The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-11
INTERESTING ITEMS.

Decaying vegetable matter Is
much more poisonous than decay.
ing animal matter.
There are $4,000 less cattle In
Maine now than ten years ago.
caused by a succession of light
hay crops.
The best way to sell corn is in
the flesh. AS the corn crop is IN
unusually large one, We suppose
our farmers are preparing to fat
ten all the cattle they can get had
of
The Lighthouse Board reports
that there are now five hundred
and seventy-three lighthouses
along the coasts and shores of the
United States, and twenty-five
lightships.
A few weeks ago the creek un-
der the great natural bridge in Vir-
gfnia suddenly disappeared, and
subsequent Investigation demoa-
strated the fact that the stream
emptied itself into tie earth
through a number OF newly formed
assures of unknown depth.
Il HoNES IN k1SsAs.-Parties wish
ing 10 emigrate West, cannot find q
better or healthier climate, mora
beautiful country, or one affordinR
better prospects of amply rewarIL-
ing well directed labor than the fer
tile valleys of the Arkansas and Wal
nut rivers, in Southern Kansas
Arkansas City Traveller. -.
There are manufactured in the
United States over 9, 25O,OO0 pack
ages ofpins per annum. Each one
of these packages should contain
$500 pins, giving the enormous
amount of I, 425, coo, 600 pins made
annually. One factory alone in
Boston turns ont eight tons of
pins per week. There is 4 good
deal OF. pin money in the business
PoTAToEs.-The potato crop Of
Reno county in proportion to, i:s
breadth Is simply enormous. We
heard a gentleman say the other day
that of small area he raised al
most enough to pay for a quarter
section of railroad land. The spec
linens sent to the State Fair conf
Fnanded great attention, and ELECTED
many notices from the press
Hutchinson News. o.. .e-
al The Detroit Post publishes the
following notice: "Gentlemcn an
ladies contemplating suicide by
drowning will confer favor upol
the harbor master and cOroners by
leaving word at the Central statioa
what dock they intend jumping
from. The harbor master is nov
provided with n handsome neT
drag and set of new grapplin
hooks, and is prepared to bring uD
dead bodies with neatness and dis
patch ,-l--.t
An English writer SAYS that az.
riculture is the immediate source
of human provision; that trade
conducive to, the production OF
provision only supports agricui-
ture, that the whole system Of
commerce, vast and various as it
is, has no public Importance saw,
to its subserviency to that emit.
1t has a peculiar significance in Z
country like this, where agricu!-
ttIre is and always will be of primo
Importance. .as' 5."i e."
A Titusville wife placed a TOT
snake in her husbands boot ths
other morning, and then coulI
hardly get breakfast beause of he:
snickering at his performance
WREN he discovered it. He firs /
looked in the mirror, then went
and threw his demijohn of old rye
into the mill race. He drank THU
teen cups of coffee at breakfasI,
and for several evenings aftorwarl
astoni shed his children by goih
to bed at nirS o clock each night.
1t takes eleven pounds of mill:
to add one pound of live weight to
a calf; and an OK that weighs l.
300 lbs. will consume twenty-five
pounds of hay in twenty-fouc
hours to keep from losing weight.
If he is to fatten he must hay.
just twice that quantity, when hs
will gain two pounds day. Thu
is one pound of live. weight -
eleven pounds OF good hay. To
obtain fifty cents a hundred for
his hay, = farmer must sell fat
steers at $3.50 cents per 100 TBS.
When inhaling air that is dust,,
or bad smelling, or otherwise i'm
pure, one should draw the breat
slowly through the nostriIs. IA
this way the dust or other impuri-
ties are in part arrested in thu
moist and narrow nasal passages
and are prevented from bein.:
thrown on the lungs. When NJ
breathe through the mouth they
are carried more directly thitheI-.
Many would lengthon their lives
by resoluteIy breathing through,
their nostrilS "a ''
Hawthorne, Bulwer, Thacker,,
Mrs. Charles, Mrs. Walker, Miss
Douglas, Walter Scott, Miss Kav.
anagh, and Miss Edgeworth. IL
is useless to GO into details as tI
the works of the authors thus
miscellaDeously jumbled together;
it may be enough to say of til,
three probably greatest masters 0s
contemporary English fiction. thss
"The Old Curiousity Shop is tn.
fayorite among the productions OF
Dickens; that not many books ar,
more read than 1.-THE Scarlet Let.
ter;H and that Thaekery is con-
fined to a comparatively limited
circle, which is chiefly addicted ia
vanity Fair - so aofsi nt
17f .-.-.gic ..a1H
KIssISG HI1 FoR His MorHEk.2-
A correspondents of the ChicagS
Tribune, who is travelling with M,
Greeley cireus, writing from JeGer.
sonviil, fells the following patheti;
story:
I'm the crowd were a group OF
buxOm HOOsier lassea. They an