The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-02-07
NOTES AND NoTIoNs.
We begin to wish the"American hog
would give as q rest.

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We begin TO wish the American hogs
you'd give Us q rest.
The scheme to appoint small army |
o fat Offices As government pork inspec-
ors is little too greasy.
The Philadelphia Press asks: "What
constitutes q ton 90 That's too hard for
Is. Ask your coal dealer.
The suspicion is becoming implanted |
in the public mind that the American
hog is likely to prove bore.
The Clay Center Dispatch, in its new
clothes, looks almost as handsome as its
editor when he harnesses up in his mil
Itia uniform.
If taking Dakota in out OF the cold by
making her state will reduce her win
ter temperature, by all means let her
come in quickly.
The man who makes the portraits pub
hshed ia the newspapers under the
head Of "Men of the Times" should
learn to draw cuts.
New York dancing masters frequently
have men over forty years of age come
to them to be taught to waltz. They are
tired OF sseing their wives capering
around with other men.
Atchison Champion: If the Mormons
have hired any paper in this country to
uphold their nastlness, it is the Chicago
Times, and the newspaper Is walking
very hard to earn Its money.
Indianapolis attempted an annual tax
Of s. on each telephone in that city,
whereupon the company proposed to
add the tax to the rent of their instru-
ments. The Indianapolis council is
Eliminating On the situation.
The Boston Globe gives circulation to
the rumor that the reason DIR. Sherman,
the phrenologIst. was mobbed by the
students of Princeton college, was that he
limited that the bumps on their arms
were better developed than those on
their heads.
According to Prof. Loomis, of Yale
College, the average diameter of violent
storms in the United States is ,5S7
miles, and on the Atlantic ocean 2,022
miles Severe storms IN the interior
of Europe have nearly the same geo
graphical extent as those which occur or
the Atlantic.
Opera managers richly deserve cen
.,.a 60. ;~po,&,an TfoI,an fanorS ru1
ming them as card for season or two
spelling them with newspaper puffery
and then throwing them overheard t.
buffet the tide of adversely as fIuit-stal
engineers and peddlers of hot sausag,
and horse-radish.
There is an extensive temperate,
movement IN Germany, not toward pro
hibition, however, but in favor of fur
ther restrictions of the traffic in distilleC
spirits, which Is regarded as evil, anC
only evil. The traffic in malt liquors i
not included in the agitation, the Ger
mans evidently not looking upon it q
dangerous to either the morals or tn,
health of the people.
Chicago News: Every railroad trail
that arrives in Washington these day
Is crammed with deadhC adeTs in tn
shape of nosing politicians who ar
eager to grab for the first assistant sec
retaryship of the treasury. BY the tim
the fun is at its highth John G. New
will be ready TO again withdraw hi
resignation. Nothing makes man 81
tired of resigning as seeing host o
eager applicants fighting for his vacan
posish.
Globe Democrat: There comes acros
the Atlantic Il rumor II the effect tina
Mr.. Barnum's alleged white elephant
now on exhibition at the London Zoo, i
neither white nor sacred, but simply al
elephant OF the ordinary kind and color
except for skin disease which ha
caused pink patches on his body.
suspicion has been gradually Creepin
into the public mind for good man
years, we regret to say, that in matters O
natural history Mr.. Barnum is not a.
ways strictly reliable.