The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-03-04
HERE AMI THERE

h6RG AMI AA1hGs
A few tardy cabinet conjectures still
continue TO come in from the back town.
ships.
Il is barely possible that Providence
is accurately informed rs to the precise
political prOclivities OF Senator Davis,
Of Illinois.
The introduction Of Chinese profes-
sorship into Harvard college has already
had the effect OF making the rats in
Cambridge extremely shy.
We learn that Doc. Struggled appear
ed as q donkey at the Topeka mas
querade ball. Friday evening. His reasons
for refusing to mask, are not stated.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has impaired
lively impetus 10 the news print mar
ket by publishing q list of Ohio men
holding official'pOsitions under the pres
ent administration.
A boom in st. Louis real estate will
probably do away with the highly pic
turesque feature of COW pastures and po-
tato patches in the heart OF the business
portiun Of that city.
Now if some idiot doesn't fly in the
face of Providence by swinging out in a
straw hat, there is reason TO hope that
the fine weather may last till the first
Sunday school picnic.
1t is a matter of very common obser-
walton that the man who bosses the por-
tiers and finds fault with the parlor cars,
sleeps next to the rafters and rides be-
hind a mule team when he is at home.
II has not been denied that Governor
St. John went up to st. Joe to see "FrOu
Frou." but the public will be very slow
to credit the rumOr that he and Bern
hardt have filed certificate of incOrpor-
alton with the secretary of state, for the
establishment of a mutual admiration
society.
The scheme 10 remove the Missouri
capital from Jefferson City to Sedalia
has been summarily squelched in the
legislature of that state. We take it that
the Kansas City Times, which fairly rent
its linen in advocating the change,
must have a great many subscribers
among the solons of the Missouri assem-.
bly,.
The Baroness Burdett-C outs and the
young man whom she recently assumed
the contract of rearing, will visit the
United States next summer. Whatever
else may be said about Bartlett, he shows
q good deal of pluck in bringing his
smbrosial bride to a country where the
young fellows are all such desperate
flirts.
A bill has been introduced in the Tex
as legislature forbidding the opening o
telegraph offices on Sunday. The advo
Gates of the measure seem to occupy pc
sitiOn very similar to the Arkansas CITY
man. who. in reprimanding his son TO
profanity, concluded his reproof by tn,
observation: "D-n anything wicked
anyhow"
While st. Joe manifests no inclination
|. to gush over Bernhardt, it is not likel,
t that the feeling Of apathy attending he
E engagement in that city will deepen int
: positive disgust, unless her visit shout
5 deYelop a counterpart to Mr.. Wardel
!. the original poet who blossomed fort
g at Kansas City under the auspices {
n Marie Roze.
Il The Kansas City Times generousl
e volunteers to farm out a portion of il
b editorial phosphorus by offering to b
e, stow upon Mr.. BennyWorth, of the Kal
% sas house, a pint Of calls brains. TIL
d would seem to indicate diabolical pu
n pose on the part of the management
s. trepan the inOffensive dramatic report
Of of that journal.
~ The recent mortality among the gre
~ men of the country has wrought a
T. cidedly salutary effect upon the mora
re of Private Dalzell, of Ohio, who,
IL view of the possibility of his early diss
p luton, has checked his depraved tas
N for letler-writing, and has gotten as
oil as the third chapter of Genesis on h
al way through the bible.
The reports as to the remunerative I
- Lure of the Alaska purchase are st
-, sufficiently conflicting to prove Soul
of painful bewilderment to the popul
- mind. 1t is feared that the resources
- that country and the customs of
people will never be fully explored I
it is entitled to representation as sta
to and is divided up into congressional q
he tricts.
I'LL The Washington reporter who Ga
on publicity to the statement that
as Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, will be
handsomest man in the United Sta
AIT senate, is said to be exercise
hS every possible precaution to av
s a the fatal consequences of
lat encounter with Roscoe Conkli
ms under conditions favorable to
'ar infiictiOn of personal violence.