The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-08
NEWS.
Friday. september 8. 1871.
GLRANINGS.


Five persons to each house is the av-
erage number developed by the British
census.
The Kansas and Colorado grass
hoppers are spending the summer in
Maine.
The Evangelical Bible Society in Rus
STA reports as its receipts for four years,
S1l $40.
An Oregon toast over glass of the
ardent: Here's what makes us wear
old clothes
The latest about Prince Napoleon is
that he is worth $4,000, 900, and Ia COM
ing to America.
There is a town in Illinois called
Marseilles. The men of that town are
all Marseilles hims.
Henry Clay's old home, Ashland, has
been purchased by the University of
Kentucky for $4,000.
Fin, commenting on the proverbs
peace hath her Victories" says, "Just
so more fall in love than in war"
A man in Louisville entertained his
friends at grand dinner on the occas-
ion of the death of his mother-in-law.
A weak-headed fellow in New York
named James Gordon Bennett, il is
said, spent $4,000 last year in yacht
ing.
The New England WOmen's Club has
raised q fund of SOS 600 to be expend-
ed in purchasing homes for working
people.
At coal mine In Cooper county,
Mo-, one solid block of coal was taken
out, which, when broken, measured 600
bushels.
The Falls of st. Anthony continues
to crumble away, and the process threat.
ems to destroy the water power of Min
neapolis.
Great Britain last year consumed
100000 pounds of tobacco, or a
pound and half for each one of the
population
Experiments in the army bakery at
Washington have shown that S02 one
pound loaves of bread can be made
from barrel of -four.
The steam power employed in the
United States does the labor OF 140, Co.,
900 men, while that of Great Britain is
equivalent to 490000,000. Ea
In some portions of the State of Ore
gon wheat has been grown on the same
lands for nearly thirty consecutive
years, and crop failure has never oc-
cured.
The 1900 heather Chinese in San
Francisco don't make much noise in
the world, but they own over S74, 900 in
real estate and Sl,lS3,000 in personal
property.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. i. Chadsey, of Wick
ford. II. l., have enjoyed sixty-seven
years of welded bliss. They were both
born in the year 1870, and are still in
good health.
DIR. Samuel Warren, author of ''Ten
Thousand Year." and a bachelor, in
his Gath year, is about to marry q daugh-
ter of Edward Beaumont, NJ. p. for
South Durham.
The British government is gradually
removing almost all the munitions OF
the belief that long period of peace ID
in store for the Dominion.
Washington Irving once said of q
pompous American diplomatist: "Ah
he is a great man; and in his own es'
timation, a very great man, q man o!
great weight. When he goes TO thu
west, the east tips up"
Sidney Smiths kind readiness in sug
costing notices for his friends ia wei
known for instance, when a noble
lady asked for a motto for the collar
OF her dog Spot, he was SO good a
to say, "Yes, certainly. 'Out, damned
SDotp"
Jerry Black withdraws as candidate
for democratic gubernatorial nomina
ton in Pennsylvania. Mr.. Black
withdrawal narrows the contest dow
a. a.
anxiously willing to gain the empt,
honor.
n poor emanciated Irishman, having
called in a physician, the latter spread
large mustard plaster and put 1t OF
the poor fellows lean chest. Pat, wheI
he with fearful eyes, looked down upoI
il, said: "Docthur it sthrikes me it's {
dale of mustard for so little mate"
An Illinois farmer has told his RI
story. He was going out to his corr
crib the other morning, he says, wher
he saw large rat, with head erect
carrying full sized ear of corn in hi
mouth, while at the same time his tai
was wrapped around another large ear
which nc was dragging behind him.
There are ninety-two Theologica
Summaries of the various denomina
over 1900 students are preparing fOl
the ministry. The Episcopalians hay,
Ii seminaries-the Presbyterians, Bap
lists and Roman Catholics, each 49,
Lutherans, 9-Methodists, land Con
gregationalisty, 5.
"The Chicago Tribune asks and re
ceives twenty-six thousand dollars TO
a column of advertisements a year
The business men of Chicago are keel
to pay 1t. There is one house in Gin
cinnati that pays four thousand dollar
a week for advertising. There ar,
several in Cleveland, even, who pay a
high as ten thousand dollars a year
Somehow these men don't break up;
liberal advertiser never does"
They do say that Gen. McCook wa
too general on Thursday evening last
and exhibited to his admirers of Chilli
Gothic the peculiar forte of Andy John
son. A special to the Commercial say
that, attempting speech, he found him
self too full of utterance, and BROKE
down in a maudlin tale OF "poor GUS
with two babies" His friends attemp
ted to restore him with peppermint
but failed. When last seen he had ont
foot on the table, and was declaimins
that the United States had, sir, a popu
lation of thirty-eight million dollars.
Wayne Reid was once gallant sol
der, and distinguished himself in the
Mexican war. He was wont to recit(
poetry, much to the disgust of hii
brother officres. One day he roared
out
''At midnight In his guarded tent,
The Turk lay dreaming Of the hour
When Greece her knees"
~ say Reid" interrupted Ned Mar.
shall, "why did she grease her knees p
"What p" You said grease her knees.
Now, the question that agitates the
country is, why did she grease her
knees?" The gay lieutenant gazed fol
a moment in blank amazement, and
said sternly: "You're a fool" A due
was the consequence, in which Ned
Marshall, with his usual luck, got the
worst of it.
The Richmond Wing returns to les
proposition for the South to vote solid
against every bill introduced into Con-
gress until the North consents to pay
5000 millions for the slaves that were
emancipated, 1900 millions to be paid
to recompense the shareholders and l..
500 millions to be divided among the
negroes as q bride to induce them to
support the measure. But it omits to
state what amount is to be given to the
former non-slaveholders who were
called the poor white trash. Must they
not be ptdcdted p as we'll as the blacks
The slaveless whites constitute three
fourths of the whole white population.
Are they to have no part of the plum
der? If not they may go back on the
arrogant ex-slaveholders, which would
l.