The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-11
GLEANINGs.


In Iowa this year the State tax is
two mills on the dollar.
= Nine-tenths of all patented inven-
tons turn ont worthless.
The Fifteenth Amendment, it is es-
timated, makes 100000 new voters.
= The Chinese of California are ship
ping horned frogs to China for medi-
cine.
= In Milton, there is girl who has
string with 600 buttons on it, no two
alike.
-. He told me-" says Artemus Ward,
50 to get out of the Office. pitied him
ard went"
A religious paper published in
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is called the
'.Heu IStaceT."
- The circulation of the London
Times is said to be only half what it
was three years ago.
- Bergh thinks that five hundred
New York babies die every year from
the use OF swill milk.
He who feels ashamed to-day (for
any particular action will not do the
same. thing tomorrow.
A bill has been introduced into the
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right of suffrage to females.
: Ladies' viii be glad to learn that a
little cake dipped in wine will restore
the lost voice of a canary bird.
The Massachusetts, Workingmen's
Protective Union have unanimously re-
solved against woman suffrage.
"A bright schoolboy out West, re-
citing in geography, defined q strait to
be something that would "beat two
pairs"
| "A Congressman from Alabama
''tried to pinch the gas light out, but
found that somebody had stolen the
wick"
! The Wisconsin Legislature is fear
fully carpet-baggy, not q single member
being able to claim the State as his birth
place.
- Beecher says that he gets an aver
age of twenty begging letters per
$4,000.
Pittsburg has received an order
from England for a nail machine-the
first order of the kind ever sent TO this
country.
A California paper is down on
man because he backed out of fight
after getting both ears and his nose
chawed of.
"A conscript being told that it was
! sweet to die for his country, excused
himself on the plea that he never did
like sweet things.
The Boston Journal predicts that
our inland letter postage will be re-
duced from three cents to two cents
within two months.
| a sra11 rv,a,, e Tito ov,
preaching n fragrant flower; to ap-
Proach bad man Is like approaching
brambles and thorns.
"A bad man considers small virtues
of no advantage, and will not perform
them; small vices not injurious, and
will not relinquish them.
/ Foreign letters received at the New
York post Office during the past year
amount to 5,4l5, 704, and the number of
letters sent abroad is 5,226, 1928.
A man lately attempted to start a
writing school in Denver, but they
made him turn it into q saloon, not
wanting any 'Efangles in this town"
The U. s. Economist insists that,
notwithstanding all reports to the con-
trary, the corn crop of 1869 is equal TO
that of 1868, if it does not exceed it.
1t is estimated that there are three
hundred thousand women in the State
of New York, with no prospect Of pair
ing of-nOt men enough to go around.
The report of the Secretary of the
Treasury shows that the average num-
Der of employees in the Treasury De-
partment during the past year was
"A very wealthy lady in Warren
county, Penn, devOtes the greater por-
ton of her time to making cream can
1 dy, which is sold for the benefit of the
1 poor.
- Says n Western paper of its rival:
'sThe editor of the Times has been pre-
sented with a cabbage head" Retorts
! the Times: Certainly; our friends are
as liberal with us as the Lord with you"
A paper publishes the following
erratum-: ''The words printed pigs and
cOIcs in Mr.. Parker's letters on the land
question, which appeared in yesterdays
issue, should have been pros and cons"
| Senator Warner says that Alabama
has gained s, 700 in population by immi-
| grafton during last year, and her people
are now prosperous and generally bet
ter contented than at any former period
of her history.
;. "A fool, says the Arab proverb, may
be known by six things Anger without
cause, speech without profit, change
without motive, inquiry without object,
putting trust in stranger, and not
4 knowing his. friends from his foes.
4 "A Bible and good newspaper in
every house, good school in every dis
trict, and an evangelical church in every
neighborhood, and all appreciated as
they should be, are the support of vir-
tue, morality, civil liberty, and pure re-
ligion.
josh Billings writes that fPhiloso-
pliers aul agree that the milk is put into
the koker nut, and then the hole is neat
" plugged up; but who the fellow IL
who duz it the philosophers are honest
enough, for q wonder, to admit that
they kant tell"
This is the latest about Massa-
chusetts railroad: Queries one passen-
ger, as the train comes to dead halt,
"Well, wonder what We we've stopped
for now?" "Why,s exclaims fellow
traveller, ats to take the cow-catcher
of the engine and put il on behind, to
keep the cows from running over u.s."
The spots on the sun look quite
black to the eye, from their contrast
Il with the exceeding brightness of its
general surface and yet DR.. Gould says
that HerschePs estimate is generally
considered too low, although he calcu-
lates that the nucleus OF the spota Is
nearly 5000 times as bright as the full
moon.
- The most formidable labor eFgani-
cation in Massachusetts, is known as the
'fKnights of st. Crispin." It numbers
nearly, If not. quite, 10000 members.
The several hundred lodges which are
scattered through the State have asked
the Legislature to incorporate a grand
lodge oftheir order, placing il on the
same footing IS the Free Masons.
i II Some intoxicated Yale students
knocked at the door of fellow -student
who was not intoxicated. The lstter at
once went for his visitors, when the
soberest of the party told the offender
to ask the students pardon. a little
too far gone to comprehend the situa-
| ton, he staggered mp and sid: Mr..
-, il pounded on your door, (hic)
thank you.o The apology was eonsid-
cred sufficient. ~
| Tho source of the sums heat is
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