The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-05-08
VARIETY.

Gov. Evans assures the people of Colo
rado that as soon as impeachment is over
Colorado will be admitted as State.
Robert Collyer says when man gets
married at forty-five, he soon becomes
sorry that he did not do it before
The finest variegated marble has been
discovered near Jonesboro, in Union
county, Ill. The quarry is ofgreat value.
j A Judge in Cincinnati declares that
the Indiana divorce laws are disgrace
to any State claiming civilization.
Gen. Palmer, it is stated, will be nom
mated for Governor of Illinois, not
withstanding his repeated refusers to
serve.
The London Spectator calculates that
$500, O0O, 600 of money has been sunk en-
tirely by mismanagementi in British rail-
ways.
Fifty-four millions of Bibles, in TIA
different dialects. have been distributed
by the British and Foreign Bible Soci-
ETY. since its foundation.
"Thou rainest in this BOSOM" as tho
chap said when basin of water was
thrown over him by the lady he was
serenading.
The New York Mall says that not O
single instance occurred at the Dickens
dinner, of intoxication or even Of un-
due exhilaration by wine.
A report says that the New York
Midnight Mission reclaimed last year
! II fallen women, of whom D have gone
back to their old life.
The winter in the western part of
Massachusetts, has been so long and Sc
we're that thousands of birds have been
picked up dead from starvation.
At Huntington, L. l., portrait Of
Lincoln, done with a hot poker, on an
oak board, is attracting the attention Of
art critics, and is said to be wonderful.
Robert Delaney, of New Orleans,
caused the death of his eldest son, aged
eleven years, recently, by the accidental
explosion of revolver which he was
showing him how to load. The father
has gone insane.
The original cold Oaken Bucket"
upon which Samuel Wordsworth wrote
his famous lines, has just arrived in
Boston, having been purchased from its
owner in South Scituate, Mass.
A well known doctor in New York
City, worn 100000, has made a will di-
recting that his body shall be burned
upon his death. He has also written
book in favor of burning the dead.
The Mormon problem is solved-Pa-
ris fashions are finding foothold in
Utah, and every elder will be ruined in
six months. Think of one man dress
ing twenty women.
The Deseret (Salt Lake, Ners, of re-
cent date, speaks of expecting large adj
ditions to the Mormon population of
Utah the present year, and agitatcs the
introduction of new industries, such as
the culture of cotton, and the manufac-
ture of wool, cotton and silk.
Mr.. Geo. Wise, of Philadelphia, pub
fishes chart giving 1906 ways of SPELL
ing the name of Shakespeare, and as
biographers disagree as to the proper
photography of the name, one of the
1905 ways is probably correct.
A boy in confectionery store at
Mound City consumed four pounds of
gum drops, amounting to half gallon
in bulk. His life was only saved by
the promptest administration of decisive
remedies.
The Chicago Railroad Gazette says
that special train on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, few days ago, made the
trip through from Cairo to Chicago In
ten hours and ten minutes, including
all stoppages.
The old mansion at Cambrigeport,
Mass, which served as Putnam's head
quarters while Boston was beleaguered
| by the colonial forces in ITS and 1776,
| is to be moved in its oldage, its grounds
having been sold for house lots.
The Sierra Nevada mountains are
crossed by the Union Pacific Railroad,
100 miles from tide water, at an eleva-
| nf fonf nnn IN fh0
passage fifteen tunnels, and the blasting
powder alone for the rock excavations
has cost 81, 100000 in gold.
A milkman in New York dropped
some money while crossing the ferry
and the scrip was conveyed by the wind
to the East river. A bystander consoled
| the vender of the tactical with the
remark that what comes by water gen.
orally goes by water.
The centenary contributions in the
year 1866 aggregated, according to the
statistics published, about eight mill
ions of dollars, or about eight dollars
per member. This was in addition to
the usual ministerial salaries and the
ordinary benevolent contributions.
Some attendants of the funeral of
Thomas Darcy MCGEE, disheartened
at the idea of walking back from the
cemetery, distance of five miles, doz-
en- clambered into the hearse, two or
three perched themselves on the outside,
and with one on the back of each horse,
the procession then returned to town.
Corn IN THE ORcuARD.-A CORES
pondent of an exchange suggests plan
| ting corn in the orchard for the purpose
of giving protection to trees, particu-
larry until belt of evergreens can be
grown. He is led, both from observa-
1 ton and experience, to believe that
this method would prove seryiceable.
He would plant two drills of corn be-
tween each row of trees, husk In the
fall, and let the stocks stand until spring |;
they can then be cut, the ground plow-
ed, and the drills of corn again plant
ed.
i Mrs. Greedy advises young women in
a practical way how they may preserve
their health, and have red cheeks, with
out the aid of rouge. Her words are /:
'sToo many young girls sit moping
within doors, over some trivial and
worthless piece of fancy work, when
they should be seeking vigor, elasticity
and happiness from the ife-giving in
f1uence of wood and meadow, breeze
and sunshine. Pursue this outdoor rec
Ireation, and doctors gigs in front of
tyour residences will be changed to the
wagons of butchers and grocers--a con-
summation devoutly to be prayed for
by every poor man with house full Of
manageable girls"