The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-27
HERE AND THERE.
The Cincinnati ENQUIRER advises the
Democratic party 10 stake firm stand
against toy pIstols,'

: Democratic party TO "take firm stan
!: against toy pistols"
Some of the metropolitan journals ar
infiicting hideous maps of Egypt upo
their defenseless readers.
The girls of America "got away" viii
1897 600 worth of chewing gum las
!, year, bless their dear lives.
Oscar Wilde will soon set sail 70
Japan. 1t seems that the Egyptians ar
! not the only people who are in har'
> luck this year.
, The whereabouts of Arab Bey sill
seems to be shrouded in mystery. A. B
, appears TO be almost as badly lost a
Captain Howgate.
Sunset Cox is called the Dennis KearnI
of congress. We have always though
that ID. KS chickens would come hOm'
10 roost some day.
A cOlored brother says his idea O
heaven is like "whar dar is an election
goin' on all de time, case den de white
folks is alters perlight."
All Chicago lacks now of carrying
out her great purpose TO build 81 $50.
600 music hall is the 81, s5O. 900. Every
thing else is in readiness.
The Gazette says the lion workers oil
Plttsburg have lost 100000 in wages
since the strike began, and the business
has drifted to other quarters.
They start new paper at Paris every
day Dr. Tanners dietetlcal theory
seems t0 be almost as popular at the
French capital AS it is at Topeka.
The patent outside Journals have at
last dropped the picture Of Guiteau and
are now spreading before their readers
a map of Alexandria aud surroundings.
Speaking of the Rev Mr. Min, the
Boston Advertiser remarks: "a cheer
full, chatty Hamlet has long been want
Ell. He has come al last, by way OF
Chicago"
The Stafford Herald resorts tO poetry
in giving an account of the Fourth If
July doings at that place. There must
be n strong sentiment against mob law
in that town.
A C lorsai preacher in Georgia Was
lynchcd the other day for stealing roast
ing cars. In the prnphclic language of
john w. Forney, The empire seems 1"
| be upon us.'
The wife of an Ohio man has kept un-
interrupted silence for fifteen years to
spite her husband, who rnld her one day
TO shut up. Women, rs rule, have
very unique ideas about revenge and pol
tiles
y New Jersey woman claims TO have
been knocked down and severely in
juIed by musquito. There seems to
be pleasant harmony of dimension be
tween the liars and the insects of that
state
Persons in Nashville who refuse TO be
vaccinated are committed TO the work
house. And yet there are "A good many
people who sincerely believe that the
mission of the Greenback Labor party is
fully accomplished.
An Illinois man has been placed IN
der arrest for numbering lightning rod
man who invaded his premises. The
hitter fallacy of setting up the plea of in
sanity in this case will be re idily con-
coded by discriminating public.
Searches for arms in ireland are gen
orally fruiAess- The weapons, we'll
CREASED. are wrapped in what may be
called waterproof paper and buried in a
titled field, the owner alone knowing
the precise spot, rs b crop is grown up
on it.
A corner in gum arabic is predicted
Us one of the results oI the Egyptian dls-
turbanees. Young men who stimulate
the mucilage market by using up
package of envelopes day sending
notes to their best girls should cut this
item out and paste il in their hats.
Col. Ingersoll has about completed
play called Tho Wild, Wild West" and
it will be put on the stage early in the
season at the Arch street theatre at
Philadelphia. Il is very evident that
Bob is entirely sincere in his prof ssions
of disbelief in retrIbution beyond the
grave.
By the liquor laws of Russia only
one rum shop is allowed in village
and the dealer. who is appointed by the
government is liable To dismissal, fine
and imprisonment, if he allows any one
to become drunk. Ii does not seem
wholly chimerical Ia assume that wicked
Topeka men 81 u Russia when they
die.
4 Montana man on the day fixed for
his wedding failed tn put IN an appear
ance, and he was sued for breach of
promise, but succeeded in showing that
throughout the day specified he was
freed by bear. 1t is pleasant TO note
that with all the peril which attends il,
life on the frontier is not utterly devoid
of agreeable compensations.
A Chickasaw Indian has been in.
trusted by the American Bible society
with 500 Lestaments to distribute among
his fellow cOuntrymen. The righteous
indignation of Mr.. Schurz over this
cruel proceeding will be easily apprecia
ted when we reflect that testament is
about the only thing in the world that
cannot be made a legal tender for red
liquor.
The Baptist Council of Troy, New
York, have found the Rev. Mr. Simmons
guilty of writing love letters, although
married, to one of the sisters of his
congregation, and of conduct unbecOm.
inga minister. When a man is plainly
called To preach at Brooklyn and STILES
the inward monitor" by locating some
where else, he must expect to get into
trouble.
| 1t is related of Mrs. Elizabeth Yves
ton, who recently died at Greenfield,
New Hampshire, at the ripe age of 104
years, that up to within a few days of
her death she manifested very lively
interest In the home affairs of her
daughters husband. with whom she
lived. A mother-in-law too superannu-
ated to do that would be indeed price
less curiosity.
Kansas City Times: Down in the
territory the white people are much in
terested in observing the Cheyenne sun
dance. 1t is different as you go further
west There the Indians look on and
the white men do the dancing. This is
one of the thoughtful provisions of the
interior department, which encourages
the noble red man in his appreciation Of
saltatory perfection.
New York Tribune: A sinful show
man recently approached the proprietor
! of summer hotel on the Massachusetts,
, coast with propOsitios which 1t mus