The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
NOTES AND. MISCELLANY.

ais are under sixteen. <sls
There are 100000 ''school-marmsn in
the country.
The planters of Florida are turning
their attention to cultivating bananas.
The profits of the Chicago Tribune in
1867, it is stated, We're S14S,OOO.
Charles Reade gets SOC. 600 for his new
novel, on which he is now hard at
work.
1t is said that Sunday services in Bos-
ton are now literally rewarded.
Leland's big hotel at Long Branch
Will have a front of six hundred feet.
New York 'shoddy" society excludes
a Fifth avenue lady because her hus-
La Crosse, Wisconsin gives Grant 1G0
majority. So much for Brick Pomeroy.
indianapolis expects to slaughter TO-
600 hogs this year.
Sorghum seed pancakes are a Mfssou-
ri institution. They are said to excel
buckwheat cakes.
Twenty-six hours staging takes ono
from the Union Pacific terminus to Salt
Lake.
In the newest style of boot the toea
are pointed and curve upward, elongat-
ed like Chinese slippers.
Six hundred men win rbe employed
this winter building thes bridge across
the Missouri river at Omaha City.
Louisiana and Florida are beginning
TO compete successfully with the West
India Islands in raising oranges.
Political economy-nominating rich
candidates for office, that they may pay
campaign expenses
A writer in Chambers Journal saws:
Woman, woman, take my advice, and
learn to cook"
A Memphis aeronaut, at the hight of
5000 feet, accidentally dropped a dog,
which has never been seen since.
Fifty years ago not pound of fine
wool was grown in the United States,
in Great Britain, or any other country
except Spain.
A cherry tree grows in Utah eighteen
inches high, with d top as round as u
cherry. withstands the greatest cold, and
is loaded with sweet fruit.
In late Maine Marriage the BRIDE
groom was 50 and the bride 80. They
are looking forward eagerly to their
golden wedding.
A late philosopher states that if any,
thing will make woman swear, it is
looking for her night-cap after the
lamps blown out.
A Californian married afwoman to
whom he owed $1,000, and then refused
to pay her. She sued him. and the SUI
preme Court compelled him to "cash
up"
Many New York merchants, instead
of cash boys, employ little girls, who
are said to be more expert at the bust
ness.
A Washington couple, having the mis-
fortune to lose child, and wishing to
convey the body to Baltimore, eyaded
the express charges by dressing the child
in its usual clothing and took it between
them on the cars.
Sidney Smith, a good authority, says,
I'm composing, as general rule, run
your pen through every other word you
have written; you have no idea what
vigor it will give your STYLE" The
same writer says: "All pleasantries
should be short, and for that matter, all
GRANTEES too"
''Why, Walter" cried his mother, eI
am astonished The idea of your wish
ing to go down to the reservoir on the
Lords holy Sabbath, to go swimming
with lot of bad little boys!" "Boo-
hoop blubbers Walter, 81 didn't want
to go swimmin' with 'em, ma; only
wanted to go down and see the bad lit
tie boys get drowned for goin' a SWIM
min a Sunday-bohoo."- SacrQmen
Union.
The Maelstrom of our childhood's
biographies is myth A late report
of the Norwegian fisheries says that it
sis so little thought of by the inhabit-
ants that they pass and repass it in their
sail vessels at all stages ofthe tide. ex-
cept at certain times in tile winter SER
son; and far from drawing in whales
and other things that come within it's
range, it appears to be favorite resort
OF the fish of the country, and the fish
ermen reap a rich piscatoriaI harvest
from its bosom. She greatest rate of
the tide in winter does not exceed six
miles an hour.
The Scientific american cautions the
public against the use of adulterated