The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-07
HERE AND THERE.

A woman's-suffrage society has been
started in Finland. What puzzles US is
TO know wha; On earth the women have
against Finland.
Mrs. Matilda Fletcher is occurring in
Kansas ON the Mistakes of IugersOll."
The lady is evidently "onto'' Bnb's MIN
ing operations in New Mexico.
The Manhattan Club did itself the
honor to black ball Oscar Wilde. This
is the only encouraging news We have
heard from New York since the late
election.
Beecher announces that saloons are
the breathing holes of hell. 1t seems
that there are still few minor points
of difference between the theological
views of Dir. BeeclIcr and Bob Inger-
soil.
The advocates of total abstinence will
find an awful example in the case of IN
Indiana man who has recently died of
lock-jaw caused by barrel of hard
cider falling upon his leg and crushing
the bone.
Chicago Tribune: President Porter.
of Yale College, has nov work in
press entitled 'EVangeliHe: the Place,
the Story. and the Poem" Now that
the iase- ball season is over we may 6x-
pect some fine work from college pco-
pie.
The Democrats who are administering
upon the effects Of the Republican party
probably never read the story of the
Irish widow whose husband came out of
trance while his relict was counting
a man who had come TO attend the wake.
A wicked New York paper says one
of the bloOdhoundS in an "Unequaled
Uncle Toms CABIN combination" in
that state broke loose and chawed up
the donkey, and thinks it was real mean
in the dog to pick out the best actor in
the company.
A very prominent COngre gatiOnal
minister in Montreal declares that he
does not believe in eternal punishment
This announcement will have n tenden.
cy To reassure young men who are ad-
dicted to the French harp and who paint
their mustaches.
A school teacher at Council Grove,
where the good deacon Munsell presides
over the columns nf the leading paper"
searched the pOcketa of pupil for to-
baccO and found three pistols. a dirk
and some "round, white ivory things, q
little larger than buttons" You can't
tell what boy is Rntil you empty his
pockets.
Inter Ocean: There is young man
in Paw Paw, Mich, tina, some interest
ing exhibitor should secure. He has
the power of setting fire TO cloth, paper,
etc, by simply breathing upon it while
manipulating it under his bands. A
medical gentleman there residing ties.
titles to the genuineness of the phe-
nOmenGp. This speaks volumes for the
young mans antecedcnis and makes a
Zip at Ingersoll.
Jay Gould is the embodiment of hui
human energy. With an average con-
scisnGe he would be an ornament 10 his
country - Justice.
Ii he had al average conscience his
country might never have heard of him.
But now that he has enough To keep
him comfortable the rest of his life, he
could not do wiser thing than cult
vate his conscience.-Leavenw
Times.
1t would be obviously fallacious TO
expect that a gentleman of Mr.. Gould's
thrift and energy would consent TO
squander his talents on a field which
could furnish for him no possible chance
of returns.
A New England senator who arrived
at his Washington residences last week
was surpried to find that his servants
who had been left in charge had kept
the handsome mansion open during his
absence as boarding house and had ac-
cOmmodated boarders both white and
black The owners visit was uuex-
pectcd, hence the discovery. There is
good reason for surprising that undis-
covered performances of that general
description are numerous at the capital
certainly the crooked devices of New
York servants during the quiet of sum
mer would Ill IL volume. a gentleman
who returned tn this city for few days
two summers ago had the pleasure of
seeing from the hotel ut which he
stayed n wedding party enter and
funeral procession leave his Own house.