The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-05-20
OVER THE STATE.

Butler county is being filled up with
sheep. t....t
Western Kansas is getting its share of
the showers. 4-t
Prof Lennon, late state superintend-
ent, is prachcing law at Winfield.
The druggists of Newton have CON-
piled with the new liquor law, and are
ready for "snake bites"
Grading will commence on the Flor
ence, EldOIadO Sc Walnut valley road
this week, and the work will be pushed
rapidly until the road is completed
Augusta Gazette, as ,y
1t cost Sumner county So, 800 80 to take
care of her paupers in 1880. Now she
has q poor farm and is running that de-
partment much cheaper.
Anthony people must be the best ma
tured in the world. They are perfectly
pleased with the Santa FEES action in
tearing up the track toward their city.
The Universalists at Junction City
have adopted water for communion pur-
poses instead of wine. This is quite in
keeping with the diluted character of
that theology.
The bridges on the Arkansas river,
above Wichita, are all reported more or
less damaged by freshets, some of them
seriously. The Sterling bridge is almost
totally destroyed.
We see by the Commonwealth that
Writ Walton and Jim Snoddy have
been down to Topeka to study the pccul-
lar aspects of the Sabbath in that city
under the auspices of the new temper
ance law.
Kansas, under the operation of the
prohibitory amendment, is sustaining
her stalwart reputation for constitutional
"unexpectedness" by being conspicuous
ly wet just at time when it was natural
to suppose she would be phenOmen ally
dry.
According to the Champion, which is
authority on statistics, Kansas has only
three star routes. But it will be easily
conceded that there is sufficient financial
talent of a commanding order in the
state 10 proftably expedite" at least ten
times that number.
The Greenwood county man who, by
mistake, applied turpcntine TO the sore
foot of one of his mules, has not yet re-
linquished the hallucination that all the
planets were in perihelia at the moment
that the supposed specific and the ami
mails heel came into conjunction.
Mr.. George Thrall informs us that
they weighed their stock cattle when
they commenced feeding them last fall,
and again when they turned them out
on the range this spring, and they had
gained on an average eighty pounds 70
the head. The increase was in growth
as they were only fed enough to keep
them in fair condition, and not enough
to make extra fat or muscle.-Eureka
Herald.
The law of reproduction seems to be
so general that its operation sometimes
extends even TO inanimRte matter. We
have been impressed with this fact in
view of the almost magical CELEBRITY with
which "billiard halls" and coffee lunch
rooms" have arisen from the metaphor.
ical ashes Of the whisky saloons through
out Kansas.
Topeka is IN seething state of agita
ton over a case of infanticide alleged tc
have been recently committed in thai
city. ANY effort to deplete the popula
ton of the capital always meets will
summary condemnation, and she il
bound TO rattle Leavenworth on the mex
census if an appropriation OF public
funds has to be made for awarding chro
mos to the parents Of every pair of twin
and set Of triplets born in that towI
within the next ten years.
That new mOrning daily paper enter
prise 1t Topeka still seems to linger il
the lap of uncertainty, and the promis
ing venture, which few short week
ago centralized = on paper-all u,
eHulgent journalistic talent in Kansas
seems TO have been run in for modifics
tons in plans or permanently laid Of
! the shelf. The latter seems to be the pop
ular belief, in view of the fact tina
. Brother Baker is known to have recent
! ly ordered half dozen new lye brushes
b while Hudson, of the Capital, has mar
ifested his utter disregard Of expense
{ by adding three new towels to the So
perb appointments Of the composin
:. room of the gubernAtorial organ.
3 Texas Cattle Shipments.