The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-06-05
NOTES AND NOTIONS.


In Ohio the pauper dead are sold to
the medical colleges for $500 apiece.
The quotations on live editors are not
furnished.
Chinese Gordon is still at Kharloum
unrescued. By some strange oversight
the Greenback platform forgot to men.
lion this.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says that Mr..
Frederick Pauldlng is possessed of I'M
usual and positive talent. The Inter
Ocean always soGS a good newspaper.
Sundays Globe-Democra, contained
about ninety-one columns of advertise
ments. This, we believe, comes up to
the palmiest days of the New York
Herald.
The largest cattle ranch In Texas only
contains $4,000 acres more than the
state OF Rhode Island. We always had
thought the extent Of the ranges IN the
Lone Star state was grossly exaggerated.
An eastern paper remarks that when
Ward gets out out of Jail he might emf
crate to Missouri, but as he never killed
anybody he could not expect to step at
once into the first society.
The Piltsburg Dispatch says: "Sena-
tor ingalls,, of Kansas, has made the re-
markahle statement that there are as
many Indians on this continent to-day
as there were in 1902. Mr. ingalls, prob
ably counts In the tobacco signs"
We have always had a good deal of
sympathy with the poor Cutans. And
now it Is announced that base ball is
becoming very popular there. If she
can stand that We guess she ought not
to squeal on Spanish oppression.
1t is stated that Mr.. Bcecher was only
prevented from going to the Republican
national convention by the determine
of Mrs. b. TO accompany him. A
crowded city like Chicago is no place
for an old lady.
A physician in Massachusetts who
killed patient by NAL practice has been
CONVICTED Of manslaughter. II Is need
less TO add that the members of the
medical profession view this dangerous
precedent with general CONSERVATION.
Henri Wstierson is authority for the
statement that only one newspaper man
in Denver eats pie with fork. We deem
1t due to hon. r. e. Henry, formerly of
Kansas" and crstwhile of Abilene, to
state that he Is not the ChesterfieldIan
exception
The slugging match between the ''star.
eyed goddess OF reform" and the painted
harlOt of protection" which sets in at
Chicago on the Sth of July, will be the
finest circus that the country has eyer
witnessed. This is not in the nature of
. reflection on Mr.. Doris.
Women now serve on juries in Wash.
ington Territory. In speaking OF this
fact deputy district attorney of Seattle
said recently: This new law is the
grandest thing that has happened to
Seattle. l tell you It looks nice to see
those cloaks and bonnels hanging up
there, and Ihereis only one spittoon in
the court rom. and that is seldom
used"
A Kansas editor has discovered by &C
tual measurement that the average
strawberry box holds more than a quart,
and that the bottoms of the packages are
set up half an inch tor the sake of con-
Yenience in packing and not with a
view TO swIpdlIng. The iconoclast il
busy In the realm OF humor as well as IN
the world of theology and among the
idols OF history and tradition.
When the original FL Mshdl wanted
to render himself invisible to mortal
eyes he was compelled to resort to meth
DDS altogether human. He bad a vast
hole dug In the sacred soil of the Sou
dan and descended INTO It. The rea
MahdI, whose advent has Just been an.
nounced, Is a vast improvement on hil
predecessor in this respect. He claiml
the power OF becoming invisible st will
and as proof of the reality of this pow
er it Is related that the other day, wheE
soldiers sent by the original MshdI Il
capture the new aspirabt, had surround
cd the divan Ia which ne was sitting Ia,
suddenly vanished in the arr. II III,
new Mahdi can do the little trick il
nutclass style, be needn't fool arouu,
lighting the old false prophet on In
burning sands of the Soudan. He ca
come 10 the United States. give exhibi
lions and thea return aud quietly buy hi
, rival out.