The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-11-08
EDIroRTAL NEWS MOTIFS.
The railway commissioners of Kansas
should make it point now 70 take .
little sand in their meals every day.

| EDITORIAL NEWS NO1bS.
The railway commissioners of Kansas
should make it point now TO take
little sand in their meals every day
The picture of Henry Irving, the Eng
lish actor, appears in the last number Of
Harper's Weekly. There is sugges-
tion of Oscar Wilde about his fsce,
though we are assured that this resem-
blAnce. happily. does not extend TO the
legs Of the great actor.
A Chicago commercial traveller says
that in a small village in NCrtherl
Michigan he found . notice pinned On
the door OF q store which read: -G0ne
TO bury my wife; viii be back In thirty
minutes" That lie might hass gained
currency had its author been sueaciently
artistic to locate the village in Ohio.
The National Wcmsn's { Christian
Temperance Union has set apart The sec
ond Tuesday in January as -day Of
special prayer for drunkards. The L.
dies have manifested an Intelligent ap-
prehension of great social problem by
holding their meetings for the purposs
named at about the time the fellows who
"swear off, at New Year resume their
potanons.
The condition Of women In India is
truly depIorable. Very often girls are
married there at the age OF three years,
and should the boy % whom they are
welded die the next day the IhfGnt is
declated perpetual widow, and may
no: marry again though she live TO be
sixty years of age. In the light of this
mOurnful condition of society, the
sympathetic zeal manifested by the
Woman's Foreign Missionary AssOcIa-
tiOn ofthis country for the disseminA-
tion of the gospel In India, ceases 70 be
matter of surprise.
1t appears from the answer of the Kan
sss Pacific railway company TO peii-
ton in quo aOdrrGntO Cow pending In the
supreme court, that the corporation In
question is not q creature of Kansas, but
exists by virtue of rights conferred upon
IL by congress. In this view of the case
il would probably be well for the state
to take very early measures for Its legal
adoption. We must determine before
very long whether Kansas is running
the railroads, or the railroads are run
ming Kansas, and it strikes us that this
is very good place To begin
Canadian Independence is looked for
by a writer for the Cleveland Leader,
who is VISITING Toronto. After speak.
ing OI the initials dislike of the gsner-
oil whom the British government has put
over them, the correspondent says: "a
few difficulties like the present, where
authority and the voice of the populace
conflict, would precipltate Canadian In
dependence. Not annexation. HOwev-
er much Canada may admire and imi,
tate her nearest neighbOr, she evidently
doesn't contemplate breaking up house.
keeping on her own account aud Joining
our family"
From interviews with the governors
of the southern states, namely, Alabama,
Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Texas, and Virginia, the New
Orleans Times Democrat makes table
of assessments showing that since 1879
there has been an aggregate increase in
wealth Of $64O. 707 900; that $500, 600, 900
has been invested in railroads in these
states, and that the railroad mileage has
been increased from 1920 to 26.049.
Cotton manufacturing in Alabama,
Georgia, and North and South Caroline
has increased from 12S TO $50 mills.
Justice Harlan Is reported to be very
much annoyed by the talk that Is going
on about him In connection with the
presidency, not only because he 10 en-
tirely averse to such q use Of his name
on general principles, but also, and more
particularly, because gossip Of that kind
tends to MAKE his position on the civil
rights question liable to misunderstood.
ing. He is engaged, by the way, in pre-
pairing his dissenting opinion, which, 1t
is said, will be very careful and i'm
prcssive argument against both the le-
gal and moral soundness of the opinion
delivered by Justice Bradley for the ma
jority of the court.
The stage has now reached a point of
luxury where real vlands are prepared
for the stage dinners, suppers, and SC
on. When Clara Morris, Modjesks, OF
Bernhardt SIT down TO supper in "Cam.
ille," six persons partake of an actual
meal that costs $35 OF $40 In Herne's
"Heart of Oak" the spread costs from
SO to So a person. Champaign and 9th
: or wines are now common on the stage
and real wine is used in the sleeping
5 car scene in the Tourists" In "Chri
and Lena" keg of beer is on tap. II
the turnip eating scene "Col. Sellers
now refreshes himself with an limitation
turnip, made out of a pear or apple.
a Chicago News: Bob Ingersoll II
8 wildly clamoring for an amendment 4
: the constitution that will justify con
: gress in passing g civil rights law. Thi
is the proper thing; and. while we ar
l tInkering with the constitution. leth
t have an amendment requiring all presi
o Dental candidates to wear socks ant
o keep their finger nails clean. TIL
e trouble with this republic most of III
i time is that it is hurdened and harnesses
by a lot of uncouth. unkempt creatures
d who are so hungry for Office that the
n neglect the common rules of cleanliness
e and decency. We hope 10 see this suG
'. gestion reproduced in our Indiana ex
Is changes.