The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-08
HERE AND THERE.

Ii is amusing TO see IA man who has u
bunch of hogs lodging the assessor these
days.
The work of concilIation between
Frank James and the rest of Missouri
seems to BE- forging ahead with crafty
ing momentum.
An English physician says man can
stop fit of sneezing by crawling down
stairs head first. Almost anything can
be cured that way if the stairs are steep
enough.
The multiplicity of bank failures
throughout the country this year jusii-
fics the prediction that the exodus OF
pleasure seekers to Europe will be I'M
usually large this season.
Oswego Republican Gentlemen
just walk in, pass on to :he partition,
turn to the right, lay down your dime,
take your nip and pass out; don't say
anything to anybody. They don't sell
il, of course not"
Leavenworth Times: Tie Illinois
man who deliberately s'rangled twins
just born to his wife and tried to kill her
with cruelty, ought 10 he drowned and
quartered, no doubt; but then the provo
cation.
The dispatches announce that in
China the asccndancy of Ii Hung Chang
IS threatened. We don't know that We
thoroughly apprehend the real situation,
but we should suppose that it was about
time for every well-regulated celestial to
be hunting his hole.
A lady of Wichita, returning home
the other day after q brief visit to a
neighbors, found an infant about month
old snuggly wrapped up in her bed, and
note asking her to adopt the baby, as
it WAS homeless. The lady is childless
and has accepted the charge.
A man was arrested and fined foI
kneeling and praying about the streets
of Wichita. the other day. He might
have known that such aagrant breach
of the public peace would never be toll
Grated in community which supports
a paper like the Eagle.
The propriety of holding the next
Methodist conference at Burr Oak will
be readily conceded when it become:
generally known that a citizen of thai
place is making arrangements to raise q
thousand chickens.
Chicago Times: Wood cuts of Sergt
Mason's Betty and the Baby" have ap
peared in good many newspapers Of
the country, and contributions to the
fund for their benefit have abruptly
ceased. A republication of the picture
in any neighborhood would doubtless
cause the circulation of u petition to i'm
prison the whole family.
A Barbour county man was rudel,
awakened the other morning by the de
scent into his dugout of 100 pounC
bull which had paved a hole through
the roof of the dwelling and then fel
through it. At first the horrible convic
ton flashed through his mind that hi
wife had come home from q visit TO che
folks" in an adjoining county, or tina
he had been struck by a cyclone, anC
he was therefore intensely relieved whel
he discovered the real source of the dis
turbance.
Land in grain-growing parts of Eng
land is falling off in value. q small
estate in one of the eastern counties
which four years ago was valued q
$l25, 900. was put up at auction thre
weeks ago, and the highest price ofFere,
for it was $4,000. It comprises 40
acres, and was bought In by the trustee:
Il is said that in the same part of Eag
land much arabic land is running Z
waste for want of capital to pay for tn
labor which it requires. No fArmin,
except grazing and dairy farming i
said now to pay for the OUTLAWS.