The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-01-31
NOTES AND motions.

NOTES AND NOTIONS.
A good many congressman who voted
for the Holman resolution tipped the
wink to the railroads.
The Kansas postmaster and the Amer
lean hog are objects OF considerable at
teniion at Washington this winter.
A social paradox Il noled.in the case
of the pat Mt glue peddler who caused
the separation Of al old married couple
ia Kansas.
A Peoria physIcian found 10000 par
asites ia a cubic inch of sausage 1t
looks a. if the American dog would
have to go.
A Topeka editor wants to know where
all the old topers of thai place have gone
70. This Inquiry giY,s the Kansas City
papers the floor.
Mrs. LangtTy is gong 10 Australia
We had always wished before hearing
this that that country was net so far from
the United States.
The fact that a San Francisco man has
advertised for three hundred ADD twenty
red-hesded girls justites the assumption
that a new polar expedition Is about to
start out from the Pacific coast.
Kansas City Star: The plumber of gen
tlemen who are willing to stint them
selves upon the pittance which induced
Judge McCrary to resign. is enc of the
most conspicuous examples OF seif-sacri-
fee aud devotion to duty Of the times.
The Lincoln journal remarks con
cernIng the Ingalls, Utter John Brown
controversy that after the Portawotomie
creek executions there was no more
talk about non-resistauce, and no free
state man had to leave Kansas from tnai
day till he got ready, il be had any
pluck in him"
In 1888 Germany produced 1,O41 .27s,
600 gallons OF beer, England 996 .9S5, O0(
gallons, and tue United States 376 rs,
Ol0 gallons. 10 the yearly consumption
of beer per head, by quarts, Belgium
leads with 165. 25, Germany 134.40, Eng
land 12j 10. France 25.4J. America 20 10
and Russia (at the foot OF the list of al
great countries 4.25.
In 1888, no less tLau 7G.645,s96 til
cans of tomatoes were put up in thu
United States, the wholesale value be
ing about S6.OOO,OOO. Maryland puts uI
about one-half OF the product, and New
jersey over fifth. There are flfteeI
other states which have packing houses
Delaware. California and Ohio being
the other principal packing states.
The wreck of the City Of Columbus i
disgrAceful as well rs terrible. 1t an
pears, in the first place, that the officer
were careless except as to themselves
The captain was ia his state-ioom. afte
giving orders thst were not clear, ant
the man who should have been at tn
wheel is sand To have been warming hi
hands at stove. The captain lives
but not a woman or child survives.
The Indian girls now Attending
school at Philadelphia have the follow
ing names: Bessie Big Soldier, Edn
Eagle Feather, frankie Bear, Ella Ma
Chief, Maud Echo Hawk. Fannie Crow
Eunjce Bear Shiold, Sarah High Pipe
Lizzie Spider and Olive Battle. ]
3 rikes us that these poor young womel
start in with leap yesr under exceeding
ly discouraging circumstances.
Kansas City Times: Young Mutt, a
everybody supposed, has been acquitted
The moral seems TO be simply this
When fellow wrongs your sister an
kills your father, that fellow mey be 81
quilted by an Intelligent jury; br
should you take 1t INTO your head
Kill that fellow, you will not only be a,
quilted but viii receive an offer from
liberal hearted Manager to exhibit you
self in a museum.
The camels that were employed
hauling freight across the dry wasles
Arizona for the Southern Pacific raj
road, now by ,tlral increase four hui
, dred in number, have been bought |
. John Shirley, an Australian sheep farm
er, ana are 10 be USED IN hauling ftelgl
? across the deserts in Australia. He G
f them Tor $l0,000-much less than iii
e number of camtls would cost him if
} were TO transport them from Africa
e The following definitions by lit
t people Of common dictionary words q
o said to be genuine: "Dust-Mud, wi
: the Juice squeezed ou,. Fan-A thiI
S to brush warm off with. Ice-Wst
t that staid out in the cold and went
e sleep. Monkey-A very small boy WI
: tail. Pig-A hogs little boy. Salt
!, What makes your potatoes taste bi
It when you don't put any on. Snoring
e Letting off sleep. Wakefulness-Ey
a all the time coming unbutJoned.