The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-02-21
NOrEs AND NOrIONs.

II mas now Dcen determined 10 open
the HsnnIpen canal on the day that
the Kelley motor is perfected.
We wonder now how Sherman ever
got through TO the sea without the help
ful intervention of the Wichita Eagle
man.
1t is stated that there are 25,O 600 grist
mills 10 the United States, and that they
constitute the largest manufacturing in
terest in the country.
There are two horns to the tariff d.
lemna," saws an exchange. This will
readily explain the interest of the De-
mocracy in this question.
Over seven hundred conversions have
been reported at 81. Joe, as the lsbors of
Rev DIR. Munhall. This, it may be truly
said, is carrying the war into Africa.
A blacksmith is sorely needed at
Lebo. The man who writes poetry
about Farmer Funston in the Kansas
City Times should make q note of this.
Alvah Sheldon, of the Walnut Valley
Times, arises to observe that 'Prof" is .
dreadfuliy oVerworked word in this
country. AlYsh can 60 ahead. He is
right.
Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska, is
making a square fight In congress for
the people against the monopolies, even
at the risk OF vote of censuFe from the
Topeka board Of trade.
1t will be observed by reading the ar
ticle which THE News copies to-day
from the Ell Dorado Republican, that 7.
Higginbotham Murdoch carries razor
in his boot aud totes matchesRin his
hat"
A dealer in Jacksonville, Florida, has
sold sixty pianofortes and organs to col
ored families this year. Thus do the
seeds of discord continue to be sown
among the people of the unfortunate
south.
The late Cor Hunt, millionaire lum-
herman of ROscommon county, Michi-
gan, bequeathed in his will $4,000 to
Eli Perkins. 1t is not stated whether
the testator remembered the editor of
the Wichita Eagle.
The Pittsburg Dispatch estimates that
while the flood was at Its height there,
the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers
were pouring 5, OOO,O 600 gallons of water
into the Ohio every second. This state
ment is enough to shake the reason of q
Bourbon Democrat.
The strong opposition on the part of
the colored people to the marriage of
Frederick Douglass to white woman
should relieve the minds of those who
were filed with apprehension, after
emancipation, that miscegenatiOn would
inevitably follow.
1t was pensivelY remarked at the
"obsequies" of an Arizona horse-thief,
who died with his boots Oh, that che
was a pretty mean man in some re-
spects-but then he was meaner in 9TH
ers." Mr.. Morrison's tariff bill seems to
be earning similar epitaph.
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath
grass, or loweIh the OK oyer his fodder :
lei Dorado Republican.
So far as we have been apprised you
have had no particular reason to bray
or "loweth" over any extra amount OF
grass or fodder" for some months.
The idea prevails in England among
some of the people who want to come
here and lecture that outside of the city
limits of Boston and New York the PEG
pie live by hunting the wild beasts o
the forests, and that coon skins anG
wolfscalps are our only currency. Suct
ignorance is cause for congratulation or
, the part of Americans.
Atchison Globe: The evangelist bust
. ness seems to be improving, for the wood
] are tull OF them. 1t has always seemed
to us that a great deal of conceit Is nee
cessary in the composition OF a mai wh'
goes from church to church and says t
}, the pastor: "You do not know how Il
e save sinners; stand cut the way for
= week, and let me rake them in"
n We would feel pretty safe now If
e were not for the single fact that our Ger
!. eral Tom Moonlight is going to max
j. a raid on the Second district in favor c
o Riggs, for besides the governments reg
-, ular army of % 900, there is now in tn
= several states an organized militar
d force of $4,000, including officers an,
l. men, and reserve force of inorganic
IT militia-men liable to military duty,
y necessary-of 6,410.912.
The dramatic critic of the Kansas Cit
Is Journal lately visited the dime museum
:, and thus scores down the fat lady: 81
/ the case of these women a hollow tub
l. is made to penetrate the adipose to tn
4 areolar tissue, air being then force
through until the woman is distended I
/ her full limit. What is taken for fat
st therefore largely wind" 1t is lntensel
er reassuTing to note that the Journal WI
Is condone no impositions IN the name {
= high art.
IS Leap year has developed a new an
y, interesting phase Of the Ohio idea. Tt
q. girl who, at New Lisbon, that state, al
xt nounced herself as the prize in q rattle
o. shundred chances at dollar piece, WI
% taken at first as joker, but she affirm
N her sincere willingness to marry Il
ic winner, provided he is under 40 years
r. age, ana bears good reputation. 81
a is described as pretty, intelligent ar
G. heretofore unassailed by adverse crit
Az clsm.
q Truth from the Atchison Globe: tt
., country IS flooded with third class sho
m companies demanding first class prict
j. for the privilege of witnessing their pc
formances. The time Is near at haI
10 when there will be a clearing out
al these shows, and a consequent relief
o. public. There are too many com no
70 place people on the road who should
. in other and more useful lines of bul
o. ness-such as saving wood OF waitil
lis on the table.
on When the fellow who writes ques,io
al to the newspaper and asks an ansW
IS, Through your amiable sheet, sits dov
III and leaus his head on one side al
N. Tolls out his tongue, you may Look
IL occasional crushers. a corresponds
'ur from Greenwood county writes to t
oe Kansas City Journal TO know why {
"For,ieth congress lasted FROM 1861
1861" He wants an answer 'to settle
dispute" Is it possible there is a NJ
Fe in Kansas so wofully ignorant that
Of does not know that a congressioI
term is only two years.
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