The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-22

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the cdict has gone forth.
Paola has thus far been sd fortunate
Us 10 enjoy immunity from small pax,
but we see that the brass band at that
place is preparing 10 produce war
drama ut an early date.
The lawyers of Oswego amuse them
selves by poua ding each other. II is
pleasant to note that the legal profession
offers an opportunity for physical as
well rs mental culture.
The forbearance If the people ri this
state has been subjected to the Iemotest
test by an eastern paper, which makes
the formerly of Kansas charge in con
nection with Lydia Pinkham.
"The Athens OF Kansas''s0unds u Irif1c
unique in view OF the lyDching T, emily
accomplished with such ncatness and
dispatch within the very shadow of the
state university at Lawrence.
A johnson county woman became an
CRY with her liege lord and attempted to
burn his shop. We should think wife
of that stamp could make it warm
enough for a man without resOrting To
the crime of arson.
A Belle Plainc man has contracted 10
deliver 100, go bushels of corn this fail
at twenty-five cents per bushel. There
are unplt asant iniimaiiOns of Job" in
connection with This transaction invol-
wing the virtue of Professor Tice.
a M"nirra. dispatch says that MIR.
McShane, a membrr Of parliament, en-
tered the office of Manager Stuart nj the
Herald, and very soon there was - sound
of blows. followed 10y Il flow of blood
The Canadians seem TO he learning how
tn run newspapers.
The attention of the public is invited
To the fact that Il b. Hayes planted two
this season. This amiable granger will
be pleasantly remembered us having
been more or less identified with the
presidential canvass of 1876.
Chicago Tribune: A marriage is TO
take place in Boston shortly, in which
the bride, the bridegroom and the
officiating clergyman, though not re-
lated, bear the same name. There is
chance that the intended groom may be-
come mixed in the shuttle and get away.
A southern Kansas lawyer was re
Gently stricken with paralysis while ad-
dressing a jury. This incident will
Nn nn6ifNy q
considerable extent. the prevailing
skepticism in relation to that story
about Annanias and Sapphira.
A raitlcsnake, according to the .Atchi-
son papers, has been captured in the vi
cinity of that town which was something
less than SIX feet long, and had ten rat
ties. We are impressed with the dis
couragipg conviction that the people in
that SECTION Of Kansas are indulging,this
season, to q harmful extent, in u very
degenerate brand Of red liquor.
A circus, Sunday school convention
and sparring match occurred on the
same day IN Springfield, Mass. The
city was crowded with visitors, and the
Republican intimates that it was not
difficult to separate on sight those who
came for the convention from those who
came Tor the pugilism, but that the cir
Gus folks were too varied for easy assert
ment.
Some easy, talented liar down in Mont
gomery county is responsible for the
following: "The other day Charley Brad
ley, of CofTryvIlle, noticed something
protruding from Ihe.side OF a cat which
makes its home in Bradley's drug store.
Upon examination it was found to be n
piece of glass about five inches long and
half inch wide Embedded under the
skin. How it came there is a mystery"
A Florence man has been married
fifty years and has never been away
from his wife more than three weeks in
all that time While the enduring mar
. ltal devotion of this dutifHl husband ap
peals, in the strongest manner, TO pGpu
lar admiration, his ignorance of the ele
phant, metraphOrically speaking, will
tend TO excite general and profound
compassion.
Wells's comet has been a popular dis
appointment, first because it has not in
creased In brightness so rapidly AS wa
predicted, and next because its most bril-
> liant days will be spent SO nenr the SUI
, that the comet will practically be invisi
, Bile. Some interesting observation
have, however, been made of its nucleus
at the Dudley observatory, where tn
: comet was bright enough to be detecte'
| in broad daylight. But as an exhibition
s comet the new visitor is failure.
s An insane man in Butte county, Cali
e fornia, has spent his time for the las
9 thirty years in building boat In whicl
4 to go to q big mine which he thinks b
T owns In Nicaragua. He has built on
!; or two very good models which show
), great amount of natural skill. He says
b if his crew go back on him when he i
l. ready to sail, he will have a crew CON
a posed of women, as there is more d.
+ hendenee 10 be placed in the female Sc
s. than the men. The doctors have n
T hope of this mans recovery.
IS The army worm is making gres
y havoc among the wheat fields In po
IT tIons of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky
IT the visitation being, in point of relatiy
If deslructiyeness, on par with the gras
y hopper scourge of several years ag
Of Vast fields of ripening wheat. which
l. a few days would be ready for harves
is ing, are ruined in a few hours by Il
s, worm, which cuts of the stalk and FEED
to upon the sap. Much damage is repoS
n ed to tobacco fields in Kentucky froI
the same cause.
A Brooklyn tailor has devised an Il
in geniOus scheme for keeping people
It. clothes (new ones) at the rate of g
Of month. The customer pays $12 az
at gets the first suit Every succeedir
q. month thereafter he selects and b.
r. made to order a new suit, for which |
lg pays down Sc, having first surrender
III the suit just discarded. At the end
he the year SO is returned TO him. II
or suits he has worn and discarded a
* pressed and sold oyer again, this tim
1T outright, As second hand goods, for abol
at the same sum as the first man paid &
their hire.