The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-16
HERE AND THERE.

The "nubbin" industry in Kansas thai
year is being sadly neglected.
The girl with the "riek-rack" sleeve
and the Kansas candidate for sheriff are
getting in their work just now.
Billy Patterson operates an omnibus
and hack line at Atchison. We do won
der if Belle Payne wasn't the man that
struck him.
The Augusta Advance hOists the gon-
Talon of Tilden ard Hendricks. The
first thing the Advance wants to do is to
change its name.
A fourth bank is soon TO be opened up
at Leavenworth. The name of the
druggist who is at the head of the move
ment is not given.
Commonwealth: 1t is said the wheat
crop in Rhode Island is total failure.
That will make the aggregate produc-
duction this year about two bushels
short.
1t Is thought the ultimate effect of the
reduction of letter postage, which goes
into effect October LIST, will be to in
crease rather than diminish the revenues
of the department.
The motion made yesterday in the
forestry congress at st. Paul, advocating
the adoption of the "Ohio PLAN" was
doubtless offered by Father Baker, of
of the Topeka Commonwealth.
FOurteen-storY houses are getting to
be quite common In New York city.
We presume the sky parlors find ready
occupants in persons whose liabilities
are largely in access of their assets.
The American rifle team have again
landed upon their native shores. The
manner of their return suggests recol-
leetions of the experience of Little Bo-
peep in the direction of sheeO-herding.
The Salvation Army have been arrest
ed at Syracuse, New York, and lodged
in the station house. 1t seems that no
effort Is to be spared to carry the EN-
pire State Tor the Democracy in 1884.
Dodge City Is willing to plead guilty
to mild but chronic form of moral
leprosy. but she Indignantly denies that
Texas or Spanish fever has broken out
among the cattle near that place.
Lawrence is yearning for watcrworks
and street railway, but between John
Walrufr and the Southwestern stage
company she thinks she may be able to
wait for the desired improvements for
another year.
Young men with regular girls of
strong alimentary propensi:ies will find
a germ of encouragement in the fact
that two very serious cases of poisoning
from ice cream have been reported with
in the past week.
1t has been discovered that q great
many youpg prairie chickens and other
varieties of illicit game are being killed
IN Western Kansas IN violation of law.
The embarrasspents which attend the
enforcement of sumptuary Legislation
seem to increase IN an alarming ratio as
we approach the sixth principal merid-
ian.
Beer drinkers are hereafter to know all
the ingredients used by beer brewers in
the brewing OF beer. The new forms IN
der which the brewers are to report to
the collectors require sworn monthly
statement OF all details on the subject,
and the penalty against fraud is heavy
enough to make 1t very dangerous. We
have from time to time heard alarming
stories about the harmful ingredients
put into beer by some OF ITS manufac-
turers, but it will be well for them now
to take warning and refrain from evil
practices.
Prairie chickens can be killed in Kan
sas between the first of September and
the first of January, and quail between
the first of November and first of Jan
uarY; but Is not lawful to ensnarc or
trap either prairie chickens or quails al
any time of year. Game cannot be
hunted upon improved premises without
the consent of the owner. The migra-
ting birds, wild geese and ducks, can be
killed at any time of the year. To have
dead birds in your possession during the
time OF prohibition is deemed prinaa f.
Gle evidence of the violation of the act
The penalty is from five to twenty five
dollars for each offence, with costs and
attorneys fees of ten dollars.