The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-09-15
GLEANINGS.

That venerable relic of past genera
ton, Matilda Heron, returns to the
stage this season.
Every white man has dog in Padu.
cab, and every negro keeps two fol
himself and one for each picaninny in
the family.
A condensed philosophy of farm.
ing"-Feed your land before it is INN.
CRY; rest it before 1t is weary; and
weed it before it is foul.
There is nothing like being posted in
Agricultural matters; but what will
Mr.. Breese, of Vermont, say to the
above ?-K0nsds Farmer.
Mr.. Rose, the inventor of the celebra.
ted potato which bears his name, is s
massachusetts, man, and never was 8
farmer.-FOTt Scott Monitor.
The amount of gold now in uss
throughout Christendom is estimated .,
Sd, 862, OOO, geo; and the amount of silver
of S1O,572, OO0, COO.
A Louisville paper makes the discov.
cry that the concluding paragraph Of
Pendleton's speech is conclusive. Nc
other part of the effort is liable to any
such objection, however.
MARRIED-At Flintstone, by Rev
Mr.. Winston, Mr.. Nehemiah Sand.
stone and Miss Wilhelmina MILESTONE
both of Limestone. Now, look out fol
small ldp-stone = Hudson Register.
Smoking is not allowed on the streets
in Boston. The other morning an en-.
thusiastic young policeman arrested g
hasty pudding that had been set out to
cool, for violating the city ordinance.
A young lady recently started Sun
day School in Texas, in place where
no sermon had been preached for forty
years. The school commenced with
three scholars, but has now Increased
to forty.
PEAcHEs.-The supply of peaches in
the New York market is wholly unpre-
cedented. 1t is estimated that no less
GOO, 600 crates were received within six
days. The principal source of supply
is from Delaware.
A young woman, not wholly uncon-
nected with New York church choir,
leaned too far over the gallery last Sun
day, to look at a new bonnet; and now
one of the deacons is going around with
his head in q sling.
Libelous Republicans charge that Gov.
Haight, of California, once mentioned
the Chinese as "our elder brothers.
But the Governors friends contend that
he didn't. He merely referred to them
as "our yaller brothers"
President Grant is said to have con-
fessed to being printer. While in a
Brooklyn newspaper Office, last week,
he remarked that tI have set 4 good
many columns of type myself in
Georgetown, Ohio, years ago."
"Sir," said an astonished landlady to
a traveller who had just sent his cup
forward for the seventh time, "You
must be very, fond Of coffee" eyes,
madam, | am" he replied, COR would
never drink so much water to get lit
tle."
A gentleman at an clearinghouse asked
the person next to him if he would
please to pass the mustard.
"Sir," said the man, "do you mistake
me for waiter" "Oi no, SIR" was
the reply, 81 mistook you for gentle
man."
New York nobs are preparing to de-
eorate themselves with the Russian
Prince collar" His Highness would do
them favor by sending over in adj
vance of his coming q few dozen of the
pattern which prevails in his august
kennel.
Charles Dickens's tomb in Westmin-
ster Abbey is visited by great many
Americans, who throng the poets cor
ner more for this than any other rea-
son. A blue slab with brass letters
marks the spot where the great novelist
is buried.
An Alabama paper advertises that
"any one finding the body of Henry c.
FiIebrown, drowned in the Coose river
on the 18th inst, will confer q favor by
cutting off lock of his hair to send to
his family" So trifiing a favor ought
not to be refused.
"Does pa kiss you because he loves
you ?" inquired a snub-nosed urchin OF
his maternal ancestor. ITO be sure,
sonny. Why ?" "Well, think he loves
tho cook, too; because he kissed her
more'n forty times last Sunday night,
when you was gone to meetin'!"
A letter from Berlin, in the Milwau-
kee Sentinel, says: '"The average pay
of mechanics in this city (and they are
paid much more here than anywhere
cASO Ah IAC APAIS,lAs aDOuI MY live
cents per day. A days work is from
6 a. m. to D. m. in all branches of in
dustry.
The Cinnamon at North Adams are
gradually assuming American cos
tunes. Many of them have left of
shaving their heads, and with wide
brinmed soft hats and Yankee coats,
they look quito AmeIicaniZed. They
faith f,Hl th n rKynYstr NO
cessful.
Victor Hugo is engaged, the papers
say, in writing "terrible" satire upon
the French army. 1t was a magpie,
we believe, that once found opportuni.
ty to satiriZe an eagle; but the eagle
was helplessly disabled when the
clustering satirist alighted in his neigh
borhoOd.
Mr.. Sampson reports that his Chinese
shOemakefs at North Adams have saw
ed him $4,000 in the year he has given
to experiment in Celestial labor, as they
produce ten per cent. more work in 9
day than the same number of Trades
Union men, who undertook to run his
business for him.
A gentleman of Westchester, Pa.
thinks that he has discovereda substance
which at cost of twenty cents q bar.
rel, will preserve spples, pears, peaches
grapes, tomatoes, cuchmbers, cantelopes
watermelons and many other frrits and
vegetables year or more as fresh as
when taken from the vines.
The present system of shilling tele.
grams, adopted by the British Govern.
ment when it took charge of the tele.
graph lines of the Kingdom, is working
finely. The lines are crowded with
messages, and from $4,000 to SIS, 00e
more are being now earned than during
the corresponding weeks of last year
Miss Walker, an English lady, is the
champion of her sex in the matter OF
mountain climbing. With her father
IS years of age, and consequently old
enough to know better, she scaled Mont
Cervin, peak of the Swiss Alps, on the
ed of July. The elevation attained
was 1850 feet above the sea level. A
few years ago she climbed Monte Rosa,
to height of IA 72 feet.
In ancient days Deacon Cook was
gate-tender at the Worcester railroad
depot in Boston. A drunken Natick
cobbIer-of course it couldn't have beer
Senator Wilson-staggered up to him
one day, and the Deacon inquired, with
his usual urbanity, "Where are you GO
ing" SsGoing to hi" was the bluff
reply. "Take the next car" said thu
Deacon, %and get of at Natick!"
The movement against the doctrini
of infallibiIity has rapidly extended