The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-05-20
GIEANINGs.

tronized barber shop in Detroit-,0 -FI
A Floral sentiment-if you desire
"heart's ease" never look to 'Emarry
gold"
Matte johnson, whom Parson Cook
inveig.ed, has drowned her sorrows in =
a husband.
Women who instruct their sisters
in the art of padding are called profess
sors of symmetry.
= The number of working women in
Paris is three hundred thousand, who
average thirty cents day. f9in
= The best guardian OF a womans
happiness is husbands love; and for
her honor, her own affection. -. i-.ss
-Corsets are the most economical
article of lady's wardrobe, because
they keep her from running to waist
Monogram carriers are now worn
by the ladies. Let us hope that the
fashion will go no further in this direq-
ton.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to admit women to the medical
department. of the colleges of st. Peters
burg.
: The last bit of society gossip from
Washington marries Secretary Robson
to Miss Borie, a niece of the ex-Seoreta- q
ry of the Navy. ass fai.E efa.l ,T.4oasl
- Chief Justice Cole, of Iowa, favors u
woman suffrage, looking upon it as the
grand preventive for crime, lawlessness
and intemperance.
The green tarletan dresses, SO pop
ular with the ladies, are dangerous, as
the material with which they are color
ed contains deadly poison.
A Young lady being asked by
rich old bachelor, ''if not yourself, who
would YOU rather be ~ replied modest
ly and sweetly, ''yours truly" e3sai,g..
A new, jaunty and stylish article
of dress for the ladies lisa donble-breast-
ed coat, which buttons high in the neck
and has wide turn-down collar.
"A female writer says that young
ladies should have some aim in life.
Almost every one does. She gets az
beau, then she aims to get married. sni
A Maine youths courtship is en-
Uttered by the fact that his lady-loYeis }
house is haunted, and the ghosts make
it lively for him every time he calls. .s
BY the terms of the friendly sepa-
ration between ex-Queen Isabella and
her husband, Don Francisco gets S40,-
coo year, tied up tight, and Isabella
keeps the rest. i diot- 3ni
When the British government I'M
dertook the working of the telegraph
department, not only were the female
clerks retained, but fifty additional ones
were appointed.
= During the past two years, the Cit
liens of Lawrance, Kansas, have sue
ceeded in raising eighty-seven cents
towards a ten thousand dollar InOnu-
nj FNrs II i'm o..
That Boston widow, who took the
coffin-plates of three dead husbands to
a jeweler and requested him to snake
them over into butter-knife,v had an
eye to business. Who speaks next?
Archery is encouraged among the
young ladies. of Brooklyn by giving
prizes of one hundred dollars to the
most expert with the bow and arrow.
But they do not consequently become
arch angels. -iE sss& 5tt# -
On the adjournment of the Iowa
Legislature, the enthusiastic members
of the House presented Miss Mary e.
Spencer, engrossing clerk, with an ele-o
CANT silver tea set, and her little speech
on the occasion was received with "a
fury of cheers"
A ''horrid brute" in Newark has
become insanely suspicious of his fond
wife, just because she has several times
suggested the propriety of his getting
work in nitro glycerine factory, which
has blown up twice lately. The wretch
wants n divorce. f...s, H.; t,..-s.l..s-.,l -..
The wife of Theodore A. Snyder,
ofNew FORK, applies for decree of di-
vorce on the ground that he was in the
habit not only of getting drunk himself.
but of making his family drunk, from
the boy who had recently been put in
pants to the infant in the CRADLE fiifIa4
: Mrs. Carleton, a New Hampshire
lady, medical student herself, recent
ly lectured on "W oman in the Medical
Profession" She dwelt upon the fact
that midwifery belonged exclusively to
women for six thousand years, and that
to preside at the nativity of man was
the most honorable position which any
one could occupy. 99H - siu5 ia
At one time Daniel Webster had n
difficult case TO plead, and "a vertlict~was
rendered against his client. One of the
witnesses came to him and said '"Mr.
Webster, if | had thought we should
have lost the case, / might have tesfi-
fed great deal more than 1 did."5siIt
is of no consequence, replied the law
yer. ''The jury did not behave 8 word
you said" 49,. .-,,,......s.
The negroes, in their recent. cole
bration at Louisville, had one traRspAr-
ency in which the .'Train of, Progress
was depicted-a 4. locomotive labeled
''The Fifteenth Amendment" with n
train of % cars. attached, representing
the ratifying. States; and number of
jackasses harnessed to the rear ear. en-
blematic of the States refusing to rati-
fy, vainfy trying to pull the train back
ward. iaH ssis ~ irfLzs
= An infant of Waterbury, named
Freddy, went to his mother and inquir-
ed, Mother, what is gone stackeP?,
The mother said he musu't .0sk such
questions, but Freddy persisted, and
was finally sent to bed to say his pray
ers by himself, instead ofon his moth
er's lap, as usual. So Freddy prayed:
God bless papa, and mamma, and baby;
but, as for me, rs been q bad hoy, and
L gness Tn a gone sucker.0s y es.r.....s.t
- The following hines were taken
from young lady's h yasIsbooIs, few
days ago, which she thoughtlessly feft
IN church:1 He4.{ T9lst4E so t4f u
Dear, deaI Whale What shS si Pc o s'l4 al
Sannot listen as I ougft.'ltl - 4iE- 5HI
He might have GENE as we'll - nbe, ,Ha5as
a ri bet he last a sssss ,e az oi ere e
zst. Or smoking n cigaE.'.a a.-,5
Abraham Lincoln used 10 say the
best story he ever read of himself was
this: Two Quakereses Were travelling
on the railroad, and were heard dis
cussing the probable termination of the
war. 81 think, +" saidthe first, THAT def
fefson will succeed s;"WhE does. thee
think SO ~ asked the other. Because
J Jefferson is a praying man. ttAnd so
is Abraham q praying man. Objected
the second. sfYes, but the Lord will
think Abraham is joking, z sheofirst re-
Piled, eonelusiyely. 10 -lss.is4a..,.,
- A correspondent of the iiIsoston
Transcript writes 'sThcs stery going
the rounds of the little, boy who re-
fused to pray for his brother because
he killed my little kitten tiIis morning
reminds me ofan6tAer little fell0w,who
after repeating the Lords RSayeF,gwas
accustomed TO 5extemporize, which on
enc occasion he did thus: Please, God,
bless papa and mamma, afid-a.sd Land
u yo3ti'e-G 4essa6 10, yoEI sfnay .biess.Aunt
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