The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-01-19
HERE AND THERE.

StAOASS1 O~s
HERE AND THERE.
st. Louis has had i've executions with
in two weeks.
One hundred papers are edited by col
ored men in the United States.
A pious Nimrod of this state has dis
covered that 1882 As to have one more
Sunday than the average year.
The Farmers Protective Association
Of Iowa have purchased. machinery and
will make barbed wire in spite of the
monopoly.
A female. balloon trapeze performer re-
Gently fell three quarters of mile
while giving an exhibition in Texas.
She is dead. &C. .p ,..
Leavenworth is exulting over the
pleasant rumor that General Sheridan
will establish at. that point the head
quarters of the division of the Missouri.
A Waukesha widower 70 years old has
made arrangements to marry girl of
sixteen, providing the probate judge
will grant him license without the
consent of his parents.
The editors of Indiana will meet at
Indianapolis on the 22d Of February. 1t
will not escape public attention that this
is the anniversary of the birthday of the
man who never told lie.
Texas Siftings: The most truthful
and unobtrusive man in the community
will, in one week after he becomes the
owner of setter dog, develop into tai
ented, gaudy, and ostentatious liar.
A liquor dealer in Massachusetts re.
ceived a postal card few days since in
viting his attendance at funeral in the
following words: "Please attend the fu.
neral of man whom you have tried to
kill for the last ten years.
Probably the largest hog in the United
States was lately exhibited at Junction
City, Kansas. His length is feet; girth
of neck. So feet; girth Of chest, ~ feet
girth of center, 8 feet, width across the
hips, 80 inches; and weight, 1856
pounds. ...sr.l ...
Trainmen on the NJ. Z. & T. on the
Indian territory run are greatly alarmed
at the frequent attempts to derail trains
An engineer was shot at the other day
and there are daily evidences that the
outlaws so numerous there mean mis-
1 chief tn tha traina 80
There was great guessing at Denver
on the number of beans in q jar, the
prize being a $25 overcoat. The exact
count proved to be 36,477. The winnel
guessed SO, 491. The next to him camG
q guess of $500. The guesses ranged
all way from 1900 to 6,0O0, 900. Very
few DenVerites appear to know beans.
According to German economist, the
income of the world is $13,520, 600, 900
debt, 1926, O0O, 900; taxes, 1905, O0O, 900
capital, $S5, 612, coo 900. Sweden has the
smallest debt, CT $50,OO0,00O; France
the highest, or 81, O.OOO,O 900. The
United States has the largest income
and England the most capital. Italy is
the heaviest taxed, paying thirty-five
per cent of its income for taxes to the
average fifteen per cent of other nations.
Denver Tribune Primer: %Here we
have q Greenbacker. He seems Troub
led about Something. He is Troubled
about the National Debt. He is Griev.
ing because the Country of his Nativity
owes one Billion Dollars. The other
Man around the Corner is a Grocery
Man. He, too, IS Troubled, but he is
not Worrying about the National Debt
Oh, no. He is Worrying about the one
Dollar and Forty cents the Greenback
or owes him."
A San Francisco jury acquitted q
prisoner, notwithstanding his guilt
was made conclusive by his confession
Gentlemen" said the judge, "the men.
tai process by which you have arrived
at this conclusion am totally unable
to comprehend; and, gentlemen of the
jury, it is not amiss for me to say you
know that the pardoning power is by
the constitution of the United States
vested in the President, and it is not ex-
actlY proper that a petit jury should
usurp that power
a Texas cattle-rangcr, owning about
5000 head, asked Morgan, the New
York banker, to lend him some money
on them, SO that he might increase his
stock. He told the banker how much
the cattle were worth; how they doubled
in value every five years, and made q
large annual profit; but when he told
Morgan they didn't have any fences in
Texas, he exclaimed in tone of holy
horror: "No fencesl Why, good Lord.
young man, I'd as soon take a mortgage
on school of Goldfish of the banks OF
Newfoundland