The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-22
EDITORIiL NOTES.


Immediate improvement 81 the Ohic
river is plainly In order.
There is talk of investing the brake
men on passenger trains in OHIO and
Indiana with the rank Of rear admiral
The Commonwealth has discovered
that an alarming degree Of mortality
prevails among the only surviving horse
of the late war.
II has now been At least ten days since
any Democratic state Treasurer has ruE
away with the peoples money. Is the
"reform" party losing It's grip:
When sound Wmperapce legislation
drives a man to vote the Democratic
ticket, you may rely upon u that wills
Ky has got deadly clutch on iiis mortal
vitals.
Tue brilliancy Of the social season in
all cities this winter is an inspiriting IL
Illustration OF the prosperity of the coun-
try. People in distress are not usually
!, exuberant.
The Clevel and Leader asks why Mr..
Howells should devote 200 or 800 pages
20 giving "a Woman's Reason" when
everybody knows IL Is simply-"be-
cause"
Tue eldest Mason in the country
seems To have weAthered the severe win
ter In excellent shape. We believe we
have not seen record OF his death In q
Angle paper.
Washington clerks are kicking at q
proposition 10 require them 10 work
eight bours day Kick 'em out. A
clerk who can't work eight hours day
should not have u full days wages
An effort Is being made 10 have The
government purchase the Niagara falls.
II is thought The income from the hack
stands will pay of the national debt 10
few months. But II wouldn't be
worth n hair pin in Tennessee or Ala.
bama.
Enthusiastic advocates of railway leg.
lslation 10 the house declare that unde Z
no circumstances will they support the
Kelley bill, preferring u go home with
out any legislation GU the subject than
to accept anything from the "dicta-
tor!al senate"
There is NO law la this state compel
ling legislators to accept railroad pass.
Commonwealth.
That's so; and II will be u bitter day
for cast iron dogs and other craven i'm
ages when such legislation becomes nee
essary In Kansas.
Capital: Prohibition has not been taken
out OF politics in Kansas by the emphat.
ic refusal of the house TO submit a prop
osition for resembling the constitutional
amendment; but politics has been taken
out of prohibition very decidedly.
The Colorado legislature held u sun.
day session before adjournment. II
could not be expected that the body
whose votes elected old Tabor United
States senator would be troubled with
any scruples regarding the observance OI
the Sabbath.
Atchison Champion: Wa.cou, o
new York, having eaten sixty quail II
thirty days, one Bowie, of Jersey City
is trying to eat 100 during an equa
period. He isn't sure about II, but hi.
impression is that he Is twice as big 6
hng as the New Yorker.
Since the announcement Of the birth
OF girl with three tongues in Arkansas
the country editors are debating wheth
or il is beat To have three girls or CIR
with three tongues. IL depends whethe
you have 10 support the three giIls, thei
husbands and the increment.
A Buckeye solon, with careful re
gard for human life, has introduced {
bill in the Ohio legislature to proven
the overcrowding of churches. A meas
ure To restrict tine small boys of tina
state from overIaxIng their physical en-
ergies by saving wood is now plainl!
inorder.
The school. marin kick in New Yorl
city has assumed huge proportions
Over 4, 900 teachers, of whom four. fifth
are females, have earnestly petitione'
the Legislature to supply by taxation tn
two per cent. reduction in their salarie
recently made 10y the New York schoo
board
The remark Is frequently made tina
the Republican legis latures In the vnri
Gus states are not manufacturing s.
much Democratic capital this year a
they did last winter. Most. ii not all, Q
them haYe devoted their aliehtiOn I
quiet, earnest work. The result Wi
make conspicuous contrast 81 that ,
last year.
Both at the representatives from Ly O
county voted yesterday In favor q
agreeing to the report of The house con
mittee OF the whole, recommending ia
rejection Of the joint resolution sui
hitting repeal of the prohlbilnr
amendment I v..tr at the people, All
In so doing reflected the sentiments c
their constituents.
The "tAttoed IN IN" an 4 the ''b,arle,
lady" well.knnwn circus magnalcs, rS
Gently united their fortunes fhr life l
Philadelphia. II may be only just I
ada that the keen interest which NJ
ture of the happy couple is entirely IN
alleged with any commercial consider
atoms.
The stHteint mt Is made upon excelleI
man has slept constantly E'r two year
The CONFIRMS, d deafness of her husbau
is one of thor strange ironies of fa
which inspire such grave doubts in Il
minds of mtn regal ding a supreme i
tellig, nee which il is claimed peTvad
aud regulates the human economy.
The New Jersey legislature recent
enacted law making a vot. of nil
out OF twelve jurymen competent
md verdict. This will be apt to bril-
up the legal trick of hung jury wi
round turn. A cunning attorney CT
generally hang a jury with one man,
desperate case, bat three would
troublesome. A reform OF that kind
Kansas would promote justice.
The Gaylord Herald sends up
Macedonian cry for preacher "wl
can make his own living by manu-
labor and help pay the incidental c
penses Of the church besides" Here
an opportunity for the man in search
religious sinecure. The party W
responds TO the Herald's call can safe
devote all his tune tn secular pursui
as there are evidently no souls at G;
lord 10 save.
The Commonwealth says: There v
boom in Santa Fe mining stock vest
day. The Merritt mine, in which
company has One-third interest,
contracted with the TorTeHce stamp n
for the sale of ten thousand tons of {
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