The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-22
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as Cit Chamberlain of New York.
"A citizen of Sacramento has sent
the President cigar So inches long.
= Padelford's majority for Governor
of Rhode Island is 4,2ll. Last year it
was $3.50.
= The father of the authoress Vir-
ginia +. Townsend died atthe New Ha-
ven, CT, poor house. $500
- Tennessee has secret society of
eolored men known as 'eThe United
Roses of Old John Brown.
= The edition Of the London Times
is now printed on presses that take IN
the paper in continuous roll.
= In New Hampshire Judges cannot
serve after attaining the age of seventy
nine; but they can go to the Legisla-
ture.
= Negotiations between the Russian
government and the Chinese Embassy
have been suspended. No reason is as
signed.
Why is a horse the most curious
feeder in the world? Because he eats
best when be has not q "bit' in his
mouth. 5I
Strange as it may seem, it is new
ertheless fact that if you cut off your
left hand, your right hand becomes your
left hand.
twin brothers m New York
are SO much alike that they frequently
borrow money of each other without
knowing it.
Steps are being taken in the East to
enable parties of limited means who
desire to emigrate to the west to do SO
free of expense.
AT school examination, young
urchin being asked why it was SO warm
in the torrid zone, very promptly re-
piled, because it is so hot!"
- Caleb Cushing is said to aid Gem
eral Butler in defending the suit
brought against the latter by the Kim
berly Brothers, of Baltimore.
- 1t has been ascertained that the
missing steamer City of Boston has fif-
ty-five cabin and fifty-two Storage pas
sengers, and eighty-four crew.
- Dickens made $4,000 by his late
series of readings in England and he
will get quite or nearly that sum for
his new story about edwin brood"
Two nephews of John Bright died
on February "a, at Kingston, Jamaica.
They were on their way to Aspinwall,
but took the yellow fever at ST. Thomas.
- Alta Cuban fair held at Key West
flee hundred dollars were realized in
three days for the benefit of the patriot
cause.
- If the Eucumenicai fellows keep
bobbing this way and that, as reported,
on the question of infallibility, wont
they convert the Holy See into a holy
| see-saw?
- Chinese parents give away girl-ba-
bies soon after birth. In this country
| they are retained until they become of
manageable age, when they are often
regularly sold. sss
A York state postmaster, alarmed
at the stories about poisonous gum,
gives notice that hereafter everybody
must click their own stamps" else their
letters won't go. no
= Prince Narixkina has presented
his famous collection of pictures to the
Emperor of Russia. 1t is said to be the
most valuable collection ever possessed
by single person.
The workmen of Paris have been
recommended, by placards posted on
all the dead walls of the city, to refuse
to pay their rents for month and join
| in general strike.
- That's very singular" said a
young lady to a gentleman who had
just kissed her. ''Oh, well, my dear
miss" was the reply, ~ will soon make
it plural Z" and the villain did. sa
- Glow is your husband this after
noon, Mrs. Quiggs Z" why, the doe
tor says as how if he lives till morning
he shall have some hopes of him; but #
he don't he must give him up"
= At the High Court of Tours, yes
terday, two poor witnesses were set to
work to prove the previous good char
acter of Prince Bonaparte. This is a
case of extreme cruelty and should be
rebuked.
= George EIliot's poem which will
appear in the May number of NacniI-
tdn'S Magazine, is entitled ''The Legend
of Jufal." 1t is in heroic verse, and
will occupy ten or more pages of the
magazine.
= The womans' rights movement has
found an unexpected champion in the
Empress Eugene, who advocates the
| election of ladies to the French Acade-
my, and particularly that of Nine
George Sand.
= A Wisconsin paper says: "An In
dian woman passed by our Office the
other day with a quarter of venison and
two papooses on her back, q jug of
whiskey in one hand, and wigwam in
the other. How is that for Lo?"
= The colored vote in New Jersey
will reach five thousand, and will be
sufficient in all general elections to give
the State to the republicans. The Sec
ond Congressional District will be re-
deemed, and the Fourth made securely
republican,
A wealthy citizen of q certain
town i'll Maine died recently, and his
last words to his heirs were: 'PIant
me as soon as am cold, and don't cart
me around for side show. Remem-
Der Peabody" He was buried accord
ing to his request.
"A widower's Sorrows
heard judge his tipstad call.
You go forthwith and search the hall,
And send me in my crier."
"And search my lord in vain Imay,,
The tiPstan graveiy said:
Because sanse s Sis %iss sE e d sssdiZ
- The English railroads have ut
length adopted continuance by which
q passenger may communicate with a
brakeman and stop the train. It is
sometimes used improperly, and pas
senger was recently fined $40 by the
courts for unnecessary stopping a
train"
A Cincinnati lady, who recently
found the gas escaping in her servants
chamber, asked her if she had blown il
out instead of turning it off, and was
told that she twas not SO green AZ all
that; she only turned it on again a lit
tie, that it would be easier lighted in the
mornin'"
- my dear, if you go on at this ex-
travagant rate, said penurious hus-
band to his wife, 81 shall go out of nv,
wits" "Well, my DEAR responded the
affectionate wife, "thereII be one com
fort in it, anyhow, and that is, that if
you do go out of your wits, you'll not
have to go SO far but what you'll be
within easy call.
= The House Of Representatives had
a fine joke yesterday on Hooper. of
Massachusetts, which the gentleman
himself helped on by having read an
editorial from reputable PhiIadeIphia
paper, accusing him of sympathy with
polygamysts. 1t all arose from con-
founding the Massachusetts Statesman
with the Utah delegate.
- Miss Mary Carpenter has left her
residence at Bristol, England, for India.
where she intends 70 found system Of
schools, with q view to the elevation of