The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-05
EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY.

e Canada's debt is rapidly increas
ing.
Y Peruvian railways have ladies
smoking cars
&c The last South Carolina Legisla
o ture paid 81 600 for spitoons.
The New York Sun has only fiv.
v libel suits on hand at present.
d Boston affords q livelihood fol
very nearly eight hundred lawyers
There are over four hundred in.
corporated cities in the United
States.
u Miss Nellie Grant is still toe
young for appearance in Washing
ton society.
English capitalists have lost NO
q less q sum than 500, AZ, 500 since
}. 1916, by foreign countries repudiat-
e ing loans.
: Good news for sailors. Bread
made from sea water is said to in
: crease the appetite and stimulate
a digestion.
Small advertisements and plenty
r of them Is 9 good rule. We were
i babies once yet we made considers
BILE noise.
A shark caught off Charleston, had
q pair Of boots, scalp, two cannon
, balls, and a package of Sunday
School tickets in his stomach.
/, The Bangor Commercial says 3
. young lady of that city wears q
watch which came over in the May
flower in 1880.
Abusing ones relations In the
bosom of ones family is said to be
one of the sweetest of domestic priv
| ileges.
1t is affirmed as probable that of
the ninety millions of insurance in
Chicago at the time of the fire, sixty
will be paid.
The Worcester Spy says that every
day carload of paper is sent from
Wachusetf, Massachusetts, to New
York for the use of the Herald.
United States Marshall Patrick, of
Utah, reports one hundred and
twenty-eight prisoners in his custo-
dy awaiting trial, mostly for high
crimes.
The late DR.. Dean, of franklin,
Mass, endowed the Dean Academy, |
bearing his name, with $250000 du-
ring his life, and by his will S300,0 |
more.
There is family who have kept
house thirty-fve years and have
only had two cats in that time; one
lived sixteen years, and the other is
ni0afRen VaaPa 0f aO0 now
Some of the finest sleighs in use
at st. Petersburg are of American
manufacture. Hartford manufac-
turcrs built and sold over hundred
Russia sleighs last fall.
Between ten and eleven thousand
hands-men, women and children
engaged in the fax mills at Leeds,
are on a strike for the nine hours
movement.
A German writer, complaining of
the difficulty in the pronunciation
of the English language, cites the
word Boz, which he SAYS is pro-
nounced Dickens.
A man in Boone county, Ken
lucky, deVotes himself exclusiV ely
to the study of Greek. while his
family is destitute of the common
comforts of life.
Mrs. Malaprop is anxious to know
whether this Don Juan question be-
tween England any America has
anything to do with poor Lord
Byron.-Punch.
The world is said to use $50, OOO,-
600 pounds of tea each year, and
us, 100000 OF coffee. China furn-
ishes nearly all the tea, and Brazil
over One-half of the coffee. i
There are over seventy well or
ganiZed Republican clubs in Eng
land. The aggregate number of
members has already reached forty
thousand, and is still increasing.
Three rascals, whose business it
was to rob graves for the purpose
of supplying the chignon markes,
have been arrested and imprisoned
at Lyons, France.
James Gordon Bennett, ST., goes
to Scotland ia May to visit two
sisters he has residing there. Mean
while the Herald will be under the
care of Mr.. Bennett, Jr.
An Iowa farmer offers this chal.
lenge: 81 will bet SI2.25 that my
hired man can take longer to go to
the harvest field, get back to dinner
quicker, eat more, do less. and bear
down on q panel of fence harder
than any man within fifty miles of
the flag staff In Jefferson.
A Western orator thus winds up
q definition of eternity: "Why, my
i al nd
of years had rolled away in eternity,
it would be q hundren thousand
years to breakfast time"
An English publisher states that
the circulation of Tennyson's poems
is larger in the United States than |
in England, while that of Longfel- |
lows is larger in England than in |
the United States.
An Iowa editor has q letter from
a subscriber, who writes: 81 don't
want your paper any longer" The
editor says this is to be regretted, as
he had arranged to make the paper
about ak inches longer in q few
weeks.
The following notice was posted
in front Of the Erie Opera House
PAY no attention to orders from
, Gould or any of his hirelings."
Underneath it some wag wrote
"If anybody hauls down this notice
shoot him on the spot.
JOHN A. DIX"
1t is related Of leasing that he
l was occasionally 80 absent minded
) that once he knocked at his own
Z door, when the servant, not recog-
: niZinR her master, looked out of the
= window and said, ''The Professor is
: not at home," .Qh, Yery Well"
: replied Leasing, composedfy walk
4 ing away, 81 will call again"
An Illinois man has In manuscript
q brief autobiography of Mr.. Lin
coin, prepared at the request OF his
= friends In 1850. 1t is very brief
= description; ~ am in hight elk
9 flesh, weighing on an average $50
II pounds; DARK complexion, with
J. eoarse BLACK hair, and grey eyes no
9, other MARKS or brands recolIccted. T"
Z The latest sensation in reference
to the musical jubilee at BOSTON il
- the report that several promneui
electricians have applied for the op-
portunity to fire the guns as an &C.
'E compartment to the national music
m st the festival. It is proposed tC
m ask the uae of the cable for Q very
short period to fire the guns il
London during the performance o
N ''God Save the Queen" ~
m An editor, whose subscribers wer
sp remiss in payment, lately publishes
Id the following announcement in hi
of nanar ITO RaRa nnr readara III