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

HERE AND THERE.
Arab Bey wants TO enter q convent,
and his enemies want him killed Ii Is
believed that compromise will be eff
fected on the basis of five years in ST.
Louis.
1t has been found out that Arab Bey
once kept a peanut stand In New Or
leans, and we should not be in the least
amazed if it turns out that he was "for-
merly of Kansas"
Col. Ingsrsoll is reported TO have lost
ali his money in western mine, and /
that he feels sorry for having undertaken |
the defense of the star route men. fl
this keeps up, Moses will be around |
next season lecturiAg on the mistakes
of Ingersoll.
The Mormon missionaries in the south
are claiming that agitation is helping
them to obtain proselytes. 1t might
help matters to agitatate the missiona-
ries little with shotguns. This would
really give better tone and direction to
the shotgun industry in the south.
Chicago Tribune: One of the latest
and most sensational statements made
in London police courts was the decla-
ration of deserted wife, who CON-
planned that her husband had eloped
with his mother-in-law. Friends of the
absent man have taken steps To defend
his memory.
There are thirty-eight fire arms and am
munition manufacturing establishments
in the United States, with a capital Of
$S,815, $50. They turn out products val
ued at $5,61s.636. The demand for re-
volvers is increasing 80 rapidly that new
establishments have been started since
the census was taken.
The discovery has been made that
eight olemargarine factories are,Funning
Al night IN the lower part of New York
city, where butter and fat are mixed and
sent west in tubs marked "Pure Orange
County Butter" 1t is alleged that the
resulting mixture sells better than the
unalloYed, and presents q more attrac-
tive appearance.
The saloon as q bank :-You deposit
money-and lose il. Your time-and
lose 1t. Your character-and lose it.
Your health-and lose it. Your bodily
strength-and lose it. Your self control
land lose it. Your home comfort-and
lose 1t. Your wIfe's happiness-and lose
it. Your childrens' happiness-and lose
il. Your own soul-and lose it.
Seated one balmy afternoon on the
veranda of Mrs. Howe's residence al
Newport, Oscar Wilde was heard to re
mark to q lady who was present
"Strange that a pair Of silk stockings
should so upset a nation" whereupon G
well-known gentleman sitting little re
mote from the poet interposed: ats the
calf that Is in the stockings"
Another colOred cadet is to be sent u
West Point to brave the persecution
and maltreatment which the young gen
tlemen of that institution inf1ict upoT
students whose complexion and hair ART
not satisfactory. His name is Liyings
ton, and, having far surpassed his whitG
competitors in the examination, he viii
be appointed by Congressman Bisbee, o
Florida.
The alleged party of jackson and JET
ferson will be compelled to wrestle
with big crops again this year, anC
the history of the past indicates
that In a contest of this kind it Away
gets floopped. Perhaps it does look I
little like an Intervention of Providence
The big crops are certainly a blessing
that will bring with it long train o
little blessings.
A member of the Maine legislator,
had been counting an Augusta girl al
winter, and had taken her to attend the
: sessions until she was well posted in tn
rules. On the last day of the session, q
they came near the peanut stand by tn
door, he said to her: "May offer yol
my handful of pea-nuts?" She res
; ponded promptly: 81 move to ament
by emitting all after the word hand
. He blushingly accepted the amendment
and they adopted it unanimously.
On the 4th of July year ago accl
, dents in Baltimore from the use Of III
. toy pistol resulted in not less thai
, twenty deaths. An ordinance wa
passed by the city council as soon as
assembled prohibiting either the manu-
{ facture or sale OF the weapon that hal
> proved so destructive TO life. The Law
was well enforced, and as a result, il
stead of twenty accidents this year fror
. the use of such pistols, there was onl
one. The American advises other cite
where these accidents have been numel
: Gus to send at once for copies Of the Bal
{ timOre ordinance.
The natural conclusion, on reading il
the papers three weeks ago that Georg
{ FOulty, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, had fire.
J. bullet into his brain directly througl
the center of his forehead, was that thi
was the last of George Foulty. Blu
r that young man seems to have bel
I strangely organized. So far from dyin
: on the spot, he did not even lose COZ
seriousness, nor has he since suffers
. any pain, although it has been some
, thing Of nuisance TO keep wipinI
away The brains which have CONSTANT,
a oozed out His friends even go so ia
as to say that Georges faculties hav
, improved since the bullet entered hi
) head. He is now in comfortable health
and takes much satisfaction in posing
as a doctors puzzle.