The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-08
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Senator Hozr acutely observes that
"when Sen ator Beck talks bis intellect
rests
The WIVES of Methodist preachers and
mocrstie STATE tIeasurtrs never know
how long they are going 10 1--we ia IN.
place.
The man who sued Colorado paper
for $4,000 dsmagrs for libel ana was
awarded six cents. now sIelieves ia The
freedom Of the press "
senator WIudorn finds ihai several RI
publican politicians ~ sides himself
have been In Minnesota iung enough 10
grow mp with The country
Nine. Nilsson, in speaking Ia n Gin
cinnaii reporter 1t the sirreis la Kansas
City said "UgbI" We presume ugh"
must be Swedish far damnablr
Topeka Capital: BisectIon from *
cassive stIaddling threatens N number Of
Kansas statesmen who arc trying TO be
on both sides al The temperance ques-
ton.
An assuring phase OF our state poli-
tics Is found la the fact that none Of the
members OF the present Legislature af-
feet jeans trousers or chew dog-ieg to-
baccO.
Nineteen states of the union have
Democratic lreasurers We submit this
as pointer To house wives who are in
the habit IT leaving their washings ont
o7er night.
The mercury in The state house at To-
peka falls down TO a very low point ON
the day that one or more bills are NOS in
troduced for the congressional reappor-
iionment Of Kansas.
The supreme court of the United
States has sat down ON the barbed wire
monopoly. There Is strong YeATning
n the public mind 90 know where the
as, e." buys its irowsers.
The Atchison Globe says thc first
printing press was brought 10 Kansas in
the year 1874. II seems that there is no
abatement Of the hostility OF the Globe
to the policy OF prohibition.
There are more goods promised, so 10
speak, by the different candidates for
U. s. senator In Minnesota than could
he delivered by the entire Vanderbilt
system of railroads in ten years.
The American Peace society is now
said TO have 100000 in its treasury.
This seems TO be very small fund with
which to inaugurate q crusade against
the popular tendency to matrimony.
The Kansas City Times discourses
very touchinglY OF "SeFpel,s ON the
Hearth Stone We understand that 1t IL
very common custom for Missouri ed.
Itors TO set their boots before the fire.
Chicago Tribune: BY AN accident in
Australia, q party Of men were COMPEL
ed 20 remain In water sixty hours. II
this had occurred In Kentucky the par
tlculars would never haYe been known.
The Commonwealth says that prohlbi
ton and temperance reform are tive
quite different things. There seems Il
be al least one point Of analogy bt tween
however-the Commonwealth is ho>tif,
TO both.
II will not escape the attention OF ia,
public that The Cincinnati man who
claims to have WISHED heaven has come
back. IL Is barely possible trAi Their.
are 10 openings for Ohio men In Para
disc.
The Philadelphia Chronicle Herald
says that Philadelphia man WAITS q
die, but doesn't want to disgrace hi
friends by committing suicide. He hal
engaged fifth story room in ah"i' ant
Is awaiting his fate.
~ see that a bill has been introduces
In the u. 8. senate Tor the suppression
of poker In the District of Columbiu
There seems tn be a disposition "a kee
up the fight on me even after am cleo
ted."-Gov. Tabor.
The Atchiscn Champion begins {
look very much like It's old self. thoug
It can never be quite the same TO us ths
it was before the FIRE until the famllia
face of Lydia Pinkham is restored to II
old place in its valuable columns.
A Topeka man who has just returne
from Mexico says that the women {
that country talk more with their sparl
ling eyes than with their mouths. II
Ii probably establishing marriage asst
citation in the land ofthe Montezumas
A thrifty lad at Wlchila recently stol
a lot OF old iron from general haFI
ware dealer. and traded tito the sam
patty the next day for pair Of skate
That boy Is evidently destined 10 b
come the watch dog Of the treasury
some Democratic state. ai.
II may he matter of fancy, but
seems to US that the benignant count
nance OF LYDIA Pinkham is radiant viii
an almost holy light since the introdu
fion In the Kansas legislature Of the bi
~ establish and protect the identity
married women.
Cincinnati Enquirer: The Colorad
Legislature has under consideration
bill to regulate sleeping car charge
but IL Is understood that even the wi
western statesman hasn't the courage
attack the porter.
Nine members of the pres ent co
gress hSve died and the tenth is In b
death bed. So says the Dayton Journ'
and We regard rs unquestlonableA utho
ity the average Ohio editor touchII
anything In the line OF official Vaeanei
at Washington.
The Kansas Civ Tunes observes ID
New England contributes nothing
the history OF horrible accidents duriI
the present cyclvuf horrorag Is seer
that that usually enlerprising journ
has not heard OF tile election or B
Butler as governor of Massachusetts.
Ia view OF the very low temperate
IL is barely possible that there may
no Democratic defalcalions in the ceu
try to-day. Tho public funds in
solid Bourbon states are not BOW &C
stder,d secure unless the mercury
considerably below zero.
FRANCE is still threatened with the da
snszd of revolution and anarchy.
dead abe has never been fairly out OF
The props OF the republic must be q
tressinglY frail when a hasty visit to
capital Of foolish old woman like
genie 10 the cause of so much alarm.
Johann Strauss. the "wallz kin
having divorced his sec ond wife Is alb