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

Queen Victoria has bought an estat,
in the County Kildare, and, it is though
intends to reside there few weeks eacl
year, for the purpose of cultivatins
more intimate relations with her lovins
Fenian subjects.
An ingenious New York schneideI
has invented a pocket in the sleeves O
gentleman's overcoats, so that a lad,
can slip her hand in when she takes
gentleman's arm, in case her hand
should happen to be cold.
The people of Little Rock, Ark, arc
worried about the proper name for one
of their principal educational institu.
tons. 1t is one-story shanty, and
they can't persuade themselves that it is
right to call it "high school house,"
A bill for the promotion of honesty
IN dealing with peniteRtiary convicts
has been introduced in the Ohio Legis-
lature. 1t proposes to divide the sur
plus earnings of the prisoners among
their famiiies-an arrangement as wise
as it is just.
1t is said that roasted onion bound
upon the pulse on the wrist will stop
the most inveterate toothache in a few
minutes If that don't answer, you can
pull out the tooth and put the roasted
onion in the hole-which is almost in
| fallible.
A fond father recently wrote: sit
generally takes twenty years of training
to eradicate that word nice from a wo-
mans vocabulary. The falls of Niagara
the psalms of David, and the progress
of the human race were ali nice to my
eldest till she got married.
English mine-owncrs complain that
their best working miners are emigra-
ting to this country, attracted by the
better compensation and the higher es-
tlmatlon i'll which labor is held here
The coal mines of Cornwall are falling
off in production from this cause.
They don't tolerate trespasslng in the
South Congregational Church in Mid
dletown, Conn., A deeply-religious
pew owner found an intruder in his
seat the other Sunday, ard, gently
grasping the stranger by the collar,
dragged him out into the aisle.
'Glashier, the English eronaut, is Sc
rlously i'll, never having recovered from
the effects of his balloon ascension at
Wolverhampton, last September, when
he reached a height of seven miles, the
greatest ever attained, and when he is
supposed to have burst some blood yes
sells.
Philadelphia talks about building a
refining, elevating, and instructive"
art gallery. She hasn't anything to put |
in 1t at present except RothermePs bat
tie of Gettysburg; but as that contains |
a quarter section of canvas, and fifteen |
puncheons of flaming pigments, it is |
considered very good start for a col |
lection.
California has found a grass that will |
live through her dry summers, and is |
sowing its seed very widely over the
State. 1t is called "alfalfa," and they |
claim for it that it will not only stand |
the drought, but be more productive |
than the native grasses, and less expen-
sive to cultivate than wheat and oats
grown for Hay.
MarDlehead, Mass, has within its
limits an old fort built about 1910 by
the early settlers, to protect them from
the Indians. 1t is situated about mile
from the thickly settled part Ofthe town,
and by recent vote of the taxpayers is |
to be enclosed by fence, aud to be
preserved as the only relic of the kind
in New England.
Rev. DIR. West, of New Bedford.
Mass, once heard that his choir would
refuse to sing on the next Sunday.
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hymn: Come we who love the Lord"
After reading it through he looked up
very emphatically at the choir, and said
"Let those refuse to sing who never
knew our God" The choir sang.
Jefferson, Me-, has little Enoch Ar
den sensation all to itself. David Lane
q former resident of the town, supposed
to have been killed during the war,
turned up the other day to find his wife
pensioned off as his widow, and mar
ried again. David has contracted with
the village sexton for a grave, and at
last accounts was considering the rela-
tive advantages of filling it with him
self or 'tother fellow. Odds two to one
on the latter, and no takers.
Strange combinations resulting from
strikes are rather startlingly illustrated
in the lace-trade of Nottingham, Eng
land. There exists unions of the en-
ployers as well as the men, and both
appear to be amply supplied with funds.
One manufacturer has q dispute with
his men resulting in strike. The EN-
ployers' union pays the manufacturer
the average earning of each machine
still, and the workmen's I'M
ion pays each workman full wages as
long as he is on a strike; which GER
tainly don't look very promising for an
early adjustment.
The following item of the new rules
for base ball seems to have been acct
IDENTIFY omitted in making up the official
edition lately published. Lovers of the
noble game expecting to engage in
matches had better cut
this out and paste it in their caps for
reference: "If Low Jack
caroms on the home stretch, and pock-
cts his bat, B. of course wins; for the
stroke oar takes the cue in any case, and
the trump card counts game on the
third inning, provided the off-pitcher
sticks by his wicket and makes a ten
strike before reaching the judges stand.