The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-07-19
HERE AND THERE.

The Mormons have put $50 mission
ar1es In the field this year.
Two hundred thousand New Workers |
are summering at various resorts.
Miss Carey, the songstress. who got |
married not long ago. says she loves her
husband too much 10 sing any more. and |
now the poor fellow has TO support him
self.
The new law taxing saloon IN Ohio
will net the state upward Of $4,000, 600.
But it goes hard after the saloOns have
had free swing without tax or license
for thirty-two years.
There will be grand reunion of the
surviving participants of both armies
engaged in the battle of Wilson Creek
70 be held on the Old battle ground near
Springfield, No., Aug. 8, Q and 10, 1888.
The question Is to whether there is 9
HI or not Is agitAting The bosoms OF
various New York editors. There Is no
use Of talking. They will never know
about il for certain till they ''get there"
The board Of health and the street
commissioner OF Kansas City note
rapid multiplication of complaints re-
gardIng the condition of the alleys in
that city since the alleged enforcement
Of the Downing liquor law.
Senator Pendleton, of Ohio, closed out
his Kansas City interests on Monday Of
this week. 1t was scarcely TO be expect
Ell that Democratic politician of his
prominence should pin his faith to q
town where they close the saloons on
Sunday.
Road OVerseers are requlTed-by law TO
remove, At least once a year, between
June 10 and July 70, from the public
highways, all cockleburrs, sandburrs
Canada thistles and other obnoxious
weeds. We doubt very much if half the
road oVerseers know this part of their
duty, and the most important part at
that.
Humphrey Ramer, Of Bethany, Mis-
souri,, who seems 70 be incorrigibly adj
dicted TO the newspaper business, re-
ports . peculiar experience. a short
time since his printing Office was burned
down, and he had just barely replaced
it when Q cyclone came along and swept
II away. Mr.. Kramer seems to be "stand-
ing in" with the FAIRIES, though he may
not realize II.
| The yvhola aaa.a-v, no,,okvxr aaaFna IN no
trying TO copy after Kansas. Nearly
every region has had Its cyclone and
now Insect pests are annoying the farm
ers Of Bsrks county, Pennsylvania,
while PhiladelphIa suffers from cater
pillars, sparrows, flies, and mosquitoes.
No state has yet made any pretentions
TO compete with our grasshopper raids,
but we have serious apprehensions that
we shall lose our reputation in that res
peci also If things go on the way they
haYe gone this summer.
A new fashioned buggy is the --latest
addition to narrow gauge vehicles
Unlike the bicycle, which possesses two
wheels though it has them in the same
plane, this buggy depends upon single
wheel, and 1t is also to be drawn by 1
horse. instead Of being propelled by thu
rider. According to the descriptions
given by the papers in Illinois, Whert
this invention originates, the peculIa
, merit claimed for it Is absolute safety
from upsetting, possibly because this i
the thing which would come into tn
readers head first as the denger special,
to be feared from so queer a cOntrl
D vance.
Le Due, the eminent person who COD
a died the great interests of American te
and beet sugar with such persistenc
Z and affection, does not think much c
\ his successor. The capacious Commits
g sioner Loring Is not q success as an az
b rtculturist, and he upbraids him for th
y neglect OF American tea. lie Dues te
may have been valuable. and certainl
A ought to have been, for 1t used to cost
= eonfiding government from $25 to $50
!. pound. But LIE Due should not expet
!. that Loring will have anything to d
A with American tea. He is already stuc
i fast In sorghum, and Peter Collier cuff
him Is he tries TO wrlggle out.
Speaking of reform" we append
= few appropriate remarks on the subjet
by Bob Burdette that strikes the stu,
ton square in the face: "I:etorm
n never q good thing before election. IL
+ thrill of the r in prOnouncing it is mo
It readily acquired by closing the left ey
l. at the moment of uttering the wor
'e This also adds great emphasis, and dee
le ly intensifies the meaning of the wor
o which is q Latin compound of res,
= thing, and formare, to form; that is
e form or shape things, to fix things. Se'
% You don't? Then you are no true T
q former if you can't see that Reform
g like an 'echo" valve, it works we'll
n horn" Read what Carlyle said abo
reformers: "Wouldst thou be q reforI
. er? Set to work and reform myself al
Dr. thou mayst be sure there is one rasc
ut less IN the world"