The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-05
EDITORIAL NEWS NOTES.

EOITOhIAL NEWS NOTES.
North Carolina has Just had snow
two and three feet deep Kansas is stall
the Italy of America.
When man goes TO work on rail
road organ in Kansas there is no telling
how soon he may be out of q job.
Il Is said that gauze under shirts are |
quite in demand in Kansas City since |
the Inauguration Of the municipal can
vass.
The latest mathematical question runs
- follows: Two girls met three other
girls and all kissed. How many kisses
were exchangedi
The state university Of Mississippi Is
new open to girls. and the postmaster
ct Jackson has made arrangements to
double the size and increase the force Of
his ONCE.
The Legislature of Arkansas has en-
acted q law that invites competition
from any part of the Union for the State
printing, there being no provision, even,
that the work shall be done at the CAPT
tai OF the state.
There have been many definitions Of
q gentleman. bnt the prettiest and most
poetic 10 that given by lady. ga gen.
tlemAn," says she, sis a human being
combining a woman's tenderness with .
mans courage"
New York Commercial: A Wiscon-
sin farmer who stored ten barrels of kerr
oSene In barn with one hundred tons
OF hay went In with lantern to see that
1t was. all safe. He has not benzine
since. No insurance.
The cattle driven from Texas this sea-
son will be the snAllest known for years
from the fact that the demand for cattle
70 establish new ranches is SO great as to
absorb all the heifers and leave only the
steers for the market.
The first remarkable social and do
mestic incident of the world after the
creation was the deception of Adam by
his wife; the next the fatal jealousy of
Cain OF his brother. But there is no
record Of any divorce case In those days.
There has been a great deal said about
q man marrying his deceased wiie's sis
TOR, but the lady In question has not yet
been consulted in regard to the matter.
As q rule she is too well acquainted
with her brother-In-law TO want to mar
~ him.
A Cincinnati paper boasts that there
is young lady In that city with a full
beard. At very remote intervals ma
ture produces a woman who has some
higher and better conception of the use
of razor than as an instrument for
pairing corns.
When poor Lo wearies of his better
half be just stakes her on a game of
"moccasin" and the winner takes her
and no more is said about the matter.
1t seems that it is almost as easy to get
rid Of q wife among the Indians as it Is
by the divorce system of New England.
A farm item remarks that In fiy-time
cews should be kept in stalls. This is
for the convenience of the fly, increas-
Ing his opportunity for concentration,
And economizing much valuable time
that would otherwise be wasted In chas-
lag frisky heifer through a ten-acre
let.
Credible reports indicate that Judge
Thoman, OF Ohio, is beginning his Ia
bors on the civil service commission by
trying to find some way to put Demo-
Gratis into all the soft" places. he is
fertile In characteristic "interpreta-
tions" Of the new law which are calcu-
lated 10 Astonish the country sooner or
later.
The sooner that Republicans under
'sbAnd that they are upon the eve OF one of
the greatest struggles for the supremacy
OF the principles of their party eyer
maintained since its organization, the
better. Il is high time to reform the
ranks of the party. and to prepare to
present q solid front.
Another advanced thinker has started a
church which Is designed to supplant
all other churches. He says he knows
not whA, his creed is To be, but he does
know that Chrisiianiy is played out.
This experiment has been tried many
times, and hns never succeeded. 1t is
the old attempt to supplant q
belief In something by a belief in MOTH
ing. and mankind displays no disposi-
ton Ia make the change. Perhaps one
reason Is that most people who believe
In nothing do not see why they should
found a church and meet once a week to
declare their disbelief
There is n bright and Intelligent naws.
boy in St. Louis who is a great favoriie
among the members Of the Cotton Elk.
change. A few days ago, some of the
diEnined old members brought him
upon the floor of the Exchange, and
proceeded, after the manner of dignified
old members, to give him some good ad
vice and to tell him what he might &C
complish, citing several notable In.
stAnI es OF great men who had risen from
small beginnings. The boy listened at.
tsntively and modestly, but as he went
out, said: "Oh. pshawi Wind is cheap
and Virgins deals In IL. get lots OF
advice, but I'd rather sell . dozen pa.
pers, and then know my bank account
will grow"
Bishop Campbell, Of the African
Methodist church, in q recent meeting
held In Philadelphia, related his treat
ment on the Atlantic s. Western railroad
in Georgia, and stated that there va.
not railroad in Georgia where colored
persons were permitted to ride in . first
class car. although required to pay first
class fares. Frank WIlkeson, in his let
ters to the New York Sun, says the civil
rights bill Is ignored on the lower Mis-
sissippi steamers No eolOred passen
ger 10 allowed 70 enter the white cabin
for colored people paying Iirst-clasi
passage . separate cabin Is provided
There seems to be no remedy except fo
colored people to get rich er ough 4
run railroads and steamboats, of thei
own.
New York Tribune: A spasmodiC
revival OF the Tilden boom is visible al
over Ihe country. The remembrance o
his barrel still makes the Democratic
mouth water, and the wish comes ~
for another campaign like 1876. Tn
only impedimeut in the way of his nom
ination is his health. II this were gOot
the Atlanta Constitution says, no othe
candidate would stand the slightes
show. Greater political surprises hav
happened than the nomination of Til
den would be, and the Presidents
campaign of thai year. which has bee
looked forward to as probably rem ark
ably dull ono, may yet be enlivened il
that way. II the boom proceeds mucl