The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-21
HERE AND THERE.
A new French rifle will carry over two
miles and the bullet will travel as fast as
a secret =, a sewing soeiety.

I HERE AND IHEhEs
A new French rifle will carry over two
miles and the bullet will travel as fast a
a secret NJ sewing society.
The young men ct Topeka, who have
regular girls. are judiciously preparing
TO put their watches and oyercoats 10
soak. in view of the contemplated visit
| of Nine. Nilsson to that city.
Twenty applications have been filed
for divorce in the district court at Leag-
enwor,h for hearing during the present
term. As factor in lending an inpe-
lus TO litigation. the kitchen stove. at
this season Of the year, successfully
challenges competition.
The impatient editors who are kick
ing over the prutracted stay OF Oscar
Wilde in America, seem to have over
looked the immunity from smallpox
which the country is enjoying this WIN
ter. Il is always the part of wisdom to
choose the least of two evils.
Texas Slaings: Vennor's almanac
for 1883 lies before us. We don't mean
to say-weIl what we do mean is that
we have received a copy, ana that it
contains sixty pages of statements re-
garding the extent, quality, and dura-
bility of next years weather.
An exchange says: Down quilts can
be bought for $50. They are so light in
weight that on cold winter night You
imagine you are freezing until you get
up and pile all your clothes on top OF it /;
then you go to sleep and dream that you
have tumbled down the crater of q vol
cano and can't get out.
The Chinese minister at Washington
has a wardrobe valued at $4,000. The
ladies will doubtless be interested in
learning that it is beautiful provision
OF Monaghan civilization that the men
and women dress so much alike that the
casual observer can only distinguish
them by the size of their feet.
The season for the resurrection OF
QuantrelI has come again. A Nashville
newspaper man telesraphs the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch that the famous guerilla
Is not dead but is living in Tennessee
This reminds US that it is pretty near
time for the old man Bender to be
waltzing to the fore again.
Mr. j. NJ. Seidle has sold the Eureka
Democrat TO Messrs G. NJ. jackson,
THIS DeGarnettja and j. Willard. The
experiment of attempting TO support
three families with Democrntic paper
in Greenwood county will be regarded
with absorbing interest by persons who
entertain skepiIcal views on the subject
of miracles.
A local scientist down at Medicine
Lodge has made the valuable discovery
that the loco weed has the properties of
whiskey and opium combined and will
keep up drunk tor six weeks. The
day has evidently gone by in Kansas
when u nomination by the reIu blican
party is equivalent To an election.
The Methodist Episcopal National
Sunday school union is in a very pres
porous condition. There are 20,245
Sunday schools in the Methodist Episco-
pal church; 1912 officers and teachers,
and ,538, 147 scholars. These children
IRE the most formidable of Col. niger
soils opponents The children of his
church never go to Sunday school.
The skeleton of a 'Einosaurin reptile
thirty We feet long, has been unearthed
in the Bad Lands of Dakota. The
creature is supposed to have stood
twenty-five feet high. The weight of
the skull is 1914 pounds, and of the
whole skeleton 1900 pounds. What 81
fine old menagarie the prehistoric man
| must have had when laboring under an
attack of the iim-jams.
So exhorbitant are the Pullman Car
company in their charges to the Knights
Templar who propose to, next summer,
attend the conclsve at San Francisco,
! that committee OF several eastern com
manderies are making arrangements for
private cars. They propose to remove
the seats from ordinary coaches and fit
them up IN a manner to make comforta-
BILE quarters for the communicates.
The coyotes have been source IF
great annoyance aud loss this year to the
| shecp-owners of Montana Heretofore
the shepherd dogs have chased them
away without any difficulty; but the
coyotes have reversed the order, and
now frequently chase the dogs away A
large drove of them will come at night
and, literally taking The dogs prisoners,
1 will force them far away from the
rancho, while their confederates attack
the defenseless sheep.
Twenty ostrichss. eleven male and
eleven female, passed through Omaha, a
few days ago, en- route to southern Cali
tOrnia, TO stock an ostrich tarm lately
started there The birds came from
South Africa, and are worth 81 900 each.
Their owner says they multiply rapidly,
and that in few years the result of
these twenty-five breeders will be 1000
ostriches. each pair producing fifty and
sixty chicks per year. In 1881 the i'm
portation of ostrich feathers into New
York amounted to s., 494 600.