The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-10
GLEANINGS.
Toledo has a laflv house-painter

Toledo has 3 lady house-painter
Pittsburgh has fifteen hundred
factories.
Matilda Fletcher is stumpins
] Iowa for Grant.
Jorjalferd Townsend was q dele
,, gate to Cincinnati.
. Another female orchestra is en-
route from Berlin to this country.
The copy of the London Times
for the 9Th of April consists of %
pages.
Nilsson in seclusion puffs the
cigarette which cheers but not in
ebristes.
Seventy dollars from each inhab-
liant would extinguish the national
debt.
An East Saginaw, Michigan, jury
wished to bring in a verdict in
poetry.
The Chicago pl asterers have just
finished up successful strike for
So day.
| Thirty families in Binghampton,
New York, depend upon one well
for water.
| Half-mourning is popularity
| known in Pennsylvania as "Pitts-
burg sunshine"
California market reporters quote
real estate as lively since the recent
earthquakes.
There are ten pounds of hair n
an average camel, worth ten dollars
per pound.
Sweet Vengeance is the name of
the quietest and most orderly town
in California.
Ralph Waldo Emerson has been
trying to make himself understood
for seventy years.
A Missouri hen has built her nest
in the top of q splintered tree, forty
feet from the earth.
A snow-white pelican, eight feet
across the wings, was shot last week
at Jacksonville, Ill.
A delegation of one hundred ac-
cordeon players will represent Erie,
Pa, at the Boston jubilee.
There are now on Laramie plains
about 1900 brood mares, grazed in
from herds of 100 and upwards.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller, who wanted
people to know "him by his epic
heroes" Is coming West TO lecture.
Boston is going to beat its own
big organ with one still bigger,
built expressly for the coming jubi-
lee.
Rev. Mr.. Pierce, of Syracuse,
thinks fashionable millinery will
literally break up polygamy in
Utah.
Denver has got a mountain trout
which weighs twelve pounds dress
ed. It was caught in Bear River,
Wyoming Territory.
A young lady went into a music
store and asked the clerk if he had
Loving Eyes" He replied, "Im
told so by the girls"
Hundreds of people would take
dollar chances in a so-called charity
lottery who would never think of
giving two cents to a blind man.
At a wedding in Poughkeepsie,
not long ago, the parents of the
bridegroom charged the invited
guests ninety cents per head for
supper.
The first railroad in America was
built in the year 1926, to transport
Quincy granite to the tide-water in
Neponset river, a distance of three
miles.
The transportation of fresh beef
from Texas to New York by means
of the refrigerating system is said
to be growing into an enormous
trade.
Professor S. G.. Bartlett uses up
four columns of the Chicago Ad-
vance in arguing that the New Test
ament prohibits women from
preaching.
Maryland Jews are obliged to
leaye that State in order to marry,
as marriages are not valid there I'M
less performed by minister of
the gospel"
Quinine is worth its weight in
diamonds in South Africa. Its So
luton ia o popular beverage there,
| Anu ul6n SnoA0 1OE as SnOS w
for drinks here. -.
The regulation of the "social evil"
in St. Louis has resulted in the
| diminution of the unfortunate
women, and a revenue of $4,000 to
the city during the past year.
The most stupendous canal in the
world is one in China, which passes
over two thousand miles, and to
forty cities. It was commenced as
far back as the tenth century.
Cassius NJ. Clay is 62 years of
age, robust in health, vigorous in
mind, simple aud unostentatious in
manner, and doesn't want any more
offices under the Government.
Charles Nordhoff says: eff you
have been on street car when 1t
ran off the track and was dragged
over the cobbles, You may easily
know the sensations Of California
earthquake"
Henry Ward Beecher's favorite
nag has been stolen, and the amount
of the reward offered was proclaim
ed with great fervor from the pull
pits of the City of Churches, last
Sabbath.
/ It is announced that the President
I will not go to Long Branch this
year. He proposes spending the
warm weather at Mr.. Lincoln's
favorite retreat, tie Soldiers Home,
near the capital.
4. That compositor has his own way
J of spelling and punctuating, and
this is the way he treated familiar
passage of Scripture 1.-THE wick
; ed flea, when no man pursueth but
the righteous, is bold as lion."
Henry Ward Beecher, in a dis
course on phrenology, said he had
seen men with large blue eyes
"whom you could no more stimu-
late to action than you could lump
of dough by blowing a resurrection
trump over It,"
The cultivation Of the poppy in
, France is steadily increasing. No
less than $1,000 acres of land, of the
: value of 4.5O0.O 600 francs, are Occu-
, pied, and the annual yield of opium
! is 1900, 900 francs.
/. The latest thing in spring hats for
3 young ladies Is to have the rim sc
J, bent and crumpled as to be strongly
e suggestive of q late supper, an ovei
! dose Of champagne and q lively
! little tussle in ; carriage the nigh
3 before. Jaunty, but not judicious
! 1t has been ascertained by officia
b data that there are about 150, OO0, O0(
i Iof soVereiGns, and $40 100000 o
Il silver coins of all denomination
d doing duty among her Majesty
Il lieges in Great Britain and Ireland
AsaD-oofof What IL ia that real