The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
HERE AND There.


1t Is rather amusing 10 see editors who |
steal editorials by the wholesale abusing |
Governor Click for copying after the |
governor OF Nebraslza IN his arbas day
proclamation.
Cincinnati, not content with being q
great music center, seems ambitious to
emuIne New York ia accumalating
debt Already S2s, 900. GOO in debt, she
wants to make it five or six millions
more
Coup, the circus manager, has brought
suit against the Wabash road for $780,
600 damages This suit grows ont of
the accident TO Coap's show last August,
while en- roHta from Cairo. IllinoisSo
Detroit.
Atkinson Champion: The Natioaal
Republican says that Blanche X. Bruce.
register of the treasury. is The foremost
colored man of the age" II takes q
Washington newspaper to give an Office
holder good shine for Eve cents.
Family needs and an arrival were re-
corded by a Pawnee City man, who
wrote TO a grocer: please send me by
berrer too pounds Of shughor, blackin
brush, five pouns of coffey and some
little nails Ny wife had a baby last
highland two padlocks and monkey
wrench"
New York Commercial Adeertiser.
81 see that there are several editors en-
route for Europe" remarked Fulton
street man TO friend. Il wonder why
they select this season of the year for j
trip:" THE crown jewels Of France
are to be sold at auction IN month, y
was the explanatory reply.
We hardly like the new word dude. y
| The older form, squirt" is very appro.
| priate.-Oil City Derrick. But after all
there is nothing better than the good
| old biblical -Philadelphia
Meas. Oh, yes there is. The good old
| biblical term, "ass," is better.-Roches
ter Post Express.
How does ''stand up and bawl for
mush" strikeyou:
There don't seem to be much use O
talking about revenue reform" so Ions
as the star route trials last We see i
stated that the poor over-worked law
yers are arranging to start another one
as soon as the present one ends. Tn.
federal courts aud officers outside OF
Washington must begin TO feel littl'
anxious about the appropriation.
Mrs. Aston, the wife of the American
minister at Rome, is described by
Rome correspondent of the Londol
Globe as $50 beautiful that when present
ed at court her majesty remained speech
less with admiration" We don't know
what her poor majesty would do if sh
were to come to this country and Sc
the thousands of women who ar
much handsomer than the minister
wife
The editor of the Caldwell Commercial
suggests that it is good plan, in plant
ing trees. to knock the bottom out of
half dozen beer bottles, and after til
roots are placed, to stick the bottle
around them, neck down and filled wit.
water. The trouble we apprehend il
popularizing this method Of tree cultur
is that it isn't every fellow who is g
plentIfully supplied with empty bee
bottles as the editor of the Commercial
1t is primarily the fault of snal
but terrible boy III the Maryland villag
of Trappe that his sisters back now n
sembles map of the world on Merci
tors projection. He took bone fror
school the other day quart of INK in
, bottle precisely similar TO that in whIc
is kept the family supply of hartshor
liniment. The pangs of rheumatism
the night, sympathetic aunt and hun
ried search in the dark sufficed to pre-
cipitate catastrophe which has throw
an estimable young woman into th
deepest mourning.
Judge James Lawrenson, the vetera
notary of the postoftice department d
Washington, tells tue following story {
Gideon Granger, of Connecticut, VIII
, was postmaster general many years ag,
Starting from home for the capital, Ii
said to the boy who was selling tIcke
i. for passage in the stage coach: Il al
. the postmaster general. You must Il
me ride free" "Are you, reallyt" Yes.
! "Then gimme your hat;" end seizin
, the hat the boy wrote on it with chalk
, pass this man free;" and BIr. Grang;
i, rode all the way to Washington on, {
r rather under, that unique pass.