The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-02-04
gar, should be referred TO the committee

The water famine IN various portions !
Of the STATE has become so serious, that
steps have been taken for its smelIora-
lion 10 the arrest of a number Of dealers
in adulterated milk
The woman's rights representatives
are at Washington again INDUCING IN
the same old stuff about tie wrongs OF
women. II these psOpie would take the
advice Of the mass of the good women
Of the land, they would stay at home.
Mother Shipton's stock is running up
again, and there is u slight advance re-
ported in ascension robes. a Tumor is
current at Washington and generally be-
lieved, that reconciliation has been ef-
frcted between Senators Blaine and
ConkliBg.
Mrs. Secretary EVarts never offers any
thing stronger il the way Of liquids at
her receptions than cup OF chocolate
served with whipped cream, which her
guests declare a most delicious beverage.
Wouldn't il be in order TO name a Kan
sss county in her honor
Tho widow of Professor Watson, the
astronomer, will contest his will, and
his fortune, instead of being applied to
the advancement of science, will proba-
bly, bedivided in about equal proportions
between the lawyers and the dry goods
dealers Of bis wife's resident city.
Some issue should be precipitated
upon the country which would justify
an oratoricaI canvass of the Republic
by Kearney or Parnell. The general
prevalence OF the egg famine would adj
nit Of this program at the present time
without the Objectionable feature of the
ordinary ovation of hen fruit.
Notwithstanding the complaints heard
from various quarters regarding The IN
due stringency Of the Hackney, Ady, and
other temperance bills introduced in the
legislature, We have yet TO read one
which Incorporates the slightest allusion
to soda water. Have the pharmacists and
cOnfectioneIs subsidized our stale
Solonsf
a preacher in Rock county, Kansas.
had been for weeks conducting won
derfully successful revival. Dear
brelhern and sisters" he said one day,
this is the last meeting shall hold.
It is impossible to keep up fervor on
corn bread and mOlasses for myself and
an ear of corn a day for my horse. God
bless you"
The mortality among Washington's
servants has not been as marked of late
months as formerly. but one died at AL
exandria, Va, the other day at the age of
ll5 years. We are assured she is the last
of the innumerable caravan She was ii
cork ut Mount Vernon after the father of
his country retired to private life, and
was manumitted by his will.
The New York Herald says that more
than one-half of the population of Rhode
Island is engaged in mechanical OF man.
ufacturing pursuits. We presume the
remaining fifty or sixty attend to she
household duties of the commonwealth,
do the preaching and dnctoring, white
the store boxes. insure fair play at the
dog fights, and plant and harvest the
corn crop.
A bill has been introduced in the state
Legislature making the theft of fruit a
misdemeanor. While this intelligence
may spread temporary dismay through
the ranks of good little Sunday school
boys, it will scarcely have the imme-
diate effect of dong away with the time
hOnored custom among horticulturists
of allowing bulldog the freedom of
the orchard and melon-patch.
Physicians and asylum keepers say
that insane people are especially sus.
ceptible 10 the agreeable influences of
music. This is probably upon the prin-
ciple that the hair of the dog is good
for the bite, as 1t Is fact amply authen-
ticated by statistics, that three-fourths of
the lunatics in.,he country are the vic
Tins of the cabinet organ, the trombone
and the ACCORDION, in the hands of
amateur performers.
While in one section of our great
country people are pluckIng oranges
from the trees, another section reports
fearful avalanches of snow rushing from
| steep mountain sides and overwhelming
towns which are in the way. We have
our Switzerland and Italy, rs we'll as
our Alaska. to make up a variety of eli
mate and temperature which will suit
the most fastidious. Uncle Sam may be
proud of the diversity of his posses
siOns.
The Rev. z. p. Hammond, the evan
eelist, has been holding revival meet
ings in Manitoba for seven weeks, and
in bold defiance of Venror, has frequent
ly preached to large audiences in tho
open air, with the thermometer twenty
five degrees below zero As this state
mcnt seems TO be perfectly well authen
ticated. il becomes Il matter of perplex
! ing interest to know what leverage
minister conld obtain upon his nearer;
by depicting to them the tOrrid features
of the orthodox Hades under such ex
tremcly chilling auspices. Mr.. Ham
mond must be II man of singular power
if he could inyeSt Prohibition with any
horrors under the peculiar circumstances