The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-26
GLEANINGS.

GLEAAlNGS.
Chicago calculates upon one fatal ac-
cident a day.
q California wines are being introduced
into Japan.
Mrs. Lincoln is more robust than
i when she went abroad.
r The Sorosis Society in New York is,
it is said, about to collapse.
5 There are at present over 500 appli-
cations week for patents.
The average price of good horse in
Los Angeles, California, is $13.
r City taxation in Chicago tins year
Will be about twice as heavy as last.
There is man in New York now
who owns u; 900 acre dairy farm in
California.
The tobacco manufacturers of Chicago
J paid S237, S24.32 tax during the quarter
just ended.
Some of the White Mountain hotels
propose to charge only 81 so a day the
coming season.
Hartford, Connecticut claims to be
the weaithiest city of its size in the
United States.
1 There were in 1776 fifty post Offices
in the United States. There are now
twenty thousand.
Though most men boast of holding
the reins, the women generally tell them
which way TO drive.
Shawls are now worn square over the
shoulders, instead of being folded
lengthwise, as formerly.
Trout in the Eastern brooks have
1 h0n ~,
severe droughts of 1870.
The Erie Railroad is extending its in
huence by spending 100000 on a mill
tia armory in New York.
The latest style of bracelet is compos-
ed of four strings of large gold beads, !
with diamond or gold clasp.
There landed in Canada last year &C., |
Ol9 immigrants, of whom 1900 after |
ward left for the United States.
The London Court Journal intimates
| that Napoleon's face is good for a mil
lion or million and a half of dollars.
Anna Dickinson is not going to Eng
land this summer, but to Canada, to
rest, as we are authoritatively informed.
A ladies' life insurance company is
being formed in London. One provis-
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men.
The New York San disrespectfully
speaks of the suffrage ladies as "persons
who want the ballot, but can't chew to-
bacco.
The Westminster Review says that
no American woman has evinced, in
prose or poetry, anything like the
genius of Alice Carey.
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cisco. The fruit crop of California will
be immense. The vintage is estimated
at 100000 gallons.
A Michigan farmer says ''don't kill
the striped snake. The reptile is the
only animated critter that will eat a po-
tato bug with a relish.
The Connecticut Legislature enjoys
the ministrations of a Chaplain who
prays forty-three minutes. Nine tenths
of the seats are vacated before he passes
the first quarter-post.
The India-rubber dealers of New
York contemplate starting an eight
page one cent daily in a few weeks, to
be called the Gum Drop.
New York last week received the
cargo of silk worm eggs, worth $780,
OOO, which has been en- route from Japan
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The eldest daughter of Henri Roche
fort has become, it is said, member of
the dramatic company at the Odeon
(classic) Theatre in Paris.
The Revolution says: ga parlor Or
nament of flesh and blood is a very
costly thing to keep" The lady editors
evidently know how it is themselves.
1t is rumored that the Partisan ladies
intend to show their sense of their coun-
try's misfortunes by adopting for the
future an extreme sobriety of costume.
Seed corn sufficient to secure a crop
of nearly 10000 acres of land, has been
donated by British farmers, and dis
tributed among the poor French farm
ers.
Six dollars pound for tobacco think
of that, ye lovers of the weed! And
yet that was the price paid in ST. Louis,
last week, for box of fancy leaf raised
in Virginia.
Mary A. Livermore is to lecture next
year on three famous historical person.
ages,-"Queen Elizabeth" '.Xantippe,i
the Greek rermagan," and "Queen Isa-
bella of SPAIN"
The exasperating organ grinder has
at last found q defender. The Boston
Adc. says he supplies to the pent-up
poor one of the greatest Injuries of
lifc-a change of air.
Wild Bill, the loyal scout, who was
killed by Indians in 1869, and lynched
by the Ku Klux last fall, and shot dead
in quarrel at Christmas, is marshal of
the town of Abilene. Kan.
There are only COS beer saloons in
Milwaukee, which does not quite give
one to each hundred of her people.
They are going to open a lot of new
ones, to make up the deficiency.
According to sad Juvenile experience
it takes ten boys on each side TO play
base ball in Boston on the Sabbath.
Nine do the actual playing, and the adj
ditional boy looks out for the police
men.
Virginia planters complain that never
were the tobacco flies so numerous and
destructive as this season. And
throughout the South is dismay at the
number, size and voracity of the mos
quitoes.
Statistics show that there is nine
times as much coffee consumed in the
United States as in Great Britain, and
nearly three times as much tea con-
sumed in Great Britain as in the United
States,
1t was Madame de Stael who remark
ed of a conceited acquaintance When
ever see him, feel the same pleasure
that receive from looking at a fond
couple-he and his self-love live So hap
PLY together"
A Louisiana planter reports that his
Cinnamon work slow, but sure and
nice. He also says that the yellow boys,
as he calls them, plow well, but cannot
manage the mules, which can not uII-