The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-19

C'hlh2 Is rapidly becoming An
! American monopoly. - --s47l
5 The old Irish language is diving
, out, only one-fourth of the Irisb
: people can speak II now.
Philip Philips the sweet si..ser OF
, Israel, is flooding smoky Pittsburp; !,
with melody and song books.
/ Physicians say that thirty thous.
ana people die annually in this
country from using tobacco.
!, There is boy in Salem so bright
that his mother has to look at him
through bit of smoked glass.
Those who are fond of pets should
obtain q Mexican thrush. They ara
noted for their sweet singing.
Il In New Brunswick the railroads
are still blockaded with snow, and
the mails are carried by stages.
The Chief of Police of st. Louis
is the recipient of a $4,000 diamond
pin from his admiring friends.
The estimated value of the pro-
T perry of the Established Church ia
England is more than SS20OOO, 600.
A few men stepped out from
columbus, Nebraska, recently, and
killed 1856 rattle snakes before dark.
]. Fourteen cents balance from his
salary was what Maine legislator
had after settling up his board bill.
Philadelphia has over two hun.
dred acres of ground devoted to
the purpose of parks within city
limits. t|lTE -
In the year 1871 there were pub.
lished III Germany Is, $50 new DO oks
and maps. Among the books were
900 novels.
/ China has d newspaper which has
enterd upon its two thousandth
volume. All of its original staff
are dead. .
George Francis Train electrified
an audience of twenty-one persons
at Syracuse. New York, the other
evening.
Charles Reade subscribes for sig
American Journals, which he SAYS
far. exceed the English papers in
point of news.
The inventor of a watch that
winds itself up and gives a pint of
milk day has gone to Washington
for a patent. .
The heavy weights of the
Woman's rights movement have ca
tabiished paper in Chicago called
the Balance. -s-. "a = :
The prettiest pair of boots exhib-
tied at a recent fair in Cincinnati
were mado by little Dutch girl,
aged sixteen. ...-...
Mrs. Woodruff failed to lecture
IN Lynn last week, on account of
sickness. We congratulate the cit.
liens on their escape.
McCullagh, of the st. Louis Dem.
ecrat, recently lifted five hundred
pound anvil with his teeth, and
threw it seven feet.
Barnum's cannibaI from Fiji saws
BE jabers, Eli not stand being
stared at for tin dollars q wake
dye moind that, now" rso h.. 80
Eight thousand deaths by small.
pox were reported In London for
the last year. This number shows
1t to have been pestilential.
English authorities fix the popu.
1atlon OF China at 800, 0O0,O 600, near
ly ten times what the United States
statistics show in this country.
A belle of Richmond, Va. i'm
ports her stockings from Paris az
S42 pair, and crowds flock to ses
her whenever she goes walking.
The New York Mail states as ens
Gated" the ability to iu6n from
railroad trains without being killed.
AT Santa Cruz, CAL, there were
recently witnessed no less than for
ty-one rainbows in one day, with a
number of lunar bows thrown in.
The farmers of Summit. Wan
kesha county, Wisconsin, do not get
much profit out Of their sheen. ow.
ing to the able competition Of the
wolves.
The Rev. Robert Colyer, of Chi
cego, Is lecturing to the Bostonians
on From the Fire to February
They have given him $40, 900 for his
new church. -,
Jenny Lind's daughter. aged IA
years. is said TO give great vocal
promise, a prospect of great iov
and satisfaction to the swedish
Nightingale. a89 H. NIL :
| The total number of paupers in
London on the 10Th ultimo was
l2O,lil, of whom "a, 760 were in
workhouses and S5,35I received
outdoor relief.
Trees have been found in Aua.
tralia taller than those of California.
though not as large. One has been
n Measured which is four hundred
and eighty feet high. ~
The Florida alligators have, been
saoly Ineied. They are utterly
harmless 10 the adult human. race.
never gobbling up anything larger
'iian steail colored infant. sag :
John Lynch, Speaker of the Mia
sissippi House. of Representatives.
Is only % years old. When Nafcie1
was captured hy the Eedersls he
was slave and could not read.
The Chicago evening Post intro.
d1ces Its obituary of Prof Morse
with the following appropriate text !:
His lac has gone out through an
earth, and his words to the end Of
The world" - - -
IL Central Park has eight lions. two
elephants, a rhinocerous an anteIope.
. two bear cubs, several eagles and
, any number of more familiar crea.
lures. Their board costs over s.. .
zoo month. 9S .sS
Z The piano was invented byJ. q
Schroeder, OF Dresden, in the wear
I17lT. The Inventor &C once praseT.f.
ed q model Of his invention to TIE
Court Of Saxony. They It once be-
ssie poPu4aT. 1T aa B7Ins,q -
A Washington editor il indienan.
because 2 competitor headed hIs
editorial The Champa9ne Openad y
when he wrote @The Cafnbafcn
4 Opened. He says that printer Is
asways thinking Of somefiide ia
drink. -
i Mr.. and Mrs. Hgrt, or 1 I, :iiana
were wfdower aad widow wiz
children Wheu they N6reF sEsarrisds
] and now when they quarrel thev
vent tfeir anger by Whelpinc each
Others ckiidren, which IL pecufiariv
hard on the children. sgaE2EasE =
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