The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-11-03

last year are MADE OF aDestOs DOueu
In wax.
Two wild cats had fight with two
bull dogs in Nevada, and the latter
were whipped.
An Iowa doctor saved a rattlesnake-
bitten child's life by sucking the poison
from the wound
The latest device for "breaking up
setting hen" is TO put couple of Jumps
of ice in the nest.
A tarrier-pigeon few from q steamer
At sea TO Moniclair, N. :, At the rate of
$50 miles an hour.
A well informed writer says that
more than 10000 acres of the best
iimbe In America are cut every year
To- supply the demand for railway sleep
era alone. In single year the locomo-
lives IN the United States consumed |
S66,OOO,oO0 worth OF wood.
A little boy, when asked by lady If |
he studied hard at school, sAid, ~ do |
not hurt myself at iti" "Ah,1 said the |
lady, "you must study hard, or you'll
never be President of the United
States" "No, ma'am cried the boy,
"but / don't expect to be; Pun Demo-
GRAFT"
Robert Colyer, the eloquent Chicago
preacher, told his Impoverished people
as they worshipped beside the ruins of
tLeir burnt church, that he had once
preached fer seventy-five cents year,
and was ready for their sakes to do it
again, and that IL the worst came, he
would still make as good q horseshoe
as any blacksmith in Chicago.
The Hearth and Home says: "The
oracles OF the human soul speak in ia
vor Of the purity and perpetuity of mar
rage. Men may forsake the oracles
and live like brutes. Men may forsake
the oracles and build socialism out OF
their own fancies. It Is all the worse
for them. But the intuitions, the loves,
the moral impulses of the race are on
the side Of marriage"
Sad experience prompts a contem-
porary TO yentilate this seasonable ad-
vice: "Keep up the fires. Half the
diseases that affiict humanity at this
season OF tho year are due to the half
chilled condition in which people live.
More coughs, colds. consumptions, and
fevers are produced by sitting in half
chilly rooms, on those days when it
seems hardly necessary to build fires,
than from all other causes"
Dir Walter Scott wrote: The race OF
mankind would perish did we cease to
help each oLher. From the time that
the mother binds the child's head till
the moment some kind assistance wipes
the dew of death from the brow of the
dying, we cannot exist without mutual
help. All, therefore, that need, have 8
right to ask It of their fellow mortals
and no one who has 1t in his power Il
grant, can refuse without mourning
guilt.
The Duke of Edinburgh more nearly
spprehended the temper of the Englisl
people when he lately told the Prime
of Wales: you'll never be King o
England" "Why not ?" replied hi
brother. "Why, long before the sue
cession is open they will make 9 rul
that 1t shall depend on competitive ex
animation; and I'll beat you then by
long chalk"
The New York Nation giving tn
New York Times just credit for its ga
liant warfare against Tammany, say
there is no instance in the history {
Journalism of an assault SO successfI
and so courageous and determined by
single newspaper upon so great an evi
and 1t gives US an idea of what ii
press might accomplish in drivin
knaves out of politics If we were IN
ted and untrammeled by patty oblig
tons.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, some tin
since, received letter from yong ms
who recommended himself very high
as being honest, ect., and closed wi
the request: "Get me an easy situate
that honesty may be rewarded"
which Mr.. Beecher replied:
Don't be an editor II you would
easy, Do not try the law. Avoid schO
keeping. Keep out of the pulpit,
alone all ships, stores, shops, aud me
chandise. Abhor politics, Keep sw
from lawyers. Be not farmer nor
mechanic. neither a sailor nor a soldi'
Don't study. Don't think. Don't VOL
None of them are easy. oh, my hon'
friend, yon are in q very hard world
know of but one real easy place in
That IL the grave
Anybody can soil the reputation
any individual, however pure q
shaste, by uttering suspicion that
never hear of. A puff of the idle wi
can take million of the seeds of a tn
tie and do the work OF mischief VIII
the husbsndman must labor long to I
do, the floating particles being too
to be seen and too light TO be stopp
Such are the seeds OF SANDER, so cas-
sown, so difficult to be gathered up, 9
yet so pernicious in their. fruits. .
slanderer knows that many q mind v
catch up the plague and become pois'
ed by his insinuation, without O
+. seeking the antidote. No reputat
can refute sneer, nor any human 81
prevent mischief.
If q story that comes from Vienna
true the romance Of Prince Salm-Sal
life followed him in death. His v
offered large reward for the recov
of his body, buried at Gravelotte.
ter q time 1t was supposed to have b
found, being recognized by watch
apart of q gold chain that he wore.
half decomposed remains were
buried at Vienna. Months afterw
another body was found and recogni
as the Princes, beyond dispute, by
pocket book, containing among OF
things letters from the Princess, WI
the skeleton fingers clutched the fl
ment of the watch chain and q loC
containing the Princess picture.
corpse first found is now supposed
be that of some one who robbed
wounded Prince, clinging to the loo
with death grasp.
OF the horrors of the Chicago fl
correspondent writes the follow
describing a scene on the edge of
lake: On every yard of the beach
water fell flaming fagots in q des
shower. In all directions hair
BlnBou anu the upper ClOtnlnB set
fire. The fugitives backed into
water and faced the fire at bay,
stood SO near together that they &C
extinguish each other. "Put me Of
"Put me outw was heard on all 81
and women who were unusually
posed, or whose garments were ex,
tionally inhammable were repeatt
dipped into the water by their ne
bOrs. Boys and girls burrowed in
sand up to their necks, close to the
ter, and laved their heads aud faces
stsntly. Babies were frequently
ped to their utter wonder and AM
ance.
BEST WAY TO PUT UP WINTER FIR
Please lay to those that have wi
fruit to put up, that experience
proved to me that the best way TO
and handle fruit Is in bushel DO
The last few years l have procI
about as many boxes as had. bus
of winter fruit. l take the boxes &C
trees in picking time, and lay the 1
from the trees into them until
then put on the lids and haul CareI
aud pile them in tiers in my cellar I
floor to ceiling. In this way l can
in larger quantity OF fruit in less +
and with less labor than in any o
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