit she invariably selects Feb
ruary.
TIE Santa Fee road might have saved
thousands of dollars by setting a trap
for the ground hog, and subsidizing
VennOr.
The highest price ever paid for Chica-
go real estate was S4,125 per improved
front foot, which was cheap enough if it
was stepped off by one of the bellies OF
the Prairie City.
The Cincinnati Commercial which is
opposed TO ice-water and the present adj |
ministration, maliciously remarks that
March will come in like lion and
Hayes will go out like lamb.
The Philadelphia North American
thinks if a man is ashamed of his bust
ness he ought to get out of it. Well,
suppose his business is pegging shoes in
the penitentiary, what the deuce is he
to do?
A Connecticut man has buried two
wives and been married twice within the
brief period Of11 months. Not even the
most enterprising widower could have
made such astonishing Roadway outside
of the ''land of steady habits"
According TO Professor Proctor the
end of the world is postponed until
1897, when the earth and a comet are to
pass each other on the same track. We
deeply regret this, as in 1898 Edison's
electric light is TO be completed.
1t seems scarcely in the line of poetic
justice, that Greeley county, which bears
the name of the grand, lcvel-headed man
who advised young men TO go west and
grow up with the country, should only
boast population of three souls.
1t pays to be notary public down in
Chilli The gold excitement there has
attracted multitudes Of people who are
taking out claims all over the mountains,
and the notary who makes out the pa
] hos 1AoLafa1 ba ltf1la
of $S5, 900.
The signal officer says that some Of
the severest of our recent st orns came
from the Indian Territory and Texas
The Lone Star State seems to have gone
back on the comparison which Phil
Sheridan once instituted between 1t ant
certain hypothetical locality with 4
very fervid climate.
The American press, with great unani
nifty, stood by the Baroness Burdett
Couts in her matrimonial venture, anc
if the cargo of the next steamer that ar
rives from Europe is not chiefly made
up of wine and wedding cake, the be
nevolence of that distinguished lady has
been grossly exaggerated.
1t is said that wide mouths are ex
tremely fashionable for women this sea
son. The only Objectionable feature tha
we observe in this decree, is that it will
, effectually quench any desire to get tc
heaven in the heart of Marie Litta, the
prima donna, who charmed Emporis
with her seraphIc singing some weeks
, ago.
We have had the POncas as a regular
dish, raw, fried or stewed, until people
are reminded of the old story of tho
) boardcr, who, in asking blessing, al
luded to the glut of rabbits on the fam
. lily table, and thanked the Lord that o
all varieties OF this species of game
: enough had been supplied.
!, If the readers of the Kansas CITY
: Times are to be given credit for possess
: ing any delicacy of stomachic con
strYction, we should suppose that any
> future operatic engagements in that city
) would be opposed with all the vigo
7 which is ordinarily employed in a guar
: antine against the visitation of fatal cpl
!: denies.
! M De Lesseps counts on Italian la
borers to dig the Panama canal, as the!
are said to manifest more endurance il
4 such undertakings than the Irish, thei
e most formidable competitors in the man
!; ipulation of the pick and spade 1t i
= surprising to note the wonderful adapta
bility of that gifted race to the purpose
s of excavation and the more fiorid type
I of operate art.
, The efficiency OF the pulpit as an ad
n Vertising agency seems to be yindicateu
I by the fact that Chicago is the onl
Z American city where Bernhardt has moi
D thus far in her tour, been assaulted b.
r the clergy, and her receipts at that plac
i were proportiona;ely smaller than at an
!. point where she has played. Mr. Tai
i mage should cut this out and paste it il
his Sunday hat.
o The public press has lost a fruitful
5 source of comment and speculation L
e the marriage of Baroness Burdett
, Coutts and VIM. L. Ashmead BartIet
$ whose wedding took place in Londo
e on the 18th inst. But as the bride i
possessed of sufficient means to neutral
!. ize the maturity of charms which hav
e been ripening for sixty-five ears, it
J. gratifying to know that the newspape
e worlds loss is Mr.. Bartlett's eterns
), = gain.
It At the inaugural ball in Washingto
the following is to be the regular SUI
per. for which 81 will be charged
= Chicken salad, lobster salad, stewed oyi
It tiers, fried oysters, picked oysters, sane
witches, ices, coffee, tea and "relishesl
?, For fifty cents there will be lunch c
II crackers and cheese" Vacant hall
will for two or three days be turned int
e lodging houses at fifty cents for eac
person, and il is estimated there will b
at least $1,000 visitors who will not b
); able 10 secure regular hotel accommOda
}; tions.
J; Ifthere ever was q specific for any on
J. complaint, then Carriers Little Live
J. Pills are a specific for sick headache