The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-29
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The people are raising cocoanuts il
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: Congress should not become oblIFious
r of the fact that motion to adjourn is
e always in order.
Ii is doubtless a source of consolation
to Guiteau that We are nov having the
longest days in the year.
The latest anti-beer movement is by
the army worm In Ohm, which is de
stroying hundreds of barley fields.
Il may interest Scion Chase 10 know
that twoyear-old steer has developed
~ellGefined case of hydrophobia at
Scranton.
One of The attorneys IN the Christian
cy divorce case has gone crazy. Thee
are some things which even a lawyer
cannot stand.
1t is said that the "bill OF particulars
Of the Yorkslown Junketing committee
looks like The book account Of Demo
cratic committee.
The total colored population of Kan
sas is Is. 799. of whom 1921 were born
in the state. The foreign born while
population OF the state is-110,OS6.
II is The part of wisdom nowadays,
when the skies assume threatening as
neet,gfor man TO creep into his mole
and pull the hole IN after him.
Society at the Hub is in fiutler
over the reported engagement of Oscar
Wilde tp lady of that city. Boston
seems 10 be in hard luck this year.
Politics make strange bedfellows.
Some OF them are so strange that you
can't tell when they will kick the "kiver"
of. This item has no local application.
Montana adyertiscs for more girls.
Enporia can't spare any OF hers. We
want them for croquet parties, ice-cream
festivals, rowing excursions aud picnics
In Texas, porter house steaks are only
three GEMS pound, butchers hanI in
cluied. They are delicately favored
with young cactus. the asparagus of the
plains.
1t is thought that the convC ntion TO
nominate a state ticket will be called
sometime IN August. Al least it will be
warm weather when the picnic comes
Off
The New York court of appeals has
declared that to steal dog is larceny,
but even in face of this decision the
chances for acquiual are reasonably GER
tain when the dog is yellow.
A patient who died in lunatic asy
lum, lately. left this testimony: "The
natural man is weak. 1t requires an IN
natural man to get along with a woman
with red hair and a glass eye"
The fellows who haye been trying to
kill off Col Dan r. Anthony at Leaven-
worth are consulting, with eager inter
est. the circulars of the different health
resorts throughout the country.
Missouri expects her water melon
crop To be an unusually large one this
year. II is safe to say that the colored
exodus from that state this season will
not assume formidable proportions
The Denver Tribune calls the Union
Pacific railroad an incorporated thief"
The Tribune ought To be careful with
its tongue. 1t might hurt the feelings
Gf some sensitive old railroad thief.
The New York Herald says of pima
fore" which has recently been revived
at the Standard theatre ia that city, that
it has displayed drawing powers which
would put a mustard plaster to shame"
Judge Wallace has ruled that IL mar
riage does not take place within a year
after the proposal, the engagement is not
obligatory. Our lady readers should cut
this item out and paste it in their scrap
books.
\ Missouri judge has decided that
husband is responsible for wha; his wife
says: If this ruling is sustained, there
will not be over dozen married men
In Missouri by the end of the shooting
Season.
1t begins to look as if the Khedive
would lave to pack up his wives and
move to Salk Lake City. II he is will
| ing to t,ske the chances of being mob
bed, he might lecture en- route to help
pay expenses.
|
merciful The tornado at Mt Pleasant,
Iowa, passed directly over the insane
asylum, with Its six hundred inmates
doing but little harm, while on every
hand was direst destruction.
Iowa votes on the prnhibitory amend
ment next Friday. From the school
statistics of that state and the intel
ligence and progress of its people, we
should say that the prospect for the
whiskyites looks lrifie dusky.
Ice frozen by machinery is now used
almost exclusively in Southern cities.
as it is cheaper than that brought from
The retail price has fallen from So per
hundred before the war To 81 so.
A Topeka woman recently demonstra-
ted her fitness to vote at the ward prima-
rics 10y leading her husband out of a gin,
mill by the whiskers and taking him
home TO chop wood for the kitchen
stove. And now you can always tell a
stranger when ySu meet him at the state
capital by his full beard
When "prominent"polilician from the
rural districts is asked about this time
whether there are any candidates for con-
gress in his neighborhood the usual
answer is: why, bless your soul, the
woods are full of them"
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times makes a forecast of the
political complexion of the next house of
representatives and as the result con-
cludes that the Republicans will elect 17S
members and the Democrats 152.
, Iowa has just been visited by the most
destructive tornado ever known in the
history of the state We were fearful
that such a calamity was imminent when
we heard that General Weaver was
about to make a canvass of the state in
the interest of the Greenback party. p
The people of Kansas, under the forcs.
try laws of the state, have planted $4,000
acres 10 trees. The Cottonwood Is the
most abundant, and it grows the most
rapidly. About 6,OO0 acres have been
: planted in black walnut and will make
D handsome rtturns in eight or nine
: years.
They tell a good story on Governor
Dennison, of Ohio, recently deceased
to this effect: The Neil house, at Co
lumbus, took fire on the night of the
November election, 1860. Columbus
/, was poorly supplied with fire engines
and the governor sent the following tel
egram TO the mayor of Cincinnati:
, COLUMBUS, o, November =, 1907
The Neil house is on fire. Lincoln ha:
carried Ohio by $1,000 majority. Send
two fire engines to put it out.