The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-02-09

A Chicago paper wouldn't have any
thing Hat in it.
During the last yelr thirteen men and
corporations have purchased, in this
| country, 1 ,532, 900 acres of land. Two
men, Sir George Reed and H. Diston.
of land in Florida
Nearly fifty years since. Mrs. Judith
Twombly, of Lowell, Massachusetts, re
moved from her side, with razor, a
cancer which extended to the bone and
weighed twenty pounds. \ few days
ago she died aged 1O3 years
A postmaster in Indiana charged with
being an infidel, sent the following
resignation To the President: "TO the
President nf the United States: here
by tender my resignation because
don't believe in hell or ghosts"
Norristown Heral: The poet says:
"a kiss without "a mustachr is like an
egg withou, salt" May be it is, may be
it is; we can't say positively, Tor the
girls we've been us, d to kissing for the
last twenty-five years don't wear mus
tachcs.
| 1t is state that persons under the use
of ether are prone to confess their mean
ness. What a tale old Sammy Tilden
could unfold if some stenographer could
catch the ''old coon" mapping under the
influence of the gentle anesthctIc.
Henry Ward Beecher will have his
little jokes. At dinner the other night
speaking of Guiteau's case, he said: AZ
think the man who received an inSpira-
ton from heaven will also have line
dropped Ia him from the same derec-
ton"
"YOu have no ruins, no natural curl
osiiies in this country" drawled Mr..
Oscar Wilde to Mrs. Senator Pendleton
at a reception last week. mo" replied
the quick-witted lady, "but our ruins
will come soon enough. and rs to our
curiosities, we import them"
Chauncey Depew, who has "been
| says tho DOilllNidu VI ~ day
would sooner face battery of rifled
cannon than a newspaper fusilade."
That's owing TO whether the politician
is guilty, and 'flees when no man pur-
sueth," or not. If the said politician is
the kind of a man he ought TO be a news
paper fusilade won't hurt him. In fact,
he won't have any newspaper fusIlade.
The Rugby Colony, which Thomas
Hughes, of England, started in Tennes-
see some time ago with such a flourish
of trumpets" seems to have collapsed.
The Rugby Board of Aid to Land Own
ership has made an assignment at its of
fee IN London. Several of the colonists
had returned to England and instituted
suits against the board, who allege dis.
appointment and deceit, and it was 70
avoid these suits that the board made
the assignment.
w, f. Crawford, recently appointed
special agent of the postoffice depart
ment, has crowned himself with honor
by detecting and arresting in the act
mail rObber at Laredo, Texas. Ovel
: 800 valuable letters have been missed II
, that section, and the capture of one o
a the thieves on the Mexican border, ant
f bringing him away in safety from thu
, lawless bands which inGest that locality
3 shows Mr. Crawford 10 be the right maj
in the right place.
The Chicago correspondent of tn
Courier Journal says: Mrs Swisshelm'
latest hobby is that woman shall not st
cure physical development in gymna
4 Sums. She stoutly asserts that all tina
is necessary for them to do to becOm
l healthy and well developed is to lie pei
y fectly Hat upon broad mattress, will
l. out any raise for their head, their clothe
I loosencd, their shoes off, and thei
c shoulder blades flat underneath theT
e for from fifteen TO thirty minutes ono
i or twice each day"
Barnun has lately increased the pc
I, tai revenues heavily by advertising &c
Il "the handsomest man in the world" I
# offset Forepaugh's handsomest woman
9 We understand both the aesthetic editor
- of the Topeka Commonwealth and New
n ton Republican have "fiied their claims
Y. and we will not be a particle surprise
n to see Bent Murdoch or Allen LemO
IN make their appearance in our stree
~ next summer seated astridc of an ell
ic phant or posing on the top of beaut
fully decorated circus wagon.
Now and then Massachusetts woma
comes Ia the front and wins renow
Or 1t seems one of them, buxom widov
re went out to Utah recently and mao
such favorable impression that 81
c. married the boss Mormon of them a
&c President Taylor. She was the twent
Eighth admission to the old mans hareI
"A Four days after the wedding she rails,
1S a terrible rumpus in the PRESIDENT
a, mansion and dubbed three or four
her associate wives with broomstic
ho Her husband interfered and got tas
10 of her temper himself. She has prov,
to be unsusceptible to discipline, al
80 President Taylor has sent her to s.
p Francisco.
hi. The Miami tribe of Indians, aft
whom a Kansas county is named, is
- more, and has ceased TO be recognize
by the government. By the terms Of
:. treaty made in the time of Preside
= Pierce, the Miamis agreed to resi-
~. their perpetual annuity in considerati
- of $22l 600, payable in twenty-six yea
with the interest. in annual paymen
- The last of these payments was made
the 3lst ult. There are now only
living souls claiming the name Milan
IL Some of them live at various points
Ire Indiana, others near Napoleon, Oh
Gu and a few at the Quapaw agency, in I
lat Indian Territory. A grandson of I
Oh last chief of the Miamis is said 10 b,
'ur resident of Fontana, in this state.
Bucklen's ArnIcs SAlVe.
VIC The best salve in the world for Gu
as bruises, sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fe'