The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-03
HERE AND THERE.

The president of the French Republic
receives salary of $eO0, 600 per annum.
1t is almost as lucky TO be born in
France as in Ohio.
If"Hamlet'' had lived in these days
he would have been called a ''crank."
But he lived only in Shakspere's mind,
so it wouldn't have hurt his reputation.
In different parts of the west young
ladies who desire To attest, by their tot
lets.t opulence of their "paternal dads"
wear strands OF small potatoes about
their necks.
The First Baptist church of Kansas
City has been sold by the United States
Marshal. No enterprise which operates
on cold water basis can ever hope to
achieve Financial success at the Kaw
metropolis.
The room wherein Garfield so long
lay i'll in the White House has been
freshly tinted, and the discolored spots
made by the splashing of the medicines
have been obliteraied. 1t has not, how
ever, been refurnished.
Three men, supposed from property
in their possession, to be Missouri train
robbers, have been arrested at Lawrence.
If they desired to secure immunity from
moIestation at the hands of the police,
they should have gone TO Topeka.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat Cover
nor Roberts, of Texas, says he would
rather walk than ride free on "A railroad.
Therein he differs from the thirty-seven
other governors who, one and all, would
rather walk than pay fare.
The Kansas City Times preserves
bOisterous silence regarding tile ''half-
sheet extra" of the Journal since it has
"ensmalled' a column 10 the page To
meet the demands, as we take it, of its
growing advertising patronage"
The convention held at st. Louis TO
take measures for the improvement of
the Mississippi river seems TO have had
but little effect upon that stream. The
Father of Waters" is behaving even
worse than it did last spring.
1t has been guessed that the bin of
DIR. Bliss for his services to President
Garfield will be $25, 600 1t is mere
guess, for he never communicated his
private business to a reporter. But the
nation will not criticIse his bill when
they remember his devotion.
The female suffragists arc taking the
war path in Kentucky. As the women Of
that state are largely addicted to tobacco
chewing and chop most OF the wood for
domestic consumption, We see no reason
why they should not be permitted TO
exercise the elective franchise.
Chicago Inter Ocean: In reply 10
his application for evidence of Guiteau's
insanity, D New York man writes Mr.
ScOviile that lac onse loaned silk UNI
brella to Guitcau, and that it was re-
turned promptly and in good order.
This seems TO be convincing.
Texas has congressman representing
the Sixth DISTRICT who refused to take q
handsome silver set rendered him by his
constituents. If he lived in Ohio lac
would be promptly set down as a
crank" and immediate steps would be
taken for the election of his successor.
SuperstitioAs people who have been
troubled by the prophecies which are
rife regarding the end of the world dur.
ing the present year, will become the
prey Of renewed anxiety when they
learn that the phenomenal events of the
past ten months have been supplement
ed by real estate boom at Leavenworth.
John Hudson, of LoOmis, Illinois,
murdered hig wife and aftcrward killed
himself. This program 10 eating mo-
notonous. If it were occasionally re
versed it would add greatly to the in
teEest of the criminal record. Let the
next fellow who becomes infiammed by
jealousy and thirst for gore commit
suicide first and dispatch his wife after
he has attended to his own case.
San Francisco Chronicle; The first
celestial marriage" occurred by stealth,
on the banks of the Mississippi river,
near Na4voo, Illinois. Joseph Smith
SCALED" to James Noble, a second wife.
Mobiles first wife soon died of broken
heart, and the second wife went insane
and also died. When Smith married
Noble the latter also married Smith to a
second wife. The first Smith chung to
the prophet until mob killed him, and
then married Gentle, and at last &C
counts was still living at Nauvop,
The Worlds Fair committee haye con-
Sidered the ACCESSIBILITY of holding
the fair ut Boston. provided five
million dollars can be rails
ed, and referred the subject to sub
committee with instructions to canvass
the city for the purpose of securing That
amount. If the phenomenal energy
with which this project is being urged
forward is persisted in it will be compare
lively easy to make the exposition and
the completion of Washington's mpnu-
ment coincident events in our national
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