The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-23
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ing to the appeal for aid to the Russian
Jews. '-. -'-
The holders of Iowa City bonds have
magnanimOusly exchanged those bear
ing 10 per cent. for others at per cent
Detroit Chaff: They have-a brand of
whisky in Kentucky known as THE
Horn of Plenty" because it will corn
you copiously. 49,. -..l
In the last eight years Brooklyn has
paid $10,OOOOO0 TO school teachers IN
salaries, and incurred for her schools o
total expense of SIC. 100000 ..ls .f.s,,
On Monday, the 18th, the New York
postoffice handled &C, 600 valentines, and
on Tuesday, 10000. Forty-five extra
men had to be employed. ...
The Chicago NEWSLETTER thinks Miss
Louie Lord, western Kansas actress,
is going TO get into trouble for present.
ing copyrighted plays which she has ho
right to use. ....g
Keokuk Gate City: "Can't you trust
me, darling" murmured Spilkins to the
daughter of old MOneylender. "Not
without real estate security" replied
Isabella absent-mindedlY. 7'.'.
The latest idea of New York caterer
is TO make a mammoth. cake and fill it
with Roman punch. The caterer afore.
said could undoubtedly secure large
number of orders in Kansas for that
kind of cake.
Mrs. Rebecca Rice thinks children
should be caused to aspire. Jones thinks
it is well to cause them to perspire, and
says that's the way he got start towards
three business blocks and a residence
with conservatory.
The Springfield, Qn) Journal says
many citizens in the southern portion of
that state are asking legislative aid for
those counties which are suffering from
the destruction of the crops of last year
by drought. sg u.f -.a -.t .
Some idea of the demand for coral
that exists throughout the world may be
formed from the fact that from the bank
near the little town of Sciacca, Sicily
alone, within the past four years more
than $4,000 pounds of coral have been
| fished.
Well, we are moving along at u good
rate of speed, after all. At its recent
meeting the code of ethics of the New
York State Medical Society was so
amended as to permit consultations
with homeopathic. physicians legally
qualified to practice medicine. 80"
There is woman at Chicago by the
name of A. A. Aal, residing. as 2O2
South Wood street. We do not know
how an additional ''au could be got in
unless she would raise l and put an in
its place. She could do this, Us the
Inter- Ocean reports she has given birth
to boy. There'll be / enough left. n.
RThe Augusta Gazette has long edi-
torial under the startling caption, Are
all Kansans Liarsg ~ The editor of the
Gazette is a smallish like man, and
therefore we do not mind saying, If he
insists upon an answer, that we have
been of the opinion that he holds pref
| ty good hand in that line of business.
The ticket spectators are losing very
heavily at the Cincinnati musical. festi-
val, and none but themselves regret it,.
We hope it will get to be the fashion
for ticket spectators to lose money.
They are the fellows who make the adj.
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high in the cities. zoo -
When the Mexican editor goes out to
engage in mortal combat on the .'field
of honah" he means business. Two Of
them who published rival papers at
Gaudalajara fought duel with pistols
Friday, and both { fell dead at
the first fire. We'd hate aWfally
to have to publish paper 7 in
that country. Even the county
printing at legal rates wouldn't be any
inducemenE f- - fss.-.--
A little circumstance happened to a
North Carolina "colored brother the
other day which naturally made his eyes
"bug out" He was splitting a log
when ali at once twsnty-six ten dollar
gold pieces rolled out before him. Ex-
animation showed that the money had
been concealed in an auger-hole, and the
growth of wood over the orifice indicat-
ed that it is considerably more than half
q century since some unknown deposit
tor chose the tree for his savings-bank
A delegate in con gress, from the ter
ritOry of Wyoming, has introduced a
bill which proposes to reduce the inner
nal revenue tax on cigarettes. = The
New York Herald denonnces it Is. a bin
to make idiots and enrich undeFtakars
and Ill up cemeteries, and it insists that
tax on the old, chopped up butts OF ex-
haussed cigars should be Increased, SO,
as to place them beyound the reach of
immature men, 10 ls-ss s-- "a: =
One of the heaviest and most powerful
locomotives in the country is now being
constructed for Ahe Southern Pacific rail
road at the ahops in Saeramento When
in running order il win weigh sixty
tons, and the tender. with coal and wafer
on board. thirty more. Il is designed
70 draw twelve loaded cars over the
heavy grade OF Tehatchepi Pass, and
will run only between Calienfe and No
jave, 6 distance Of toEtysdge milea- ~ ..'l
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