The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-02
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AED THERE.
It cost Wisconsin 1901 .4sl TO support
her paupers last year. 49,
Il is expected that $1,000 Sweda will
come to America this year.
Rush Medical College, Chicago. grad
uAted 10 new doctors on the 21st.
We may expect some lively times N
congress If the Fitz John Porter matter
gets in there.
TAlmags says religion is not . groaR
but . song. Somebody ought "a tSll
TalmAgs religion is not . circus. Sc
The New York Tribune wantS the
life-saViag ssrvies to Try if it can ressne
the Democracy q New York from de-
struction.
InteT-0cean: The number Of men who
"don't know Shiphesd when they zee
him" and -dOn't own any guano stock
and never did," will increase from day
70 day. ssdI
Girls should be careful how they are
yaccinaisd with virus iEom lovers arm.
One a. Sc Paul has taken 70 sWesTiAe.
sitting crOss-legged, and smoking . brler
root pipe.
The UHited Statea buys nearly all the
tea that il exported srOm Japan. The
total amount exported last year was g..
959.OOO. of which s7,779 eco came to
this country.
The cost Of removing from the BOs-
ton streets the Snow depositsd in the Lass
two storms is estimated at $50,OoO All
through last week 200 men and 126
teams were employed in the work.
The coal product Of the United SIAtes
In 1880 il reported by the Census Office
It 28.646, S95 tons of anthracite. and A.
40. 5S1 tons Of bituminous, g total H.
O67, 578 tons. agsinss sass, $50 in 1870.
There are twenty-five ports OF entry in
the United States where not 3 dollar of
duties has been collected for q year.
There are thirty-two districts in which
the expenses exceeded the receipts last
year.
Captain Howgate Is said to be ssri-
ously i'll in the Jail at Washington. He
ought not to have been q thief and he
wouldn't be in jail in Washington OF
anywhere else.
THE question in Europe is whether
SkObelef meant more than he said, or
said more than he meant, in his Paris
speech" This question is respectfully
referred 70 the Topeka papers for settle
ment.
Clarence Barton, the Sighting news ed
itor Of the National Republican, Wash
ington, has recovered from his wounds,
and is ready for the next fellow that
wants 70 tackle him with 9 revolver, but
he would rather take one at q time.
At the late convention of the Illinois
country editors an essay was read on
"HOw to Make or Lose Money in q
Printing Office" The Atchison Cham
piOn thinks the paragraph on show TO
lose" need not have been long one.
The amount Of surplus wheat grown
last year in eastern Oregon and Wash
iHgtoa is placed at 3,738, 600 bushels
The acreage of 1882 will be nearly
double that of 1881, and it is estimated
that there will be surplus of 5000, 600
bushels the coming season.
The New York Herald asks, in its
heading to an editorial, shall school
teachers marry?" We viii simply re-
ply that when one of our handsome
Kansas school marms takes a notion to
marry sAs just does il. and she don't
consider il any Of your business, eithsF.s
So many of Washington's society
leaders are ladies with beautiful white
hair, that . reception reminds one of the
old court days. Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Rob
eson, and Mrs. Blaine have the softest
white hair imaginable, and Mrs. Brews.
tsr's hair is rapidly changing 10 the
color that will correspond very
charmingly with her still youthful com
plexion.
The Ostrich seems 10 be endesyoring
to usurp the functions in society here
tofore mOnopolized by the mule. Late
~ most respectable citizen Of Cape
Colony was walking innocently along
the public highway where he had per.
feet right to be, when he was attacked
by Q sanguinary ostrich and actually
kicked to death. Every mule in the
country will kick against this innova.
ton.
1t is said that the "boss gamblers" of
(nfR0 80 Al. -
known prOprietors have put nearly $500
600 into real estate in two years, and
several have put up elegant residences
on fashionable streets. Others have
"Salted" down their earnings, SO that
they can get at them more quickly. A
dozen or twenty gamblers have bank
accounts ranging from $4,000 to $780,
600 each, and others are we'll provided
with the worlds goods.
Ar. John D. Cunningham, Jr, drives
ieisurely around his gigantic peach
orchard of SO, coo bearing trees near Crit.
I'm, Ga, and observes with satisfaction
that the buds are not too precocious, and
complacently remarks, 81 reckon this is
my year." He says that his is the big
gest peach orchard in the world, but
lest some jealous grower should pre-
sumo to dispute the assertion, he in
tends to set 200 more acres next fall.
This is the only region in the world"
adds Mr.. Cunningham, "where q perfect
peach can be raised"
o, hard hearted Atchison Championi
The editor comes out square fernenst
"obituary poetry" and in g cold way
says he don't want aRy of it. And listen
to that papers cold-bloOded "pesrora-
ton" on this subject: "As q rule,
obituary poetry is fearfully and wonder
fully constructed; much of it is better
calculated to evoke laughter than tears;
and none can possibly be of general
interest. II people will insist on having
obituary poems published, they must
use our advertising columns, paying
regular rates for the space"
A heap Of blOOd-stained gold awaits
the intrepid sdVenturer who has the
nerve and strength to enter a gloomy