The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-04-15


make her debut until she weighs 200.
"A San Francisco doctor charged
Camilla Urso only $500 for four visits
| "A storekeeper in Nantucket adver-
| tises quart bowls of all sorts and sizes"
= The latest from Paraguay is to the
effect that the allies are still in pursuit
of Lopez
An American is astonishing all
Paris with his use of the revolver in tar
get practice.
Premier Gla,lstone's second son has
just been ordained priest of the Church
of England.
A st. Petersburg danseHse has been
| fined eighty rubles ''for gestures out of
all bounds
= The Saturday Revie,c calls our wo-
man orators the ''shrieking sisterhood"
| of America.
= 1t is reported that Bailey, the de-
faulting collector, was seen in Albany
last Thursday.
= Intense study of the Bible will
keep any writer from being vulgar in
point of style.
= The Iowa Senate applauded, the
other day when the President said "Miss
Clerk" Only l6.
= The chief of police of New Haven
has received the following: "Yew heV
got jest 10 days tn iv."
1t is stated that the Pope has refus-
cd to allow admission to the council of
a representative of France.
- advertised for the benefit of
few inqRisitive friends" is appended to
Baltimore marriage notice.
The Coliseum organ of Boston has
been purchashed for Rev. L. De Witt
Talmadge's church, Brooklyn.
- The Netc Jerusalem Messenger says
that two of the professors in Cornell
University are Swedenborgians.
- The biggest shoes for women made
in the Philadelphia market go to Utah
the smallest are ordered for Havana.
- In the ukases which the Russian
official journals publish, the Emperor's
name is followed by fifty-two titles.
A couple of negro walters employ
ed at a Louisville hotel have fought
duel-all about some ebony fair one.
- The Jewish Feast of Purim was
enthusiastically celebrated last week,
with feasting, masquerades and gifts.
Two hundred Canadian zouaves
have finished their two years service,
and are on their way home from Rome.
"A Vermonter who would smoke in
the barn, is going to try ashes as fer
tilizer this spring, and build new one.
- There is a whole sermon in the say
ing of the old Persian, I'm all thy quar-
rels leave open the door of reconcilia-
tion."
The young ladies of an Iowa town
announce a "love-making and man
choosing" meeting; admission twenty
five cents.
Montreal shipped $4,000 worth of
American silver to New York recently,
in response to orders from the restau-
rants and saloons in Gotham.
- The sale of the celebrated library
of John A. Rice, of Chicago, closed at
New York on Saturday night. 200
volumes were disposed of for about
$4,000.
We deceive ourselves when we
fancy that only weakness needs support.
Strength needs it more. a straw or a
feather sustains itself longer in the air
than stone.
- The Baptists of Ireland have doub-
led since the revival of 1859. They
employ twenty missionaries, who preach
in one hundred stations, mostly in the
North of Ireland.
- The servant girls in New York
bave been assessed one dollar a month
to build Catholic cathedral, and have
struck for an increase of wages. Many
are being discharged.
- The Established Kirk of Scotland
has 1854 congregations and about 470,-
600 members. The Free church has
about 253, 600 and the United Presbyte-
rians 10000 communicates.
Twelve men were frozen to death
in Northern Iowa during the severe
storm of the 18th ult. Six others are
missing in Sac county, and it is feared
they have met with similar fate.
- AS Horace Greeley was leaving
Broadway car Friday evening, q horse
and light wagon knocked him down and
injured his left ankle severely. He ex-
pected to be out in day or two.
"Now, my little boys and girls"
said teacher, 81 want you to be very
quiet-so quiet that you can hear pin
drop" In a minute all was silent, when
little boy shrieked, "Let her Drop"
John J. Doran, late of the Cincin-
natl Enquirer, has purchased an inter-
est, with ValIandigham and Judge
Dwyer, in the Ledger, and win become
the leading editor of the latter paper.
Buildings Nos. POP and 204 Wash
ington street, Boston, were badly dam
aged by fire on the 2Sth. The occupants
were dealers in hair work, perfumery,
and confectionery. Loss $1,000; in
sured.
- Rev. Newman Hall has been so Sc
riously ill since his separation from his
wife, whose temper is said to have been
uncomfortable, that prayers have been
offered for his recovery in meetings in
London.
The San Jose railroad was purchase
ed by several capitalists, some ofwhOm
are identified with the Central Pacific.
The price paid was S32, 100000, and the
first payment, 100000, is to be made
the LIST of April.
The safe ofthe Walcottville Comm
Savings Bank was blown open Friday
night, and robbed of $500 in bank bills,
and S2.500 in securities. The thieves
stole q hand-car of the Naugatuck rail-
road and made their escape. HE
= The Congrega:ioaaIist gives the Ia
testand most touching illustration of
thatappreciative mind which thankfully
receives the smallest favors-the case of
a clergyman who at a late ministerial
gathering, gratefully acknowled the pa
rochial gift of 1.-TWO points of skim
milk" Poor man there must be very
little cream to such joke as that.
The Memphis AvaLauche comes
down On Rboderic Butler with the re-
mark that since the unanimous vote of
censure. eff Butler had the sensibili-
ties of Digger Indian or rbinoceros he
would resign, return to East Tennessee,
crawl into some mountain cave, and pull
the cave in after him."
In Wilmington, ILL.,, a Roman
Catholic church has just raised nearly
$1,000 by a fair and lotteries. An elder
in the Presbyterian church and the SUI
perintendent of the Sabbath school pre-
sided as judges at the drawing of the
lotteries, and the superintendent of the
Methodist school drew a prize.
John Dixon, of Dixon, Illinois, is
the only survivor of band of twelve
young men who organized in 1900 the
Young Meme Bible Society of New
York, which was the parent of our BIZ
bic Society, and the first society in the
world tn take as it's simDIe object the