The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-08-03
HERE AND THERE.

Prohibition seems inclined TO tackle
Illinois next.
The Philadelphia mint coined f71,-
100000 of dollars for the last fiscal year
Susan b. Anthony is going TO Texas
on lecturing tour. Ferryboats ON the
Rio Grande viii be good property this
summer.
The Dayton Journal looks for q crop
of libel suits growing out of the star
cute cases '.alm0st as abundant as the
Kansas wheat crop"
A Denver paper is uncertain whether
its contemporary will eventually I'LL a
lOng-felt household want as cupboard
shelf cover, or Consolidate with Ayers
pills almanac"
The InteF-Ocean Is a staunch Grant
paper, but II cannot stomach the sugges-
ton that his mantle has fallen on the
shoulders of John A. Logan. That's
too much for it.
Colorado is now eminently the hard
money producing state, and yet the
Greenbackers there talk of nominating
ticket and making regular canvass.
The Rev. De LaMatyer is already wax
ing the echoes there.
An exchange puts a. solemn truth in
novel and pungent way when il says
that "snnIe men wear their best trousers
out in the knees in winter getting
religious, and the seats of their pants |
ont in l,acE oIi1fue,
A man out in Georgia, who has been |
making experiments On watermelnns, |
has discovered that z per cent of the
matter in them is saccharine, and that an
acre of good land will produce $4,000
pounds of Waiermelnns, which will yield
{, 415 pounds of sugar, worth say $241.
The oldest inhabitants were surprised
in Denver, the other day, 10y the falling
of what is called the honey dew, and
leaves Of trees and shrubbery were COW
ed with thick coating of this dew. 1t
is phenomenon almost unknown in
Colorado, and the substance is exactly
like honey.
A newly married man is finding out
something about the duck" business lie
didn't know, and complains about their
high price. He says that his vile re-
Gently pal for three oi theLI-a dnck of
a bonnet, d. duck of a dress, ami duck
of parasol. and he is really afraid the
duck" trade Will ruin him.
Dayton Journal: \ learned board of
school cxaminers in New Jersey recent
ly stumpcd "a room full of applicants for
teachers certificates by asking: "uow
many toes 'hns cat ~ The question
purriurbcd the class and hurt their
felines, as not one of them could give
categorical answer AS it was test
question, the class was CONDITIONED"
Scuti
Atchison Champion: The returns
are not all in, but at least two hundred
boys have died from lOck.jaw, caused by
injuries inflicted by the toy pistol, since
the Fourth of July. AS weapon for
the massacre of the innOcents, the toy
pistol has no equal. The man who
manufactures this Internal machine
ought TO be hanged, and every dealer
selling it should be publicly horse
whipped.
A Russian Jew, who went to Atlanta,
Ga, eight month ago with 81 in his
pocket, is now building two neat cot
tages on two city lots he has paid for.
He has Il family of five children, and
each of them is worker, as is also his
xvifo IIa av.ra0as eQ0 ,.cr x,yaaIy ao n |
tailor, and each member of his family
contributes something to the general
income. Russian Jews don't seem to
have many cold days.
1t is strange that the world has re-
mained ignorant until this day of the
proper definition of love. Yet such
seems TO have been the case. 1t was
the happy duty of one of the WiId-eyed
philosophers of the Concord school of
philosophy 10 bring the discovery 90
light. He puts it thus: "When the
youth becomes cnamored of the beauti-
full maiden, do we think that he is mere
ly impressed with the material form The
external beauty? Not at all: he is &C
quaintcd with the psYchical censorium.''
Dollar, a word more used in America
than in any other cOuntry, and said
by foreign cynics to be heard here
oftener than any other, has
singular and interesting origin.
Its connection with the poeti-
cal word ''dale," little valley, would
hardly be suspected Il but it is ctymologi
cally that very word. 1t comes through {
the Dutch from German "thaler"
Now this word is an Authorization of
Joachim's ihaler; the coin having been
so called because it was first coined
from mines in Jnachim's thai. C.,
Joachim's dale--In Bohemia, about the
year 1918. a dollar is, therefore, mere
ly dale er.
Forty years ago in avillage near Phil
adelphIa arrangements were made for ii
wedding. The guests were invited and
the bride awaited The groom, who never
came. The girl, cra2ed by grief, became
harmless lunaiic, and wanders through
the rooms of her home arrayed in the
bridal fincry, buoycd up with the hope
that her lover will yet return. Burglars
entered her house lately. and her quick
ear detecting their steps, size stepped out
on the staircase and greeted The thieves
with the words: "I have been waiting
all these years; am ready; come on"
The men lnaked at the ghOsily figure in
its faded robes standing with arms out
Strafcl,rd and fi.l fr,,to tho honSa