The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-08
SCRAPS.

AR editor who WAS going
counting said he was 'sgoing I
press"
England makes SO, 500, 600 wort
of her old rags into paper yearly
Paper houses are, being mad
practicable, habitable and CON
Portable. 1e
7 Athens, Ca, has a paper name
the Cat, with the m otto, al ca
scra tch.''
Transactions in Hair is tn
heading given by q Detroit cdito
to an occount of a street fight.
A Kansas man who went to
circus thought that the Egyptian
mummy was 'snothing but jerk
led Injun."
"A lady asked q gentleman how
old he was He replied: "What
you do in everything" What was
his age?-XL.
g1, Josh Billings says: Success
don't konsist in never maxim any
FLANDERS, but in never maxim one
the second time"
b lone flesh was made two, a few
days ago." is the way Washing
ton Territory paper announces q
decree of divorce,
30 1t is intimated that there are at
least fifty Thousand young men
employed as commercial travellers
in the United States.
. An Iowa editor recently an
noqnced that 8. patron of his was
''thieving as usual" He declares
he wrote it ''thriving."
If this is a borrowed paper you
are reading '.drop it." Your
don't pay his money to
lend you.-Times, Albany, n. Y.
L Bronze statutes, of Guttenburg
and DR.. Franklin were recently
placed over the beautiful portico
of the oStaatsaZeitunS building,
New York City, -
A gushing poet asks in recent
show many weary pill
grims lief' We give it up, but
experience has taught US there are
several r,a-,s.... -
"A cheap way of getting credit
for liberality was devised by the
of q fair in Illinois, who
offered a premium to the oldest
spinster present. Of course no.
body claimed it,
An exchange says: This is
5fiei fifth trout caught this year
from the same hole tie total
weight of which is six pounds. ="
Good" say the Ottawa Citizen,
now we know what hole weighs"
Here is a good business like
,pitaph: ''Here lies Jane Smith,
wife of Thomas Smith, marble
cutter. This monument was erect
ID by her husband as a tribute to
Ter memory and a specimen of his
work. Monuments of the same
style $3.50. d" - t-.s'
This is how the Louisville Cour-
looks at it: They
should quit abusing Pere Hya-
;inthe for marrying. They should
that the destinations of
|, Yankee widow travelling as the
gent of patent corset are not to
,e Whistled down the wind as you
you'd the charms of an ordinary
woman travelling merely for fun.
A western editor being asked to
AXE tea with. a lady friend, ac-
epted. While at the table the |
ady observed that he had no spoon. |
Is it possible said she, ethat 1 |
orgot to give you a spoon? II
'onld not have made such q mis-
AXE. ST have no spoon, madam"
aid the editor, rising from his |
eat, sand if you don't believe it
iou may search me- r. =. |
The American library in the
British Museum is more complete
han any in the United States.
There are one hundred thousand
olumes in the American depart
lent,. including all tie standard
looks of the nation, the laws, the
Histories, the biographies, the
FORKS on topography and local
istofy, the poets and the novel
SITS most in esteem. 1t is morti
ying that an American should
ave to go out of America to find
heoi most complete American
ibrary. ac
/ The Cnurier-Journal begins an
Interesting paragraph as follows:
We referred the other day to a
accident by which
overall boys had their necks bro
en- by the falling Of a scaf'old on
hitch they were engaged in black
ag the boots of the editor of the
It. Louis Globe A country co
picks it mp straight
ray and asks: where is the
ignity Of the pressP Yes, that's
t. where is the dignity of the |
i'ess, where, oh where is the dig, |
hats the question?