The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-03-25
GLRANINGs.
: The bans Spain forbids-Cubans.

- VICTOR hugo pays taxes on 81, JuU
worth of property at Guernsey.
= Reflection is flower of the mind,
giving out wholesome fragrance.
1t is said there is no holier spot. of
ground than petroleum oil district.
- Are the vices of Washington part
of the machinery of the government
- Some hearts, like primroses, open
most beautifully in the shadow of life.
- The New York Sun says Greeley
would fight if offered personal violence.
= Men of regular habits-those who
get drunk every morning before break
fast.
= Ole Bull has given $500 in gold to
the Scandinavian Society of San Fran
cisco.
The proprietor of "a Wisconsin paper
offers TO take sauer kraut on subscrip-
tons.
1t is no sign because man makes
n stir i'll the community that he is a
spoon.
Why is n newborn baby like a
cows tail? Because it was never seen
before.
- Some families have in them an an
gel whose presence heals by calming the
waters.
Will you take lunch ? is now rem
dered-Win you surround some nour-
ishment.
- Brigham y Young is making arrange
ments to set out 100000 fruit trees at
Salt Lake.
= Undertakers say they get the best
prices for burying men whose wives
hated them.
- The cause of Newman Halls ILL.,
ness is said to have been the elopement
of his wife.
- There is rumor that Gen. Upton
is to relieve Gen. Pitcher in command at
West Point.
- Somebody wants to know how
many early birds participated in the
Diet of Worms.
- The negro possesses an advantage
over the white mamie can conceal a
black eye.-PURch.
- Distinction is an eminence which
| is obtained but too frequently at the eS-
pense of a fireside.
= The man most likely to leave his
mark upon the times-one who cannot
write his own name.
- Praises are valuable only when
they come from those who have the
courage to condemn.
- The Empress Eugene said the
other day that not day passed without
her shedding many tears.
- The New Orleans Times says that
although the milk-maid has passed
away, made-milk has not.
= False fears bring true vexations.
The Imaginary grievances of our life
arc more than the real ones.
= Judge Dillon, on Wednesday, de-
livered a lecture to the law students at
the University at Iowa City.
The grave is indeed hallowed when
the grass of the churchyard can cover
all memory save that of love.
| = 1t is almost always the metaphysi-
cal beautiful, very rarely physical beau
tiful, which affects us to tears.
The petroleum men are great bores,
but they mean well. We wish we could
say as much of the life insurance agents.
"A mare recently died in Platteville,
Wis, at the age of 35 years. She had
always been owned by the same man.
= DR.. John a. Cummings, the noted
Boston dentist, who invented the rubber
vulcanitc plate, died Sunday, aged fifty
four.
"A chaplain of a state prison was
asked by friend how his parishioners
were. "All under conviction" was the
| reply.
= Hon. John Covode has been as
signed his old place as Chairman of the
| Committee on Public Buildings and
| Grounds.
The true lover if he so far foPgets
himself as to indulge joy when alone,
viii feel as if he were guilty of robbing
his partner.
- Seats in the New York Gold Ex-
change, the par value of which are $500,
have been cold within the past week as
low as 500.
= The most successful and accom-
plished pick-pocket in New York is
pretty woman, well known TO the police
as Little Lou.
A gentleman of Columbia, South
Carolina, is making arrangements to
plant eighty acres of cotton within the
corporate limits.
| When we find a great natural cour-
tesy III the poor, we only find it in COM
pany with superior native sense or great
tenderness of feeling.
= Mr.. Leftwich, of Memphis, died
Monday, and his death removes all con-
test TO the Congressional place nowIpos-
sessed by w. j. Smith.
= Rome, New York, has chosen CAL
vert Comstock, formerly one of the ed
itors of the Albany argus, as the first
Mayor of the new city.
The groundwork of ali manly char
acter is veracity or the habit of truth
| fnlness. That virtue lies at the founda-
ton of everything said.
= Mexican Buchanan apologized to
an Evansville, Indiana, audience for his
bad acting, by announcing that he was
afflicted with rheumatism"
| To give moral subjects true relief
| you require, as in the stereoscope, to
look through two glasses--that of the
intellect and that of the heart.
= Olive Logan claims the credit Of
bringing the "leg drama" and "blonde
business" into disrepute, and driving IL
from the theaters in New York.
= Bismarck, they say, was much dis
appointed when he heard that the re-
cent revolutionary troubles in Paris did
not amount to more than they did.
= Brown University in Providence,
and Columbia College in Washington,
receive $4,000 each to found Professor
ships, by the will of the late DIR. Elton.
| Inc family OF the late Mr.. Burlin-
game have left st. Petersburg for Paris.
The remains of Mr.. Burlingame viii
| not probably be brought home before
April.
= The Louisville Conriey'-,Joitz7aIre
marks that cadetship evidence against
Butler. of Tennessee, would be conyinc-
ing if it were not backed up by his own
confession.
= California wine growers are find
| ing that expensive underground wine
cellars of brick or stone are unnecessary,
| that the wine keeps better in barns
above ground.
| - Delos Carmichael, who was con-
yicted, in Hilisdale county, Michigan, in
1857, of mixing cantharides in the food
OF girl, in an attempt TO seduce her,
has been paFdoned.
- At Warsaw, in Poland, several la
dies have been fined twenty-five rubles