The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-06-23
HERE AND THERE.

the country rlcn IN lew years.
HERE AND THERE.
A Minister Of Agriculture has been
added to the British Cabinet. England
is determined that she will not drink
American tea.
The prospects for the continued solid
ity of Arkansas as Democratic state
look confessedly bilious when it comes
to sentencing five criminals to the gal
lows in one day.
An Indiana man was found dead last
week with an accordean in his hands
And yet Bob Ingersoll has the sublime
cheek TO persist in his efforts to shake
the popular belief in an Over-ruling
providence.
The final appointment of coal oil in
spcctor at Kansas City has implanted
the mournful suspicion in the breasts of
At least a thousand disappointed candi-
dates for the position that the country is
going TO the "demnitiOn bow vows"
If Mr.. Wheeler will let up on his fish.
ing and give little personal attention
to the condition of his fences in New
York, there is no telling what may be
the result of the senatorial deadlock al
Albany. We simply offer this as sug
gestiOn.
The eastern papers announce the ap.
pearance of the American mosquito up
on British shores. The public will moi
be surprised to learn that q widespread
dissatisfaction with the revised edition
of the New Testament, has marked the
advent of this contemplating insect.
For collectors of bric-a-brac an oppor.
tunIty is presented in Bastrop county,
Texas, TO secure an interesting relic, to
wit, the county gallOws. In offering il
for sale the county judge states that
three men have already been hanged IN
it, and yet it is rs good rs new. Ger
tainly. no well-reGulated family should
be without one.
Professor DOlbearc, of TUFTS College
has patented q new telephone, through
which, It is claimed, conversation can bt
heard over any length of wire. A prac
tical test of its merits for communicating
between remote points will be made Al
an early day by connecting two busines:
houses on different sides of Kansas ave
nue., at Topeka.
The feYerish citation of the country
over the brilliant record of IrOquois il
England is giving place to n gloomy
forebOding that the American flyer will
in the future, be excluded from the race
courses Of the crumbling mOnarchies O
the old world, on the ground that he la
trichina. The attention of Mr. Blaine i
invited to this possibility.
Many persons are misled by the term
"fair" day, in the United States Sigma
Service reports. 1t does not mean clea
and bright, but cloudy, though neithe
stormy nor threatening storm. 1t wi
probably soon be replaced by some Othe
term, such as Overcast" or neutral" s
as not To convey the erroneous impre
sion it has hitherto caused.
The capital extremity of Rev. D
Collyer, of New York, is very horizon
tai on the woman question. In a receI
sermon on the relations of husbands an
wives, he said: "Two people can be or
at the cost of their own completeness, o.
ly albeit more individuality in marie
life is what the advanced. women col
: slider the necessity of the hour"
Chicago Inter Ocean: The state
Wisconsin has paid out 5000 with
the past two months tor fox and VIC
sealps. The Legislature. some years ag
passed bill for the purpose of extt
minating these animals, and offered
!, premium for their scalps. So generol
Is the premium that farmers make
profitable business of breeding the
animals and selling their scalps.
The Chinese are in quandary abO
!. how they shall adapt telegraphy to pr
poses of general communication in I
, Celestial Empire, for instead of bel
able to transmit words by the use
. twenty-six signs they would requi
n about twenty-six thousand. Should t
y result be q method of writing Chine
: by the use of an alphabet instead of CO
pOsite characters the Celestial schO
- boy would have reason to bless the d
that brought barbarian notions into 1
Fiowery Kingdom.
/. A collection of fossils from Washi1
D. ton Territory is now on exhibition
Is Denver, Col. 1t consists Of the bones
a what is believed TO be new species
h, mammoth, which the discoverer,
is Coplen, has named ELephGs Columbian
N The tusks are about twelve feet long, q
d the teeth Of the lower jaw weigh twel
,e pounds each. The bones were discover
IS in May, 1876, in mineral spring
n SpOlZan County, w. T., and have III
A. lately been in the cabinets of the Pac
lf University, Oregon. They are now to
of taken east, and will probably be pla'
w in the Smithsonian Institution, Wa
,g iAgtqn.
es jeff Davis in his book, says, regard
Ist the circumstances of his capture, 1
RI when about to go from his tent, Ire sic
proof. suppOsing it To be his o.
n but il turned out to be his wife's, and
CO he LEFT the tent Mrs. Davis thOughtfu
ed threw over his head and shoulder
er shawl. Having gone short distanC
ms carbine was pointed at him and his
lp- render demanded. At this pS
- he meditated a daring thi
ng but was prevented from carrying it
he by his wife. He expected the trOC
ne who had aimed at him would miss
ng and then the great man expected to
aid the trooper. seize his carbine. mount
are horse and escape. At the critical
ew ment, however, Mrs. DAVIS rushed
ad- OF the tent, threw her arms around
lso husband and compelled him to be a
oner. So he confesses to part, at !,
of the commonly accepted account
in
on The Canadian government has ma
ect. grant Of 100000 acres of land in
the Bow river country, about 800 II