The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-05-12
A FEW THINGS.

They are boring for gas, to be used in
firing up their manufastories in Cleve
land.
The Ohio State Journal thinks thai
the Republicans will be able to carry
the State this year, ifall their candidates
for governor vote.
The Spanish authorities know the
names and whereabouts of the assassine
of Gen. Prim, but dare not modest them
because Of their influential connections
An Ottawa undertaken adyertises that
he keeps on hand "an elegant stock oil
neat and nobby shrouds, warranted to
give satisfaction to the most particular
The Board of Aldermen of Washing
ton City, has passed q resolution for
bidding the infection of any sort of
punishment in the public schools of
that city.
One of the New York critics says of
the outrageously bepuffed Miss Vienna
Demorest, just brought out as a prima
donna, that "her voice is as thin as It's
sue paper
Somebody mentioned, the other day
something about jokes that are ten
years old, whereat a party across the
room sang out inquiringly whether
such be decade jokes.
Greeley sent Mark Twain copy of
his What I Knosc, and wrote on the
f1y-leaf, t'To Mark Twain, Buffalo; who
knows even less about my farming than
does-Horace Greeley"
Two tailors in Louisville had q fight,
and one stabbed the other with pair of
shears. When he has killed eight more
tailors they are going to try him for
manslaughter.-BostOa Post.
The Rev. Mr.. Speight has been tarred
and feathered by some little Connecti-
cutters, just because he ran away with
seven girls to Canada, and could only
show three when he camc back.
Missouri is building S50O00 house
for her Governors, At Jefferson City.
Mr.. Brown, the present incumbent ad-
vertises his granite quarry by giving
four columns of that material to orna-
ment the building.
Harvard rejoices in four old boys
Samuel Thatcher, class 1893, now 81
years old: Horace Binney, class 1877, 81
years old, and Willard Hall and s. D.
Parer, class 1899, youths of 80 and 80 re-
spectively. Three of these have served
in Congress. Rail-
Women have q much finer sense of
the beautiful than men. They are. by
far, the safest umpfreS IN matters OF
propPiety and grace. A mere school
girl will be thinking and writing of the
beauty Of birds and flowers, while her
brother is robbing the nests and des-
troying the flowers.
A woman is either worth good deal
or nothing. If good for nothing, she is
not worth getting jealous for; it she be
G true woman she will give no cause
for jealousy. A man 10 9 brute to be
jealous of q woman-a fool to be jeal-
Gus of a worthless one-but a double
fool to cut his throat for either of them.
General Lippincott, commander of
the Illinois department of the Grand
Army of the Republic, has issued an
order to the commandants of the posts
to report without delay to his head
quarters the condition of their posts, in
order to make the necessary arrange
ments for the floral ceremonies on the
30th of May. =
A young and pretty lady stepped in
to store where a spruce young man,
who had long been enamored but dared
not speak, stood behind the counter sell
lug dry goods. In order to remain as
long as possible she cheapened every
thing; at last she said, 81 believe you
think am cheating your "Oh no"
said the youngster," "to me you are al
ways fair" "Wel," whispered the
lady, b!ushing as she laid an emphasis
on thu word, '1 would net stay so long
bargaining if you were not so dear"