The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-24
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL
A man named Labor in North Caro-
lima has twenty children. His home is
laboratory.

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A man named Labor in North Caro-
lima has twenty children. His home is
laboratory.
Death and the lawyers proved too
much for Justice in the case Of Kring.
the ST. Louis murderer.
Jim Fisk" the London Spectator
says, is ''the only perfectly vulgar man
of genius il can recall.
Kingman is soon to have banking
establishment, but it will not be in
charge of Preacher Harris.
Burlington Hawkeye: Puck calls Ly-
dia Pinkham the "Venus de Medicine"
Then is Oscar Wilde the Appalling de
Belvidere?
The free traders have lost strong adj
voca;c in the purchase of the New York
World by Dir. Pulitzer. Waterson viii
nos play lone hand.
jefferson Davis is seventy-hve years
old. II should not BE- forgotten that he
owes his longevity to the clemency of
the Uaited States government
Joe Pulitzer has yentured upon an
experiment which las ''busted" every
one who has stuck 10 it long enough
make the New York World pay.
The announcement that Mr.. Langtry
is cofnIng to America justiAes the pain
fuI presumption that that gentleman is
collecting material for a divorce sui:
The Lawrence Journal, which seems
to realize that discretion is the better
part of valor, speaks of Sol Miller's
'-absurdities" instead of calling him
liar.
The Chanute Chronicle dominates p.
|. BOnebrake for governor in 1884. We
were not aware before that the Chronicle
made any pretenslons to being humor-
Gus publication.
1t requires very little Discrimination
ON the question of size To determine
that Congressman Haskell is a bigger
man than Professor Garfield, of the
State University.
John Quincy Adams letters, propr1e-
tor of the Hiawatha hotel enjoys the
distinction of being the handsomest
man in Kansas, with the possible excep-
ton OF Milt Reynolds.
The st. Joe Gazette has tackled Prem
It's in connection with his address TO
the editorial association ct Winfield.
We believe if we were the Gazette man
we would let that job out.
| Major Inman is preparing, it is said,
to elucidate the Kansas City tornado It
is claimed that the Major enjoys a great
er familiarity with cyclones than any
man in the state-above ground.
Senator John a. Logan has been in
vited to elevate the eagle at Wichita on
the Fourth, and the well-known anti
prohibition views of that gentleman jus
tify the hope that he Will be present on
that occasion.
When the LeayenwoTth Times gets
all the graveyard insurance companies
cleaned out Col. Dan. r. Anthony will
sit down and blubber, like Alexander
of old. because there are no new fields
of conquest to invade.
1t is announced that Representative
Burton, of Abilene, is suffering from a
severe attack of rheumatism. We trem-
BILE for the liberties of Kansas when we
contemplate the possibility. of the dis
ease centering in his jaw.
Roscoe ConkliDg, in recent speech,
said that the Democrats are about to
take possession of the government. The
tone of this splenetic observation would
seem 10 indicate that the wish with him
was father to the thought.
Harrison, the boy preacher, has made
over eighty converts at Kansas City
within the past lew days. II Is shrewd-
ly suspected that there was some collu-
sion between this perennial evangelist
and the lats cyclone which devastated
that town.
John Sherman positively declines to
be the standard bearer OF the Ohio Re
publicans at the fall election. The
sage of Mansfield evidently proceeds
upon the thrifty hypothesis that sena-
tOrship in the hand Is worth several
The Neodesha Free Press thinks thai
S. 3. Benedict would be an excellent
man tn succeed Senator Ingalls,. With
out desiring to call into question the
good Judgment of the Press, tn US it
looks very much as if the shoes of the
senior senator will not change hands
or rather feet-in 1885.
1t is automatically asserted by several
Kansas newspapers that Mr.. Ingalls,
went To Washington for purpose. In
the light of the striking analogy between
the senator AID Josh Billings pills
which, it will he remembered, attended
strictly to business-we are inclined TO
credit the accuracy of that rumor.
Joe Pulitzer. the new editor and pro
prietnr OF the New York World, gives
public notice that that sheet will no long
er be an advocate of the heresy ot free
trade II Will now be III order for Pro-
fessor Canfield to take steps 10 prohibit
the pGrusal of that publication by the
students of the Lawrence University.
The San Francisco Post is responsible
for the story that during the latter part
of the war DAVID Davis was chal,
lenged to fight duel by fire-eating
southern ex-nember of congress. The
former, it is added, very properly de-
clined, because his antagonist refused to
permit him to stand three fifths behind
stone wall
"Jim" Keene, noted recently as a
wheat Spectator, is supposed to be
in tight place financially. He accumu-
lat:d great fortune IN California few
years ago, and thought it would be a
flne thing tn come east and skin the sim-
pie spectators of Wall street and the
Chicago Board of Trade. 1t now ap
pears that he has been ''skun."
Henri Watterson, Of the Louisville
Courier Journal, predicts that the DEM
ocratic party will be showed under in
, 1884. Now If he will only assure US
that the Fourth of July will be on deck
. this year as usual, and that the law OF
periodicity which has marked the re-
currence OF Christmas for the past 1900
years will not fail US next December
we shall be dispos ID toyield to the be-
: lief that Henri is endowed with the gif,
C of prophecy:
e Stage loye has occasionally to be done
d by those actuated by off-stage hate. A