The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-24
GLEANIEGs.

winter" says an exchange. Is that all
Money is great lever in the affairs
of man; so great lever that some OF
us can never kept it.
| Mr.. James Iisk, Jr., it is sal, has
seventeen thousand four hundred no.
tices of himself pasted in his scrap-book.
The orphans of Lunderdale, Miss,
have realized the sum of $4,000, clear
/ of expenses, in the last year, by their
concerts.
Theirs likens himself to 'tan umbrel-
Ia on which it has been raining for
forty years." Isn't it time he was shut
up? .rs
Another poor girl has died in Vir-
ginia from the use of tobacco, at the
age of one hundred. She was an Or
phan.
Strawberries, measuring an inch and
a half in length and three inches in cir
cumference, were picked last week in
Norfolk, Virginia.
There are LIS students at the Michi-
gan Agricultural College, and three out
| of every four are farmers sons educat-
ing themselves for farmers.
AS an evidence of the warmth of its
L 6I
| Connecticut town sent two strings of
red peppers to Chicago.
| A Tennessee woman recently releas-
ed her husband from the State prison
by walking $50 miles TO Nashville with
q child in her arms, and asking the Gov
ernor to pardon him.
George Chase, q Fon du Lac book.
binder, has established his claims to an
4 =. IL
one million, Eve hundred thousand dol
| lars.
The number of journalistic deaths in
New York city during the past three
years is set down at thirteen in all, and
the money sunk in those unfortunate
enterprises cannot have been less than
$250,0O0.
SIN the midst of life We are in death, ;"
is not in the Bible. as is generally sup
posed. It is found in the Episcopal bu-
rial service, and taken from Latin an
tiphon, composed by monk of st.
Calls at Martistabel, in GIL.
The government Of Japan has signi.
fed the wish that the American Wo-
mans Missionary Society should I'M
dertake the education of women of the
highest class, and numerous applica-
tlons are received for teachers,
It has been demonstrated that tea
can be grown in the Southern States,
and the indications are that it will be
of the tea drinkers Of this country live
outside of the tea growing States, there
is prospect for lively trade.
a man out West read that dry cop
peras put into a bed Of ants would
$A Mt IN,
his nothor-in-law's bed to see if she
wouldn't go. He says she was there ut
last accounts.
She was tender-hearted woman who
said to her friend, who announced the
was at dinner: "You Just wait till get
through eating, and then you'll hear
some bswling that will do Jon good to
listen to-"
The courts now hold that q wife's in
| terest in life insurance policy, issued
for her benefit, does not cease in case of
divorce.
Louisville promises to be successful
candidate for part of the commerce Of
Chicago. 1t had twelve divorce suits
in one day recently.
The Muscatine journal says that "six
of the railroad bridge burners on the
line of the Southwestern Road, in APP
panoos0 county, have been arrested.
One of them says the object was to
| wreck a passenger train and rob the pas
sengers. Other developments are ex-
| pected."
The plaid waterproof dresses are very
| fashionable for fall and winter wear,
the underskirt being made quite short
and trimmed with several rows of black
| worsted braid, and a double circular
cape trimmed in the same manner, COM
| pletes tho costume.
Windell Phillips says: 81 have given
thirty years Of my life-and rejoice to
have been permitted to give them-to
the redemption of race. If am spsr-
ed another ten years hope shall be
permitted to give them to the redemp-
ton Of every man whe works with his
hands"
| The eI-Emperor Napoleon's income
Is stated by German paper to be TWEEN
| ty-fivs thousand dollars year, which
dollars by the property recently sold in
Spain by the Empress.
The value Of the entire church prop.
srty of New York city, including all
denominations, is computed at some
thing like 92O0OO0,0OO. Trinity eorpo-
ration alone, is put down at $4,000, COO
The richest sect. on the whole, is, as
may be supposed, the Roman Catholics
| The New York World describes
| Tweed's district as the "most loathsome
political scab" in the United States
While it comprises the most important
and valuable business houses in the
city, its actual inhabitants, with the ex.
ception Of few permanent boarders al
the hotels, are ''the very dregs and scum
of the population"
A Kentucky conversation: "Hello
dar, you darkey, vhat you axe for dst
old blind mule, hey.I" "Well, dunno
! guess must take $685., sThlrty- Ave
; dollars! I'll give you fvep "Well
you may have i'm; ] won't stand OF
3 S30-in mule trade"
/ ken with sneezing in the cars lately
4 After sneezing in q most spasmodi,
| way eight or ten times. he arrested thu
paroxism for a moment, and extricatinI
: his handkerchief, he thus indignant!
: addressed his nasal organ 'EOh, go OIL
9 go on-youH blow your inferno
; brains on. presently i .:aa9
The poet of the Chicago Post gets OF
j the following:
/ 4 tinker and tailor
81 A soldier and q sailor, z4.ssa
A Newspaper reporter who couldn't get hi
back pay,
Bank messengers and tellers,
!. And host Of other feileTs,
. Ara uov carpenters and masons al e6 day.
: To MAKE CLOTH WATERPRooF.-In
: pail of soft water put half q pound 9
9 alum; STIR at intervals until it become
I. cool, then pour it into another pail an
s put the garment therein, and let It be i
q twenty-four hours, and then hang it q
:. to dry without ringing it.
Some man, who has tried Ii, recon-
o mends the following cure for warts
# Take clean cobweb, roll size Of lArg
o pea, pare away the OUTSIDE to BLOOD
d Law ON the ball Of web and apply light
y if, when it be entirely burnt ont tn
q sore Is yellow, the wart may be pickle
of like dry scab in ten days.
u CARROT PUDDIEG.-Tske half poun
i of grated carrot, half pound Of brea
= crumbs; one pint OF new milk; half
d pint Of cream six eggs; four ounces {
q sugar, and two ounces OF butter. Was
= and scrape the carrots very clean !; gra
o them quite fine; mix the pulp vii
3 bread crumbs, sugar, nutmeg, or mae
q ana little salt; and the eggs we
II beaten, and bake it in puff paste, In
> moderate oven. 59 a3+ -