The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-18


Black and white lace is worn in the
neck of dresses, instead of collars.
A farmer gathers what he sows, while
seamstress sews what she gathers.
Our own company we cannot avoid !;
we should make it good as possible.
Four millions of eyelets for shoes are
made daily by two Connecticut factories.
The manufacture of spurious century
plants is branch of Chicago industry.
A good deal of damage has been
caused by earthquakes in Greece, this
year.
Western Iowa has caught grasshop-
per that measures an inch across the
back.
New Orleans registers this year ST.
763 voters. In 1868 the number was
1900.
In many orchards in Monroe county,
n. Y, the winter fruit still remains on
the trees.
All the European steamers are max
ing unusually long westerly passages
this season.
Columbia is third in the list of Ameri-
can Universities as regards number of
students.
The Bavarian mitrailleuses fire 800
bullets minute and are fatal at 1900
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For the first time in thirty years, the
New Haven county Jail is without fe-
male prisoner.
More tourists have lost their lives in
Europe during the past summer than in
the last ten years.
A Kentucky man opposes life insur-
ance, as "trying to bluff the Almighty
out of a sure hand"
The business in writing paper and
envelopes is reported to be much larger
this year than ever before.
Selma, Alabama, has public library.
1t was established by the chamber of
commerce of that city.
The cattle diseased has destroyed over
two hundred cows this season, in the
vicinity of Knoxville.
Miss Matte Adams took the prize of
the golden apple, as the handsomest wo-
man at the Georgia State Fair.
Cardinel Antonelli recently present.
ed costly gold chain and medallion to
Miss Winnie Ream, the sculptress.
The penal statues of California are in
the hands of q revision committee,
which has nearly finished its work.
Long black silk mantles, lined with
fur, and turned over collars of fur, are
to be very fashionable next winter.
The second class rates to San Fran
cisco have been reduced. From New
York, 500; Chicago, SS5, and Omaha
SIS.
The annual convention of the Nation
al Woman Suffrage Association will be
held in Columbus on the ed and 23d of
November.
Very heavy cashmere, costing from
six to twelve dollars a yard, will be
worn for the most stylish street cos
tunes this winter.
A club of students in the Baptist
Theological Seminary, at Chicago, are
boarding themselves at a cost for pro-
visions of one dollar a week each.
A Louisville barkeeper Is i'll Jail for
murder. He says, while chasing a
man out of his wife's bed room with a
carving-knife, he was taken with a
temporary fit of insanity, and the man
died.
George Ticknor, Esq, of Boston, re-
letes that Talleyrand once said to him,
pointing to a portrait of Alexander
Hamilton, that the three greatest men
he had known in his time were Napo-
leon, Charles James Fox and Alexan-
der Hamilton.
"How do you like the character of
st. Paul ?" asked person of his landla-
dy. "Ah, he was a good old soul, for
he once said, you know, that we must
eat what is set before US, and ask no
questions for conscience sake. 1 al
ways thought I should like him for a
boarder."
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
have under consideration plans for the
| irrigation of its immense land grant
along the Platte Ledge, Pale Crow
Creek and Laramie rivers. Hundreds
of thousands of acres can be reclaimed
and made good agricultural land if this
is done.
Figures obtained from Chicago I'M
| derWriters show that the total valua-
ton of vessels and cargoes lost on the
lakes within the last two months
reach nearly half million dollars. The
| insurance on these losses amounts to
about $350,O00, but it is pretty well di-
vided up among numerous companies.
A good old lady, who improved
every opportunity to teach by precept
and example, once remarked at q pray
er meeting: "My friends, as I came
along ] saw a cow a-switching of her
| Idll-lu Iu1S WlCk0u WORTH Oh SIT
was peaceful and contented, a-swiichin
of her tail-and said to myself, "Go
thou and do likewise"
''If a man sleeps under my preach.
ing" says Mr.. Beecher, 81 do not send
a boy to wake him up, but feel that q
boy had better come and wake me up
Men will not go where they are not
fed. When they go to church and gel
nothing but cut straw, and straw raised
five hundred years ago at that, and will
not come again, I honor them"
The total corn product in 1870 in the
United States is estimated at 250,O0O,
COO bushels, being the largest yield in
ten years. The wheat crop is less thar
that of 1869, which was a very large
one. The cotton crop will probably bt
nearly the same as last year, about g.,
100000 bales, though considerably more
was sown. The price will be only
about 10 cents per pound, or the vergs
of profitable cultivation. The pas
| war IL has sold af % ond 81 confs