The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-01-12

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A minister not long ago preached
from the text: "Be ,ye therefore
steadfast :" but the printer made him
expound from scBe ye there for |
my breakfast 70.
Fifty thousand young ladies in
Germany have taken the pledge OF
total abstinence from chignons, pre-
ferring to preserve the sheen on
their natural hair. ri
An old bachelor said he once fell
in love with young lady, but
abandoned all idea Of marrying her
when he found that she and all her
family were opposed to it.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, editress OF
.Godey's Lady's Book" Is eighty
four years old, and still lAbors con.
stantly at the work which has
employed her for the last A years.
A gentleman, addressing q pas
sionafe love letter to lady in the
same town, edded this curious post.
script: "Please to send q sDeedy
answer, as have somebody else In
eye. ns---------------.-zz~ .-ez'-'----'-'-'
The tedious routine Of Irritation,
introduction, courtship, engage
ment and marriage was successful
ly gone through with by an Arkan-
sas couple in thirty-six minutes, all
told. a.
Making paper 10 profitable to the
Manufacturers, but death to the dsh.
On a single small island in the
Genesee $1,000 were found dead the
other day. killed by the ehemi-
cal poisons contributed by the paper
mills. .-.. .s.e
A young candidate for Office In
| Greene county, N. Y, took his de-
| feat SO much to heart that he went
on a drunken debauch to drown
his sorrow, and died in q week.
Before his nomination he never
tasted drop of liquor. .
! The ninth census reports give an
aggregate of $261, 775,12 as the
value of the farms in the United
States. The total value of the
agricultural products Of 1869 was
| 50, AZ, Coz, 1897, or about twenty-five
per cent. upon the entire capital.
Parton tells us, in his sketch OF
Jefferson's college days, in the Jan
nary Atlantic, how skillful the great
Virginian was as q violin player
and it is fact that, when he came tC
Washington as President, he fire..
Quently carried his Fiddle" to the
sociables OF his friends. ..s s,#.
i A Chicago boot-black recently
appeared in Detroit and bought {
nine-hundred dollar lot, for which
he paid in fractional currency
mostly of the denomination Of ter
cents, and which it took three hour
to count. He is only eleven year
old, and says he made this none!
in boot-blacking in three years.
a Boston paper says that tn
worst sufferers by the sudden cut
ting off of the water supply in Bos
ton last Friday week, were tn
milkmen. Some of their customer
complained of the unnatural thick
ness in the milk, but were comfort
ed with the assurance that the thin;
should not happen again.
Two Saginaw youths called upol
q "sweet girl" and made a rsthe
| protracted stay; but when tn
, heavy father came down and threy
a pail of water in the stove, the
took 1t as a hint that It was time t
|, go, and stood not upon the order
their going. ..s
Says the New York Mail: 9TH
definition OF wedding In the fash
, ionable vocabulary means 9 gram
crisis of clothes; bride, q peg o
! which finery of all kinds is hung
! bridegroom a sober black objec
: following the bride, OF no Aeceun
! in particular, yet without Whot
there would be no fuss, and the fu
could not go on" IL. -eF
A new school teacher in one {
3 the unexplored districts Of Sodu
!, on entering the school house fo
the first time, noticed three-lee
3 ged stool. SIS this the dune
2 block 2" ne asked Of a fair youn
girl who was standing near. TIL
!; dark eyes sparkled. the curls NOD
ded assent, and the lips ripple
out, "I guess 80 the teacher Away
sits on it."
e Frederick Douglas has announce
in the Washington Neto Era, hi
y fixed and unconditional purpose {
: support Gen, Grant for re-nomins
!, ton and reelection. He admit
t that this will be opposed by som
Of the best friends the colored rae
- has ever had inside and outside tn
t councils OF the nation, but declare
a that Grant, Of all men In the LAND
t Is most dreaded by the reactionar
elements which have arisen in th
}, wake Of defeated rebellion an
g slavery. .,. ..-..-.. ..e.....-. -.
Charles Dickens, Jr., with an 1
: taste which will meet, we trus
T with general condemnation, hs
dropped the Jr. from his name, an
L from henceforth will appear in. III
erature as Charles Dickens. It ws
9 bad enough to have q second an
diluted edition of Tom Hood In tn
shape OF his son, who trusted in
: sickly dependence on his father
reputation to assist his own; bI
that the great novelist's nam
9 should be thus forged (for !.
amounts to that is an injury tn.
should be resented. Author
/ should be exceedingly cautious /
duplicating their own names {
their children's. 20
' Did you hear Of that chap who q
o tended the sale Of q hotel recently /
: town in Ohio7 He hadn't o cent
g his pocket, but he stood up and bi
n boldly, "twenty-aight thousand do
- a ~ IL ii A. IL
: and when the question was asked
"Who 10 the purchaser 2" this audl
eious scamp replied 1.-THE Pennsy
" vonia railroad" or course, he wa
s not In person required to put d
o the money for an impartial buyC
like that, whereby he was able, 1
r the course ola couple OF days to se
d the whole to another party for $50
600, and clear the difference. tn
t country is now full OF scanps buJ
ing hotels for the Pennsylvanla raj
r road.-Chicdgo Tribune Letter.
vi Miss Kate Stanton is giving
( lecture on "Whom to Marry" an
these are her eonclusions-ffst {
: men: ''Marry largo woman, on
i. who wears at least a No: 5 shoe
r marry healthy widow, with hea
It thy children, rather than q, youn
girl, for she has had the advsntas
Of experience; but, best OF all, maj
n ry an old maid, though she is di
y hcult Of access" To women
4 Marry q healthy man. especially
= fat man, round like . pumpkin b
n do not marry cosby man (unlet
he is reporter or editor, who !
4 forced professionally to be q gossip
: err Above all, don't marry, sh
!. said, "a drunkard, a gambler,
: quack doctor, or q defamer OF VIC
! men,"
i SwITzER CHEESE IN Wisconsin,
e Last year we gave q brief sceonr
: of q visit to enc of three or fou
j. dairies near Oshkosh, at vhic