The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-03-06
NorEs AND NOTIONS
Texas has 4.4l0.OOO cattle and 1871
400 L.,

Texas hes 4,4io,000 cattle and 1878,
500 sheep.
1t is understood that the campaign
liar OF the Kansas City Times has rented
q hole.
We think We are having awful mean
weather, but think OF snow drifts twenty
feet deep in New York.
Il will never take the returns from
the back Town hip, - settle the result
Of any election which is made IN Kan
sas on the tariff issue
In Nsw Y,rk city tLere are six hun
dred Thousand depo>ito:s in the savings
banks, AID they Owa deposits aggregat-
ing nearly $4,000. 900, or $500 apiece.
Well, It seems that Flu sion did get
5000 M j1rit,, as The EMP1RIA NEws
predicted, and journalism is tolerably
slick III The NEWS Office Mlnion
Artist.
A wide-mcuth, botll-, filed with
chloride OF lime aud water, aud placed
on n shelf OF mnntel, Will purify the
air of room and prevent contag ious
diseases such u diphtheria,
an. E H." a subscriber TO The
NEWS. wants to know the book, chapter
aud verse 10 the Bible that hes fifty
IFS" Will Svl Miller OF Ell Howe BE-
go kind as to give this mttt,r their early
attention.
The Atkinson papers said that Der
tina Welty sa fac actress, sni that
Der support as weak. The St. Joe pa
pers say hat her support was ex eI'eIt,
but tia the STAR Was Inferior. We tear
this point will not BE- dednlttly settled
tIii Miss Welby visits EmporIa or
Boston.
Kansas City Jou,n /: Many funny
'hings have been said 10 sni about Miss
Susan b Anthony, bit nothing more
gr"ts que than the remark of the fresh
member of congress, who, on being in
trOduced. Congratulated her on the aim.
proved health OF her soa, III ssoator
from Rhode Island"
Since Chicago has gobblsd both the
Republican aad Democratic coaYen-
ti"ns, oihtr cities have become q little
afraid Of her greedin SO Tue Cincin-
naIi Enquirer. however, mnsters up
courage enough to say: Nothing that
Chictgn Can do can prevent Cincinnati
from having its dog show"
1t is repo d that Barnum, in addition
to his white elephant, will present as an
attraction the coming S, ason, twelve of
The most beautiful women who can be
secured in the country. II Pains US to
learn ,hat Col. M4pleson is destined to
lose such large proportion of the fe-
male memb ;rs of his chorus.
Kansas CITY J0urEaf: Chicago news.
papers use good deal of space and ink
informing the world that Mrs. Sarah
Monroe. of their city, now nlnety-tour
years old, used to slI in George Wash
ington's lap. And we are glad t. hear
it; there is great com Tort in the fact that
somebody IN Chicago hos been near a
man who couldn't tell lie.
II is related of a candidate for COVER
nor in Indiana that while he OWL ed a
railroad, be had cesiOD to send out an
agent t. purchase the right of way for a
contemplate. d EXTENSION of his line.
Three PARTIES owned lots adjoining, two
of whom were rich and oae poor. The
rich men were paid $40G each, but the
poor man, b ing hard pres sed, was
paid $50 by the agent The proposed
candidate, on hearing the report of the
agent, COMPELLED h u 30 return and give
the poor man $3.50 mne. That may
make him popular in Indiana, but II
would hardly work in Kansas. He
woulI be considered rather too soft fol-
a candidate fer gov, rnor ont here.