The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
HERE AND THERE.

New York now eats more frogs than
Paris.
Two harnessed crocodiles tamely drew
a wagon into Atlanta.
Cable dispatches from New York to
Egypt cost only $1.02 per word.
The Cleveland Leader pithily says
that SO6 medals are ''too large fora charm
and too small for platform"
Whether the star reuters are convicted
by the courts or not, they have been
tried and convicted by the newspapers.
They will not find this pleasant coun-
try to live in, even if they do escape the
penitentisry.
Mr.. Barnum is giving the English
people cold consolation for the loss of
their pet by telling them that the big
pacyhyderm increases the income of
his show by from $4,000 to $4,000
day.
On his big Dakota farm ex-President
Hayes has, it is said, this year, PCS acres
of wheat, 275 acres of oats, and 10 acres
of miscellaneous crops. From the pres
ent outlook he will harvest not far from
10000 bushels of grain.
The American Israelite says: "We
take no stock in dEeamland, The idea
of the Jews returning to Palestine is no
part of our creed We rather believe it
is Gods will that the habitable world
shall become one holy land, and the hu-
man family one chosen people"
1t is not pleasant to reflect that there
is not fort on the coast of the United
States capable of withstanding a bonn
bardment from foreign guns, but it is
consoling to know that in the course Of
8 night it is possible to pile up earth
enough to resist the guns of all the fleets
of Europe. Stone and brick as resist
ants are useless.
If only all preachers and public
speakers would follow the example of
the late Bishop Scott: Once, few
years ago. he was invited to preach a
Thanksgiving day sermon at Odessa,
Del. A large congregation attended.
and an elaborate discourse was expected.
But to every ones surprise, he closed
his sermon after taking only fifteen
minutes, and to the inquirers who
hocked about him atterward he explain.
ed that he had said all he knew on the
subject in hand, and had therefore
stopped talking.
In Kentucky the Legislature has ex-
pressly provided that no religious test
shall be applied to 6 witness in any
civil action, but there is no statute
governing the question in crimina!
cases In a recent murder trial the OBJ
lection was raised to one of the wit
nesses that he was an atheist, and there
fore that his evidence was not admissi-
BILE. The question went to the court of
appeals, which decides that in criminal
as we'll as civil cases no inquiry can be
made into the religious belief of any
witness.
A highly romantic explanation of the
Egyptian question has been furnished
by lady correspondent in Alexandria.
Early in his career, it appears, the ami
able Arab loved and wooed a dark
Egyptian maid, the daughter of feIlah.
Isnail, the ungodly ex-khedive, also
took fancy to the lady, and, being all
powerful as well as INSCRIPTIONS, had
her carried off to his harem. To paclfy
the luckless Arab, thus cruelty cheated
of his inamorata, he raised him to the
dignity of Bey. But Arab never for
gave the injury, and from that moment
vowed dire vengeance against Ismail
and all his family. And now you have
the key to the Egyptian mystery.