The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-05-11
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AAC uhaSoAAiAS SCaASA All I'M ava ~
pole is called "arctic suicide" by the |
st. Louis Republican.
Dewitt TaImage says: There is not |
a mad dog or rattlesnake in Missouri
that had not better right to live than
Jessie James"
The public press is somewhat tardy
in charging the remnant of the James
gang" with the assassination of Caven-
dish and Burke.
The coffin used at Pleasant Ridge,
Ohio, funeral was painted red, white
and blue. Buckeye patriotism never
falters even at the portals of the tomb.
The popular antipathy for cyclones is
augmented by the fact that not one of
these destructive visntstivns have ever
been known TO strike an encsmpment
of Apache Indians.
1t is intimated that since the passage
of the Smith Sunday law in Ohio, the
back doors of good many saloons are
left open on the Sabbath for the pur-
pose of ventilation.
A gigantic project is on foot to light
Kansas City with electricity furnished
at Niagara Falls. This is the most stu
pendous scheme we have heard of since
the Salvation army tackled that town
few years ago.
A case to test the constitutionality OF
the Pond law has been set for hearing
in the Ohio supreme court on the 23d of
May. The whiskyites are performing
some marvellous recalcitrant feats in the
old Buckeye state.
The Chicago musical festival under
the direction of Theodore Thomas,
opens Tuesday next. The chorus will
consist of nearly thousand voices, and
there will be 172 instruments in the
orchestra. 1t will be the greatest must
cal event ever witnessed in that city.
A San Francisco jury last week award
ed book agent damages in the sum of
$3.50 for an assault committed on him
by q man whom he had solicited To buy
his book, and a denizen of the same city
was heavily fined and imprisoned for
forcibly ejecting his mother-in-law from
his house. They seem to have very
unique ideas of justice in the Golden
State.
A new and curious branch of silk
manufacture has started into life IN Pat
erson, N. J. The mode of manufacture
is secret, and is very closely guarded.
Only the weavers possess the secret.
The weaving is of very high order,
and those employed earn very high
wages. The goods produced are made
up to perfectly initiate sealskin. The
process is entirely dissimilar from that
of making plush and velvets. The
goods in appearance are said 10 even
puzzle experts.
Judge Usher, in a lecture on Abra
ham Lincoln at the Kansas State Uni.
versily, has told this story: He called
on Mr.. Lincoln shortly after the court
! martial which tried Fitz- John Porter
had rendered its verdict, and asked the
president what he Thought Of POrter's
sentence. Mr.. Lincoln at once replied
"They ought to have condemned him tC
be shot" Then, after a moments retiec
ton, he added: There he porter lay
within the sound Of Pope's guns and
allowed our poor boys TO be slaught
cred"
The Popular Science Monthly, in 8
recent article on the danger Of ignorance
tOuchingly illustrates the necessity OF
embracing explosives and combustibles
in the regular order of instruction III
schools, by the sad story of n teacher
who, suppOsing a small box of nitro
glycerine, taken from pet pupil, con
tanned chewing gum, attempted to break
it open with hammer, creating va
cancy in her department and leaving q
host of friends to gather up the scat
tered fragments of her anatomy. Teach
ers in the section afflicted by the catas
| trophe do not banker after chewing gum
as much as they did.
The fastest time ever made in this
country, by train of three passenger
cars, was made on Saturday afternoon
last, when party of journalists from
Philadelphia, Baltimore and other
places were whirled to Cape May over
the West jersey railroad. The trip OF
eighty-one and half miles was accom-,
plished in eighty-three and half min
utes. The run to Millville of forty-one
miles was made in forty two minutes
Many of the miles, especially after Mill.
vile had been passed, were covered in
less than fifty seconds. The engine &C
complishing this work was No. %, in
charge of Harry Reinhart. This trip
formally opened the season at the Cape
Mary Cathcart has been sentenced to
Imprisonment for life in Massachusetts
for selling run without a license. Al
least such perhaps will be her punish,
ment unless the Legislature should pass
pending bill to release her. She was
sent to Jail for six months, and addi.
tionally condemned 10 pay the costs OF
prosecution. She had no money. The
statute formerly provided that in such
cases three more months of durance
should satisfy the sentence, and then,
on report by the sheriff or justice,
the prisoner should be discharged. But
in recent revision the latter provision
was accidentally omitted. Hence there
is no present authority for letting Mary
out.
The enthusiastic and almost affection
ate interest which the people of Oneida
felt in the Indian skeletons recently ex-
humed at that place has rapidly declined
since il became known that the original
propritors of these mournful relics died,
in all probability, of smallpox. This
assurance is impaired by an aged Indi-
an whose father informed him of the
circumstance on their way home from a
fishing excursion, as they passed the
spot where the bones were lately uncov-
cred. 1t is needless to point out the
sacred value which attaches to evidence
of this character. 1t comes home with
a solemn and awful thud to the bosoms
of the people of Oneida who have
stripped from their bar-rooms and show.
windows the Osseous decorations which
for brief and happy day had brought
them custom.
A piece of good luck has befallen the
prisoners in Jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A young giant, who stands six feet and
eleven inches high in his stockings,
weighs 275 pounds and is only twenty
years old, has been added to their num-
Der. AS soon as they perceived that his
gigantic proportions were likely to fix
the gaze of the visitors to the Jail, they
put their new comrade on exhibition at
ten cents head. AT The approach of a
| visitor the giant retires from the cor