The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-07-05
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Chicago is pining for q snow
storm.
II. w. Beecher's life is insured for
100000.
James Gordon Bennct's coffin
cost $4,000.
Locusts will poison fruits and
vegetables.
Burlington, Iowa, has an organ
lied gang of thieves.
The Grand Duke Alexis will visit
San Francisco in September.
Canada musters about 1900 mi
litia and has a reserve force of near
ly 100000.
James f. Joy is said to be the
coming man for the Erie Railroad
Presidency.
Bob Ould, the renowned Con-
federate Commissioner; goes for
DR.. Greeley.
The trip to California is by many
deemed superior in attractions to a
voyage to Europe.
John Russell Young gets $1,000
as London correspondent of the
New York Herald.
a California sheep raiser owns
$4,000 sheep, which bring him q
yearly income of 100000.
The Germans, by Bismarck's
direction, are training carrier pig
cons for military purposes.
Caterpillars have suddenly ac-
quired an appetite for Georgia rice,
and the planters are in dismay.
A pair of New Haven parents
are afflicted with boy that doesn't
stop whistling even in his sleep.
A Texas farmer cultivates over
$4,000 acres,- and has $1,000 cattle
10000 horses, 5000 goats, and 1000
sheep.
A Green Bay man was mean
enough to elope with the only
school teacher i'll the town, thus
shutting up the school.
Sailing ships, notwithstanding
the great increase in steamers, car
ry three-fourth of all the passengers
that cross the ocean.
It cost Alexis 100000 to visit
tins country, and it cost the country
100000 to entertain Alexis. But
fair exchange is no snobbery.
A Chicago editor recently re-
aeived perfumed note asking why
Mr.. Byron, who used to write such
sweet poetry, keeps so silent lately.
a man lately died in Kansas City
from a wound received in the hip
at the battle of Beauna Vista, Mex
leo.
Tenor w. Park. of Bennington.
VT, having sold his interest in the
Emma mine, of Utah, to English
for 81, 500000 is reported
about to establish a banking house
in London.
Practice does not always make
perfect. Curran, when told by his
physician that he seemed to cough
with more difficulty, replied, that
is odd enough, for / have been
practicing all night.
A convict of the Rhode Island
Penitentiary has fallen heir to. an
immense fortune, and he is now
talking of buying the State and
having the prison moved from the
premises.
The numerical addition to the
strength of the Northern States
from immigration, since the census
of 1900, is estimated at II, 5000
and the value in wealth at $4,000
O00, 900. Theimmigration as between
the late slave and free States is over
10000, 900 in favor of the latter.
A man in Delaware having heard
that the earth revolves at the rate OF
about one thousand miles an hour,
arranged plan for going up in a
balloon and remaining stationary
while the earth is permitted to slide
away beneath. He thinks that by
this means he can reach California in
a couple of hours merely by shoot
ing up from Wilmington in his bal
loon, then dropping down again as
soon as the Rocky Mountains are
observed to go past. He has the
whole thing arranged now in per-
feet order-thc balloon and the
place to start from, and his map,
and SO forth, SO that the scheme cam
not possibly fail; and ell he wants
to make the thing complete is to
find something to tie the balloon
to in order to hold it still while it
is up in the air.