The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-10-13
NEWS.
friday. October IS, 1871.
CLEANLINESS.


Milwaukee is made additionally
bright At every sunrise by the pretty
girls who ofiiciate as newspaper car
riers.
1t is said of General that in
battle he always followed his nose; but
then he was liable To colds, aud his nose
was frequently apt to ruu.--NeU York
World.
The female suffrage and jurywoman
movement out west has borne its first
fruit in the shape OF the advertisement |
of gentleman nurse" who wants a
situation.
Try ing to do business without adver- |
Using - like winking at q pretty girl |
through a pair of green goggles. You
NAV know what You are doing but mo-
body else does.
Honest and courageous people have
very little to say about either their |
courage or honesty. The sun has no
need 10 boa { of his brightness nor the
moon of her effulgence.
A North Carolina negro juror, who
was making tracks for the State line, |
was asked what the matter was, and re- |
piled that he was leaving the State, as
the Jury would be hanged the next day |
at ten o'clock.
one harvey VI SobAtht Ait'S
lately disappeared from Chicago, leav-
ing old clothes on the river bank, to
cheat insurance companies out of $780,
600 on his life. He has since been seen
in Iowa, companion having betrayed
him.
A widow advertised in Chicago, ask
ing ''every Christian in the city" to
send her ten cents. as the amount would
not Cypress them and the collection
would benefit her greatly. For won
der the class called upou did all con-
tribute as requested, and the widow
realized twenty cents.
There Is a college in Iowa where the
students govern the institution, and
have a sort of court martial TO try of
tenders. There are five young men and
two young women on the court, and
its Judgments are needed by all the stu
dents. Justice lie tempered with mercy,
and the female court martials exercise
most heallhful Influence.
The cheerful Practitioners of Rev. DR..
Todd, of Pittsfeld. Mass, made him
present of q cemetary lot the other day.
The presentation speeches were very
affecting. The spokesman OF the dom
ors said he hoped their beloved pastor
would find the gift a useful one, and the
parson tearfully allowed he probably
would If he slaid much longer in that
region.
lFoRr GIBsoE DIscoNTISUED.-The
Fort Scott Monitor says that orders
were issued, some days since, discon-
timing Fort Gibson, l. T., as military
post. Two companies of Its garrison
have been sent TO Fort Dodge, and the
other Two companies to Fort Hays.
Fort Gibson will be retained by a small
force ofthe quartermaster's department.
Hon. John Bingham, the cold man
eloquent" is doing good service for
the Republicans in Ohio. In Il recent
speech he said the present attitude OF
the Democratic party reminded him OF
the little boy s who forgot The command
ment and stole. and over whose heads
the thunder rolled and the angry light
Mug flashed destruction. Said one
"What will we do?" They considered
and finally came TO the conclusion, by
gosh, we had better depart"
The long vexed question of the right
of the soldiers Ut the Dayton (Ohio.
Soldiers Home TO vote in that State
has been finally decided by the AttOr
confirms the claim OF Gen. Schenck. /
10 provided, however, that the SOLDIER
voting must have resided in the Stat
for one year This bone OF contention
has been q troublesome one between
the two parties, aud the decision arriv
ed at Is the only just and equitable one
M p. Tribune.
Mr.. James Brooks writes from abroat
that 1.-THE English language, see-ant
the more / see the better see it's be
coming the universal language of tn
educated world. Twenty or twenty
five years ago, or less, only Frenc
would carry you through the world
but now IL Is impossible to go any
where, from the pyramids of Egypt I
the mountains OF japan, that Englis
will not pretty well carry you along
Chinese house servants, more or les
speak English-'pigeon English, as it
called-but, nevertheless, comprehensi
BILE English; and go where you will, j
whatever society, English now seems
be the tongue"
A gentleman lately arrived from HIS
vana says the reports lately publishe
here of the qualification of insurger
districts are false. No surrender {
any Republican troops or leaders his
occurred. AS to reinforcements frol
Spain, that was all bosh; the reporte
arrivals of troops from Europe wei
lies. Only 1000 Spanish soldiers ha
landed in Cuba since the first of jan
nary last, and these had been used N
There Is no thoughts of surrend'
among the Cubans. He further state
the Spaniards are making use of Il
discoveries of alleged frauds in Was
ington and New York as argumen