The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-03-30
HERE arm THERE

HERE AND THERE.
About 100000 telephones are in use in
this country.
The Ohio temperance people are
fighting TO close saloons on the Sabbath.
Land league appropriations from
America were over 100000 last month
1t seems to reduce itself to question
of veracity between General Grant and
Tom Nichol.
Sergeant Mason seems to compare
pretty favorAbIy in size just now with
any man in the country.
The Shipherd sensation does no;
show up according TO promise. It
seems TO be pretty badly fiattened out
already.
1t is stated that the Pacific railroads
have made S15, 100000 clear in the last
thirteen years, besides what they real
lied fiom thesale OF lands.
The Shipherd Investigation seems to
be thoroughly patient and easy going
! affair, with rather an excessive amount
of "hirtatiOn with malaria apparent.
The shrewdness of the gentle Shipherd
is somewhat paralyzing.
We are somewhat surprised that the
morning dailies at the capital have not
shown sufficient journalist enterprise
to double the size of their publications
and keep a standing list of persons who
have been mentioned as candidates for
congress in different parts of the state.
Since it has been discovered that the
party who recently assaulted the memory
of Garfield in the Washington Post, over
the non de plume of Justice" was none
other than plain Bill Brown the Stall
warts and Halfbreeds, in their disgust,
are trying to unload him on each other.
There is startling rumor that the
hoop-skirt has been revived in Eng
land, and is about to emigrate to Amer
lea. We arc not in favor of embarrass-
ing the Chinese restriction bill with
amendments but itcannot be denied that
this late news from Europe presents
dire temptation.
President Arthur is receiving tender
attentions from the fair sex, and is said
to have larger stock of slippers than
any preacher in the District of Colum-
bia. KindIy-disposed ladies should
send him brogans. lie will have to do
some violent kicking before he gets to
the end of his presidential term.
1t seems little queer that the I'M
parchment of Judge Cox, of Minnesota,
who has recently been deposed from the
bench for drunkenness hasn't called
forth a burning protest against such an
infringement upon personal liberty"
from the enemies of sumptuary legisla-
ton in this state.
Anna Dickinson is still running the
gauntlet ofthe eastern papers, which al
most unanimously pronounce against
her Hamlet" One of this lady's cruel
dramatic censors says that her choice of
the stage was made too late in life. The
impression probably grows out of the
lady's failure to sustain characters that
are full of years. Anna should "tackle'
''King Lear or "Richelieu" and put TO
flight the critics who seem determined
to write her down.
The Massachusetts house of repre-
sentatives has passed u bill compelling
manufacturing corporations to pay their
employees at least once in two weeks. The
advocates of the measure defend it on
the ground that it will make the work
men more frugal, and enable. them to
live more economically. In the Fall
River mills, where the payments are
made weekly, there is said to be less
drunkenness than in Lowell, where the
payments are made monthly.
Two young fellows in Warsaw quar-
relied recently, and to preserve their
"honor" it was arranged that they should
play Sc: of three games of dominoes,
upon the solemn understanding that the
loser should swallow dose of the dead
liest poison procurable. The compact
was carried out. The game was played
in cafe, in presence of seconds. the
younger of the two fellows, a lad OF six
teen, named Stanilaus Julian, was the
loser. He lifted the glass containing
the poison to his lips and drank off its
contents at draught. Five minutes
later he was corpse.