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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
Few maxims for Farmers.

/. The farmers who does not return TO
his fields dressing more than equivalent
to the crops gathered therefrcm, is as unwise
and thoughtless as he who would neglect to
feed the horse that was to carry him on a
journey. In both cases diminishing the
ability of faitful servant to minister to
his wants.
g. The husbaudmen who obtains from
field not properly MANFRED, small yield
of grain, when by sufficient man uring, be
might have obtained large one, is selling
his labor at half jts value.
3. In all cases keep the best product of
your farm whether of grain or stock, for
may result therefrom. If three poor sheep
viii bring as much as one, keep the one
and seNzthe three.
4. Do not permit the remains Of animal
substances to decay about your dwelling
but incorporate them with the soil or COM
post heap, thereby securing the comfort
and health of your family and adding to
the attractivness of your home.
5. Having things "near enough" often
causes much trouble. The head board to
farmers AS cart was little too short, but
it was "near enough" consequently it
"o4me out in passing over jolt, and with
it half the potatoes. The key to Nj. 3's
Wagon thils were rather small, but they
were "near enough"-so they worked loose,
the tbills came out and the wagon and
horse got wrecked together in going down
hill. The bar to Capt. C's COW pasture
was too short, and yet he thought it was
'nesr enough"-but it dropped out one
day and the cattle got through and destroy
ed his grain. 1t is better and cheaper in
the end, even if it does take little more
time, to have things just right.-Maint
Farmer.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
MerinO Sheen.

AS wool growing is attracting attention
in such parts of Missouri as are exempt
from the raids of rebels, our readers will
be interested in any information upon the
different breeds of sheep. At the recent
State Fair of n. Y. Mr.. Randall Of Court
land county in discussing the propriety Of
changing the arrangement Of premiums, on
sheep, made the following observations on
the merino:
We have American, Saxon, French and
long wooded breeds. The Saxon are the
very finest wooded sheep in the
world. The French and American are me-
dium-the latter the best. French merino
are twice as large as Saxons, and the skin
.jsFyery r2uch corrugated. The American
merinos are ted for their black color,
soon after shearing. There are other dis
tinctions of breed among merinos. The
Spanish breed were kept very pure IN Ca
banos. These were more fixed variety
than any of the breeds of English long
woods. He then gave a history of the
early importations of fine wooded sheep.
The pedigrees of these sheep are very
easily traced back to the originals. Meth
er French or Saxon breeds are as pro6ta BILE
to farmers as the American Meriuos. He
congratulated the people that in future a
high tariff must prevail and we shall man
ufacture our own fine cloth. Mr.. Randall
commended very strongly that the prize list
of the Society should be revised so as to
offer prizes more commensurate to the val
ue OF fine wooded sheep, which is greater
than that of all other breeds. He contends
that the American merinos are now supe-
rior to any even in Spain, and that we have
two distinct sorts, the Pauler and Iufanado
st 10 Herald.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
The Human Pulse,

The human pulse has in all ages been
consulted as an index of health or disease
1t is kind of dial within US which gives
US both the measure of time and Of
health. The pulse of person in health
beats about seventy strokes in minute,
and the ordinary term of life is about seven
ty years. In this seventy years, the pulse
of temperate person, beats two billion, five
hundred and seventy four million. four hun
dred and forty thousand times. If no ac-
tusl Reorganization should happen, drum
ken person might live until his pulse beat
this number of times; bu. by the stimulus
of ardent spirits. or by pulse quickening
food. the pulse becoming greatly aecelera-
ted, and the two billion FIVE hundred aud
seventy four million, four hundred and for
ty thousand pulsations, are performed in
little more than half the ordinary term of
human life, and life goes out in forty or for
tyfve years instead of seventy. This ap-
pIcatiou OF numbers is given to show that
the accele:ation Of those forces diminishes
the term of human life.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
Man without Money.

A man without money is body without
soul. a wailing death-a spectre that
frightens everybody. His coantenance is
sorrowful, and his conversation is langaish-
ing and tedious. If he calls upon an ac-
quaintance he never finds him at home. aud
ii he opens his mouth he is interrupted ev
cry moment, so that he may not finish his
discourse, which it is fearful will end with
asking for money. He is avoided like a
person infected with disease, and is regard
ed as an incumbrance to the earth. Want
wakes him in the morning. and misery ac-
companies him 10 his bed at night. The
ladies' discover that he is an awk yard
booby-landIord believes that he lives upon
air, and if he wants auything from a trades
msn, he is seked for cash bsfore delivery.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

CURE FOR HYDRoPHoB1A-A new cure
for hydrophobia has been mentioned in
Epgland. An eminant physician refers to
Youott, who told him that his remedy was
to allow the common nitrate Of silver, east
IL procurable, to filter into the wound it
deeomposes the virus. He says that the
nit rate of silver chases the poison into the
very capillaries, and neutralizes it. The
physician adds that ''if, then, poison Of
hydraphobia remains latent on an average
of six weeks, the part heals over, but there
is pimple or wound, more or less iFrata-
BILE, it then becomes painful, and the germ
whatever it is, is ripe for dissemination into
the system, and then all hope is gone.
Nevertheless, between the time of the bite
and the activity of the wound previous to
disse minanon, the eaustic or nitrate of sill
yer is sure preventative after that it is
as useless as. all other means. The best
mode of application of the nitrate of silver
is by introducing it solidly into the wound
II melts in an equal quantity of water.
If already healed, the cicatrix should be
rubbed and causticated away entirely"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

A BREAK Down IN PRICEs.-There is a
general break down of prices at New York.
There was large auction sale of domestic
goods, Tuesday, and verything but fan
nels and prints sold at ruinous prices for
the seller. The result of the sale was a
loss of $4,000, while the same goods two
weeks ago would have brought that amount
of net profit. An auction sale of wool,
Wednesday, showed decline Of cents a
pound from last months quotations. The
present exborbitant prices for articles of food
and clothing, in great majority Of cases re-
suit from pure avarice rather than from any
necessary reason. a manufacturer Of bea
yer cloths for over coatiugs remarked few
days ago it cost him So yard to manufac
ture bis goods, end lie sold them for 50. 80.
Now it cost him 81 yard 10 manufacture
them, and be sod them for So. And that
is not a solitary instance by any means.
The time was when men were content with
fair and remuneraLiYe profits, and that time
must return again. The people are begin
ing to understand that time must return
again. The people are beginning to under
stand thatit Is not the price of gold or The
scarcity Of articles that causes muc of the
price of necessary articles bat the greedy
thirst for green backs. They are not will
ing to pay 100 per cent was considered am
pie short time ago and manufactures and
dealers will have 10 shape their course &C
cordingy.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
How TO Tell a lady.

Two women shall get into an omnibus,
and though we never saw either Of them be-
fore, we shall select you the true lady.
She does not litter when a gentleman hand
ing up her fare knocks off his hat, or pitch
es it away over his nose; nor does she re-
ceive her "change," after this Ito him in
convenient act of gallantry, in grim silence
She wears no 1owered hrncade to be trod-
den under foot. nor ballroom iewelry, nor
rose tinted gloves; but the lace frill around
her face is scrupulously fresh, and. the
strings under her chin have evidently been
handled only by dainty fingers. She
makes no parade of watch. if she wears
one; nor does she draw off her dark, neat
ly fitting gloves. to display ostentatious
rings. Sill we notice, nesting in the
straw beneath US, such a trim little boot,
not paper soled, but of anti consumption
thickness; the bonnet upon her head is OF
plain straw, simply trimmed for your true
lady never wears 'dress hat" 10 an ON
nibus. She is quite as civil to the poorest
as to the richest person who sits beside her
and equally regardfu of their rights. 1
she attracts attention, it is by the uncon-
scious grace of her person and manner, no
by the ostentation of her dress. We are
quite sorry when she pulls the strap and
disappears; FIVE were bachelor we should
60 home to our solitary den, with a resolu.
ton to become a better and a-marrieC
man.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

MECHANISM OF LoCoMoTIoN.-Pro fessor
Marshal, in a recent lecture on the above
subject, before the Royal Institution, Lon
don, gave the following as the possible rates
of animal locomotion per hour: Shark and
salmon, sixteen and seventeen miles; flies.
four to six miles; elder duck, ninety miles;
hawk, one hundred and fifty miles; worms
thirty feet; race. horse, forty to sixty miles;
man, walking. tour or five understanding
twelve to fifteen miles. Especial attention
was also directed to the advantage of the
atmospheric pressure on the joints, amount
ing in the knee, where so much fexibility
is required, to sixty pounds, snd in the hip
joint 10 twenty-six pounds.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

RETALIATIoa-Th public is already ia
miliar with the oading circumstances con
nectod with the capture and disappearance
of Maj. Jas. Wilson and his six comrades,
of the Sd cavalay N. s. M, and with the
fact of the discover of their bodies, evil
IDENTIFY murdered. fne circumstances show
an instance of most wick ed per6dy, out
raging every sentiment of honor, in the
vindictive massacre, without trial, of help
less prisoners of war. In retaliation for
this wantoD violation Of all the laws Of hon
ogable warfsFe, Gen. Rosecrans ordered
that Jamss v Gates, Co. A, Sd Missouri
cavalary,C. s. A. Asa, V. Laid. Charles
W. Mennekin, John Nichols, Ha vey H
Blackburn and George T. Bunch. all rebe
prisoners. to be executed on Monday last a
st. Louis.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
WoMEN AS TEAcuERs-E very we'll edu

WOMEN AS TEAcHERs-E very well edu-
Gated girl feels perfectly conscious. that.
under favorable circumstances, she can
conduct, upon an average, nineteen or TWEEN
ty little innocent pupils into an honorable
existane.-Give her strong arm for disci-
pliue, and wise head for advice, aud her
labors fix a divinity upon the face of society.
believe in the infinite susceptibility Of
children, and also Ia the moral omuipoten :
cy of women, their natural teachers and
there are no evils in society. however deep
seated. that may not be removed By wise
application of their powers. A.highly Gull
tivated woman is Gods antidote for sin and
suffering B Wait
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

The most curious instance of change of
instinct is mentioned by Darwin. The
bees carried TO Barbados and the Western
Islands ceased to lay up honey after the
first year. They found the weather so fine,
and the materials for honey so plentiful.
that they quilted their grave. mercantile
character, became exceedingly profigate
aud debauched, ate up their capital, and re-
solved to work no more, and amused them
selves by flying about the sugar bouses
and singing the negroes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Horne Tooke's advice to young Trend
desirous of venturing upon matrimony
was, "Look carefully round among the
whole circle of your friends, and choose
the incest girl you can find. Make sure
that her fortune is good. her connections
unexceptionable, and her personal qualities
entirely to your liking. When the day ar
rives, and the bridal party are on the way
to the altar, mount the swiftest hor9e you
can procure, aud ride off in an opposite
direction"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

PRINTERS UNIoN.-Every branch of
trade SHOULD adopt means to protect itself,
and to secure just compensation for labor ;
but the Printers Unions have long since
got far ahead ofthis prin CT pal object of such
Unions, and have become downright ty-
ranuical imposition. They not only exact
the higest wages, whether employers can
afford it or not, but they dictate how every
thing shall be conducted in the Office. They
prescribe the hours hands shall work, how
copy shall be divided out, how many ap-
prentices publisher may employ, what sort
of hands may work in the office, and choose
or discharge the foreman in the Office at
pleasure. In short, they boss the Office,
their arbitrary rules, and pay their wages.
The proprietor is a sort of underling to
them, at the mercy Of their caprices. They
permit no man to work in an office who re-
fuses TO join their league and if their rules
are demurred to by employers, they endeav-
or to stop his work by making a strike. II
any printer refuses to 90 with them, fire.
quently he is subjected to personal violence
and if their striking does not suspend the
paper, they have in more than one instance
been known to do some injury to the Office
and the machinery. The evil has become
so unsufferable, that the leading publishers
have been compelled, in self-defense, to or
game for the purpose of effecting remedy
Several meetings have been held, and the
prospect is something will be done to rem
der publishers independent of the arbitrary
monopoly called the Printers Union.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Sleepers in churches are hereafter 10 BE-
counted. The editor of foreign paper has
begun the movement. While setting in
his pew, listening to the song of praise as
cending, he says:
"Our notice was attracted TO the sleep
ers, and, sacriligious as the idea might be,
We could not help counting the congrega-
zion as a whole. and the per centage of
sleepers, when-we blush to say tout of
a total of one hundred and one, no less than
twenty seven were sound asleep
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

DR1NK1xa CUSTOMS minister who
had been reproying Que of his elders for
over indulgence, observed COW go down
to a stream, take a drink, and then turn
away. "There," said be, to his offending
elder, sis an example for you; the COW has
quenched its thirst, and has RETIRED -
Yes" replied the elder, ''that is very
true. But suppose an other cow had come
to the other side of The stream, and had
said. Here's to you there's no saying
how long they might have gone on"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

George Christy, whose clsverness was
the original Cbristy Ministries, and has
given his own name to the Ethiopian Min
slrels throughout the world. has become a
confirmed sot. and is row kicked out of ev-
cry place of the kind, even in halls where
he cleared in former years two to four hun
dred dollars night. Run will ruin eve
rybody, no matter how high be ranks, or
whether bleached or unbleached
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Il is just twenty seven years since tbs
telegraph was first put to practical test.
Then it was regarded as a mere top. In
1851. however, seven thousand miles weEs
in operation. Since then fully two hrn
dred thousand miles of telegraph have been
called into existence throughout the world.
The wire has penetrated to almost every re-
gion Of tie world, Drawing all climates.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

A dried up herring faced. gimlet-eyed
old bachelor Gays he don't wonder at so
many of the young veterans getting marrri-
ed. He says one who has faced a lannon's
mouth and heard thousand of them talk
at once, can never be frightened by wo-
man. The old dog! He ought to be COM
PEELED to climb a shelibark hickory tree.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

On the road TO EPSON, moustached
youth, on tie top Of drag. evidently am
bilious Of being mistaken for ''an officer, "
thus saluied a fat coachman, who. was
gravely driving his master and family:
"Hhllos, you sir! where's your shirt col.
lar? How dare you come to Derby with
out one?" Jehu growled forth. without
lifting his eyes from his horse; COW the
deuce could when your mother has not
sent home my washing?"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12
Cbaplain Turner. U. s. 6. T

Chaplain Turner, U. s. c. T..
writing to Christian Recorder, says:
Any cowardly civilian. who would taxa
advantage Of a brave soldiers wife, on ac-
count Of her poverty, owing to her husband
receiving only seven dollars per month and
The failure of the Government to pay him.
regularly, ought to have his rotten tongue
pulled out be the roots. bis throat cut, his
heart burned. and his infamous carcass
devouTed By snakes.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

a soldiers wife, in writing from New
York City. says Il have not had any
children since my husband went away. I
have three. ard IL had known of this war
might have. had three more. as should
raising to the war, as l am patriotic and
Union clean through, though am styled q
Massachusetts negro, here in New York.
because am for the war until every man
is as free as God made him
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

The other day several gentleman were
discussing the Alarming prevalence of the
crime of wife-desertiou, women eloping
with other men, etc when we'll known
Teuton, who had been listening With great
attention, stepped up, in an excited voice
said eff nv Vive runs away NIT anoder
man 8 viHe. will shake him out ov her pre-
ches, if she been mine own fader.''
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

a clown employed to draw timber from
a wood met with an oak trunk of so large
a size that the tackle be made use of to place
it on the carriage, broke it twice. Hodge
flung his hat on the ground, and, scratch
ing his head with vezation, exclaimed,
Hang tie hogs that didn't eat thee VII en-
thee vas an acorn, and then / should moi
have had the trouble with thee
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

A WoMAN's EYE.-We have heard much
of the power of woman 5 eye, but the eye
lids are still more powerful they can wink
down reputation.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

There are now building for the through
broad gauge route from New York to St.
Louis, distance of l goo miles, 100 loco
motives, 5000 freight cars, aad elegant
passenger cars in proportion, all for the
through business.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

TRUTHFULNEss- is, tho fact ofspeak-
ing the truth Intentionally and even to the
injury of self, is an evidence of strength.
Weaklings mast lie. hate it as much as they
may.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

THE FIREsIDE.-The freside is school
of infinite importance a.; it is important be-
cause it is universal. and because the edu-
cation it bestows, being woven in with the
wool of childhood, gives form and color to
the whole texture Of life.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

GREAT MEN-There are not half as many
great sons of small fathers as small sons of
great fathers Mountains often bring forth
mice, mice seldom bring forth mountains.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

TIME-Beautiful. very beautiful, can
time, with goodness, make an old man or
woman look.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Gosh, say, was going down street
t'other day and seed tree ozark"
Golly, Sam, seed it "hollow." And I
seed the same one "leave." "Did it take
It's "'trunk" with it ? No, it left for "board."
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

The Louisville Journal publishes figures
to show that FIVE thousand FIVE hundred
slaves have left their owners in less than
one fifth Of that State. since the war begun.
Slavery is leaking at the bung hole-the
Peace Democrats are filing at the spiggot.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Prentice says it is to be wished that gold
would join the temperance society and new
er get high.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

A Richmond baby recently died of his
name-Rsbellion Virginia Chiccra Davis
Johnson.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

BLusnINe Door PLArEs.-If door plates
were not so brazeu, many of them would
blush for the names they bear.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

There is a paradox in pride-It makes
some ridiculous, but prevents others from
becoming SO.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

Il am on the trail of dear" as The fell
low said when he stepped in one of the
street sweepers
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

ExPERIEN CE.-Experence is solemn fowl.
that cackles oftener than she drops real live
eggs. Wise men have said great many
foolish things ;and foolish men, We doubt
not, as many wise ones.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

EMPTINESS are four things which,
it is grievous to have empty. Head heart
-stomach-and purse.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

A COOP WIFE.-Tbere is many 8 good
wife who cannot dance or sing.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-11-12

The Arab horse shoe is thin plate Of
iron covering the Whole boof. 1t is far
lighter and 81 YES more protection. though
il requires to be renewed ofteDer than ours
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WHOLE No. 36I.

Few preachers recant, but great many
can't.
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