The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09
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Paris, Texas, is using gas made from
cotton seed.
A tramp's motto-"A little earning is
dangerous thing"
To make good monkey-wrench feed
him on green apples.
In many families, the wife is the con-
| troller of the currency.-f Lowell Cour-
| Ter.
Fiction .and truth may be driven well
together when intellect holds the reins.-
Whitehall Times.
A citizen of Macon, Mississippi, has
entirely abandoned tobacco, after seven
| ty years continuous use of it.
Young men about to marry should 60
armed. A Detroit girl shot and killed
| her husband three days after marriage.
A real Christian is a man who prays
on Sunday and then helps the Lord to
answer his prayer all the rest of the
week.
The lazy boy fears that if he once be-
gins to earn his own living he will be al
ways expected to do it.-[New Orleans
Picayune.
A certain gentleman must have been
very proud of his wife when he de-
scribed her as Beautiful, dutiful and
an armful."
There are thirty thousand newspapers
in the entire world, and fifteen thousand
| of them, one half of the entire lot, are
printed in the English language.
It is estimated that men have given
more thought to some device to fasten
suspender buttons than they have to any
one branch of science or philosophy.
A Connecticut man recently said; ;
"Lend me dollar, my wife has left me
and l want to advertise that / am not
responsible for her debts."-[ Dabbury
News.
Boston Post: "In an angry instant a
man may do what lifetime of repent
ance cannot undo" says Henry Ward
Beecher. True, Mr.. Reecher, he may
break an egg.
Rev. Mr.. Powell, of Ohio, wrote a
sane. If it had sold, perhaps the reader
would have been insane instead New
Haven Register.
Shall the parlor be abolished? Asks
the Rochester Democrat. Yes, we re-
ply, if some more convenient sparkling
room for the young people can be pro-
Beaconsfeld ascribes all his greatness
} to woman. Adam laid all his troubles
, to the same source. Adam, we are
ashamed of you! Beaconsfeld, you are
: a gentleman-[ Boston Transcript.
, Milford Journal: An exchange say:
it's a very bad thing to get rich toe
rapidly. We never thought of that be
+, fore. Now here's another danger for III
; to worry about and strive to guarC
against.
: James Buchanan, President of tn,
' United States, made an election bet il
1919 and lost it, and the deed by which
' he conveyed the land that he forfeited
!, is, i'll his own handwriting, on file a
Warren, Pa.
An impairment fop made sport of al
: old farmers large nose, mouth and chin
d but the old farmer silenced him by say
ing, "Your nose, mouth an chin all ha
> to be made small so at there'd be ms
a terial left for your cheek"
g A little girl living down town wa
t saying her prayers the other evening
IL and had just finished "Give us TIL
G day our daily Bread" when precocioU
h four-year-old brother exclaimed, asa
I tookies, Many Pr Troy Times.
With wonderous care,
j. She seeks the mirror,
n And bangs her hair.
After marriage,
She grasps her slipper
And bangs her heir.
New Orleans Times.
Some wives are merely burdens
their husbands. But a wife who ca
keep the house warm enough for b,
husband without a stove ough to be
- great help to him.-BuffaIo EXPIRES
Yes, if he could only regulate the hea
L Wadley.
e Philadelphia has 125 undertaken
who average ten funerals each per wee
d all the year round. In mortuary ma
q ters-cOunting in the obituary poetry an
all-Philadelphia can screw the lid dow
q on any other city of its inches in tn
e planetary graVeyard.-[Graphic.
A certain amount of opposition is
t. great help to man. Kites rise again
= and not with the wind. Even a hea
wind is better than none. No man ev,
worked his passage anywhere in q dea
lie calm. Let no man wax pale, therefor
It. because of opposition.-[ John Neal.
G. Professor Felix Adler thinks that IL
coming man, instead of going to churc
will Join an ethical club. That depend
e. Unless the coming woman also joins {
ne ethical club, where religious philosopl
Il, is dispensed, the coming man will go
e- church-as far as the door at least, al
wait for the coming woman to come on
i Nerristown Herald.
~ Two young elergymen were disputi1
IN so loudly on knotty point of theoloe
eff that they awoke big dog that had be-
IL sleeping on the hearth before the fiji
An old preacher, who had been quiet
g slipping his tea while the disputan
n were talking, gave the dog a kick, e
lie claiming: "Hold your tongue, you sill
n brutel You know no more about
than they dop