The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-02-18
GLEASINGS.

- 1roNe youfSeli WorSny, ana then
prove worthy of yourself.
= Eleven cattle thieves were recently
hanged to one tree in Texas.
"A Connecticut inventor has taken
out patent for paper collins.
The Yukon river in Alaska is the
third largest river in the world.
"A crown will not cure the head
ache, nor a golden slipper the govt.
= Fashionable young ladies, like let
tiers, require stamps or the males reject
them.
A Missouri man was recently mar
ried, as he said, ''to quiet fuss in the
church,
- The Baptists of Iowa number
about 10000, whiehis numerical gain
of 1000 over last year.
= MeFarland's trial will not come off
until March. His counsel have decided
to enter a plea of insanity.
"A Wisconsin farmer sorts his eggs,
sending the small ones to the market,
and keeping the large ones for his own
use.
u Mr.. Wilson's resolution in regard
to Mrs. Lincoln, grants a pension OF 3d.
600 per annum from the time of Mr.. Lin
coins death.
The Pope is said TO have forbidden
the bishops to meet for discussion in
private. He fears their connecting
plans of opposition.
= The latest case of neatness we have
heard of was that of the woman who
scrubbed her kitchen floor until she fell
through into the cellar.
- Take away the example of the few
who can drink without becoming
drunkards, and let it be known that all
who yield to drink are sure to fail, and
intemperance will cease.
- 1t is a beautiful custom in some
Oriental lands TO leave untouched the
fruits that are shaken from the trees by
the wind, these being regarded as sa-
cred to the poor and the stranger.
In building barns, it is well to re-
member that stock need shelter more
than the crops, and that hay-forkS and
threshing machines have rendered the
old fashioned barn-floor unnecessary
- The wisest farmer is he who has
the most experience to light his way.
The experience of Others we'll noted and
applied with discretion may make the
young farmer as competent as the old.
H. Sale and Fred Maberman, of
Chicago, have published card saying
that they are the makers of the Cardiff
Giant and are ready to make any num-
Der to order. They claim an interest in
the present giant.
= Memory presides over the past; &C
ton over the present. The first lives in
rich temple, hung with glorious troph-
les, and lined with tombs the other has
no shrine but duty, and it walks the
earth like spirit.
= A school teacher named Akers was
tried ut Bloomington Ill.,, last week,
for lallx lS nj
The evidence showed that he had in
flicted eighty-three lashes with double
switch of Usage and apple.
= The '.Grand Army of the Consti-
tuition - is a new Democratic society
just organized in Brooklyn. II is the
left wing of that grand Democratic ar
my which fought SO gallantiy for the
Confederate Constitution during the
war.
Gen. Tate, who had been invited
to the diplomatic dinner of the Presi-
dent, on next Wednesday, has sent po-
lite letter declining on the ground that
he had been banished by the Provision
al Government, and his chief, Salnave,
shot.
= The marble bust of Senator Sum-
ner, the work of the well-known sculp-
tor, NJ. Millmore, was lately placed in
one of the inches of the Doric Hall of
the State House. 1t is pronounced by
good judges to be a most excellent work
of art.
= Senator Hamlin, the venerable ex-
| Vice-President. was importuned by
some friends of his TO frank some of
their letters. The Senator took the LETT
tiers, affixed postage stamps upon them
all, and blandly returned them To the
writers.
a woman lately entered q store
and sat down in front of an iron safe to
warm her feet. After sitting some
| twenty or thirty minutes, she remarked
that she never did Ike them kind of
stoves-they didn't throw out scarcely
any heat"
The argument on the contested
election cases, OF the Prosecuting Attor-
ney and other city officers of Philadel-
phia, which occupied the State Supreme
Court all the week, was concluded Sat
urday morning. The Court reserved
its decision.
Work at the Mares Island Navy
Yard was suspended on Saturday, by
orders from Washington. About 1000
men were discharged. The cause of the
suspension is unknown. There was
plenty of work for 1000 men, and plen-
ty of funds.
"A young lady at Troy, while en-
gagged in conversation with gentle
man, few days since, spoke of having
resided in ST. Louis. - Was ST. Louis
tfeman. "Well, yes-part of the time" "
responded the lady.
A young matron of Bridgeport,
aged Is years, recently made an addi-
ton to the census, with the assistance
of her mother, aged 32, her grandmoth-
er, aged 81, and her great-grandmot other,
aged rs, thus COMPRISING five genera
tions into the smallest compass on re-
cord.
- Two German physicians report the
case OF man brought to lunaIic asy-
lum who imagined himself made of
glass, and lived in constant terror of be-
lug smashed to pieces. His hair and
beard suddenly began to turn white,
and the change was completed in a few
hours.
- At the recent Woman Suffrage Con-
vention in Washington, Mrs. ii. B.
Stanton congratulated the young girls
present that the word "obey" had been
taken from the marriage ceremony of
the Methodists. Every minister who
used that word in the service, she said,
should be impeached.
= The following advertisement for
the recovery of red calf was actually
published in paper of Columbia coun-
ty, Pa, in the summer Of 1869: Lost
a Calf Ret. His two behind legs were
White. he was she calf. Every body
what catches him GIBBS tree Dollars
Ltppfncotes Aag0ztsae.
= Miss Julia Hubbard, the "tran-
seribing clerk" of the Wisconsin legis-
lature, is young, handsome, and we'll
educated. a bashful young member
called her the transporting clerk, in his
confusion, the other day, and was i'm
mediateIy called to order by all the
other unmarried members
- The steamer American, of the
Memphis and Arkansas Packet Line,
bound for Fort Smith with the 18th in
fautry, struck a snag on Thursday
night, above Little Rock, and sunk in
fourteen feet of water. -Four deck
hands were drowned. The boat was
valued at $4,000; not insured.
- Saturday night a fire was discov-
cred In the house of David NJ. Adams,
Virgin alley, Pittsburg. On entering
the building Mrs. Adams was discover
ed lying on the floor burned to death.
Her husband was intoxicated, He sta