The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-09-27
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t Georgia holds her State election
on the I'd Of October.
1t is said that next winter long
/ dress on the streets will be thing
, unknown.
A seventyfive year old North
Carolinian challenges any man oil
his age to foot race.
/ Rosa Bonheur's last painting IL
tiger fighting hyena. 1t is
said to be her masterpiece.
The chateau of William the
Conqueror has recently been sold
at auction. William is dead.
Prince Bismarck's daily expcn-
SEES are sixty dollars. President
Theirs spends twice as much.
The Emperor William, Of Ger
many, has recently bought two
page letter of George Washington
for 5000.
The retail dry goods dealers oil
Berlin have resolved to employ
only female clerks in their estab-
lishments.
Ladies and gentlemen promenad
ing together of afternoons this fall
are commanded nv fashion to walk
arm in arm.
Seven hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars were spent last year
by people advertising in the news
| nanarS of Ierlin
The Pacha of Bosnia, stupid
tyrant, has ordered special tax to
be imposed upon all red-haired
persons in that State.
The Great Boston Jubilee APP
pears to have cost its projectors
something like 100000 over and
above all receipts.
The Cracow Car says that the
voyage of the Grand Duke Alexis
has thus far cost his father the
handsome sum of 100000.
\ luxurious young Puritan Of
Boston habitually wears 100000
worth of diamonds on his elegant
person His scarf-pin is worth
$4,000.
Mr.. John Uttcrbaek, of Fayettc
county, Kentucky, lost his fine
Blackwood colt by pneumonia last
week, colt for which he had been
offered $4,000.
A suffering but sensible Wiscon-
sin horse hobbled to blacksmith
shop of its own accord n few days
ago, and 4 long, rusty nail was
found in his hoof.
The Emperor of Austria issued
decree changing the present
mode of execution in that coun-
try, which is q slow sort of stram-
gulation, for decapitation by the
axe.
Bickham, of the Dayton journal,
once Knocked down an escaping
elephant with a single blow of his
fist. Nevertheless, he is one of
the mildest and most genial Of
men.
The Empress Elizabeth of Aus
tria has written to the Woman's-
rights Club in Vienna: Ladies.
take my advice and keep away
from politics; there is nothing but
misery in it,"
All sorts of extraordinary Oe-
currences are constantly transpir-
ing in Georgia. The latest story
is to the effect that a turtles head,
which had been cut off for several
days, bit a ducks neck and killed
the fowl.
There is strip OF land on the
Baldwin farm, near Balcony Falls,
Virginia, containing about half u
dozen acres, that has been cult
waited in corn for seventy coAse-
cutive years. The crop now grow
ing on it Is very heavy.
The Mayor of Yeddo intends to
introduce the municipal machinery
of this country into his city. If
the machine does not run smooth
~, he proposes series of reforms
Reporters caught in the act will he
put to death, and thieving police
men will be decapitated.
A calculating machine has just
been invented which, by the sim,
pie turn of 4 crank can be made to
multiply, add and subtract the
square root. 1t multiplied cor
rectly $50 1856 in two minutes.
Greeley thinks of buying one to
calculate his chances of success
| with.
A man was taking friend to
Troy doctor, the other day, To
have a wound in his foot dressed.
The operation so affected the es-
cort that he tainted and fell on the
curbstone, infiicting an exactly
similar coneussion on his own
skull, the two walking away hold
ing ono another up.
a colony of two tia ousand Eng
lishmen-welI-to-do farmers, pos
sessing n capital of from two
thousand to ten thousand dollars
each, and who are among the most
successful agriculturists in the
woTld-has selected eight town
ships in Clay county, Mimi, on the
line of the Northern Pacific railway
for immediate settlement.
The different branches of Pres.
byterians in the country propose
ITO celebrate November 20, the
three hundredth anniversary of
the formation of the first English
Presbytery, by public exercises in
Philadelphia, at which discourses
will be delivered by eminent di-
vines selected for the purpose.
One Miller, of Lafayette, o., az.
piled for divorce from his wife
last week on tho ground OF imbe-
cility, and the Sheriff served q no
tice on Mrs. Miller while in her
husbands house. The shock
proved too much for her, and the
next day her body was found
hanging by rope to q rafter in
the barn.
Perhaps the need of popular
education has never been more
pithily put than when Mr.. Eaton.
National Commissioner of Educa-
ton, said: "While 3O0,OOO voters
turning from one side to the other
would control Presidential cleo
ton, this is one-sixth less than
the number of illiterate males en-
titled TO vote,
1t is estimated that twenty thou
sand iRnocents are now on their
way from California to the dia-
mnnd diooinna In Ar Il,