The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
SHORT sToRIEs-MosTLY TRUE.

A man, not a Congressman, had
his head blown off by the explosion
of gas the other day.
Noble county, Ohio, boasts among
its citizens o certain Mr.. Hardin,
whose height, in his stockings, is
seven feet three inches age twenty
two.
A mammoth cheese was recently
exhibited in Faneuil Hall, Boston,
of which 1000 persons bought slices,
paying for them in the aggregate
1851. 40.
A few nights ago a man and wife
near Sioux City, hearing the omin-
GUS alarm of q rattlesnake near
them, got up and found it coiled up
in their bed. They made it ''shuffie
off that coil" mighty quick.
In Siberia, during the winter,
milk is bought and sold in frozen
state, and can be carried for a long
period in simple bag. When re-
quired for use the requisite quantity
is chopped off with a Ratchet or
sheath-knife, and thawed as needed.
A young woman in an infirmary
at Dayton, has snake in her stem
ach. The reptile frequently thrusts
its head out of her mouth, but with
draws suddenly, and without hiss
ing at the medical students, who
think the young woman will die.
Miss McCracken, who was caught
up by the storm in Youghigheny
Valley, on Sunday last, was carried
four hundred and sixty yards, by
actual measurement, and fell through
severe bruises. The limbs Of the
saved her hfe.-Pittsbnrg CONNER
cial.
A bright little fellow, son of the
mistress of a well-knoWn popular
educational institution, was skating
at Lake View, New Jersey, when
he broke through the ice. AS he
went down, the probabilities were
rather against his coming up again
alive, and the lad, realizing this, and
wishing to have the intelligence con-
veyed directly home, shouted out, as
he was disappearing, the street and
number of his residence. Fortu-
nately he was rescued.
An ingenious Yankee was before
the Postmaster General the other
day with q postage stamp that had
on it's adhesive side taste of choice
candy. One sort had chocolate,
another orange, third lemon, and
through the list OF popular sweet
meats. The inventor urged increas-
ed sales and waste that would come
from this improvement. The Post
master General reserves his decis-
sion as to the advisability OF the
Government buying out the confec-
tionery bnsiuess.
An experienced grocer in Kala-
mazOo, who has watched the maneu-
Vers and strategy of rats for many
seasons, solves the problem Of how
rats carry eggs up pair of stairs.
He declares that he has seen a rat go
10 basket of eggs, take ono in his
paws, roll over on his back, resting
the egg on his abdomen, and hold
ing it there by his legs, flap his tail
as signal that all was ready, and
out would come two other rats,
seize the first one by the tail, and
drag him up stairs on his back, egg
and all.
A quadroon mule, the foal of a
mule by a horse, is exhibited at
Yreka. He was sired in the SOUTH
western corner OF Oregon in 1868,
has no name, tail like q COW, q
jaekass head, and ears like a horse,
his body being covered with thick
mass of kinky hair like a negro's
head. He is fine looking and well
built animal, has the appearance of
lively traveller, and before she'd
ding his coat last fall had q heavy
fleece something like sleep, and
also q beard to his chin. He is
quite gentle, ana is possessed of the
horse nature in all its actions.
| On one Of the recent cold nights
Nashua lady put her two boys in
bed in a cold room, tucked them up,
ana sat down on the edge of the bed
to hear them say their prayers.
Johnny, aged seven, got through all
right, and caddled up to. Willie,
aged five, who had just commenced
his prayer. Presently Willie began
to hurry, the words came faster
than he could distinctly utter Them
and the prayer ended thus: 81
pray the Lord my soul to keep,
amen-take your hand or m me or
Pu warm y0ur ear for you.n John
my was trying to tickle him.