The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-06
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
A sewer pipe ring is the latest sweet
smelling combination at Chicago.
The Interesting cosmopolite with a
lizard IN his stomach, has turned up at
Detroit
1t seems that John w. FOrney found
Charlie Ross a good deal like he elected
Hancock.
Beaconsheld's death win result in the
demolition of his literary reputation.
People will now read his novels.
Mr.. Blackburn, the hre-emitting YES
tige-wiper from kentucky, has a new
and formidable rival in the shape of an
infant volcano which has just been dis
covered in that state.
Another course of stone has been added
to the Washington monument The his
tory of that enterprise leads the public
to believe that when Eli Perkins dies an
ObelIsk will spring Spontaneously from
his grave. at
The Chicago Times has purchased
an advance copy of the revised version
OF the New Testament, and will shortly
publish the entire volume in one of its
Issues. 1t will be interesting to see the
heavy head-iiner OF that institution
"aliiterating" cornices for scriptural
edition
Another person-Mrs. Eliza Dinkall-
who attended George Washington's fu-
neral, recently died at Lancaster, Ohio.
But there are still several miles of the
procession which followed the father of
his country 10 his last resting place
scattered throughout the country, from
which reports may be expected at stated
intervals . l.cGkI5 EEf
1t is asserted upon what purports to
be excellent authority that there is only
one live hippopotsmus in this country !;
but students of sacred zoology will be
encouraged to learn that this solitary
biblical bioOd-exuding monster, fresh
from the remOtest sources of the Nile"
is prevailing the country with at least
twelve of the greatest shows on earth. y
Ii is estimated that the damage done
by the overflow of the Mississippi in
the vicinity of Hannibal, Missouri, win
exceed 100000. It's wonder that
the recent disastrous floods throughout
the northwest haven't suggested to some
of the Kansas saloonistss the feasibility
Of cOunteriDg on st. Johns nose, by In
Vading the lecture field with convinc-
ing array of statistics setting forth the
awfuily destructive properties OF water
to life and property. Z -
A Larned man named Francois, has
just died after fast of three months
during which period he did not take one
particle Of food into his stomach of any
description. This dims the luster of
Tannes's achievement and even wrests
the lanrals from the grave of Miss Hat
tie Deuel., the lady who recently starv-
ed herself TO desth in Iowa. We may
add, however, in justice to the last nam
ed PARTIES that Pawnee county offers
more suspicious conditions for a pro-
longed abstinence from food than al
most any inhabiIabie locality on
the globe, especially during a dry sea-
son
Mr.. Denis Kearney, ex-agitator, and
still the chief light of the Sand Lots,
where, however, it must be confessed,
he emits only a mild effulgence, has
done reporter Of the Sacramento Rec
ord Union the honor to submit himself
to an eight column, interview. His
language though less pictorial than
formerly. still abounds in rhetoric suf-
ficiently discreditable 10 satisfy any
reasonable man. 1t is interesting to
hear that he is about to form new po-
litical organization, the aim and object
of which will be to convert the entire
country into Garden of Eden, of course
without snakes or the devil or forbidden