The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-29
GENERAL ITEMs.

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The london Spectator calls Andrew
johnson "a rough on q throne"
Senator Sprague paid $4,000 for his
1900 acres on Cumberland Island, Ga.
In honor of the birth of the first born.
"catnip weddings" have been invented.
philadelphia has determined to invest
$4,000 in the establishment of Young
Mems Home.
Yeddo, Japan, has hotel furnished
throughout with black walnut furniture
made in San Francisco.
velocipedes are prohibited in the
New York Central Park, because they
will brighten the horses.
The average cost of funerals in Chi
cago is five hundred and forty seven
dollars. m
The English House of Lords is now
the only hereditary chamber in Europe.
Only nine European monarchs are
above sixty years old, and only five
have reigncd thirty years.
Evansville, Indiana, is city that
borrows money at the rate of 22h per
cent interest.
With capital of f5O,OO0,OOO, one
English railroad company control 14O0
miles of railway.
An>Italian music publisher has issued
waltz entitled Melancholy" compos-
ed by the Sultan. t 90 +.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has a lot of poor
nephews and neices living in Iowa.
They are strictly honest and respectable.
Queen Victoria's illustrations of her
own book are excellent. She draws
clearly, and much better than she writes
Over 10000 copies of the New York
Tribune Almanac for 1869 were sent
out OH the day of publication to supply
part of the advance orders.
Manchester, New Hampshire, has
been mulcted in S616 damages for in
juries sustained by one of its citizens,
growing out of q defect in the side
walk.
A saving woman Is the very best
savings bank man can have, and such
should be most respectfully invited to
change their names and become wives.
A New York paper publishes piece
of poetry beginning. II want to be a
Washburne, and with the Washburnes
stand"
to trot that famous stallion against
Lady Thorn, at Narragansett, for $1,000,
next summer.
A lady in Salem, last week. lost
about dozen yards of velvet, which
took fire from the rays of the sun pass
ing through globe of water.
Neuman, the German whose history
of the United States has been translated
into seven European languages, received
S4OO for the work.
Welding iron by pressure, instead of
by hammering, is new invention
which Is said to be attended by the
most satisfactory results.
Workmen cutting ice in Chicago the
other day, were Mortified to find that
they had completely severed the head
from the body of a human being, whose
remains were imbedded in the ice.
The one-wheeled velocipede works
to charm. Our. special reporter saw
Pat McGrath, of the Sixteenth ward,
working one of them this morning.
He called ii q BARRY"
In Stafford, England, an inmate of a
orkhouse sold his vote to a son-in-law
for the promise of funeral, so that his
should not be ''pauper's burial"
"A Clergyman who is never guilty of
snch things, says it is poor reward to
'shy an old sermon at the devoted
heads of the few who have ventured
out on q rainy Sunday"
1t is authoritavely stated that for the
subduing of man, a momentary glance,
transitory tone, an uncertain pressure
of the hand, are worth all the dresses in
the world.
IL is proposed by Mr.. Pickering, the
velocipede maker, to Obviate railway
accidents by sending u man on q veloci-
pede ahead of every train to give warn
ing OF any danger that he may discover
on the track.
\ contemporary learning that a pro-
Jected newspaper was to be printed on
machines capable of printing $4,000
copies an hour, suggests that one ''to
produce subscribers at a similar ratio
would be valuable invention"
The shorthand writer's of New York
City have formed league. The pay in
that city fer good photographer is
rom S4,UOO to $4,000 year, and the
demand is constantly increasing.
n rock maple was lately cut down
near Concord, New Hampshire, the cir
conference of which was fourteen feet
alne inches. 1t was at least one hun
dred feet high, and had been tapped for
sugaring 1O6 years.
London is growing SO rapidly that its
population will soon be four millions.
The Metropolitan Police, of seven thou
sand eight hundred members, have to
control and patrol . district of thirty
miles IN diameter.
Krupp, the famous cannon founder
has, 1t is said, a large order from the
Prussiau Government for his famous
9-inch cannon. As each cannon costs
over $4,000, Krupp's bill is expected to
mount to nearly $3,0OO,O00.
There is medical spring in Sacra-
Aento, the water of which is strongly
Hpregnated with iron. 1t was discOV-
red some months ago near the carpen-
~ shop OF the Pacific railroad. Being
oil and pleasant to the taste, the work
On drink freely of it, and il is sup
'sed 90 have prevented fever and ague
lnong them.
The Salt Lake papers severely criti-
sc the Ashley bill TO DIVE Utah. They
p:onounce she project as infamous-one
- the many futile attempts to suppress
3Iormonism in Utah. The Legislature
AS passed n memorial to Congress ask
ng for the early admission of Utah iuto
ne Union.
Oranges were frozen solid on the trees
It st. Augustine, Florida, on Christmas
lay. The weather was the coolest
lnown in that locality since 1865. The
thermometer at daylight stood at TWEEN
~ degrees above zero. 1t afterward
ouched seventy degrees. In q climate
here even white frostS are unusual,
Ills was very severe. The year preVi-
rs, at the same time, the Florida ladies
ere dressed in lawns.
Prince Felix Salm-Salm, who began