The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-11-22
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A second Great Eastern is to be
built.
Toledo, Ohio, has escaped the
epizootic.
Nutting parties are all the rage
in Ohio.
Alabama fox hunts are held On
race tracks.
Rowley, Massachusetts,, has a
dolls shoe factory.
Kingston, New York, has four
legged rooster.
The Susquehanna river is to be
stocked with salmon.
Superior wooden blakets, made
in California, are now displayed
in Broadway stores.
British carpet manufacturers
have largely secured patents for
designs in this country.
Nickel, from which the small
coin is made, comes from q mine
in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. ~,
If there's one thing more than
another that country dealers offer
at reduced rates, it's white hats.
Mr.. Greeley was harvesting at
Chappaqua on election day. He
picked a peck Of picked peppers.
Fenton's county gave Grant g.
500 majority. How does that
strike the great and pious Reuben
A man in Iowa has coughed a
MIME ball out of his lung which
was shot into it'Aatsi Pittsbnfg
Landing.
The purser of the ill-fated
steamer Missouri, which burned
off Nassau, was the fancee of Miss
Ida Greeley.
By a recent Law in New Hamp-
shire a woman divorced from her
husband can. again assume her
maiden name.
The Sandusky 90. Register has
made a diagnosis and calls the
horse disease san aggravated
phase of hay fever"
Gen. Berdon, of sharpshooting
fame, has established himself in
st. Petersburg, Russia, as a man
ufacturer of fire arms.
It is estimated that 500 white
men have been scalped by the Ar
iona Indians in the last ten years,
an average of one a week.
California, with more wheat
than she knows what to do with,
is preparing to rise more next
year than she raised this.
Miss Marie Krebs, the pianist,
is said to have made twenty five
thousand dollars clear of expenses,
by her concerts in this country.
A train of sixteen cars of salt,
containing l,120 barrels, was load
ed at East Saginaw, Michigan, Oc-
tober 80, for Hannibal, Missouri.
A st. Paul cow, in attempting
to open a gate, lifted it off the
hinges and carried it seven miles
on frantic run, when she fell ex-
hausted.
Some men engaged in pouring
brandy from a keg, in a store in
California, were severely burned
by the liquors taking fire from a
candle which was Is feet distant.
Robert Dale Owen has contract
ed with the editor of the Atlantic
Monthly to furnish that magazine
with his autobiography, in month
ly chapters, to begin in January.
Kate Stanton, the World says, is
going to lecture in Boston on t.The
Love of Great Men," and nineteen
out of every twenty Bostonians
thinks she intends TO divulge the
heart secrets of their private lives.
A thousand American girls
whose parents could not think of
such thing as allowing them to
go through life on a plain Ameri-
can education are receiving in
struction in France and Italy.
A suburban correspondent says
the real estate reporters of some of
the dailies are SO sharp after items
now that he hesitates about having
his trousers repaired, for fear that
it will be reported that he has
bought "new country seat"
It may interest Harvard gradu-
ates who used to burn holes in their
coat pockets with lighted pipes
hastily concealed from the proetor'i
gaze, to know that the march of i'm
provement has swept away the rule
forbidding smoking in the yard.
At Petaluaaa, Italy, q committee
of FIVE ladies was appointed to de.
termiue who was the handsomest
man in the audinence and award the
prize. After careful tour of in
spection through the aisl'.s a lovely
: editor was singled out by major
ity of the committee.
Little Sprngue contributed $40,
600 toward the election of Gree
ley; but he has never paid tn
.. seedy Bohemian who wrote TO
: him those wonderful national
commercial and Senatorial speech
= es. Its only the powerful Bohe
. mians Spraguey conciliates.
Miss Sarah c. Lewis, of Brain
3 tree, Mass, loved her cat first ant
oh ~ he =
8 at her death, the income of he
j house and 81 week, to be applie'
: to the care of her favorite tortoise
{ shell. This novel bequest has bee
carried out until Monday, when tn
: cat died. and the Q niyersalist churc
j, succeeded to the entire property
i Miss Matilda Phillips, sister @
i Adelaide, the singer, lately rescu
: ed young gentleman from drown
Q ing, at Genoa. Writing to he
It sister, she says: I'VE are grea
: friends ever since, and he ca
j scarcely do enough for me.
: have had beautiful letters rom hi
= mother and sisters, and I feel S
If happy to have done anything I
u bring so much happiness to an
d one"
n n The Old School Missouri Pre-
= byterian Synod has formally d.
2 cided by a unanimous vote to see
d an alliance with the Souther
le Presbyterians and Reformed Pre-
4 4 byterians. The Missouri Syno
ID embraces eighty ministers an
IN eight thousand communicate
3 Committees have been appointe
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