The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-02-25
GLEANINGs.

= Iowa has LIZA Quaker families,
with $3.50 members.
Germany dent grant marriage
licenses to drunkards.
DR.. Chaplin says that every young
lady ought TO jump at the chance of mar
rying a-mechanic.
= There are only a thousand bills
pending in the House, and seven hun
dred in the Senate.
- The woman who neglects the but
tons of heEshusbaad's shirt front is not
| the wife of his bosom.
A man should think little of the
evil that is said of him, unless he thinks
much of him who says it.
= Ii is said Bismark, in case the other
great powers concur, will prepare pro-
test against the papal syllabus.
- Flourens seems 10 be the coming
man in Paris. The next thing he will
come to is probably the guillotine.
= General Negley says that West
Point is a useless expense and hum
bug, and goes in for abOlishing it.
The Ecumenical Council is deluged
with petitions from the Gailican clergy,
| fayoring the dogma of infallibility.
= A citizen of Boston who wants to
see the national debt wiped out, has just
contributed ten cents toward that object.
- Dutchman says of the New York
ers, ''Dey go about der city scheaiing
each oder, and dey calls dat business"
If you would be pungent be brief;
| for it is with words as with sunbeams-
the more they are condensed the deeper
theX burn.
Judging from the sentiments of the
| Senators, il is thought that the bill abol-
ishing the frauking privilege will pass
| the Senate.
"Wouldn't you like to be woman
when you grow up, Tommy" mo"
| "Why not?' Because women can't
turn summersauIts."
- Three negroes at Knoxville, Tenn,
| died the next day after riding horse,
and now no one dare mount the animal,
fearing that he is bewitched.
- Copies of the Gazette, of Augs-
| bourg, containing draft OF the canon
of Papal iniallibility. were seized and
confiscated at the pcstoffiec at Rome.
A clergyman preaching against
marriage in Wisconsin, has been found
to have nine wives scattered about the
country. He speaks from experience.
- Virtue needs no outward pomp.
Her very countenance is so full of ma
jesty that the proudest pay her respects,
and the profanest are awed by her pres
ence.
| = Modesty has found its highest de-
velopmcnt in the person OF a Boston la
dy, who asked a dry goods clerk for
bleached cloth suitable for reposiBg
robes.
- A frightened horse in Port Hope,
Ca, recently successfully crossed a via
duct a quarter of a mile long and six
teen feet high, on single plank, at full
speed.
= Seventeen suits against liquor deal
ers have been commenced within the
last few days in Usage county, Kansas,
and the people are determined TO enforce
the law rigidly.
The committee of the Methodist
church to investigate the alleged frauds
and Irregularities in the New York
Book Concern, have failed to agree in
their conclusions.
- 1t is with our thoughts as with our
fiowers-those that are simple in ex-
preston carry their seeds with them I;
those that are double, charm the mind,
but produce nothing.
1T is said that railroads prevent
thunderstorms, but encourage rain-falls.
| Where there is a prolonged drouth, 1t is
only necessary to put down a railroad or
two to put stop TO it.
= Large quantities of nickel five cent
pieces are received ut the Sab-Treasury
in New York for redemption. Twenty
out of every hundred presented are
| found to be counterfeit.
- An old miser, having listened to q
very eloquent discourse OF charity, re-
marked. THAT sermon so strongly
proves the necessity of almsgiying that
I've almost mind to beg"
| - Little Sunset Cox in Congress, yes
terday, took occasion 10 mildly attack
Butler, who disdainfully replied, 'Shoo
fly don't bodder me-" Cox grew fear
fully and wonderfully mad.
| = Commodore Vanderbilt refuses TO
make will. He desires that his youth
full wife shall have her full legal share of
his property. She will be heir. there
fore, when he dies, to some $4,000, 900.
Whittier being asked for an auto
graph. the other day, at once complied
| by penning =
The name Is but the sh ldlow, which we find
Too often larger than the man behind.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER.
- They had what they called paper
party in an Ohio town the other night,
aud the local journal says that paper
| never appeared to better advantage ms
circulating medium than during the
waltzes.
Il would especially guard against
! young ladies from faucying themselves
like lady supervisors, with their obse-
quious following OF diciplcs, il they are
TO take any great work. - Florence
Nightingale.
= Two sailors were sitting on the
| gunwale of a ship. drinking gFog. II his
is meat ard drink said Jack, and fell
overheard as he was speaking. ''And
| coolly remarked Tom.
- Value of great thoughts. A man
might frame and let loose star TO roll
in its orbit, and yet not do so memorable
thing before God as he who lets go q
golden-orbed thought to roll through
the generations of lime.
- Evaporation of ammonia is the best
method of producing artificial ice, and
German machine has been constructed
capable of turning out by this means,
with the aid of three men and a three
horse power engine, one thousand lbs.
of ice an hour.
= Some idea of what the liquor trade
of the United States amounts to may be
gained from the fact that on the 1st of
December last, there were in bond,
throughout the country. Is, 402. 545 gal
Ions. This is exclusive of grape, apple,
and peach brandy.
A musician, whose nose had be-
come distinctly colored with red wine
he was wont to imbibe, said one day to
his little son at the table 'sYou must
eat bread, boy; bread makes your
cheeks red" The little boy replied,
Father, what lots of bread you must
have snuffed upp
- The revolution in Mexico is still
progressing. The insurgents have COM
plete possession of four of the States,
and are gaining ground in number of
others. Two battles have been fought,
the frat with doubtful result, but in the
last the government troops were beaten.
Juarez is virtually Dictator.
Here is the way a New York cIer-
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