The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-26

sThat investigating committee has
found that my fences are in pretty fair
shape after all. I generally lay up the
gap when 1 pass through. John Sher-
man.
The defective" persons in the United
States, according 20 the census, number
over 100000. These figures include the
deaf, dumb, blind, insane, idiotic and
paupers.
There are in the United States fifty
Grand Lodges of Odd Fellows, 7,172 suh-
ordinate Lodges, 40 Grand Encamp-
ments, 1857 subordinate Encampments,
and 426, 942 Lodge members.
Business men whose stocks have been
replenished since the holiday raid, and
who continue to advertise, report good
business, and better than ever before at
this season of the year.
1, required I 900 cars to carry exhibits
to the Atlanta Exposition, but SO many
were sold that 200 were sufficient to take
away those which remained, they being
nearly all of them machinery.
The colored people of West Virginia
are trying to raise $4,000 to endow a
professorship in SIorer College to be
known as the John Brown professorship,
and 10 be filled by colOred man.
watering the committees" is what
they call Speaker Keifer's plan for en-
larging the committees of the house so
as to supply places for the. dissatisfied
ones and restore harmony in the house.
Wayne MacVeagh says he left the
cabinet because he could convict no
body in Washington But he sue
ceeded in leaving behind the conviction
in the public mind that he is very much
of fraud
Syracuse, New York, has female
architect, and it is reported that the first
house she designed contained so many
closets in each room that they had to
build an annex to the structure in order
to accommodate more than half of them.
A monkey that recently died in the
London geological gardens was grossly
addicted to drink, and would indulge in
a royal drunk on beer whenever the op-
portunity presented itself 1t looks as
il there might be something in the OAR
winian theory after all.
The salutatorian at Yale. this year,
says an exchange, was German, the
valedictorian Hebrew, and the prize
declsimer a Chinamsn. But when it
comes TO real classical culture our
native land is there. The pitcher of
the Yale base ball club is an American.
In a recent decision in the United
States circuit court, for the southern dis
trict of New York, given by Judge Hoyt
II. Wheeler, it appears that the veteran
tobacco firm, o. Lorillard s. Co., has
triumphed over infringers upon the pa
tent for the well known tin tags upon
plug tobacco.
Mrs. Craig. matron of the Children's
Home in Montreal, Canada, has intro
duced a mode of discipline among
her wards, which is quite novel and
seems to work we'll. She blisters the
unruly boys with mustard plaster so they
cannot sit down, Tally one for Can
adian civilization. When female suf-
frage comes in how would that woman
do for mayor of Topeka.
A stone bridge to be built at 1Iinneap-
oils, Minnesota, bids fair to become one
the notable structures of the world. 1t
will consist of sixteen eighty feet spans
and four one hundred feet spans. and,
including the shore pieces, viii have
total length of 800 feet. 1t will sup
port two railway tracks at height of
sixty feet above the water, and will run
diagonally across the river below st.
Anthony's Falls. The cost is estimated
at nearly 100000.
The brakeman, Melius, whose DISC
bedience of orders and neglect of duty
led to the late dreadful accident on the
Hudson river railroad, has been in the
employ of the company for twenty five
years. He was regarded as very faith
full man, and but for the fact that he
could neither read nor write, would have
been promoted long ago. His neglect
of duty upon this one occasion carried
sorrow into homes, caused pecuniary
loss of thousands of dollars to the COM
pany, and blasted his whole life. A
walk of a hundred feet would haye
saved all this loss of lives, destruction
of property and disgrace.