The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

The latest is that the Widow Samuels
intends to travel with a circus.
1t seems to be question of veracity
between Mr. Blaine and Shipherd.
A man named Soalup was recently
elected assessor of Chicago on the bum
mer ticket.
This Is to inform Mr.. Eli Perkins
that that little chip is still on my Shout
der"-Guano Shipherd.
The Topeka Capital says that Senator
Plumb contributed 5000 for the relief of
the cyclone sufferers in Rice county.
at is still in order to attack the
"P. NJ" to my name in forwarding mail
matter to my address. Col. r. D. An
thony.
Vennor predicts cool, wet summer.
The public may as well begin to fiortify
against purgatorial extremes of heat and
| drouth.
A party by the name of Norton seems
to be looming up as very respectable
factor in the gubernatorial canvass in
this state this fall.
That Bulgarian monk who has been
making such an extended tour of the
Kansas press has finally settled down
near Cottonwood Falls.
II wish you would be so kind as 10
see that my grave is kept green. There
is little or no verdure in this country to
speak about" James.
Anna Dickinson goes TO England in
May to play Hamlet. We remarked
when Oscar Wilde first landed upon our
shores that chickens always went home
to roOst.
Dorman b. Eaton is lecturing in St.
Louis on civil service reform. We
thought we had observed, of late, pre-
mOnitory symptoms of hydrophobia in
the Globe-DemOcrat.
II Col. Anthony retains the postoffice
at LeavenwOr,h, it will probably become
necessary for the editor of the Kansas
City Journal to betake himself to some
cool retreat during dog days.
John Russell Young, the new minis
ter to China, was married at Hartford
yesterday, and at once set out for the
Pacific coast II is not every man who
secures the aid OF the government in
putting 5000 miles between himself and
his mOther-in-law.
Oscar Wilde talked 10 q house full of
empty benches at Topeka. From what
We heard of the attennuated shanks of
the great esthete, we are not surprised
to learn that he failed to "catch on" at
the state capital.
II may be that Old Billy, the Emperor
of Germany, is q strict temperance man,
but, somehow, we doubt whether lie
would fall around quite as much as the
papers report him as doing if he lived
In prohibition country like Kansas.
Mrs. Scoville has determined to take
the lecture field. and has expressed her
intention Of starting out on her mission
in the great west. The natural bent of
the entire Guiteau family seems to be
to war against the peace of society.
The n. E. Church, of Topeka. gave
Mrs. Robinson $4O0.10 for her effective
evangelistic labors in that city. We
presume the two right hand figures rep
resent an odd convert and may De taken
as the standard value of souls in that
city.
Jay Gould lives in constant terror of
being sidc-tracked and wrecked, owing
to the dissatisfaction which prevails
among discharged employees along the
different lines of the great railroad
magnate. 1t is better to be born good
looking than rich, after all.
Bernhardt and her manager were sum-
poned before a police magistrate in
Rome and fined for selling more tickets
than there were seats in the theater. It
seems impossible for foreigner to make
q tour of the United States without fall
ling in with that munifcept plan upon
which everything in America seems to
be operated.
The Prohibitionists in Wisconsin talk
about carrying the fight TN the temper
ance question into the congressional
elections At recent consultation of