The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-05-10
HERR AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE
The anti-monopolists seem. to be get
ing foot-hold in the orient. There is
ak Of another canal across the 18TH
mus Of Suez.
Berlin ate 1913 horses during the first
three months of the year. and there are
Afs8- six shops for the sale Of horseflesh
As food in PARIS.
A Swedish preacher in Chicago has a !
lecture on the subject: Among the
Lapps." We infer that he holds to the
Beecher school of socialism.
The dog tax nets the United States
government about $1G.O00OO0 per an
mum, and the commissioners Of sgricul-
ture say it costs $5O.OOO.OOO per annum
TO feed them.
The legal fraternity Of Chicago is
stricken aghast by recent decision in
an Illinois court which denies that
snoring, however loud and obnoxious, is
valid ground for divorce.
The Santa Fe folks are congratulating
themselves now on having the track of
their road in extraordinarily fine condi-
ton. Nearly the whole line is laid of
steel rails, filed in between with stone
ballast
The Chicago rumseller who permitted
convivial burglar TO leave his tools
under the bar for the night, and in the
morning found that his safe had been
opened, doubts that there is honor
among thieves.
The longest word in the English Ian
guager Is honorficabllitudinitY, which
has eleven syllsbles. Fortunately, re-
marks the Boston Post, it signifies the
state of being honorable, so people are
not Obliged to use 1t much.
A Minnesota man has succeeded in
making a syrup from the sap Of box
elder, which is represented to be much
like maple molasses, and of q fine and
palatable flavor. This seems to be a
gloomy season for J. K. Hudson.
The Ohio courts sustained the action
OF telephone company which re
removed the instrument from the house
Of customer who constantly swore
through il. 1t seems that personal lib
erty" In this country is now really little
more than q myth.
Expounders Of evangelical truth will
be treasured to learn that Voltsire's
house is now used IS repository OF
Bibles. We would not want to subscribe
much TO the salary of preacher who
could not make a strong point out of
such an irony of fate.
Mr.. Mink testified in a Racine court,
that he regarded Miss Albrecht as slight
ly bad tempered. She Immediately
cried out that he was 8 liar, and threw
herself upon him, pulling his whiskers
and scratching lis face. The verdict of
the jury was in harmony with MIR.
| MInk's opinion.
A road supervisor in the Hawaiian
Islands has been dismissed because he
refused to sign a statement that over
| $4,000 had been spent on the roads in
his district. when really less than 81.
600 had been used for that purpose. And
yet we hear the most flattering accounts
of the rapid progress of civilization in
that quarter OF the globe.
Marion Record: The Emporic NEWS
| threatens to strike from its exchange
list every country paper, hereafter, con
tainiHg an editorial on the political
HORIZON" We suppose, however, il
will still allow US the privilege of re
marking at the proper time that the
political caldron is bolling?"
Ninety five herds of cattle, averaging
2, 500 each, will be driven out of the stat
of Texas this spring. The entire drive
is estimated at 100000 head agains
$4,000 last year. Most of these cattle
will go to Dodge City, Kansas, ant
Ogullaka, Nebraska. The shipment
by rail are said to be over-estimated, ant
will probably not exceed $4,000.
Kansas City is threatened by an earl!
invasion of Joseph Cook and Harrison
the boy preacher. The fact that Their
are at least ten different railroads b.
which people can get out of that tow
seems to stand as q yindlcatiOn o
Sterne's poetic observation that "Got
tempers the wind to the shoru lamb"
A Frenchman has recently gone dow
into statistics in regard to matches. HI
figures show that an Englishman burn
eight matches day, Swedc nine,
German eleven, and q Frenchman fiji
teen. The number of matches consumed
in Europe every year amounts to twt
thousand millions. Nobody is likely Il
dispute these figures.
A correspondent Of the Tropical Agri
culturist says, regarding the destruction
of ants: "Take q white china plate ant
spread thin covering of common larC
oyer it. Place it on the shelf or othe
place infested by the troublesome in
sects. You will be pleased by the re
suit. Stirring up every morning IS al
that is needed to set the trap again."
Old tin cans are now gathered up AM
shipped TO Newark, n. j., where the
are fiattened out, blackened and sold I
trunk makers to bind the edges and bot
! toms of trunks and often to cover u
defects in woodwork. In this name
old tomato cans become q most usefu
IS well as ornamental material. TIL
, process of heating the cans also has il
\ profitable result, for the solder, runnin
through the CRATE into a receptacle,
. sold for 12 cents pound, it alone pay
; ing, it is claimed, all that Is original
{ paid for the cans.
Fred Bean, young Iowa farmer, d.
J., sired wife, but did not take fancy
the girls of his neIghborhOod. He a
pired to something different, and wrot
to an Indian agent in Dakota, inquirin
l whether a reasonable good lookIn
5 squaw could be obtained. An exchang
i of letters and photographs ensued, an
he is soon to be married TO the daught'
y OF a Sioux chief The experiment
running the chances on an Indian fathe
= in-law instead of an American pothe
in-law will be contemplated with 6
absorbing measure of popular intere
y throughout the country.
u Mr. johnson, of Plymouth churc
G who will be remembered by many Ka
le sans as moral reformer of peculiar IN