The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-08-04
NEWS CLIPPINGS.

An 1ncn OF ram lalllnS upon al acre
OF land weighs about 100 tons.
A London jeweler has been five years
at work upon watch, and it will be
worth ten thousand dollars when fin
ished.
A silver salvor is exhibited In a store
| in New York which has engraved in its
center a copy of the Declaration of In
dependence. .-
1t is said that kerosene applied by
means of moist cloth TO stoves will
efIectually keep them from rusting dur
ing the summer.
1t is estimated that the people of the
United States pay $100,O00,OOO q year
for medicines and medical services, ex-
elusive of S25, 100000 for patent medi-
| cines.
Detroit celebrated the completion OF
her new court house on the Fourth
The original estimate of its cost was
100000, and the actual expense of pill
ing it up has been S601 1885.
Some bear hunters in Maine having
received S1S bounty for three bears
killed on Sunday. have quieted their
consciences by giving the money to
Sunday School Library. So
A waterproof life-preseryfng dress
has been invented. 1t can be worn
over other clothing, keeps it free from
moisture, contains several air-tighi
compartments,and will keep 300 pounds
affoat. -' ~"
A brave San Francisco lady, who
discovered Chinese burglar in her
house at dead of night, sliced HIM in
tho dark and held him screaming mean
while till her husband came and cap.
tured him. - ~ D..
A Norwich man is very angry with
This wife. lie bought an India-rubbeI
air bed. She didn't believe it was
healthy to sleep on q mattress that wa:
not ventilated, and SO, during his alb
sence, punched about fifty holes in it,
There is in Atlanta, Ga, a woman
shoemaker. Her husband, who fell
battling for the South, left her his xii
of tools only as legacy; and, hard
times coming on, this moral heroine has
taken to the strap and the last, and il
pegging out ap honest livelihood.
A set of exquisite porcelain, a present
from Champion, the great Bristol man
ufactnrer, to the wife of Edwin Burke
in "a, has just been sold at auction
The tea pot sold for $1,000, the cream
jug for SAFE, the slop-bowl for $3.50, and
the cups and saueers for from $500 tc
$3.50 each.
A gentleman in Philadelphia has offer
ed to give $4,000 to the Baptist Mis-
sionary Society toward the establish
ment of school for higher education
among the Karens of farther India
Another in Washington offers $4,000
and one in New York $40, GOO, provided
100000 can be raised.
Croquet is more ancient game thar
most people suppose. It was intro
dnced into England from Franco in
1880, under the name of ftpele-mele,
and gave the name to the celebrated
London avenue, now the street called
Pail Mall. IT was favorite pastime
of Charles II. and the Duke of York
A lady died two years ago in Troy
and left her groperty to her nephew
with the proviso that il he ever offered
the farm for sale the property shonlt
be forfeited to certain church. Thu
place was offered for sale few day.
ago, and the church instituted snit, bu
the courts have decided that the eondi
tions of the will were against "publi'
policy and have declared the provi
sions null and void.
The claim that the maize or Indian
corn plant is Indigenous to the soil o
the New World, has lately been con
tested, and recent Investigations of Ger
tain Chinese records are cited to Prov
that it was cultivated in China previou
to the discovery of America. Chimes
. authors maintain that it came original.
from countries west of China, and tia
L it was introduced into that country
long before the first arrival of tn
Portuguese in l5l7. s.sy zss i