The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-17
GLRANINGs.

The latest argument for the narrow
gauge is that the road to heaven is built
on that principle.
-Chas. O'Connor states that it is GER
tain that from three to six millions will
be recovered from Tweed.
skilled labor is illustrated by the
feat of making a fifteen cent glass of
whisky out of seventy grains OF maize.
Mr.. Crosby, of Chicago, has deci-
ded not TO rebuild his opera house, bet
to put up business block on the old
1t is said that n properly-constitu-
ted head can accommodate itself to
whatever pillows TIE vicissitHdes of
fortune may place under it.
-Despise not little sins they have
ruined many soul. Despise not the
little duties; they have been 10 many
good discipline.
We should watch over the interests
of Others as well as our own, and be
careful TO act on every occasion with
uprightness and fidelity.
"A correspondent criticising a pri-
ma donna rather deficient in physique,
says: "a chest is as essential to a singer
as is bureau to freedman"
The National Republican Commit
tee is TO be formally asked by the Mas
sachHsetts State Central Committee 10
hold the National Convention in 1872
in Boston.
in 1912, when Hamburg suffered so
severely from the great confiagraiion of
that year, England collected f220,OO0
for the RELIEF OF that city, which i'll
thirteen months was completely rebuilt.
BE not stingy of kind words and
pleasing acts, tor such are fragrant gifts,
whose perfume will gladden. the hearts
and sweeten the lives of all who hear
or receive them.
The same vanity which leads us to
assign our misfortune or conduct to
others, prompts US TO attribute all lucky
chances to our own talent, prudence
aud forethought.
Education is better safeguard of
liberty than a standing army. II we
retrench the wages of the school mas
ter, we must raise those of the recruit
ing sergeant.-EreTeH
"A good man, who has seen much of
the world and is not tired of il, says
''The grand essentials to happiness are
and something TO hope for"
If you want TO find out mans |
real disposition, take him when he is
wet aud hungry. If, he is amiabIe then, |
dry him and fill him up, and you've got !
the greatest wonder OF the century.
Does man speak foolishly? Suf-
fer him gladly, for you are wise. Does
he speak enormously? Stop such a |
mans mouth with sound words that !
be gainsaid. Does he speak |
truly? Rejoice in the truth.
Memory presides over the past ac-
ton presides Ove- the present. The |
first is a rich temple, hung with glori
Gus trophies and lined with tOmbs the
other has no shrine but duty, and it
walks the earth like spirit.
Shorthand writers are scarce in
France, and the number III that country
cannot supply the demand. The salary
Of the official stenographers is fifteen
thousand francs a year, and they are
oged at the Governments expense in
he legislative palace.
Mr.. Yung Wing, Chinese gentle
nan, who was educated at Yale Col
ege, has been engaged to take charge
IF thirty students to the United States,
md the Chinese Government has voted
grant of 81 100000 to meet all ex-
1enses for the next ten years. The
number of students will be yearly in
.reased by installments of thirty.
-Theo. Tilton says Four Washington
hotels have closed since June. The
President is absent so much that the
lotel business does not pay at the cap
tai. Yet there is no place in the coun-
ry that so much needs a capital hotel,
md in which one would pay better,
han in this same Washington, which no
body ever visits without cursing the
whole race of Bonifaces and having
IL of the blues. 1t there is anything
III earth worse than the old New Ha-
zen theology, IT is week in a Wash
ngton hotel.
There is no doubt that powerful
hougd not we'll organized party among
he Italian clergy and laity sympatize
With the old Catholics of Germany, and
will soon make demonstration against
he present pretensious of the Pope of
nfallibility and his other absurdly ex-
ravagant claims. The movement bids /
air to become European in character
md importance. The Jesuits, who are
he bad advisers of the Pope, are OPEN
v denounced as the cause of the pres
mt dem oralized condition of The church.
This last feather has proved one toe
many for the patient ca,nePs back.
Grace Greenwood is writing a Sc
les of letters TO the Times giving her
of Mormon life. In her
asst communication she says that Nor
non husbands are generally kind and
impartial in their treatment of their
everal wives. Otherwise, their con-
iition would be too utterly intolera BILE
or human woman nature, however
much sanctifed and Sealed" The
wives of even the highest Mormon dig
,itaries show little pride in their lords.
It were perhaps difficult TO feel much
pride in the sixteenth part of man, as
men go. Even the first wife of veal
by saint, betrays in her husband and
they say, no exulrant joy of
An investment in Mormon
heart and home must be rather uncer-
ain stock for woman.
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