The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-04-16
INTERESTING ITEMS.

iona.
A man in Pittsburg has beard eight
feet long.
Every time pillow cuts corn fpesiit
kills kernel.
Winona, MIMI, hes 100000 bushels
of wheat in store.
Salt Lake now contains 5000 Nor
mons and 5000 Gentiles.
In 'SS Chicago shipped a wagon load
of wheat; in 6S, 100000 bushels.
One firm of Australian wool growers
expect to clip 10000 Aeeces this year.
The untimbered plains between the
Mississippi and the Pacific have an area
of ], 4O0, 900 square miles.
| planted the ground should be plowed,
! narrowed and manfred each year.
This country consumes LOCO. 600 acres
of forest annually for building and man
ufactnring purposes.
The farmers in the vicinity of Egg
| Harbor, n. j., propose to make beet
root sugar their special crop.
The French custom returns show that
100000 worth of yelocipedes have
been exported from France this year.
Large poultry raisers say they get
more meat for the food consumed from
the Chinese fowls than from any others.
| The thrashing machines used In the
United States save 1000, 600 bushels OF
grain annually more than the fail would
An unfortunate German publisher
announces a complete edition of ''An-
drew Johnson's Speeches and Nessa<
| ges."
! Dip shingles in lime wafer, and let
| them soak while before laying them.
| They last third longer and do not
| gather moss.
There is more timber in southern
Minnesota than there was ten years ago.
| The prairie fires are stopped by the
roads and fields.
In Berlin they say, if you want to-
get anything out of Bismarck, you
| ought to have very good cause, or be
an American.
A wag, speaking of the embarkation
of troops, said: Notwithstanding
many of them leave blooming wives be-
hind, they go away in transports"
One of the greatest feats yet done with
the velociped is journey of one hum
dred and twenty-three miles in twenty
four hours. This was in France.
The Pail Mall Gazette says of Mr..
Johnson's farewell address: "It is very
long, but by no means worth reprint
ing, either in whole or in part"
A wretch, who claims to know the
rich men of Cincinnati and st. Louis,
says that the great want of each city is
about thirty-five first-class funerals.
A cake of pure silver weighing 343
| pounds was recently shipped to Phila-
delphia from the Brown Coin Silver
Mines, located near Georgetown, Colo
RADIO.
Five varieties of apples have been
proved and found hardy in all parts OF
Iowa: the New York Pippin, Red June,
Willow Twig, Maiden Blush, and JON
ath6n.
The retiring president of the New
York State. Agricultural Society in bis
valedictory earnestly urges the offering
of no more premiums for great crops
of tobacco.
If buckwheat bran be fed to a COW
one week, and wheat bran the next, the
difference in the quantity of milk will
be slight, but that from wheat is much
the best.
/ Ireland drinks considerably less whis-
ky than Scotland, though doubly as
pOpulous, while England consumes
more than both together-over II ,O00,-
600 gallons annually.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor, on the occa.
ison of her son attaining his majority,
last week, donated to the Children's Aid
Society sum sufficient to provide one
hundred boys with homes in the West.
Close planted orchards are more like
| ly to do well than those in which the
trees are thirty or forty feet apart. One
old orchardist says he has found the
best distance TO be fifteen feet one way
by ten the other.
The best planter in Georgia plows
] deep, plants deep, cultivates deep at first,
but after the roots of his corn or his
cotton are developed, he merely scratch
es the top Of the grOund-this he does
very often.
/ The Friend publishes statistics to
show that the Quakers in Pennsylvania
are decreasing in numbers. Since 1880
but five new meetings have been estab-
J lished, while thirty have been
abandoned.
An English farmer chose his seed
wheat with such care and cultivated it
with such skill that the heads increased
in length from four to eight inches, the
berries from 45 to l25 in head, and the
number of stalks from a seed from 10
to 50.
The dryness of the Egyptian climate
is such that rain scarcely ever fell in
the upper province, and not more for
merly than five or six days year in
the Delta. But Mehemet Ali has plant
ed 100000 trees in these districts, and
the annual average has increased 70 for
ty days.
Lamartine was asked by friend if
he did not spend too much money in
advertising. NO." was his reply, 'fad-
vertisements are absolutely necessary.
Even divine worship Ie bon DIea) needs
to be advertised. Else what is the
meaning of church bells Z"
DIR. Peaslee says the physiological
man in q perfect state should weigh
one hundred and forty pounds, and re-
I quires for sustenanee in that state six
teen ounces of meet nineteen of bread,
three of butter and gravy, and three
pints of water, in twenty-four hours.
Edward Verdick, In q paper before
the Cincinnati Horticultural Society,
| says three things are neeeeary for
healthy and prolific vines: to drain
thoroughly, to pillow often and deep,
| dressing with charcoal and ashes; to
sprinkle the leaves quite frequently in
summer with ashes, aud the surface
i with fine charcoal.
The Riverside Echo published at Port
land, Me-, tells the following story of q
dog: .The children were in the habit
of sliding down hill near the house,
accompanied by favorite dog. Early
one morning they discovered that the
dog had taken the sled, drawn it to the
| top, and was now sliding down hill all