The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-17
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.
yennOr is writing a book on birds.

1 EDIIOh1AL NEMH Mules.
| Venuor is writing book on birds.
The Buffalo Courier thinks the Amer
lean hog is bore. just SOW.
government seems fred with the
determination to suppress the Apaches
by hook or Crook.
The Boston Transcript thinks the sue
cess OF the civil service reform commits
sion is, to say the least, rather Keimeri-
cal.
Commonwealth: The lawyers who
are making the speeches in the star
route trials seem to lack terminal faciI-
tiles.
Fred Bean, young Iowa farmer. has
married an Indian girl. Fred probably
saw the millinery bill of some fellow
pale face.
The objective point of the Kansas ed
ors-Chihuahua-is pronounced She
wah-wah. 1t is quite important to bear
this in mind.
Cincinnati has deaf and dumb law
yer. It has been suggested that the gov
eminent ought to employ him in the
next star route case.
II is stated that the undertakes of
Moscow are awaiting the approaching
coronation of the Car with pleasurabIe
and palpitating interest.
The relentless manner in which Jay
Gould snubbed Kansas City will doubt
less result in the erection of a monu-
ment in honor Of the great railroad
magnate at st Joe.
And now another Bible revIser has dis
covered that it wasn't ravens but gyp-
sizes, that fed the prophet Elijah. If
these Biblical thinkers don't soon let up
they win unsettle the entire foundation
of inspired truth.
The Commonwealth says that by an
other year the Kansas editors can take
through sleepers to the City of Mexico.
That paper seems to regard, as a fore
gone conclusion, the passage of bank
rupt law by the next congress.
There were thousands of Irish in this
country prior to the revolutionary war,
but not five per cent were Roman Cath
olics. Nearly all were intensely Pro-
testant. In rural New England a Ro-
man Catholic was rarity half Gen.
fury ago.
The fare from New York to London
direct, and return, is only $40, and the
trip occupies about twenty-five days. 1t
is about rs cheap, therefore, to make
the trip to London and back as 1t is to
board at New York hotel for the same
length of time.
The Cincinnati gin-slingers should be
awarded a bung starter badge for pure
and unadulterated gail. Their recon-
mendation of leading whisky man for
commissioner of internal revenue, is an
exhibition of impudence that would
bring bushes to the check of govern
ment mule.
The growth of manufactures in the
south is regarded with alarm by the be-
nighted advocates of tariff for revenue
only. It is fine thing to advocate po-
litical principles which cause one to
view the prosperity OF the country with
alarm. Yet that has long been the posi-.
ton OF the Democratic party.
The latest alleged triumph of photog-
raphy will enable any individual to pro-
duce upon his own cuticle an indelible
likeness of any object in art or nature.
This new method of illustrating the
skin possesses manifest advantages over
the ancient PROCESS of tattooing, being
rapid, accurate, cheap and painless.
The forty saloon keepers of Danville,
ILL.,, fought against the increase of the
annual license of 5000. The temper
ance folks at once set to work to have
the price raised to $1,000, and that put
the liquor men to rejecting; the oppOsi-
ton was soon abandoned, the $500 Ii
cense accepted and peace restored.
As we have always understood that
Winfield was prohibition town the
public will naturally turn TO Brother
MalingtOn, of the Courier, for an *
PLANTATION of the fact that one IF the
Kansas journalists was taken in the act
of putting on his hat with the aid of d
shoe horn during the meeting of the
state editorial association at that place.
Kansas City Is wTithing under the
contemptuous treatment which she re-
ceived at the hands of Jay Gould, upon
the occasion of his recent visit to that
place, and 1t IS rumored that an incen-
diary movement is on foot to avenge the
wanton insult by making the inselent
and bloated monopolist the subject of
an original poem by Col G. Washing
ton Warder.
In the old Spanish city of Rejar three
tailors established themselves on the
same street. The first wrote on his
sign: The best tailor in this town"
The second adopted as a motto: '.1hc
best tailor in the world - but the third,
who was the smartest of the lot, got
away with them all by putting on his
sign: the best tailor on this street"
Il Another illustration of the swiftness
of Jersey JUSTICE is afforded in the
case of the Ashbury Park burglar
whose crime was discovered on Satur.
day. and on the following Thursday he
began an eight years term in the peni-
Tertiary. That is something like bust
ness. But it would require an awful re-
form in the criminal procedure of Kan
sas TO reach Ehst enyiable degree oil
celebrity.
The DECISION of the supreme court
this week in granger case" that orig
mated 10 Illinois ten years ago is i'm.
Oortant, because it asserts again EN-
| phaticRIiy some rights of the nuhIif