The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-10-21
GLRAEINGs.

play the "Marseillalse, the otner eve
ming, in beer-garden. A subscription
is now being taken up to buy new IN
and the doctors bill will be
paid out of the Teutonic fund.
In the stomach of an alligator killed
near Tallahassee, were found few frag-
ments of pine boards, whole bottle,
the bottom and neck of another, and
bunch of hair. He had probably swai-
lowed politician while whiting.
The Importance of a college education
was recently well demonstrated by
Williamstown student, who amused his
classmates and astonished his professors
with the information that the laws OF
gravitation were discovered by Benja-
min Franklin.
New York annually pays S2,500,O00
for ice. The city is divided into about
lac, 600 lots, one-half of which are built
upon. The number of men enrolled in
the various trades unions is 66;O99. The
area of the city is about % square miles,
or 1900 acres.
1t is related that Nathan Hall, of Dur
ham, N. H, in 1913 thanked God that
he sslived in a hilly country where it
was impossible to build railroads" To-
day the cars of the Airline railroad
run through the door-yard of his place,
between his house and barn, and within
four feet of his side-door.
A Michigan woman has recovered by
law all the money that her husband had
spent in liquor saloon for six years.
The prohibitory liquor law of the State
does not regard liquor as property, and
the woman recovered the money on the
ground that it had been paid to the liq-
uor vender without consideration.
The British Cabinet is paid as follows:
The Prime Minister receives $4,000 a
year, the Lord Chancellor $4,000; each
of the four Secretaries of State and the
Chancellor of the EXchequer S25,OOO.
the first Lord of the Admiralty $25,-
600, the other members of the Cabinet
sums varying from $4,000 to SlO,OOO-
A gentle Quaker had two horses,
very good and very poor one. When
seen riding the latter it turned out that
his better half had taken the good one.
What said q sneering old bachelor,
chow comes it that you let your wife
ride the better horse ?" The only reply
was: ''Friend, when thee be married
theell know"
Population of the leading cities in the
Old World: London, 3,2l4 GOO; Paris,
100000; Constantinople, 100000;
Berlin, 100000; st. Petersburg, 697, 900;
Vienna, Coz, 5000; Naples, 100000; Liv-
erpool, $4,000; Moscow, 425, 600; Glas-
Cow, 4OI GOO; Madrid, $4,000; Dublin,
900; Manchester, 100000; Lisbon,
100000; Amsterdam, 100000.
There is at least one place in the land
where something like primitive sim
plicity prevails. jamestown, the island
of Conanicut, midway between the east
eFn and western shores of Narragan-
sett Bay, reports in the census no pau
pers, no criminals, no domestic servants.
Is there any other town, on land or wa
ter, which can furnish like record?
5Tr. David Stewart, of Lawrence, Mas
sachusetts, who is seventy-two years of
age, says the drought of this year in the
East has not had its equal since 1911.
He remembers the peculiarities of that
season with great distinctness, and says
they very much resemble those of the
present season. He is sure that no sea-
son since 1911 has equaled the present
in its excessive heat and lack of rain.
Immigration to this country from
Germany has not been materially check
ed by the European war, as it was great
| arrivals at New York for the week end
| ing October 9Th were twice as great as
| for any week during the last two
months; and the total arrivals for Au-
gust last were only 1856 less than for
the corresponding period of last year.
A Quaker maiden of sixty in Indiana
accepted an offer from a Presbyterian
| deacon, and on being demonstrated with
| by n delegation of Friends, appointed
| to wait upon her, for marrying out of
| the meeting, replied: "Look here I've
been waiting just sixty years for the
meeting to marry me, and if the meet
4 Il
/ why don't the meeting bring along its
| boys?" The delegation departed in ST.
| lence.
The Providence Journal advises peo-
pie 20 do without butter, or at least to
use much less than they have been in
the habit of doing. AS for the girls, it
says if they only knew the ravages that
butter makes upon their compilations,
| how it changes the lilies and roses of
| their cheeks into a perfectly horrid''
| bilious yellow, and makes every one of
them look five years older, they would
as soon wear last years bonnets as eat
an ounce of the stuff.
| Mrs. Phillips, of Portsmouth, o., has
| brought suit against Willis Calhoun, a
retail liquor dealer, for $3.50 damages,
for selling her husband liquor, thus
causing him to neglect his business. The
/ suit WAS INC law OI 1dSI
| winter, holding the retailer liable for
any damages that may be done by the
person to whom liquor is sold. The
case was tried before jury, and verdict
| of damages in the sum of $175 was
awarded Mrs. Phillips.
Henry Clay used to say that there
were three classes of people with whom
it was never safe to quarrel. First,
ministers; for the reason that they
could denounce me from the pulpit, and
1 had none through which to reply.
Second, editors for they had the most
powerful engines from which thoy
1 could every day hufl wrath and fury
upon me, and had none through which
to reply. And, finally, with women ;
for they would have the last word any
how.
A man in New Jersey, named Hotch-
! kiss, thought it would be a good plan
to scare the wife of his bosom a little,
the other night, SO he slipped out OF
bed, got on the roof and dropped few
bricks down the chimney. Mrs. III. did
not scare worth cent, but quietly arose,
boited the trap door, and again sought
her peaceful slumbers. The rest of the
night was spent by Mr.. Hotchkiss on
the ridgepole, shivering in the cold. and
sadly chanting, "ThOu art so near and
yet so far"
The Colorado Territorial Fair is pro-
crossing finely, with large attendance.
Among the articles exhibited are the
largest silver button and the lagest gold
brick ever produced; the silver button
weighing eleven hundred and forty one
ipounds-coin value, twenty Thousand
dollars; the gold brick weighing one
hundred and ninety-six pounds-vaIue,
thirty-nine thousand and forty dollars.
The display of smaller specimens OF
gold and silver bullion and rich ores is
very fine.
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