The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-17
NOTES AND NOTIONS.
Mr. Bismarck has found thatio scratch
a hog is to awake congressman.
Lean wear motto for The eiris: "If

you sec What you want, ASK LOT H.
The word reform" should be marked
as obsolete in the Democratic Iexicons
Payne got there. The PeneletoE
Democrats braced up and took theil
coal OIL like little men.
"One woe doth tread upon anoiher'i
he .ls, so fast they follow" Peck Is go
ing to dramatize hist'bld boy"
The Pittsburg Chronicle gives as the
compliments of the se1son-"Ave "
place. mum, the wather polpe's busted
The state debt of Ohio is 400 eco
The aggregate debts of counties, cities,
towns. and school districts in the state is
s42, 3ss. 900.
II is rumored that unless speedy meas
ures are taken to prevent it. Senator
Pendleton will succeed in breaking
into the Republican party.
The Chicago News asserts that nothing
exceeds the capacity Of the London po-
lice for laundering. This would seem
70 let out the Democratic party.
| A st. Pam policeman was frozen 10
death. on his beat during the recent
polar wave. The mercury gets down
mighty low whea ''eop"is found at his
post of duty.
The Dung lady who, on the shores Of
the Bay OF Naples. was made homesicll
by seeing a blue barrel in which petro-
leum had bean Skipped from the Unit
ed States should visit Columbus
A New York man seeks divorce up
on the ground that her breath is SO often
sIve that he cannot kiss her. The onion
gardeners of that st tie are awaiting the
decision of the courts with fevcrlsh in
terest
a deserted dtmsel rushed into ball
room at Beaver the other night and
threw painful of molasses upon the
shIrt-front of her taithless lover Such
is the power of vengeance IN the Wild,
lurid west.
Chicago News: The Standard Oil com.
pany has at last got a direct pine-llne
from Cleveland into the United States
senlte Tnis may not be a nail in the
Democratic coffin, but it is nickle-
headed tack.
Rev. DIR. Henson, Of Chicago introduces
! his lecture on Fools" with the remark
that his observations were made in Phila
delphia. Philadelphia papers intimate
that the lecturers observations were con
| fined to looking glass.
Lolita was hissel at the Opera Comique
Theatre In London for attempting to
sing 1.-THE Sweet By-and-by" on the
stage. This evidence of discrimination
on the part of our English cousins is as
gratifying as tits surprising.
The Boston Globe prints a cold wealth
er story of a man who found in his
woodshed, one frosty morning, weasel
with its tongue frozen fast to the blade of
meat-axe. To those doubling the tale
the meataxe is shown in proof
And now the people of the Ohio val
ley are apprehensive of damaging
floods. There is two feet of snow In the
wide stretch of country tributary to the
Ohio river, and should this go off with
rain it Is feared great damage will en-.
sue.
Kansas City Star: Col. Fred Grant
denies that the man Dent, who recently
killed himself in California, was any
relative of his (Fred's) mother. AS it
does not appear that the deceased ever
held government position, the denial
is probably correct.
Major William Arthur, of the army,
bears II strong personal resemblance TO
his brother. the president, though of
lighter build and a more distInctIvely
military bearing. He has seen great
deal of active service on the plains, and
was brave and efficient officer during
the rebellion. He still bears the scars
of severe wounds received in battle. For
politics he cares little, his tastes being
purely military.
New York Mail and Express; ''The
demonstration of the peculiar fitness of
women 10 act as cashiers IN business es.
Establishments is regarded with much sat
lsiaction by that increasing number of
Intelligent people who believe That the
industrial field for women should be
| greatly extended, in order that those OF
them who cannot or will not enter the
married state may make themselves IN
dependent, and that those who are wholly
dependent upon their own energies ray
more easily earn livel hood"
y fact that illustrates the rapid growth
of the country is that III 1925, or about
that time, congress was l"gislg tn G in re-
gard TO a national turnpike road fir m
| Maryland 20 the banks ut the Ono river.
This work, known as the Cum berIand
road, was built and WAS IN use for stage
coaches as late as 1850. This turnpike
was opposed by the P.nnsy lvania,s who
owned a similar road bttwt en- PhIlzdel-
phia and PItsburg II seems strange
th4t but little more than fifty years
have elapsed since turnpike road vas
matter for congress 10 consid, r be
caUs. II vas considered to be bond of
unIcn between the east and the west
The coroner's jury at Belleville lets the
fire department down easy-a g lOd deal
easier, in fact, than j. deserves. Well
mtrited censure, however is visited on
the management of the burned ibstitu-
ton. There can be no possible excuse
for the absence of convenient horoscopes
from public halls, asylums, schools and
other crowded buildings. The con-
stTuctIoa of dormitories more than two
stories high is wisely condemned The
plain truth Is. ambitious architects are
responsible for a gool many deaths
The "effect" of large three or fOur-story
buildings is Elmer" than that of two
story edIices-and, as this BelleVille
experience proves, more dangerous.
Some of the Washington correspond
ents call attention to the very decided
diminution of the number of whisky
and wine-drinklng congressman IN the
Forty-eighth congress. This fact, while
not insuring wise legislation, suggests
that we will probably get out of this
congress the best work the minds of its
members can accomplish, for the Obstru-
sion OF acohol on the brain not only de
tsriorates the quality Of the working
force of that organ when it is stamped
with mediocrity, but beclouds the judg-
ment of the finely constructed brain. A
perfectly sober congress is aptto remem-
Der its responsibilities to the people who
brought il into being by their votes
The train that makes the run of 912
miles between New York and Chicago
in 251k hours makes only seven stops;
but there are so many bridges to cross
and villages to pass through that the
speed is necessarily relaxsd as often as