The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-06-09
GLRANINGS.

WAsHINGToN. D. u, May 10, 1911.
GLEANINGS.
The Colorado papers claim that that
country is a better mining country than
Utah.
The grasshoppers and crickets have
appeared in great numbers in Deep
Creek, Western Utah.
Three hundred and fifteen member
ships have been issued to the Chicago
Colorado colony at Longmont.
Leona, N. ", has quadrupIe kitten
with seven legs, four tails, and eight
ears, which goes to sleep four times at
once, and news four-fold. And yet
they are not happy.
Agnes Lewis, u sister of Ida Lewis,
the Grace Darling of Newport, is in
California. and can pillow more land in
given space of time than any other
sixteen-year old girl in America.
William L. Barry is his name. He
sets type on the Lebanon (Tenn.) Her.
all. 5000 ems q day. He has been 70
wears at the case, is 81 years old, and
has lost many of his pretty infantile
ways.
When young Boston ladies visit the
shoe store in company with their beaux,
they always call for No. 2's. The next
day they go alone and exchange them
for No. IS, which fit little easier.
~ saw him kiss yOnr cheek r.
''Tis true"
90 modesty ~ ..,Twas strictly kept.
He thought me asleep at least Knew
He 4 fhOuOhf he Thought
A Western editor, who doesn't know
much about farming any way, suggests
that for embarrassing, a cast-iron
back, with a hinge in it, would be an
improvement OH the spinal column now
in use.-BOstOn Post.
Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker is understood
to insist that a woman's morals have
nothing to do with her qualifications
| for membership in the suffrage party.
She is opposed to weakening the nu-
merical strength of the organization by
| irrelevant tests.
Boston is reveling in italian opera al
the Globe Theatre, the prime dO1ane be-
ing all American girls and patriotic
critics insist that the music is just as
good as if the singers had been fed all
their lives on maccaroni, leeks, or sauer-
kraut unit pretzels.
A German recently attempted sui
eide in Omaha by washing his face.
1t didn't work satisfactorily, and then
he twisted the towel around his neck,
and hanged himself up to dry. That
was likely to prove more successful
but some unsympathetic bystanders
| took him down.
A Chinese doctor in Frisco has got
| a head of the State laws with a way
that was darker than twenty All Sins
He sued a patient IN Justices court
but the justice wouldn't take his tes-
timory, whereupon he sued out a war.
rant under the Ku-Klux act. and the
| justice surrendered at discretion.
A milk-white snake is said to have
been discovered in Western Virginia
Its mouth is fangles but full of teeth
whose sharpness IS said to be sugges
tive of cambria needles. 1t enjoys rats
as q diet, but its keeper feeds it on milk
Upon the extremity of its tail is {
."horny appendage" half an inch il
length.
The weight of responsible names i;
we'll illustrated by case in the consis-
torial court, at Exeter. England, to set
tie a church difficulty, in which petit.
tions were presented from both sides
each containing the name of Mr.. Ridge
a prominent member, who confessed he
didn't know what they were asking him
for either time.
Arkansas is the home of a woman
named Emily Sarah Lord, who has had
nine husbands in ten years. Two Of
them died suspiciously sudden, three
| were divorced, and the fate of the re-
| naming four is involved in mystery
This is the toughest woman item we
have had yet, and it is to be hoped
the much married lady will stay in Ar.
kansas.
A letter from Fountain county, Ind,
to the Indianapolis Journal says "The
Colorado potato bugs now visiting in
CovingtOn are being successfully met
in all cases where tried. The weapon
used is an old pepper box. charged with
one part of Paris green and nine parts OF
ashes. The mixture is sifted on the
plants while wet with dew. Poultry
will not touch the drug"
An Alabama paper gives the follow
ing case of infanticide and lynch law
IAN Israelite in Montgomery owned a
female duadruped of the canine persua-
sion, which recently had a litter of seven
I
placed behind a big box; she then kill
ed them, dug a hole and buried them.
The owner of the dog was SO much
shocked by her conduct that he hung
her to the nearest limb of the highest
tree in the yard"
The San Francisco ALta says that the
passengers on steamer in the bay on
the evening of Tuesday, April 30, were
spectators of fine encounter between
a seal and large sturgeon, which paid
no attention to the vessel but continued
! the combat, dashing the waters into a
foam until the steamer passed. The
seal secured a good hold of the fish, and
raising his head above the water seve-
raj times, shook the sturgeon as a ter
rier would rat.
In the last five years, per cent OF
thoseswho have died in the town of
Sharon, Norfolk county, Mass, have
been between 80 and 100 years of age,
and over % per cent of the dead have
been more than 80 years of age. From
the official records, it appears that the
chances are better there to die of old
age than of consumption. One-half of
all who have died in Sharon, this year,
up to April Both, have been upward of
S5 years old, and are recorded as dying
of "old age"
We read of the death, at Florissant,
Mo-, of Mr.. Francis Greeley, who fell
and expired while dancing at a grand
daughters wedding. Mr.. Greeley was
only about so years of age, and yet he
left 1913 children, grandchildren and
great-grsndchildren This reminds the
New York Tribune, by the rule of con-
traries, of queer calculation in that
queer book, "The Doctor" every per-
son." says the author, Southey, "has two
immediate parents, four ancestors in
the second degree, eight in the third,
and so the pedigree ascends, doubling
at every step, till in the twentieth gene
ration he has no fewer than I,030, S96
grandfathers and grandmother"
Two compositors in Philadelphia
competed for the prizes offered to the
printers of the United States and Cana
da, in trial of skill of one hours du-
ration, the trial taking place simultane-
ously at all points. The type chosen
was nonpareil, and the measure twenty
seven ems. The contest between these
two resulted in favor of Mr.. George Ar
ensburg, he setting up 1922 ems in the
given time, against Mr.. r. A. McLean's
1867. The former emptied his first
stick in q minutes and 10 seconds, and
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