The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-08-16
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.

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Sedgwick county will hold two agri-
cultural fairs this fall. The Wichita
Eagle man seems to have gotten an ex-
.ra "scald'' on the crops this season.
Unless Governor Click and John Mar
lin can be induced 70 kiss and make up,
L looks as If the former were in for
twenty more years of dependency"
The Yates Center News does not be-
lieve in the WoOdson county silver |
mine. There are several easier things /
in the world than catching Kansas ed
itOr with salt.
The Topeka Commonwealth enlarged |
Just In time for the announcements of
for county offices. The acre |
age in Shawnee county this year seems
to be unusually large.
A scientific comisslon Is to investigate
the IschIa earthquake. We are pleased
to note that the public Is finally becOm-
ing alive 70 the great evil of these con-
of nature.
Courier Journal: The cost of stop
ping train Of cars Is said TO be from 90
TO 40 cents. When the train is stopped
by another train these prices become
inflated.
Topeka has developed "half honest
thief" There is apparently no limit to
the operation of the law of evolution.
We shall next hear of q sincere politi-
clan at the state capital.
Boys who steal water-melons in this
state are now sent to the reform school.
We fail TO see why the funeral of "per
sonal liberty" should be longer post
poned on account of the weather.
President Arthur declined to start on
his pleasure tour on Sunday. The in
Aueuce Of Mr.. Ingersoll with the admin
istration does mt seem to be showing
tropical indications of development.
Alexander Dumas is engaged in writ
ing a novel on Research into Pater-
nifty" There is something about the
title which leads TO the inference that the
heroine of the story is Sarah Bernhardt.
An Atchison man has been Obliged to
"give up" 5000 for interfering with
dog fight. He may consider himself
fortunate in not having been given
twenty-four hours In which to leave the
town.
The item geing the rounds of the
press to the effect that Mr. r. B. Hayes,
of Fremont, Ohio, will be q strong can
didate for the United States senate, was
evidently stolen from "Puck" or "Texas
Siftings."
jefferson Davis also declares that the
Republican party must go. The late ex-
periments of jeff in connection with the
staying qualities of that organization
will doubtless be recalled by many Of
our readers.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat puts in
plea for a revival of the Venus OF Milo
style of waist This is a very fear
less position for Joe McCul-
lagh TO take when we consider the brew
ity OF his arms.
A man who appeared in public with a
woman Of unsavOry character was egged
on the streets of Council Grove last
week. Social ethics in Morris county
do not seem to partake Of the nature of .
mere abstraction.
The New York Herald publishes a
story of the discovery of NOah's ark
among the Businesses of Mt. Ararat.
This is the structure which has been so
agreeablY immOrtalized in Kansas by
Tom Anderson's ModOcs.
Atchison Globc: C. p. Strong, the
county clerk of Butler county, who is
now wanted for forgery, played cards for
money, drank whisky and consorted
with lewd women. No wonder he fell
with dull, sickening thud.
Mr.. Henry Woodruff, of Independence,
has become q father at the ripe age OF
seventy years. A simple perusal of the
agricultural reports issued by the sec
rotary OF state, affords a very imperfect
idea of the superior advantages of Kan
| sas.
IT now transpires that Judge Foraker
the Republican candidate for governor
OF Ohio, wore coffee-sack brooches when
he was boy. The old Buckeye state
still seems to maintain a tolerably valid
claim to the title of mother of presi
DENTS"
Ice cream is now very largely made
from kaolin, a white clay used in pOrce
lain manufacture. The young men Of
Topeka should make a note OF this and
be very careful not TO let the ladies fall
when they are lifting them from car
riagcs or supervising their bestowal into
hammocks.
We see by our exchanges that John A
Anderson is down for a number of ad
dresses at county fairs in Kansas thil
fall. We presume the expediency of run
ming a strand Of barbed wire around thu
top OF his fences has already occurred Il
Senator Ingalls,.
The Topeka Capital of yesterday de
votes five columns of its space to q re
port OF the annual meeting of the Amer
lean Forestry convention. 1t will nov
be in order for Father Baker to coml
back at Major Hudson by publishing
the full text of the prohibitory law.
The Democratic leaders of Ohio ar,
losing hope in the success of Hoad
ly, but they say that Durbin Ward coulC
have made 1t "like fash" Fhe fata
genius of the Democracy for doing tn,
wrong thing al the right time has al
ways absorbed large measure of pop
ular admiration.
The man Who telegraphed his sympa
thy to a-friend who had lost everything
in speculation and made him pay for thu
message, should not fail to be present al
the Democratic national convention
when the second place on the ticket i,
filed. 1, Is the object next year to i'm.
prove on Bill English.
Mrs. Langtry, the alleged actress, and
the lady who achicYed some measure Of
celebrity IN the United States by ira.
versing the country in Pullman sleep
er with q Darwinian admirer named
GebhaTdt, is visiting the Prince OF
wales at his country house near London
In America such proceeding would al
least he characterized As "quecr
Kansas City Times: The leaders OI
the Salvation army in New York have
been arrested for loud singing and tam
BOURNE playing. Miriam is cited as a
precedent for tue performances upon
the tambOurine. Miriam, it will he re
membcred, very properly came la grief.
Moreover, the song and dance of biblical
days differed from the attempts Of the