The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-20
EDITORIAL NEWs NoTEs

The new comet Is said 10 resemble a |
red headed dude in boh-tail coat
Newton is putting on good deal of
dog" over her prospective wAterworks.
ISL -J."-1Ss4- is beginning to
look sort nf dim on the Democratic
fences.
The eastern dude has taken 10 chew
ing gum. Darwin builded better than
he knew.
Kansas City doesn't need & new hotel
half so bad as sweeping revival
If religion.
The vessel on which ALI Burnett re-
turned from Europe was. unfortunately,
sea-worthy.
An Ohio man has applied TO Mr.. Bar
mum for the job Of keeping his new Gle
plant whiie-washed
II Uncle Sam should ask Johnny Bull
for o'DonnelI. why shouldn't Johnny
put In claim for O'DOnnavan Rosa:
The pretty man" in @Romany Rye"
has employed q private secretary 10 look
after his Kansas City correspondence.
The old-time buffalo and cat have
beea superseded by more aristocratic
grades of fish in the STRAINS Of Days
county.
Patti took in over $4,000 at Phila-
delphiA the other night. A lady who
can do that can we'll afford 20 support
two husbands.
Diamond Nose Jim and Coon Skin
Bill are residents OF Atehison. 1t is no
wonder that "Fun on the Bristol" drew
30 we'll at that place.
A cob market" is the latest CONNER
cial venture at Atchison. II is cheering
TO note that the business boom at that
place still continues.
Topeka has colored serenadIng club.
They sing az well if not better than
white warblers, and are good deal
harder to hit in the dark.
The author of the "Bread Winners
and the party who assaulted VIM. Pat
terson, still continue TO elude the vIgi-
lance of the detectives.
Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes is enjoying a
delightful visit in Chicago. She Lett
her husband at home to take care OF the
plants and feed the birds
The Kansas delegation at Washington
may be interested in knowing that far
mer's conventions arc becoming very
popular all over the state.
al should have preferred Saratoga Ia
Chicago, but suppose the people have
scarcely forgotten my trip TO the Yellow
stone Park" @. Arthur.
The next Republican national con-
vention meets at Chicago. That is the
place where John Sherman didn't get
the nomination for president in 1880.
The death of Mario, the famous Italian
tenor, recalls "reminiscences Of by-gone
age, when he and Clara Louise Kellogg
were in the tull zenith of their power
and fame.
What is wrong with the associated
pfess aud the New York correspondents
t4at the public have not yet been in
formed as 10 the value Of the spittoons
used at the Vanderbilt ball!
1t is stated that horse that wears
shoes weighing sixteen pounds, in tray-
cling mile lifts "a 900 pounds. We
would like to hear now from some of the
leading bellies of Kansas City.
The Wichita Beacon says the new
Presbyterian church in that city will bt
heated by divine love and the Ruttar
heating system, and Illuminated by di
vine truth and thirty six gas jets,
Mrs. L. o. Robinson, well known il
Kansas, is leading q series of meeting
at Fletcher Place church, Indianapolis
with most gratifying results. Over ont
hundred conversions haye been reported
The report that the editor of the
Wichita Eagle has gone to Washington
TO take out patent on lightning cal
culAtor Is meeting with considerable
credence in localities where his paper IL
taken.
The advertisement in the AtchisoI
papers for about twenty ''supes'' by thu
"ROmany Rye" company has developed
surprising amount Of latent dramatic
talent IN that city.
When a young lady disappears nov
from Kansas City her friends simpl.
ascertain the whereabouts of tn
"ROmany Rye" company and take tn
earliest train for that point.
The year 1884 will be bad year 70
side issues in politics. The crank
should keep their eccentricitles for al
! airing when the profounder deeps c
, of national politics are not stirred.
1t Is safe to estimate that IN this cour
try half a million dollars worth {
printing type is locked up in Kossut
: obituaries. Late reports represent tn
2 old gentleman as ford and robust.
Tits q source OF pleasure to note thu
Cincinnati was left in the race for Ii
Republican national convention. II
eligibility Of that place for such gath
u ering was utterly wrecked in 1876.
The Democrats of Topeka will hold
meeting at Crawford's opera house G
Saturday evening to ratify the nomin
ton of Allen Sells for mayor. 1t is VI
derstOOd that the lamp-posts of the elf
!. are being braced for the occasion.
q The member of the national commi
!. tee who proposed Chautauqua as suit
p BILE place for holding the Republican CO
g vention for the nomination of a pres
!. dent, may be good Sunday school ms
"a but we doubt whether he is much of
;. politician.
70 The cell of Orth Stein, the murders
lie OF Geo. Fredericks, adjOins that of q
e. Frank James, and as a consequence Il
ct alimentary tokens of esteem and for
IS offerings sent to the prisoners by d
ID ladies of Kansas City, not infrequent
1T get mixed In the rush of delivery.
" The astronomers have been somewh
g tardy In noting the total eclipse of CT
, G. Washington Warder by the hero
"RomanY Rye" which recently too
J. place at Kansas City. The phenomena
= was visible to the naked eye, and loc'
ly, elected much scientific comment.
Atchison Globe; About the III
m thing new man on a newspaper do
a is TO write MP the police court in fu
n ny way and laugh over it to himse
"a The first week in printing Office is
70 agreeable as kissing party, but all t
70 girls become scrawny old maids in
- little time.
II A Michigan girl told her young m
~ that che would never marry him un
10 he was worth $4,000. So he started O
~ with . brave heart to make IL. "HC
- are you getting on George?" she ask
At the expiration of couple OF montl
he Well" George said hopefully, Il In
BY saved $22" The girl dropped her g,