The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-29
MISCELLANIA.
Eastern reader, come to Kansas.

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University at Iowa City this term.
Santa Anna, once reputed enormous
~ rich, is now bankrupt
The editor of an Ohio newspaper ha.
recovered by law thirteen years sub
scriptiOn.
Honesty, Temperance and Industry
are the three most important requisites
to sucsess in life.
A new musical association has been
formed in Fort Scott, under the nnm q
of the Symphonean Club.
Keep accounts with every field YOU
cultivate, and you will be gratified at
the result at the end of the season.
The piano was invented at Florence.
in Italy, by Bartholomew Christofalo,
in the year 1910.
"Out of darkness comets light. AZ
the printers devil said when he looked
into the ink key.
Forty-five miles of the Central Pa
clfic railroad is now in operation to
the slope Of the Sierra Nevada. at Pari-
disc Valley, Northern California.
The site of the original town of HUI
ron, Ohio, long since Disappeared; tho
waters of the lake having washed away
broad acres, streets and buildings.
"A. w. Smith, correspondent of the
Otumwa (Iowa) Courier SAYS the best
kind of molasses can be easily manufac-
tured from water-mellons.
EDO not think yourself polished until
you have learned to speak and act OH all
occasions so as not to wound the feel
ings of others.
Brazil supplies almost half of the cof-
fee consumed in the world. The guam
tity exported increased from 1890, LOO
bags in 1868, to 2, 1863, 753 bags in 1867.
Fremont County Iowa, has one-third
more timber than it had in 1913. There
are cottonwood trees three ioet in diam
eter now growing i'll fields that were
treeless ten years ago.
Kind words are among the brightest
flowers of earth, they convert The hum
blest home into paradise. Use them
unspafingly especially around the fire
side circle.
Our Canadian neighbors. who were
SO much shocked at the suppression OF
Northern secesh journals during our
civil war, are now engaged in suppress
ing the Fenian newspapers published
within their own borders.
Preparations at Niagara Falls for Wis
itors this season are being extensively
made. The proprietors OF the Ferry
stairs have just completed putting in Il
new flume in place of the ono that has
been there for many years.
HEADING IN PEACH TREEs-This i'm
portant work should receive early at
tention. The trees SO treated live long
er, are broken down less by the wind,
produce larger and better truit, which
is more easily gathered than from trees
grown by the old method.
1t is not what men earn, but what
they save, that makes them rich. 1t is
not what they eat, but what they digest,
that makes them fat. 1t is not what they
read, but what they remember, that
makes them learned.
The only way to form the habit of
early rising is to jump out OF bed the
moment you wake. The man who hes
itates is lost. The mind should be mado
up instantly, for early rising is one OF
those subjects that admit of no turning
over.
The seal fishery of New foundland is
proving quite successful thiS spring, live
of the steamers having returned at Ia
test mail dates with a total of 5000
trip. Several sailing vessels have
r StSAy CN~NSSSAoA'
A fatal cattle disease is raging fearful
ly in Sangamon and other counties ia
Illinois. The President and members OF
the Illinois Agricultural Society are To
investigate its cause, prevention and
cure at once. 1t is supposed to have
been imported from the East.
The greatest speed ever attained ia
Geographic transmission iii this country,
if not in the world, was made Wednes-
day evening between Boston and Prov
idence. p. Ii. Burns champion of New
England and New York, sent 2,73l
words in all hour, which was received
by Mr.. Walter Phillips, of Providence,
and copied in q remarkably legible
manner. The selection was from
work of Dean Swift's.
EASTERN NEWSPAPER AccURAcY.-A
short time ago, while in the East, we
noticed an article in the Philadelphia
Bulletin, headed KANSAS
News" which gave the particulars of
several murders that had taken place III
Platte City, Farley, and Kansas City.
We think an accurate map OF the border
should be presented to this editor, who
thus SANDERS US by his ignorance OF
geography.-LearentcOrM Times.
AGRICULTURAL IEyENTIoSs.-The re-
port of the acting Commissioner of Ag-
riculture for the present year. relates
the interesting fact that the number OF
agricultural inventions now annually
perfected is more than forty-fold great
er than it was twenty years ago. These
are rapidly revolution
izing he agriculture of the West, redu-
cling to the lowest minute ever attained
the proportion of manual labor employ
ed in its operations. AS single illus
tration the reaper is mentioned, which,
while doing the work of ten men, was
first supplemented with self-raker,
and now, still further TO facilitate and
the harvest work, is furnish
ed with an apparatus for instantaneous
binding of the sheaVes.
ENGAGING MAHSERs--There are q
pretty, engaging little ways,
which every person may put on with
out running the risk OF being deemed
affected or foppish. Tie sweet smile,
the cordial bow, the earnest movement
in addressing friend, the inquiring
glance, the graceful attention which is
30 captivating when united with sclt-pos.
session-these viii insure as the good
regards of even q churl. Above all,
there 10 certain softuess of manner
which should be cultivated, and which,
in either man or woman, adds charm
that almost entirely compensates for
lack of beauty, and incstimably en-