The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-27
HERE AND THERE.

You don't call man a liar now; you
say he is an "official bulletin"
Professor Kings balloon would have
staid up longer if he had filed the bask-
ct with potatoes.
1t has been suggested that it would be
a slick scheme for Iowa Republi-
cans and Kentucky Democrats to swap
farms.
A Connecticut man who owns a quar-
~ has offered TO donate all the stone nee
essary to build the proposed Garfield
memorial hospital.
The literary world is threatened with
another romance from Swinburne, which
will be out some time in November. The
calamities of 1881 seem 10 show no signs
Of abatement.
The shrieks of strangulated liberty
are borne on the winds that sweep down
from the eternal mountains of Colorado.
A Denver editor has been sued for call
ing a deacon "a fine old rooster"
We see it announced that bed-bug
bites will cure rheumatism. 1t is bare
ly possible that this statement has been
circulated by interested parties with
view to stimulating immigration to
Kansas.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Ex-senator
Dorsey has $4,000 head of cattle on his
rancho in New Mexico. He ought to
brand every one of them on the hip
with a "star," to indicate the "route,"
they came.
/ A stage-robber has been sent to the
penitentiary for ninety-nine years in
Texas. We should think his friends, if
he has any, would make an effort to
have his sentence committed to impris.
onment for life.
The Democratic members of the SEN
ate will have TO eat good deal more
fish than the Washington market can
furnish without importing few whales
before they can hope to get even with
Mr.. Edmunds.
In the forty-four years during which
Queen Victoria has occupied the Eng
fish throne she has spent about twelve
days In ireland. These twelve days rep
resent two visits, the last of which took
place twenty years ago.
Prof. John Fiske, in the November
number of the Atlantic Monthly, ex-
presses the opinion that by the end of
the twentieth century the English Ian
guage will be spoken by something like
100000, 600 of people.
The chances for Indiana resuming her
place in the pyramid of Democratic
states have been very sensibly diminish
ed by the recent fire at Aurora, which
resulted in the destruction of two hun
dred thousand kegs of beer.
The Duke of Sutherland is at the head
of company of EngIishmen, with e.,
1000, who have bought sixty square
miles on the st. Paul and Omaha rail-
road, sixty miles east of Sioux city, for
a colony price $16S,O0O.
The clergymen of Kansas City pro-
pose to make a crusade against the sa-
looms of that bibulous center. We wish
eAS SAtCIPtAS 0OASpcCus ouS VIC hOulu
advise our ministerial brethren TO take
the precaution to tackle the contract by
sections.
The deep anxiety which is manifested
in New York in relation to the threat
ened water. famine is accepted as a very
encouraging pointer by those interested
in the success of the Republican party
at the approaching election in the EN-
pire state.
A fund of 5000 has been contributed
by brewers for the dissemination of Sin
formation tending to pOpularize larger
beer as a harmless beverage" The idea
is 10 circulate. by pamphlet and other
wis>, praise of beer and attacks on other
spirituOus drinks
Indiana is pressing her claim to re-
cognition under the new administration
with great vigOr. 1t must be admitted
that the state which produced the late
Bill English has laid Mr.. Arthur under