The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-01-04
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

GambettA is dead, but his soul like
that of John Brown goes marching on.
Mr.. Blaine and the Washington Re-
publican are not members Of a mutual
admiration society.
Oscar Wilde has gone, but there is
not much danger of the country's get
ting away while Mrs. Langtry is left to
| hold it down.
Mrs. Governor st. John received at
Topeka IN New Years, by way of en-
couragement TO the fellows who "swore
OFF, the evening before.
Rev. Albert Simpson, 1t is said, is
curing people in New York by annoint-
ment with oil and prayer. 1t is pleas
ant to note the discovery of a specific
for softening of the brain.
"Governor Clicks Choice is the
name of a cigar which is kept for sale
by Topeka tobacconists. Our new ex-
ecutiYe seems to have already lived
long enough for his own fame.
Ex-Governor Sprague, of Rhode Is
land, has become a teetotaler and an
earnest advocate of prohibition. The
temperance cause seems to be suffering
good many reverses this winter.
Mayor Colley. of Salem, Massachu-
sets, whose term of office expired on
New Years day, signalized the event by
hanging himself. 1t is quite probable
| a. 4 soI- hao IN nl,fn
burial.
1t may reassure a credulous public to
learn that Mr.. Virgins, the Canadian
weather prophet, who predicts the great
est storm of the century next March,
expects visit from his mother-in-law
early in that month.
Gen. Sherman publicly denies that he
has become Catholic. Well, if he had
We don't perceive that it would affect
his claims as a soldier entitled to the az
fectionate admiration of patriotic peo-
pie. His religion, or his nOn-religion is
his personal affair.
The adroit bunko steerer who fleeced
Oscar Wilde rejoices In the appellation
of Hungry joe" Such name would
not look especially impressive upon q
monument, but it would be establishing
an. ungratsful precedent not to recognize
in somemanner, the services of such
public benefactor.
And now it is asserted that Judge Fol
ger, who was buried recently under a
Democratic majority of 100000 in New
York, is the slave of handsome widow
who has matrimonial designs on the
watchdog of the national treasury
The machine" seems TO be having a
hard time of it.
Col Tom Ochiltree, who has earned
the picturesque title Of "lhe warm blood
ed liar of the south, "and who is the
rival of Sam Cox in the congressional
funny business, is suggested as presi-
Dental candidate. He tersely announ-
ces his platform as 1.-The old flag and all
the appropriations"
There is no man. said John Green
lief Whittier on his seventy birth
day. "who ought to write much after he
is seventy, unless perhaps il may be Dr.
Holmes He ought. to write iron now
until he is one hundred. He is charm
ing in everything he writes, and there
is such wonderful variety in his work
that it seems pity he should ever stop
Kansas City Journal Col ID. r. An.>
thony, of the I.savenworth Times, il is
reported, coniemRI4tes founding pub
lie library in the Gig OF his rssidebcc
Antho1y is said to have grown rich.
The town site Of Huron, which he found
ed, is reported worth $50 600 His pa
per is valuable property, aud he has
large amount Of real estate in and about
Leaxenxorth With all his sagaries,
The colonel has neSer neglected TO take
care ri. his busfncss fRterests.