The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-31
GhEANINGS.
Relative beauty-A pretty cousin.

/ Relative beauty-A pretty cousin.
i A firm friend-An obstinate Quaker
| Rochester, n. Y, is building an $50,
600 Theater.
There were II, 1874 registered births il
Philadelphia last year.
Three hundred and eighty-six church.
es in Philadelphia are exempt from tax
alton.
The British Government asks fol
$4,000 to complete the defenses Of
Quebec.
A business man at Winchester, Va.
paid last rear upward of $4,000 for su.
mac berries and bark.
! A partially hollow log, recently raft.
ed to Trenton, n. j. was found to con-
tain upward of 100 sunfish.
The capital invested in the Hoosae
tunnel is $4,000. There are 500 men
employed under ground and III above
ground.
] Josh Billings says the reason why q
monkey always creates a sensation
wherever he goes is simply because-he
is monkey.
| IL is curious chronological fact that
| Lent began this year on Washington's
| birthday, and will end on the anniver-
sary of Lees surrender.
1t is recorded, with sheer at the
modern Athens, that the Parker House
cook gets $4,000 year, aud the Presi-
dent of Harvard but $4,000.
New York possesses a somewhat
cheerful museum, consisting of the wea-
pOns used by criminals in that city dur
ing the past fifteen years.
There is family in Pottsville penn
| sylVania,) who have a female domestic
that has been with them thirty-two
years without interruption.
The Wyoming papers say that the
people of that Territory are about to
abandon woman suffrage as both mis-
chieviOus and impracticable."
Liova E. Jones, of Northway, We,
asks for divorce OH the trivial grounds
that her husband has pounded her,
murdered her father and committed for
gerry.
A Leipzig publisher intends to issue
well-printed edition of SchiIler's COM
plete works for twenty five cents, and
of Goethe's complete works for one
dollar.
A correspondent writes to ask if the
brow ofa hill ever becomes wrinkled
The only information we can give him
on the point is, that we have often seen
it furrowed.
a dutiful son, of Detroit, has'kilIed
siXty-seven of his neighbors' cats to get
money to buy his mother set of false
teeth. He has made a quiet neighbour
hood where once was a bowling wilder
ness.
Litigation in the settlement of the
estate of a deceased citizen of Troy,
was summarily ended few days since
by the discovery of his will in the false
bottom of a bureau, which had been
sent to cabinet-maker for repairs.
Mothers will be interested to know
that turpentine is sovereign remedy
for Group. Saturate a piece of flannel
with it, and place the flannel on the
throat and chest. In very severe cases,
from three to five drops may be taken
inwardly.
An eccentric man in Massachusetts
has made and published his will. He
gives his body after death to Prof.
Agassiz and DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, to be placed in the museum at
Cambridge, but directs that two drum
heads shall be made OF his skin, on
which "Y ankee Doodle" shall be beaten
at the base of Bunker Hill Monument
annually, at sunrise, on the 18th ofJune.
The following is a condensed state
ment of the hog packing of the season :
Illinois, 1.220617; Ohio, 6SI ,639; Mis-
souri,, 459,3l5; Indiana, 1883; Ken
lucky 274.257 Wisconsin, loo; To-
wa, 1859, 4S3; Tennessee, 40,064; Kansas
and Nebraska, 1882; Minnesota. r.
600; Detroit, 25,000; Pittsburg, $4,000;
Atlanta, 5000; West Virginia, $500;
total, 3,6l5.1l0. Average weight, 22S.6S
pounds, which is eqal to 4,0IS, l57 hogs
of last seasons weight.
The New York Tribune very proper
ly says: "a new volume, THE Library
of Poetry" gives the everywhere pop
ular Grain on the Roof" in one place
as anonymous, and in another as writ
ten by Elizabeth c. Kinney. The author
of the poem in question is Coates Kin
ney, Western journalist and literary
man for some years editor of the Xenia
(Ohio) IorchIight. The same book pub
fishes as anonymous:
'Hence all ye vain delights,
As short the nights
Wherein you spend your folly.''