The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08
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dead again.
What the present Gar Of Russia
seems to desire, is to "quIet his title-''
There are, in the senate, two Camerons,
two Platts, two Dayises, two Joneses and
two Hills.
Our New York exchanges indicate
that the Worlds Fair is beginning TO get
its second wind.
The Gar of Russia doesn't live with
his mother-in-law, but it turns ont that
his brother is Nihilist.
The Virginia Readjusters have begun
in real earnest to advocate liberalism and
breaking up of the solid south.
Ex-Secretary SehurZ threatens to re-
venge himself upon an unappreciative
public by writing two or three magazine
articles on the Indian question.
Parsons has tweniy-four men who are
yearning to be constable, and not one of
them would consider for moment a
proposition looking toward his CONVEX
sion into an archangel.
1t is very evident that Wayne Me-
Veagh's physician doesn't understand
his case. The attorney general should
consult medical adviser who has made
specially of the treatment of dys-
pepsia.
A man who recently celebrated his
hundredth birthday, yet never saw
Washington, and, apparently, was never
drunk, is among New Jerseys natural
curiosities. So says the New York
Herald.
It seems that even so dreadful thing
as Nihilism is not without its beneficent
phases. The Car of Russia may live
in constant terror of dynamite, but he
is never bored with life insurance
agents.
The adoption of an anti-treating law
in Wisconsin is making itself felt in the
unprecedently small acreage of spring
politicians, and the crop that has been
put out is extremely backward and I'M
promising.
Mrs Garfield, who speaks French and
German fluently, is said 10 be the first
presidents wife able TO talk with foreign
diplomats in the court language of
Europe. Her husband is also accom-
plished in German and French.
One ofthe Rothschilds owns $5O0O00
for every pound he weighs. Its won
der that the plan hasn't occurred TO some
of those kraut-eating sgrarIans to SNUG
gle effective doses of anti-fat into the
victUals of such bloated capitalist.
A judicious course Of bromide would
tend to mitigate the gloomy apprehen-
sions of Col. Dan Anthony in regard to
the disastrous results of prohibition, and
would greatly promote the lucidity of
his daily editorials on that question.
The embargo imposed upon beer in
Kansas by tie constitutional amend
ment is already beginning to effect the
general financial interests of the country.
Advices from Washington announce a
suspension in the coinage of nIckels.
The fal.acious rumor that the New
York Herald had opened an official in
telligence bureau for Ohio men probably
took its origin in the fact that recent
number of that journal contained over
one hundred columns of advertisements.
Senator David Davis is said to own
more improved land IN Illinois than any
man in that state or out of it. This op-
ulent condition of affairs is doubtless
very largely due to the colossal success
of that mammoth gentleman as squat
ter.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The Inter Ocean
has unearthed a poem written by James
A. Garfield when he was a college stu.
dent, in 1852. Had such thing as this
been discovered before the election, Gen.
eral Hancock might be our president
to-day.
If the senators who are denouncing
Malone for course which contemplates
the liberation of Virginia from the
thralldom of Bourbonism, had lived in
the sixteenth century, GaliIeo would
have been lynched instead of being sim
ply denounced as hereto.
The island of st. Thomas has not beer
before the public lately. Some years
ago disastrous tidal wave swept it
coast and gave it considerable notoriety
1t now makes another strike for promi
neuce through a couple of earthquake
and visitation from Ben Butler.
Mr.. James Russell Lowell, in his Wor
cester address, mentioned as examples o
self.culture Abraham Lincoln and Gen
eral Garfield. 1t was curious, he said
that those who turned out to be remark
able men generally met with encourage
ment at the time they wanted it, ant
General Garfield was among the exam
plies. His career from the time he mad
up his mind 10 acquire education nigh
almost be said to have been heroic.