The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-04
EVERYTHING.

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Laura Keene returns to the
stage, this season, with number
of new plays.
The Medlicott trial cost $I5.-
: 600, and all the Doctor has to
) show for it is pointer dog.
A Chattanooga chicken-cooo
. has the following sign on it: "For
sail-Chickens. in the blume Of
yuth.''
President Theirs has an averaga
of 700 letters day, which it take
. two private secretaries to attend
to.
David, the French tragedian IA
making quiet tour of the Unite,I
states in a strictly unprotessiOnal
way.
Des Moines grows sunfowera
measuring one foot and a half in
diameter. Only one flower to u
.boquet.
A. A. Sargent, NJ. c., and Sem
ator-elect of California, was once
a jour printer ON the tramp, and
failed to get work in Philadelphia.
The Rev. DR.. Read, formerly
President of Shurtliff College, at
Upper Alton, Ill, has accepted u
call to Lawrence, Kansas.
| A country clergyman saw 81
skeleton of a donkey in local
museum. ''How odd We A. look
without the fleshr' he said.
The great attraction IN Turin
just now is a Prussian drummer
who plays on sixteen drums at
once. Why was he not in Boston?
A man in Atlanta was fined ten
dollars and costs on Wednesday
for selling an egg at thirty cents
and giving away glass of liquor.
Three million dollars worth of
silks were transported in a single
railroad train recently on the Chi
cago and Northwestern Railroad.
Colonel Whitley, Chief of the
National Secret Service Bureau.
is well-bred gentleman. He used
to run bakery in Lawrence,
Kansas.
A few weeks ago Great Britain
tested her ship-of-war Citation.
Two shots were fired ut her, and
it cost S6S,O00 to repair the dam
ages inflicted.
Two ice machines have been
running at Shreveport, La, all
summer, turning out 5000 pounds
of ice a day, which is sold at
cent and a half pound.
Some fifteen or twenty demo
cratic newspapers in the state of
Georgia are supporting O'Conor
and Adams for President and
Vice President.
Edward Tomkins, of San Fran
cisco, has given fifty thousand
dollars worth of land to the Cali
fornia University to endow an ORR
entail professorship.
Kate Field says that q woman
without tact should die. We be-
lieve it was Heine who said that
woman without religion was Ikea
flower without perfume.
A Danbury man has an inter
esting heirloom in the shape of
hat that was worn through 1S2
DRINKS, and still retains traces of
its former beauty.
There is nothing like a good
definition, as q teacher thought
when he explained the meaning
of "old maid" as a woman who had
been made a long time.
Ruckalew, the Coalition candi-
date for Governor of PcnnsylYa-
MIA, is described as Eone who de-
sPises in private and ignores in
public the Chappaqua Sage"
Patton Anderson, Major Gen
eral in the late Confederate army,
died Mt his residence, near Mem
phis, on the morning of the goth.
He was graduate of West Point.
Elder Samuel North, whe died
last week, at Franklin, N. H.,
aged SO, was one of the best known
and most valuable clergymen of
the Christian denomination in
New England.
Josephine McCarty, editor of
Truthteller, thinks that, if the
whole truth about women could
be known, every virtuous man in
the world would run bowling to
the nearest water and drown him
self. ~ 81. 81
o, now, Josie, that's too rough.
The more we know about them
the better we like them.
The "bottle of sacred oil,'' re-
Gently found amid the ruins of
turns out to have been
hut bottle of whisky
inadvertently left behind by pic
nic party. s..taq
The accused Carbonaro, with
his harp of a thousand strings all
put of tune, has vanished from
New York, and in his stead a one
legged mariner twirls the dispirit-
ing crank.
An elderly lady ont in Mich
gan says she likes to attend Gree
ley meetings, "because there is
always so much room in the house,
and no one disturbs her nerves by
shouting" 'sH o.
A small Georgian was petition
ing for "our daily bread" previous
10 retiring, when he was interrupt
ed By younger brother, who
whispered: 'tAsk for cake, John
ny! ask for caker s.i..iss.. taxs
A one-armed man in Salem,
Mass, lately applied for q divorce
On the ground that the hand he
had given his wife in marriage
was lost, and that the contract was
therefore void.
An afflicted husband was return
ing from the funeral of his wife,
when friend asked him how he
VAS Well = said he, patheticaI-
", II think ! feel the better for
that little walk"
ado bats fly in the daytimeg'
asked q teacher of his class in nat
ural history. Eyes. sir" the BOYS
replied. "What kind of batsY"
asked the astonished teacher.
Brick bats," yelled the boys.