The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-11-20
NOTES AND MIsCErIANY,

oAO " oe put up IN 81. LOUIS.
Lawrence, Mass, employs $4,000 fac
tory girls. ss.
Bonner is about to write his life for
A new apple is called the stFourth of
july"
A buried city has been discovered In
the lava fields of the valley Of Mexico.
! Poe's works have been published in
l Australia.
London has Mormon church with .
thousand members.
The Louisiana sugar this year is of an
excellent quality.
Two-thirds of the soil of California
| is arabic. F--s,
Pecan nuts are very abundant this.
| year in Texas. -
Mr.. Leonard w. Jerome has returned
from Florence with improved health.
Over ten thousand patents have been
| granted Turing the present year.
Harper's Bazaar has run up to cir.
culation of one hundred thousand with
in a year.
A man in Scotland who has been orr
dered teaches for an injury, took them
boiled with his Cruel.
The Memphis Aralanche "accepts the
situation" and announces itself in
favor of negro suffrage.
Chicago has paid for amusements
during the last nine months, the sum of
1926, $500.
Mr.. Dickens, it is reported, is going
to bestow his autobiography upon the
| world.
A Western millionaire astonishes
New Workers by driving a span of
blacks tandem in white leather harness.
A watch company in Illinois, it is
said, are manufacturing thirty thous-
and time-keepers year.
Detroit is compelled by Supreme
Court decision to devote all police
court fines to public library.
The Merrick Thread Company, of
Holyoke, Mass, turns out three thous-
and dozen spools day.
The tax of one cent box on matches
last year Melted the Government a rev.
enue of $1.5O0,000.
Every county in Iowa went Republi-
can except Dubuque, and every Con-
gressional district increased its maior-
lty.
More than 100000 life policies are in
force in the State of New York, repre-
senting upward of 81 100000 in
| risks.
Over 1900 sacks of wheat are on the
Mississippi bank, near Keokuk, wait
ing for high water for transportation
down.
Gen Robert Anderson, of Fort Sum-
- 49, =
plimentary testimonial from his numer-
Gus friends i'll New York city, ts
i A divorce court was established at
Brooklyn in 1858. Since that time
down to the end of 1867 it has granted
1879 DEGREES for the dissolution Of mar.
riages.
The largest "note" respecting New
York fashionable weddings, is that the
organist plays a low accom- paniment to
the ceremonial words uttered by the
minister. tl -
/ Jeremiah L. Chadsey, of Wexford.
Rhode Island, SO wears old. has lived
with Mrs. G. 65 years, and both jog
half mile to the Baptist church twice
on Sunday.
II takes a $4,000 initiation fee to
enter the regular Board of the New
York Exchange. A resolution to this
effect was adopted on Friday. The fee
heretofore was $4,000.
If you hear person outshouting an
entire congregation in response to
''amens," remember that vanity seeks
for effect and sink your own voice.
| Nearly all ecceHtricity whatever is in
fact only shallow vanity.
At the Lowell institute lectures in
Boston, the door of the hall is closed
precisely at the beginning of the enter
taininent, and is not opened until the
close. Late corners do not thus disturb
those on time.
DR.. Haven, president of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, has earnestly advOcat-
ed, in his recent report, the admission
of women to college classes and to all
the professional schools. There is
Your chance, undaunted twenty-five, of
Wabash.
| Rich gold fields have been discovered
on the northern frontiers of Norway
and Russia, said to surpass those Of
California. The severity of the climate
will, however, prevent the placers be-
ing worked by emigrants from South
ern and Middle Europe.
| A paris letter writer who saw victo-
| ria i'm that city saws: "She is a little.
| OiNA dICbScu ia
black, and having in her eye dull sort
of CLEAN, which makes one involuntar-
lily think of lunatic asylum"
| A farmer in Eastern Massachusetts,
has made net profit of four thousand
dollars on his onion crop this year.
Some of his neighbors are crying be-,
cause they did not plant acres of this
healthy esculent.
2 It is said that the three highest
| mountains on the globe are Gaurisank-
ar of the HirnaIaya range, &c, $50 feet,
| Dapsaug, in Western Tibet. 2S,730
feet, and Hanshinjinga, In Eastern
Thibet 2S,600 feet.
A woman was lately, by mistake.
shut in the vaults Of small village
church in Sweden, where she remained
eleven days. When found she merely
asked for some water, and being treat
ed with great care, perfectly recovered
in few days.
The venerable Rev. DR.. Sprague. pas
! tor of the Second Presbyterian church
| of Albany, New York, preached to his
people on the last Sabbath of August
| go, 1862 the sermon which he preach.
| ed August 80, 1S18-just fifty years be-
fore. 1t was his first sermon.
n. D. Crawford, of Jackson county.
Michigan, made a bet of twenty-five