The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-07
EDIroRIAL NEWS NOTES.

The Lyndon Journal has developed a
yarioloid phase Of the Clicks Bad Boy"
idioey
Corn three feet high is growing in
several Of the newspapers Of Southern
Kansas.
Five hundred pennies are used every
day at the Atchison Union depot in
making chasgc.
A Democratic definition of political
harmony is; a place for everybody ard
for everybody a place.
People who bemoan the cruelty Of
death nave probably never reflected
what this world would be If Ben Butler
MAS immortaL
The proposed enlargement of the To
pella Commonwealth is not in accord
ance with the original plans of the Cap
iIal Publishing company.
The editor Of the Gaylord Herald
claims 10 have the best creamery in the
state, but maintains portentous silence
rs TO the process Of It's acquisition.
Atchisoa Globe! This week we drop
several country weeklies from our daily
exchange list for the reason. that they
did not pay sufficient attention to our
new steam engine.
Tewksbury' will 60 down TO postority
as the iateresiing locality where Ben
Butler made the discovery of gigantic
mares nest, while prospecting for .
presidential boom.
TITS estimated that there ares at least
finy professional young men in Topeka
whose income does not average ten dol
lars per week Itis no wonder that po-
taioes are so high IN this country.
The Democrats who are smelling
around for signs OF another tidal wave
Of pure luck, viii be subjects for the
dsmpest kind Of sympathy before the
pumpkin season isnyer. Chalk il down
a very fine specimen OF petrified
shark was recently taken from quarry
eleven miles southeast OF Stockton. This
discovery seems 10 leave no doubt of the
antiquity OF the curb.stone broker in
Kansas
The hope is now entertained among
the more sanguine leaders of the party
that the Democracy may be able TO har
monte IN 1884 on the English sparrow
as an issue with which TO go before the
people.
Ar exchange has made the discovery
that most of the public men nowadays
are agno5tics. We should suppose I
would be quite natural for successful
politician TO entertain views at variance
with strictly orthodox belief.
The Commonwealth states that pro
ceedlugs similar TO those instituted
against Mayor Wilson, Of Topeka, hav
been commenced against Mayor Muse
Of Newton. The publicity into which
this win inevitably drag the Judg
viii be refined torture to q gentleman
OF his excessively modest and shrink
ing nature.
The new route 10 the Pacific coast vi
The Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe t
Albuquerque, the Atlantic ~ Pacific t
tho Colorado river and the Souther
Pacific 70 San Francisco is one hundTe
and Atty miles shorter than any Othe
The Santa Fe viii probably put o
through slecpcrs for San Francisco {
an early day.
1t = p0w openly asserted by til
Commonwealth and other Kansas p
pers that John A, Anderson will max
the race for tie senate against Ingal
on The anti-monopoly issue. 1t looks
the light Of this prediction, as If IL
Greenwood County hen, which, it
claimed, recently laid an egg bearin
the inscription, "War in 1885," kne
pretty well what she was about.
The Commonwealth will soon appe,
as q six.column quarto with han
some new dress throughout. We CO
gratulate the proprietors upon the n
esssity Cor such an enlargement, thong
we regret to see the form of the pap
changed. Tbs old Commonwealth
any other shape than that of folio WI
Look about rs unnatural Us man WI
1lns shaved on his whiskers after wes
ing fol- bard for twenty years.