The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-15
The Emporia News.
friday, ;: january 10, 1869.
NEWS ITEMS.


was graduated at Oberlin.
Detroit is to have sleeping match"
with prize for the champion snorer."
Governor Bullock gave twenty-five of
the Massachusetts State officers din
ner, on Tuesday.
The publication of legal notices oc-
cupies the space of ten columns in the
Alabama State paper.
A Springfield firm is making a pair
OF skates worth $500, on an order from
Chicago skater:
The pews In DR.. Halls church, Fifth
avenue, New York, sold for from 81 900
to $4,000 each.
A deceased millionaire in Western
city has inscribed on his tombstone,
"Hc always paid cash"
OF 23,345 emigraHts who arrived in
Canada during the past season, 1874
passed through to the Western States.
How to reduce your household ex-
penses 5000 year-let your wife catch
you pinching the servants girls arm.
A southern paper wants to know why
1t has gone out of fashion for ladies to
faint.
1t is said the next style of bonnet is
to be bead and two inches of ribbon.
fastened with hairpin.
The Boston Post suggests the imme-
diate establishment of an asylum for in
sane murderers.
Iowa thinks she will probably have
fourteen members OF Congress, after the
1870 appointment.
There are $4,000 blind people in Great
fast A lap Ia, ~. 4.
lost their sight since childhood.
A Georgia editor has received a wa
termeFon and a basket of taWberries
as Christmas present.
Theirs thinks that in twenty-five
ye: rs all Europe will be under Repub-
Hcan government.
According to census Just taken bv the
County Assessor the city of st. Louis has
100000 inhabitants. Two years ago, the
population was ESTIMATED" at 100000.
The female clerks employed by a large
dry goods house In Boston get one per
cent on all their sales, besides regular
daily wages.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin SAYS
the corrupt secessionists which prey on
the Government are called "rings" prob
ably because there is no end of them.
Since the prohibitory liquor law has
been in force in Maine opium eating is
said to have increased to an alarming
extent.
MessFs. Bowman & Co. of Cincinnati
have on exhibition two immense hogs,
one weighing eleven hundred and the
other nine hundred pounds.
The appearance of beggars in the
atr Of coll 4 10 =
Utah journal rs an evidence of "ad-
vancing civilization"
"A Tennessee woman has Just married
the man from whom she was divorced
eight FEARS ago, having besides had con-
siderable matrimonial experience mean
time.
Fashionable people no longer call one
another liars; they stigmatiZe the state
ment as an unqualified Pigment of fer
tile imagination.
Train claims that in the way of inter-
national damages and Omaha lots, he is
worth S6,O00,000. Water your stock
George Francis, and call 1t $12,OOO,OOO.
Theodore Tilton9s idea of the miIlen-
ium Is the time when every woman will
have wedding ring on her finger and
ballot in her hand.
The Boston Post says Anna Dfckin-
son and Susan b. Anthony are accom-
plished velocipedists, and insist on wo-
mems right to ride-crossways, if they
like.
A young lady from the country re-
Gently saw for the first time q steam
fire engine at work and innocently ask
ed why they boiled the water before
throwing it on the fire.
The London Morning Star says that
American experiments prove thatssome-
thing might be made of the red man if
civilization had time to take him in
hand"
In Robert Bohner's stable his horses
are fed from a box on the floor, he be-
lieving that nature intended they should
take their food fIom the level of their
feet.
A commentary on the morality of
Parisians may be gathered from the
statementthat, last year, while but 49,
00legitlmate children were born, 1850
natural children were added to the city's
population.
A Western paper gave itself the fol-
lowing obituary notice on Thanksgiving
day: mo paper will be issued from this
Office to-morrow-nor any other day."
The sheritf's officers were around.
=. Senator Morton is engaged in prepar-
ing a reply to the letter of Horace Gree
ley, attacking his (MortOn's) financial
views and theories, as set forth in his
speech in the Senate few days ago.
A steam roller used in Liverpool for
newly made roads is so heavy that it
has injured the network of gas and
water pipes in the street. It Is called
"Hhe Demon Chrushern
A wedding is to take place in New
YORK this winter, when the bride will
wear white uncut velvet dress trim
med with point lace. A single brides
maid will attend in short costume.
Canned salmon are now sent from
California to the Atlantic States. Re-
Gently ship which sailed from San
Francisco took $50 boxes of canned SAL
mon, which had been caught and pack
ed in Humboldt county.
ain England no man thinks of black
ing his own boots" said naughty Brit
on once to Mr.. Lincoln, whom he found
polishing his calfskin CATERS. "Whose
boots does he black ?" quietly asked I'm
Gle Abraham.
The Pacific Railroad excites great
wonder among the Indians on the plains,
wnen they see it for the first time. The
Pintos name the locomotive Nsmoke
wagon but the Shoshonees less happi-
ly call it 'heap wagon, no hoss."
The Philadelphia Telegraph makes
rather a good hit ut its Radical colabor-
er, Wendell phillips In speaking of
his lecture upon the 81 .ost Arts" it says
there is one in particular to which Phil
lips should address himself, the 'lost
art of speaking we'll of somebody be-
side himself"
The Trustees of the Robinson Acad-