The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-04-27
HERE AVID THERE.

The Commonwe lth thinks III Santa
Fe will not constr let any new mes of
road In Kansas thi year
The country uses ver 100000 pos
tai cards year. tt = is 8 millio. day
or several tons every twenty-four ours
With the Smith $ nday law in force
In Ohio IT'S going 10 rattle" Cine mat:
TO sustain her repusa ion as the Paris |
of America"
TIE lite of Cult aus new book is
"The Truth and T Removal" The
assassin's removal is what the c. untry
Is yearning TO see-
st. Louis scored eleven suIcid last
week. The annua exodus fro that
city 10 cooler loo, lities is sta ing in
this year somewhat earlier than .sual.
A correspondent writing from Rugby,
Tennessee, says TIL the colon is fast
becoming extinct. But ten pc sons are
reported to be livir in the vii age, and
the hotels and larger residences are va
cant.
The Rogers, in search OF the belong
Arctic exploring party, was burned TO
the waters edge. The crew, however,
escaped. It would seem that Provi-
dence does not propose 10 have that
pole discovered.
New Hampshire boasts of conserya-
tive citizen whose travels during the last
: forty-on years have been confined TO
his daily walks between his home and
his store on week days, and his church
and his store on Sundays. Hehas neyei
) been out of the VILLAGE.
New York Herald: The subscription
; for the benefit of Mrs. Jesse James viii
probably be pleasant thing. The Feo
: pie of Missouri will carry this affai
: through unaided, strangers who passeC
through the state having subscribed lont
enough for the support of the family.
A deaf and dumb man, says Alb
Steinberger, of the Winfield Courant
d was fined in the police court at Wichiti
Is q few days ago for the use Of loud
" bOlsterous and profane language. The!
n are very rigid conservatOrs of the public
/, peace in the town where Marsh MuI
= dock lives.
l. Any body can raise silk, now. At tn
n Woman's Silk Culture ASSOCIATION, a
q Philadelphia, Tuesday, it was declares
o that the experiment of feeding sill
!, worms on the foliage of the Osag
= orange had proved success. In Kan
s. sas, since silk bids fair to becom
3 such an industry, this will be greete,
e as important news.
u A deed just recorded in the Office O
the county clerk at Albany, New York
conveys from Chester A Arthur an
q others to Elizabeth NJ. Klinker, of A
e bany, ten acres of land and the build
ings thereon, except a dollhouse, in til
- town of Watervliet. The consideration
VI named is $1,000. The property thu
C. conveyed is known as the Arthur home
stead.
N From the Indianapolis Journal: A
% has been frequently noticed, there ar
4 epidemics of crime. The one most pre-,
n alent just now seems TO he the shootin
If and carving of wives and sweetheart
N by their husbands and lovers. The me
h who display these pleasing proofs of a
lection are insane, of course. Any on
might know that from the wild way i
p which they attempt to kill themselve
s. afterwards, but fail.
'e Jumbo, Barnum's new elephant
4 weighs six and half tons, his trunk
d twelve feet long, he drinks whisky b
a the quart, beer by the pailful and chew
I" tobacco by the kit. His daily ration
J. during the voyage consisted of tw
II hundred pounds of hay, two bushels c
Ie oats, bushel of biscuit, twelve or fl
], teen loaves of bread. various hot mashe!
IL twenty buckets of water, and indefinit
L beer, whisky and other delicacie
l. There is evidently nothing small abOu
l. Jumbo.