The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-05
ALL SORTS OF THINGS.

Baltimore annually ships 100000
ans of oysters.
A spoiled child-.the one that played
With kerosene can. II
Lolita cleared $4,000 in six weeks in
recently.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, will go
o Europe this summer.
Who ever saw anybody near fire
hat didn't want to play poker?
Star-gazers can now see on pleasant
evenings five great planets.
JEFF Davis house at Richmond has
been turned into a schOol-house.
Servant girls in Wyoming get 81 a
week and the privilege of voting.
"Henpeck" is the name of post-of-
flee in Alexander county, Illinois.
Mark Twain has sold his interest in |
the Buffalo Express to George FL. Sell
kirk.
In Newark, n. j., a blind woman |
runs sewing machine and gets So a |
week.
Boston Posts reading of a common
political quotation-''Loathe the poor
Indian.
The widow of President Lincoln and
the wife of Bishop Simpson are in Rome
together.
a Poughkeepsie lady has been badly
poisoned in the hands by wearing green
kid gloves.
Tortoise shell, once so much in de-
mand, has nearly ceased to be an article
of commerce.
Kossuth is in luck. A relative of
his died recently at Debreczin and left
him fortune
They are talking in California of
building 100000 ship canal by the
aid of lottery.
A Confederate twenty dollar bill was
sold in New York the other day for five
cents, at an auction sale.
A school girls conundrum is: What
State is round at both ends and high in
the middle? Ohio.
The department clerks at Washing
ton are taking up collection for the
widow of John Brown.
$4,000 bushels of grain, on 100 canal
boats, started east from Buffalo, n. Y,
in one day, this week.
Mr.. Allen, husband of the Rock-Me-
To-sleep-Mother Florence Percy, is a
tub-maker at Richmond, Va
There is a movement on foot in Phil
adelphia to have separate street cars for
ladies, with female conductors.
New York is getting ready to give a
series of entertainments in honor of
the Russian Czarovitch in June.
1t is stated that the 475 manufactures
of Pittsburgh, if placed in q continuous
line, would extend fifty-five miles.
The Rockford CID Journal announ-
ces meeting in that city ofthe Heath
en- Women's Foreign Missionary Socie-
ty."
Mayor Davis, of Cincinnati, has
promised to appoint several colored
men on the police force as station keep
ers.
Since woman have assaulted the bal
lot-bOX with bouquets, woman suffrage
has been newly baptized 1.-The war of the
roses"
Bella b. Barrows has been elected
lecturer on diseases of the eve in the
Medical Department of Howard Uni
versity.
The late session of the Arkansas Leg
islature was the most expensive that
ever was held in that State. The total
cost was S146,0O0.
A new style of earring is in the
shape of tambourine, the bells of
which Jingle pleasantly at every move
ment of the wearer's head.
One of the pleasantries perpertrated
H. Sah = N,,I~o = -
all tie wells in the country with the
carcasses of dead animals.
A Connecticut school boy has writ
ten composition on the horse, in
which he says it is an animal having
four legs, lone at each corner"
A splendid crop ofstraw berries is an
ticipated in the section around Alton,
Illinois, this season. The plants were
never more loaded with blossoms.
A Masonic apron, made by Madame
Lafayette, and sent over to this country
as present to General Washington, is
now in Masonic Temple, Philadelphia.
Janauschek, the actress, and Mr.. Will
liam Steinway and family, are among
the passengers who left New York, on
the 22d, in the steamer Rhein, for Eu-
rope.
Horace Greeley's daughter, Ida, is
one of the most accomplished mathe-
maticiaus in the United States; and she
is unable to figure up any profit in her
fathers farming operations.
The latest invention of the Montana
Indians is the setting up of toll gates on
narrow passes of the roads, and COM
pelling travellers 10 pay for the priv
ilege of crossing their hunting grounds.
The street railways of Philadelphia
last year carried 55,400,925 passengers.
During the year the accidents on the
road footed up one person killed and
five injured, four of the later being pas
sengers.
James Tyson, now living near Des
Arc, Ark, claims to have fought in six
ty battles and skirmishes on the side of
the rebellion, and to have received over
forty wounds. He is still able to man
age small farm.
Ola truth, a home without a girl is
only half blessed; it is an orchard with
out blossoms and a spring without
song. A house full of sons is like Lee
banOn with its cedars; but daughters
are like roses in Sharon.
" tlC pOSCl Va IuC
hymn, "The Watch on the |
Rhine" of which over six hundred |
thousand copies have been sold in Ger |
many since the b. eaking out of the war
with France, died few weeks ago of
apoplexy.
Census takers in England are in des-
pair. If a woman gives her age wrong
ly she is liable to fire of five pounds |
and to be brought up before two justi-
ces of the peace. In spite of this, ladies
palpably forty will only confess to
Among the claims of Southern loyal
sts which have been presented TO the
now sitting in Washington,
g that of Hugh L. Gallaher, of Waynes-
1orO, Virginia, for $4,000 for cattle,
forage and provisions taken from him
n the Shenandoah valley.
Nillson will go from Charleston, S.
=, New Orleans, and from there come
Up the river to St. Louis and possibly
10 Chicago. She will leave then imme-
lately for California, giving concerts
It Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Salt
lake City and Sacramento, closing this
xtra season at San Francisco. Max
in the meantime has secured
Ter, as against Fisk, for 100 nights of