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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-07
PHUNNY THINGS.

The magnetic well in Chicago having
been thoroughly tested, the citizens
think they prefer whisky.
:'The Fireplace is the name of a
drinking saloon in Chicago. Amy one
can get warm by it for ten cents, or red
hot for a quarter.
Louis Napoleon, they say, is not
afraid of being sent to st. Helena, nor
to Ham, nor to the Black Hole of CAL
cutta. All he asks is that they won't
send him to Chicago.
A gentleman in Indiana says, in note
accompanying letter for publication
in the Louisville Courier journal: 81
sumtimes misspell word, and its pos
sible have spelt sicafant rong."
A Texas man has been cured of the
bite of a tarantula by the copious use of
county whisky. The wound
healed up in two days, and on the third
the man died of delirium tremens.
ST. Louis had quite a large fire not
long since, but when the news got to
Chicago that city went to work and
burned up property to the amount of
S3,O00,000. There is no getting ahead
OF Chicago.
A citizen who deserves well of his
had large family, to which
additions were constantly making. One
day one of his little boys was Ihus in
terrog4ted: John, how many brothers
and sisters have you got 2" 81 don't
know said the boy; 81 haint been
home since morning!"
That seems to have been an ungentle-
manlike proceeding on the part of MIR.
Keonig, of Davenport, who agreed to
commit suicide II his wife would, and,
while she resolutely held her head I'M
der the water until dead, lifted his
above the surface, and subsequently,
emerging entirely, coolly arranged for
her obsequies.
There is doctor in Pittsburg who is
running for office on the Democratic
ticket. Recently he was called to at
tend poor Chinese woman, and he sue
ceeded in bringing into the world boun-
cling Acknowledged twins. The very
next day his name was stricken from
the ticket, upon the charge that he was
assisting Coolie immigration. The ex-
ecutive committee told him they would
never support a man who had SO little
regard for the dignity of the working
men
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THE IMPERIAL PRISONER.

A correspondent says: Listen, for
what 1 can now give you is page OF
history. Napoleon Ill having written
to the King of Prussia the letter which
you are acquainted with, William re-
piled "Let him come himself; other
wise he will be treated like private SOL
der, though he scarcely deserves 1t.
Napoleon then betook himself in the
manner related to the farm at which
the King had established his headquar-
tiers. The caleche having arrived at the
door of the house, the ex-Emreror
alighted, extinguished his cigarette, and
entered alone into the low chamber,
where the King, in generals uniform
with his helmet on, was walking up and
down in feverish state, his hands
crossed behind his back. The Prince
and the great officers formed a group in
one of the corners of the apartment.
The ex-Emperor took off his hat and sa-
luted the King, using the German Ian
gage. William did not reply, either
by word or gesture, but after few more
PAGES, came and placed himself erect,
stiff and terrible in front of Napoleon,
who remained bareheaded, with his
head slightly inclined. Sir" he said,
still in German, Il come to repeat
to your Majesty oicG coce what : /
had the honor of writing Yesterday
evening"" at is well, SIR" replied the
King, whose color was considerably
heightened, whilst his voice had a whist
ling sound, owing to the efforts he made
to restrain himself. Il have decided
that Spandau shall be assigned to you
for prison. mean residence; you will
| there wait for my further orders"
ssSire,7 said Napoleon-s'I have spo-
ken, sir" exclaimed the King, striking
his sabre OH the dusty floor of the room.
"Au rerotr done, Monsieur, mon .frere.
said the Emperor, this time in French ;
he then saluted in the most courteous
manner the different personages, and
| left the room as calm as if he had been
presiding at an opening OF the Cham
bers. When outside, he took a cigar
cite aad lighted it by the cigar of cui-
rassier in white uniform, and was pre-
pairing to again get into his carriage,
when q general officer came from the
King to beg him to pass into neigh
boring court, where William, who wish
ed to have a longer conversation
would send for him. Napoleon said
not word, but escorted by two euiras.
siers, passed into a court where there
was a small wooden bench at the edge
of little piece of water. On this be
| quietly took bis seat, continuing &c
smoke, and only stopping at interval:
| to look at the pool and at the staff Off.
Ger, who, standing up, was watching al
his movements. After waiting quar-.
ter of an hour the ex-Emperor, II
French, begged the officer to order hin
a glass of water. One of the cuiras
siers brought it. He moistened his lip
| with it, and looking at the contents o
the glass, smiled aud said to the officer
Nero, when conquered. passed his las
hour near pond, from which he drank
l am more fortunate than he" TheI
having swallowed all the water ant
given back the glass at is true added
he, "that my reign never resemblet
his
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FOREIGN NEWS ITEMS.

King William has yearly salary of
S1,9OOOOO.
The King of Sweden is an advocate
of woman suffrage.
The population of Ireland is about
five and quarter millions.
Lead foil is being extensively used in
place of lint in the European hospitals.
On the walls of the Tuilleries, in all
directions, is written: ''To let, because
of folly"
A London firm has contracted to sup
ply house in Paris with 5000 mourn
ing bonnets and 10000 yards of Grape,
within the next fortnight, and at Ber-
lin the orders given are far greater.
A dearth of telegraph operators ex-
lists at present in Germany, and more
than a hundred of the smaller Offices
had to be closed because the operators
were needed for more important sta
tons in France.
The France, of Paris, relates that the
Receiver General at Chalons, hearing
that the Prussian UhIans were in sight
of the city, gathered up Loo, 600 francs
which were in the treasury, and, throw
ing it into buggy, succeeded in ma
king his escape to Paris with it.
The New York Herald declares
.ENow that the reign of fashion is at au
end in Paris, American modistes are
setting up styles for themselves. Eu-
rope will have to look out for the flu
ture for fashions in this country, and
the tickle goddess will issue her proc
lamations here"
The NeW Ressid7s Gazette states: SIN
the battle of Metz the soldiers of our
forty-third regiment, as a protection
against the continual shower of bullets
that the enemy poured upon them, fas-
tened 'their knapsacks across their
chests. After the battle many of them
were convinced that these tactics had
saved their lives. In them they found
no small number of bullets, which, in-
stead of striking them in the breast,
had only entered their calfskin cuiras-
ses.
The theaters of Paris, we are told,
are all closed. Even in the worst days
of the French Revolution such an event
was never known to happen. 1t was
| favorite practice with Murat to show
himself night after night, at the thea
ire, that the people might see and cheer
him. On the night after the surrender
of Paris to the allies. every place of
amusement in the capitol was crowded.
Now it is all changed, and republican
France is indeed in earnest.
Champagne, it is believed, will be
very scarce for several years, In eonse-
quence of the districts producing that
wine and the great depots of Rheims
and Chalons, with three millions of bot
ties, having been occupied by the Ger
man armies. This years vintage is de-
stroyed, and the damage to the owners
of the vineyards, the wine makers, and
the merchants, it is calculated, will ex-
coed twenty millions of dollars. or
course the sham-pag wine will still
be produced, and in greater abundance
| than ever, SO that the manufacturers of
cider will profit by the war.
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CORAL JEWELRY-INTERESTING
FACTS.

Naples is known the world over for
its production of coral jewelry and ev-
cry body who visits there passes
through the coral fever before he leaves
the city. The shop windows are full
of the most exquisite products in this
beautiful material, and as the prices
asked are considerably lower than in
America, the purchases by Americans
are Hery large. do not know that l
have anything of interest to say about
these products except to point out to my
lady friends at home those qualities of
coral which fix its value in Naples In
a conversation with one of the manu-
facturers, ] learned that coral depends
for its value upon three considerations
its color, its size, and the perfection of
its texture. The valuable colors OF
tints of coral are sufficiently well
known among American ladies; but
they are not aware that it is the imper-
fections of coral that determine, more
than anything else, the forms into which
it shall be carved. A large piece of CO.
raj, for instance, one side of which is
sound, and the opposite side of which
is imperfect, will be made into q Pom
peiian face, or some other face, either
human or animal. Small pieces of co.
raj, with the same imperfections, will be
carved into flowers. 1t may at once be
concluded, by any purchaser of coral,
that those articles which represent faces,
with the back side fiat, or com binations
of little flowers, belong to the second
class, so far as their value is concern
ed, no matter how pretty they
may be-and some of them are very
beautiful indeed. In faetI think there
are many American ladies who suppose
representations of flowers in coral TO be
particularly valuable and desirable.
That was the popular opinion formerly,
know. The most valuable articles of
coral jewelry are those which present
coral in the largest perfect masses
masses symmetrical in form and having
no imperfections in any respect. So
we have them made up into brooches,
bracelets, etc., in combinations of bars,
lobes, spheres or sprigs of natural form,
which bear examination on every side.
1t happens that the best coral jewelrv is
the least ornate, and the least attractive
to the uneducated eye. tits astonishing
how a few days of looking into shop
windows sets one against all the pretti-
ness of all coral flowers and fruits and
faces, and fastens ones admiration upon
the plain and massive specimens of the
perfect coral, whose value lies in its
doctor. Holland.
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FRENCH ELAN.

The New York Commercial AdeeT-
tiSer gives the following as a literal
translation of Victor Hugo's address to
the Germans, which has just been post
ed about the streets of Paris:
lyon may take the rampart-you will
find the ram partner. You may drink
all the Strassburg beer-you will find
the barrel. You may take the BARRIERS
pole-you will find the barber, and then
who knows the resources of undilut-
ed spirits-you will find enough Amer
lean whisky and nitro glycerine to blow
whole streets into the air. This will be
the terrible sentence you must accept:
to drink all the beer in Paris, barrel by
barrel; to make the atmosphere of all
Europe rank with the odors of violated
wine cellars; to absorb ton upon ton of
saurkraut in detail; to slaughter every
dog in Paris to make sausages for your
soldiers; in each street, in each house,
in each kennel, that great source of re-
dolent bolognas, must be extinguished
dog by dog. Germans, hold back Par
is is indeed formidable. Think before
her walls. 1t is better than fighting.
All Transformations are possible TO her T!
Yesterday she was monkey, to-day
she is man, tomorrow she may be a
the seeming. She is either drunk or
playing possom. Her hair will rise like
the forest monarchs of Argonnes. Her
toothpick will leap from its scahbard
like a sword; and this city, which, yes
terday was Paris, tomorrow may be
Pekin or POrkopolis. Tigerp
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pennsylvania has 1900 uniformed
.nd f1faein1iued militia


Pennsylvania has 1900 uniformed
and disciplined militia.
A couple of indignant females visited
the Office of the Milan CTexas1 Ietegrdzat
and smeared the editor face with print
er's ink.
A girl in Blairsville, small village
between Evansville and New Harmony
recently drank twenty-seven glasses OF
beer at single sitting of not more than
two hours.
The class just entered at Yale is the
largest ever admitted, numbering near
ly two hundred, and contains the firsS
colored student that ever presented
himself for admission.
What countryi The Providence
OR. u Press says, unless it rains there
soon, water for washing purposes Will
have to be bought, and clean shirt will
be an expensive luxury.
A Nashua, n. H., paper says: In
several towns in Maine, apples are Of
fered at ten cents q bushei st the or
chard. In many towns in our vicinity
they arc to be had for nothing"
Financially, the st. Paul and Sioux
City Railroad Company is remarkable
organization. 1t owns S4,OOO,OOO worth
OF ROAD ana running STOCK, anu HAS HoI
g single bond ont, all its property being
owned in stock, not dollar of which
has ever sold below par; the majority
of stock is owned by the board of direc-
tors. There is probably no other such
case in the country.
The business of the money order bu-
reau during the past fiscal year is one
third larger than that of the preceding
year. Over one million six hundred
thousand orders have been been issued,
transferring S34, 054, lS4, for which $780,
235 was paid in fees. The cost TO the
purchaser was therefore seven-tenths of
one per cent. while the cost to the gov
eminent was only half that.
The Commissioners of Mining Statis-
tics gives the product of precious met
ais in the United States last year at
$50, 100000, distributed thus: Califor-
mia, S20O00,O0O; Nevada. $l4,0G0,000;
Oregon and Washington Territory, ST.
100000; Idaho, S7,O00,0G0; Montana,
S12,000,000; Colorado and Wyoming,
$4,000,OO0; New Mexico, $500, 600; Ar
izona, 100000; other sources, $1,000
on
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THE OLDEST REPUBLIC IN THE WORLD.
The American Quarterly ReCieac con-
tains letter from c: W. Irving. Esq,
giving sketch of visit 20 Mernio, .
small republic in Italy, between the APP
PENNIES, the Pc, and the AdFiatie. The
territory of the State is only forty
miles In circumference, and its popula-
ton about 1000. The republic was
founded more than ], 400 years ago, on
moral principles, industry and equaii-
fy, and has preserved its liberty and in-
dependence amid all the wars and dis
cords which have ragged about it, and
sent an embassy to express his sentl-s
ments of friendship and fraternity It
is governed by Captain Regent, chc--
sen every six months by the represent
atives of the people (six in number1,
who are chosen every six months by the
people. The taxes are light and farm
houses are neat, the fields well euitiya-
ted, and on eli sides are seen comfort
and plenty, the happy effects of morale
ty, simplicity and fragality-
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The Chicagoans appreciate the esthet-
ical as well as the speculative side of hu-
man nature, and have success in devel
oping it. They, or their Academy of
Design, are just about completing on
Adams street, near State, handsome
stone building, of eighty feet frontage
and five stories high, for the sole use of
art and artists, except two stores on the
ground floor. The audience belongs to
the Academy; has sixteen studios,
all of which are engaged by Chicago
artists; but a lecture room and oil
painting gallery, a water-color and
statuary gallery, and large school rooms
where two hundred and fifty casts will
be placed, two hundred of them-the
Scammon collaborating of the best
antiques. This school is to be absolute
ly free, will always be under the per-
sonal charge of the best artists, and will
work wonders for Chicago art. These
statements are encouraging, and sug-
gest to other cities the query, 'what are
we doing for art 2"
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Certificnte Of Authority.
10 expire on the 2sth day of Feb, AID. 1871. J

AUDITOR OF STATES OFFICE,l
TOPEKA. kAS., March I. 1870.
WHEREAS, The Atlas Mutual Life ms. Com
pnny. of st. Louis. in the State OF Missouri,
has filed in this Office a sworn statement of its
condition, as required by section l04. article H.
chapter ~, of the General Statutes of the State
Of Kansas of 1865.
WHEREAS, Said company has furnished the
undersigned satisfactory evidence that it is
possessed of at least one hundred thousand
dollars Of actual capital, invested in stocks. or
in bonds, or in mortgages of real estate, worth
double the amount for which the same is mort
gagged, in accordance with section 105 of the
same act; and
WHEREAS, Said company has fled in this
office a written instrument. under its corporate
seal, signe1 by the President and Secretary
thereof, authorizing any agent agents of
said company in this State TO acknowledge SER
vice Of process. for and in behalf Of said Com
pany, conseDting that such service of process
shall be taken aud held TO be valid as il
laws of this or any other State, and waIving all
claims or right of error by reason Of such ac-
acknowledgements Of service.
Now, therefore, in pursuance of section I0i
Of the aforesaid act, /. 4. Thoman, Auditor OF
State for the Stata-Of Kansas, do hereby certi-
~ that said Mutual Life Insurance Company
l. authorized 10 transact the business of Life
Insurance in this State until the twenty eighth
day Of February, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and seventy one
In witness whereof. j have hereunto sub
scribed my name, and caused the sea
[sEALl of my Office TO be affixed, the day
and year above written.
A. THOMAN.
Auditor OF State.
To BUCK & CUNNINGHAM. Agents,
| 39-4I ENPORIA. KANSAS
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Master Mechanics Association

TItEERFULLE announce tothe public that
they have affected their organization, and
are now prepared. .'in union," TO furnish ma
tcrial aud complete ans rirst-class work, defy
ing competition in qutiity.
Plans and Specifications furnished, and par
ticular attention given business houses aud
suburban residences. All are cordially invited
TO call On H. before maturing plans and effect
ing contracts, aud note our tnd uccmeuts.
:. BENT MILLER, Director.
III. WOBlDICK, Architect.
Office with Bachelor d Frederick, Real Es-
tate Agents, No. 1913 Commercial street.
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THE ARMY OF FRANcE.-Whath has be-
come of that glorious army of which
Europe for years has been afraid ?
Where is the French army to-day? In
Strasburg, or Metz, or Paris, or dead.
Why has it failed so? Because it was
no more nor less than police force.
1t existed for two puposes-to make a
show and to keep order. These two
purposes it well served. 1t was the
enemy of the French people, not their
protector. So long as it was employed
for its legitimate purpose it was q
grand institution. But the moment it
had to do what it never expected to do
its knees shook, it trembled and fell.
Grand as police force, it is weak as an
army. Powerful against the French
people, it is powerless against the inva-
ding foe. Since the days of the first
Napoleon it docs seem as if France had
been thinking only of herself. This is
not the age for celestial empires.
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A CHICAGO PIRATE.-The Chicago
Tribune says the name of a Chicago
warehouseman has become synonymous
with that of a pirate. A man sends
LOCO bushels of wheat to Chicago, and
gets a receipt for $50; pays two cents
storage, and is next day told that his
grain is shot" and is compelled TO sell
che receipt back to the warehonseman
at loss of ten cents on the bushel, and
sees the same grain sold and delivered
next day as perfectly sound and at the
full price.
In justice to the many honest ware
housemen in Chicago. would it not have
been as well for the Chicago paper to
have spoken out and told the name of
the pirate, so that Kansas men, as well
as others, could guard against him
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Hotel and Feed stable

II 4. COWLES who lives Mt the crossing OF
u the Lawrence and the east and west roads,
half a mile north Of the Neosho. in addition to
his Feed Stable, has fitted up Hotel for the
accommodation of travellers. Bread baked
when 1psirad 1G-tf
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The Wonon,s Journal has this advice
to girls: aNeYer marry s man whose
manner, or speech, or principle, hints at
the idea that he is to be the master, of
his wife. A master who is an employ
er, you can quit on due notice and try
another; but quitting husband, even
for reasons that earth and heaven would
Justify, is serious and disastrous busi-
ness. 7Earry husband, not master.S
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Neyy soarding House.

THE old Normal School Boarding House. on
Il Exchange street, neal the Christian
Church, has been repaired, thoroughly Ieno-
waited, neatly papered and literally furnished
throughout, and / have opened boarding
IN every respect. BoaTslers can be aecommo-
dated with meals alone or with both meals and
lodging. Prices reasonable. For further par
premises. L33-45l A. l.. A. KEYS.
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Fer. Sale.

NNE five acre lot in Goodrieh's addition to
~ the town Of Emporia. Lot fenced and
broke, and one hundred apple Il ees set out
last spring. y splendid chance for Market
Gardening. VIII be sold cheap, partly on
time if desired. Enquire of T. II. McLaugh
lin. at Newman Il Bros. store. St-f
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Iowa is wise. She plants forest of
100000 trees every year. AT this rate
it will not be long before even such 8
prairie State will be rich in forests. Ar
tificial groves are one of the great needs
of Kansas. They are needed to break
the wind; they are needed to afford
shelter from the sun and storms they
are needed for fuel, or will be some day !;
and they are needed (why not mention
it p to lend additional beauty to our va
ried landscapes. Groves can be raised
IS easy as grass-or corn. A single crop
of wheat will pay the original cost of a
grove, acre for acre. 1t is the best in
yestment q farmer or any landowner
can possibly make.
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AVIAN HOUTEN

VNAS Just opened a mandatory OF mems
III Boots, ana makes speciality OF fine work.
Having had an experience Of fifteen years, in
the Eist, In making boots, he has no hesitation
in saying that his patrons shall have the best
boots, made of purely French stock. He has
secured the services OF iirst-elass boot maker
from LcaYcnwoFth.
Rooms next door south of the poStoflicc,
oyer Suap..ler's harness Shop, 3O-43
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aOAH. XARR

L the corner of Mechanics street and Third
avenue, near Aid. a. Bakers wholesale ware
house. lie will keep constantly on hand
large supply of the finest quality of coal. which
he viii sell at reasonable rates. The patron
age of the public Is respectfully solicited. Of
flee IA G. b. Bacheller's Real Estate and Law
Office. T3O-tfl JOHN G. Jones
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Stray Notice.

STRAYED from my place, two miles north
- Of Council Grove, ON or about May the LIST.
one yellowish iron grey filley, two years old !:
bright bay, with star in face; supposed to have
gone in the direction of Waterloo. Lyon coun-
ty. will pay ten dollars for their deli rery to
me. or will pay literally for information that
will lead to their recovery.
3G-tf JAMES w. RITCHEY.
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Oxen, Wagon and PIOw


TWO or three yoke of oxen, in good cOndi-
i ton, heavy, well broken, and sure draft
not more than six years old; Studebaker or
Fish II Bro. wagon, and Moline breaking plow
l6 or Is inch. These must be in good condI-
fiOn, and not much worn; also, good watch
dog. Address this Office, with lowest cash
price for each, CT all.
39-4I JAS. b. MINTURN