The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-02-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

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sl4a GENERAL ITEMS.
Seven Iowa journals have died lately.
India expects the famine scenes of
eight years ago.
A steam engine has been set up in
Jerusalem.
The .whpping-post has been retained
in Kentucky.
A son of the famous actress Racheal
Is clerk of gas company.
A,Rfchmond, Ind, paper publishes an
obituary notice ola cow.
The wine crop of Portugal for 1868 is
estimated at $1,000 pipes.
The citizens Of Buffalo used l0T, 504 900
feet of gas last year, for which they paid
1926, 512.
There are SO0'applicants for position
of gate-keeper of the Auburn prison.
Alta recent ball in New York city,
the programmes were printed in the
form of a gaudy butterfly.
Forty thousand hares were sent from
Germany to Paris for Christmas din
ners.
The new gold field in South Africa is
said to cover an area of about 1000
square miles.
The Great Western railway of Eng
land cost nearly $350,OO0 mile.
The New York police is composed of
twenty-one hundred members.
such elegant sleighing was never be-
fore known in northern Iowa as for
weeks past.
The press of Philadelphia have regu-i
lar club rooms-in Walnut Street, near
Sixth.
Thew paid Louis Napoleon for
his services as Emperor are $4,000 900,
and he owes $6l6, 100000.
Among the mines on the western slope
of the Sierra Madre is one called Car
men, from which a mass of pure silver
weighing 425 pounds was once taken.
"A down East editor compliments
brother thusly: "Mr. Brown is clear
thinker, a ready and vigorous writer,
and first rate fellow, to boot"
Mr.. Bonner says that within the past
year the son of one of his contributors
has been elected President of the Unit
ed States. A neat way of putting it.
The salaries of the Judges of the
Ohio Supreme court have been increas-
from 5000 to $1,000 by the State Legis-
lature.
The people of Leavenworth are en-
deavoring TO place Colonel Jennison in
charge of their post Office.
Gen! Zachary Taylor is buried six
miles from Louisville, and has a simple
slab with his name inscribed to mark
his resting place.
A Cincinnati physician advertises for
a mad dog. He wishes to investigate
the animal scientifically.
cago Railroadyis to be sold on fore
closure of mortgage about the first of
April.
twO-edged dirk, with the handle at
right angles to the blade, like a chop
pihg-knifa.
The Patterson IN. j. cotton mills are
now running on full time, the recent
changes in the market having increased
the demand for yarns
California requires annually fifteen
millions of yards of saeking for grain
and three millions for other purposes.
The new Russian cannon that fires
two hundred shots a minute is ex-
tremsly easy to handle, and very effect
i've up to 1900 yards.
The Cincinnati Gazette, of which we
expected better things, has invented
the word ipedestrianistical, and
apples It to an exhibition. ''lsf
A man in Dayton, Ohio, has invented
q velocipede- with one wheel The
only fruit found with 1t is that It can't
be made to go.
The temperance men In Pennsylvania
will hold a State convention in Harris
burg on the 23d of February.
A Hebrew Bible, dated 149l or 1892,
printed on parchment, was lately sold
in London for eight hundred dollars.
Mrs. Gaines is disposing of some of
her new got property in the gift to
New Orleans of site for q State
House. A..
The New York iron molders are
making preparations to establish a CO.
operative foundry. Already 366 shares
have been subscribed, representing
Mr.. Parton says he should never have
been able to understand f. A. Poe, if he
mad not spent few days last summer
at the Binghamton Inebriate Asylumf
The Boston 1Faceler says the young
lady who visited photographer recent
~, and who desired him to take her
with an expression as IL composing g
poem, does not reside in that vicinity.
At a Woman Suffrage meeting held
IN 81: Louis, the other day, it was stated
that there are over two thousand tax
paying ladies in that city, representing,
as SHOWN by the Assessors books, over
fourteen and half millions of dollars.
From the Dallas Herald we learn
knei the Kansas City & Mexican Gulf
RAILROAD is going on steadily, and is
expected to be completed to Fort. Scott
tne present year, and in another year to
Red river.
A story is told of an old English gro
Ger who has left Sic, 900 70 Charles Dick
ems, on condition that he will read the
Ir1ai from Pickwiclo to the grocer's
iamiiy once year until he dies.
The cities and towns on the Hudson
river nave been recently flooded with
counterfeit cents. The shield on one
side and the orde Omitted States on
me other, are omitted while . hardly
perceptible impression of the word
"not' is inserted over the word aone.o
In order TO shield the counterfeiter from