The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-02
0'Timc 1vas u,hcn The worl Hon

"Timc was Whcu the word HoOsier
was synonym of illiteracy," the In
dianapolis Journal admits. To-day"
il says, "nearly 5000 public school
teachers are at work in Indiana, and
private academies and colleges are -four.
ishing in all parts of the state"
A level headed eastern girl don't pro
pose to submit tamely TO the abuses
heaped upon the fashionable hat She
says that the custom followed by gentle
men of discommoding and croWding
past ladies in the theater, to go out
to get drink or smoke cigarette be-
tween the acts, is by far a greater
nuisance than the Gainsborough.
The governor general of Canada is
troubled because the United States gets
many emigrants from the old countries
which intended TO settle in Canada. He
wants emigrants bound for Canada
landed at Canadian ports. We are real
sorry if Canadian emigrants prefer this
country to that, after seeing both, and
We do not well see how we are to render
any assistadce TO the &. g. in his sad
predicament.
All persons entering the public houses
hotels, restaurants, and liquor saloons
of Bristol, England, between the hours
of and II o'clock, on the evening of
Saturday, January z, were counted, with
the following result: Of q population
Of 206, 900, $4,000, or more than one
half. entered the public houses in four
hours. OF this number, 54,O74 were
men, 36,SOS women, and 13,415 children.
WoFkmen and workWomen in France
live and thrive ON wages which would
scarcely keep soul and body together in
this country. A French journal the
other day published a table showing
that the average wages in fifty-one dis
tinct trades were 601S cents a day, or
$3.6S q week. These were the wages of
men. For women the average in eleven
trades is 3l4 cents q day, or $1S71S a
week. Decorative sculptors, class of
highly skilled and intelligent work
men, receive only 922s cents a day.
Such workmen here would probably
earn from a to IS day.
There is . religious sect in England
known as Goods Peculiar People" and
very peculiar people they are. At an
quest upon the body of boy belonging
to this sect, who died of continent small.
pox, 1t appeared that no physician was
summoned, but that an elder several
times laid his hands upon the boys
head. The family went from the bed
side TO their daily occupations, ignoring
the danger of spreading coniagion and
considering medical aid superfiuous SO
long as they had faith in God. The
jury found a verdict of manslaughter
against the boys father, and he was
committed for trial.
All of the good old stories about the
accommodations offered by accommo-
datiOn trains will be out of date when
railroad which is TO be built in West
Virginia shall have been completed.
Gratuitous right of way is sought from
all the farmers whose fields are to be cut
by the projected road, and in return for
the gift the railroad company gives the
pledge that at least one of its trains each
way shall stop every day on the farm to
take on or put off passengers or freight,
provided the persons desiring such &C
commOdation will take the trouble to
flag the train or give notice to the con-
ductor. Industrious housewives may
then stop a train when they wish to go
to the nearest neighbours TO borrow a
cup of sour milk, and there will be no
excuse for the resources of the region to
remain undeveloped.