The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-09-09
GLEANINGS.


Gladstone's salary as prime minister
is to be raised to $4,000 per year. He
is now receiving $4,000.
There is an umbrella in Bangor which
has been in the possession of one family
for fifty years. 1t was bridal gift.
Bonner announces series of articles
for the New York Ledger, contributed
by twelve distinguished United States
Senators.
The Crispins will be gratified to hear
that the bones of fifteen hundred Chi
namen have just been sent home from
San Francisco.
Victoria Louisa Sophia AugustaAme;;
liza Helena" is all the name allowed
Victoria's new granddaughter, born to
the Princess Christina.
It is estimated that over one hundred
young ladies are at present studying
law in this country. Probably they
will become mothers-in-law one OF
these days.
The Vinton Qowa) Eagle says a
young woman walked from Palo to
Vinton, twenty miles, to have tooth
extracted, and, after it was done, walk
ed back home the same day.
Romer, a Danish astronomer who
fourished in 1876, was the first person
who discovered the velocity of light,
which he calculated to be at the rate OF
167, 500 geographical miles second.
Paradol is the second foreign minister
who has committed suicide in the Uni
ted States, the other case being tibet of
q Spanish minister, who killed himself
in Washington about fifteen years ago.
Mr.. Belmont's drag was mistaken at
Newport the other day for an omnibus
by an unsophisticated stranger, who had
nearly mounted to the roof before he
was undeceived. The turnout is now
known as Belmonts bus.
At a Sunday school a teacher asked a
little boy if he knew what the express
sion Sowing tares" meant. "Course
does" said he, pointing to his little
brooches. "There's q tear mother sew
ed. feared it sliding down hill"
Erie, Pa, furnishes the latest sensa-
ton in the way of runaway match.
Michael Buckley, an innocent young
fellow of seventy-three, and Margaret
Mahon, dashing widow of eighty-two,
ran away from the county poor house
last week and were married.
The governor of the wcrkhouse at
Pleasanton, England, recently ordered
q lad named John Darlington to be
"ducked" for soiling his clothes. He
was ducked so thoroughly that he was
drowned, or as the coroner's jury hath
it, "death by misadventure."
When Theodore Hook was asked for
O donation to the Society for CONVEX
sion of the Jews, he returned an answer
that he had no money to give away but
if they sent him jew he would try to
convert him. This was not quite what
the Society required, and Hook never
heard from them again.
'ENow that the suns rays are of in
creased power" cody remarks an edit
or out West, ga large amount of enjoy
ment may be obtained by juveniles by
throwing the reflection thereof from a
mirror, or a piece of tin, into peoples
eyes. When rightly managed, this is
q source of much innocent pleasure.
The vegetarians lately convened in
Berlin adopted new bill of fare, which
not only proscribes all kinds of meats,
but also all intoxicating drinks or slim
ulants, either cold or warm, such as tea,
coffee, wine and beer, as well as the use
of tobacco. The Society of Paris have
endorsed the same rules.
It depends much upon how we get
into trouble, whether it will be very
disagreeable or endurable. Jonah and
Paul were both in a storm. The first got
in by disobedience and found it all but
insufferable; the other was in the path
of duty and found it pleasant. The
angel of God stood by him, and the
everlasting arms were beneath him.
A case of feminine daring is related
of Virginia belle, who rode to the
edge of q precipice, and defe't any
man of the party with whom she was
riding to follow her. Not man accept
ed the challenge; but a tantalizing boy
stood on his head in the saddle and dar-
ed the lady to do that.
The story that Lady Franklin travel
ed 70 Alaska in hopes of recovering
certain papers, said to have been found
there in cast away bottle, turns out to
be pure fiction. But there is more and
better than romance in the fact that La
dy Franklin did go there to approach
as nearly as possible the region in
which her noble husband was lost.
Daniel Webster's Latin grammar i:
now the property of Captain Heating
desire to see into the book. the youthful
owner cut his initials into the leather
cover. Inside is written: Daniel Web
ster, his property, Exeter, Nov. 9th, 1874
Price Is. Sd, and upon the fly leaf is the
admirable maxim, "Strive to be excel.
lent and eminent in all things that are
praiseworthy, for this is good"
The following is clipped from the tel
egraph dispatches from New York or
the 1st inst:
Clark King, jr., assistant cashier of the
firm of Clark q Co., bankers, was held
to bail in 81 900 to-day, to await tria
for the aliadOeI awindlinO of n servanj