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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
PERSONAL.

Herman, the magician, is dead.
Magic couldn't save him.
Mrs. Horace Greeley and daugh-
ter are still in Europe. Mrs. G. has
much improved in health.
Mr.. Jesse Grant, father of the
President, has recovered from his
recent attack of paralysis.
John S. Mosby, the guerrilla, has
been appointed and confirmed
brigadier general of the Maryland
militia.
Miss Rose Hawthorne,the young
est daughter of the novelist, has re-
Gently married, and now is Rose
without Hawthorne.
The New Orleans Times thinks
Alexis should not be allowed to
leave without being shown the
Louisiana Legislature.
The Empress Eugene has sold
her diamonds and other precious
stones for 100000. That amount
ought to keep her from starving for
a year or two.
Ben. Holiday is more and more
the king of Oregon. He owns its
railroads, it's steamboats,, and even
in one of its daily papers, modestly
estimates his property at S7.OO0,O 900.
Elizabeth Stark, of Lucerne,
Penn, put out her lamp the last
time she went to bed by blowing
down the chimney. She had great
many friends, who will cherish her
memory.
Mrs Southworth, the novelist, is
'allish in figure, with full forehead,
we'll balanced head, thoughtful gray
eyes and q face denoting intellect of
the deliberate, reasoning kind. She
seems likelier to be a writer of the
Martineau order than of the imagi-
native style. She has two children.
The Washington correspondent
of the Louisville Courier-J ournal
writes as follows: "Mrs. Grant il
neither handsome nor stylish, but
she has quite plump shoulders and
round, shapsly arms and hands.
She is SO devoid of consciousness or
pretension that she disarms criticism
and always leaves an agreeable i'm
preston. To-day she wore Grim
son velvet that she bought two
years ago when Prince Arthur was
here and wore it for the first time
to the ball given to him by the En-
glish Minister. So you see she
doesn't mind wearing the same dress
many times, aud for several sue
cessive seasons.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
THE IGNORANT UNITED STATES.
Startling Figures-743.OOO Voters WhC
Cannot Read or Write-WhO the IL
literats Are-Had We Better Not Edu-
cate More

We think it will be difficult to
candidly read and compare the fol-
lowing figures, without coming to
the conclusion that one great pub
lie need in this country is compul-
sorry education?
The United States Commissioner
Of Education, General Eaton, Jr., in
his annual report, has prepared
from advanced sheets of the census,
@ variety of statistics of illiteracy.
A table giving the nativity of ILL
teracy in the United States in 1870
shows that there is an aggregate of
777,S6 foreign illiterates, of whom
665, 1856 are in Northern States; 3d.
1876 in the Pacific States and Terri
tories, and 1888 in the Southern
States; that there is an aggregate of
1885,, 210 native illiterates, of whom
69O, III are in the Northern States,
u, 504 in the Pacific States and Ter
ritories, and ALT, $50 illiterates in
the Southern States, making a grand
total of 5,660,074 illiterates in the
entire country. A second table
shows that of every 10000 inhabi-
tants in the whole Union there are
Sill whites, 1926 colored, 16 Chi
nese and z Indians; the colored
race being in excess only in the
States of Louisiana, 3,145; South
Carolina, 126,147, and Mississippi,
81, 1906. A table showing the Hitter
acy Of the white race and colored
race give total of 2,S78,543 of the
former, and 2,763,991 of the latter.
The illiteraoy of the Northern
States, including all persons over
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
FISK AND HIS FATHER.

Fisk had a smart father. He used
to tell how his father learned him
to be tricky:
Said the Colonel, "When l was a
little boy on the Vermont farm, my
father took me up to the stable one
day, where row of cows stood in
the stable"
Said he, "James, the stable win
dow is pretty high for q boy, but
do you think you could take this
shovel and clean the stable 2"
81 don't know, Pap" said James,
81 never have done it."
"Well, my boy, if you will do il
this morning, I'll give you this
bright silver dollar" said his father,
patting him on his head, while
he held his silver dollar before his
eyes.
"Good," says James, ''I'll try
and away he went to work He
tug et1Aand pulled, and lifted, and
Pulled and: finally, it was done,
and his father gave him the bright
silver dollar, saying
'That's right, James; you did il
splendidly, and now 1 find you car
do it Sc nicely, shall have you
to do it every morning all winterf
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
THE LADIES.

To learn the power of a woman's
muscle, let your wife catch you kiss
ing the serving maid.
tits said that a green carleton
dress contains arsenic enough to
kill man, and yet men do not
seem to be afraid to go near green
carleton dresses.
At keystone, when a young lady
has a call from a gentleman for
whom she has no especial kindness,
she receives him in a cold room,
gets excused, goes out, and then
torgets to return.
Four appointments of ladies to
first-class pest-offices, with $1,000
salaries, have been made during the
present administration. Over 100
women are employed in similar Of
fees throughout the country though
not at such high prices.
The Rev. DR.. Birmingham, of St.
Louis, is delivering course of lee
lures to prove that woman is "Not
exactly an Angel" The doctor had
better address himself exclusively
to young men. Married men. as q
general thing, do not need to be en-
lightened on that point.
Illinois women also have eccen-
tricities. "a woman named John
son committed suicide near Paxton,
q few days since, by taking strych-
nine. The reason which she assign
ed for the deed was that her hus-
band was Swede, while she was
an American, and he could converse
with his Swedish friends in q Ian
guage which she could not under
stand"
Some one recently asked Mrs.
Cady Stanton if she thought that
girls possessed physique necessary
for the wear and tear of college
course. 81 would like to see," said
she. "Take thirteen hume red young
men, and lace them up and hang
ten to twenty pounds of clothes to
their waists, perch them upon three
inch heels, cover their heads with
ripples, chignons, rats and mice,
and stick ten thousand hair pins in
to their scalps; if they can stand
all this they will stand little Latin
and Greek"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
SERPENT SKINS UTILIZED.

Prescott tells us that the Aztecs
made their war drums of serpent
skin but we were not aware, until
very recently, that any of our mod
ern leather had such q snaky origin.
An exchange states that single es-
adjustment in Boston, last year,
tanned fifty anaconda skins for boot
leather. The boots are valued at
fifty dollars q pair. The largest of
these skins was forty feet in length.
The tanning processes were similar
to those in the manufacture of arti-
fetal leather, the product being .
very beautiful and highly finished
quality of leather, glossy, mottled,
pliable, and exceedingly durable.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
TIE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA.
Exciting Speech at the Grand Banquet.
The Prescriptiye Spirit Denounced.

The following telegram shows
that the "heathen Chinee," or jap
anee, is coming up in popular favor !:
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25.-Near
the close Of the Japanese banquet, q
remarkable scene occurred. Ex-
Governor Haight, in responding to
the sentiment; "The State of Cali
fornia warmly welcomed the en-
bassy," said God had made of one
blood all the nations of the earth,
and that the presence of the embas-
sy marked q new era in the progress
of civilization.
Rev. Horatio Stebbins then spoke
to the embassy the sentiment, "The
Spirit of American Commerce well
coined the embassy" and said the
changes wrought by oceanic COM
munication with Japan would
change forever the tide of COM
merce flowing from this city. We
can never do the business of the
Mississippi Valley, and probably
shall not extend our inland COM
merce beyond the summit of the
great mountain chain. To compen-
safe for that we must gather up the
islands of the sea, and push our
traffic to the innumerable popula-
tons of the Asiatic world. But our
position is anomalous. While we
are here tonight Wooing the COM
merce of the old empires, your Gov
eFnor, (peinting to Gov. BooGh,) as
a representative OF one political
party, and ex-Gov. Haight, as a rep
resentative of the other and oppo-
site party, are committed to q poll
cy to exclude their people from our
shores. The position is absurd and
lidiculous as policy, and nonsense
as Q principle. Hany Of your cheap
politicians have won 8 penny by il
in the passions of an hour, beware
Beware, when you put that penny
in your purse, lest the eagle on the
reverse side of your gold coin stick
his talons through and scratch the
face of liberty.
The widest excitement followed,
with round after round of applause
and finally three cheers from nearly
the entire guests were given for the
speaker, as the main portion gather
ed around TO shake hands with him
Gov. Booth arose In evident ex.
element, saying, when he had be-
come accustomed to such excathe.
dfs dsnusciatioas he would proba-
bly, like them and after q few more
words went on with the regular
toasts. ss.l - s so e..-
The incident is regarded as signif.
ieant and as calling for change In
public opinion. 60
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
KANSAS RAILROAD WORK IN 1871.

The Railroad Gazette publishes an
article on the railway progress of
the country, from which we select q
few interesting facts. In 1880. there
were in operation in the United
States twenty-three miles of rail-
road; there are now 60,382. The
increase in 1871 was 6,9s3 miles
much greater than in any previous
year. AT the beginning of 1871
Kansas had 1;50I miles; at the be-
ginning of 1872 this authority says
it had LII miles.
The Atchlson and Nebraska road
has bean extended from our north
ern State line Al miles. The fol-
lowing is given concerning Kansas
Roads: ,
e.. KANSAS. rs-
st. Joseph g. Topeka-Cons true
ted from the st. Joseph q Denver
road at Wathena (six miles west of
st. Joseph southwest to the Atchi-
son s. Nebraska Railroad at Doni-
phan, 1872 miles.
Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe-
Extended from Emporia westward
to Newton, IA miles. Road bed
completed from Atchison to Tope-
ka and about ten miles of the track
laid. Contract let for and work
commenced on the extension from
Newton westward up the valley of
the Arkansas, lis miles. Grading
completed for branch from Newton
south to Wichita, % miles.
ST. Louis, Lawrence q Denver
Completed from Lawrence east by
south to Pleasant Hill, on the Mis-
souri, Pacific "a miles southeast of
Kansas City, a distance of IS miles,
sc miles in Kansas.
Leavenworth, Lawrence s. Gal
vestOn-The main line was extend
ed from Thayer southwest to the
Indian Territory line at Coffeyville,
SO miles, and a branch has been
constructed from Cherryvale west
to Independence, 10 miles.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas-Track
laid on Sedalia Division from Ft.
Scott southwest to a junction with
the Neosho Division at Parsons, 40
miles.
OF the Usage Division, from Hol-
den westward to Paola, constructed
in 1871, IA miles in Kansas.
St. Joseph q Denver City-Extend-
ed from Marysville northwestward
to Fairbury, Neb., 40 miles, about
30 in Kansas.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02

Jay Cooke is a patriot as much as
ever. 1t appears that by his nogoti-
ations with the European "syndi-
cate, in regard to the government
bonds, the U. S. treasury loses the
interest on S13O,OOO,OOO for three
months. Mr.. Cooke declines to
state how much his share of the
plumber, nearly S2yO00.OO0, amounts
to. Sec. Boutwell, wants Congress
to approve of the affair on the
ground that the loss of that amount
is more than compensated by the
negotiations] OF the loan. Very
heavy financiers must be allowed to
steal a few millions now and then
just to keep them in a good humor.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
NEWSPAPER FACTS.

The Atchison Daily Champion
says:
"Six daily papers have ceased to
exist during the past year." Such
is one of the records of the exam
sas and Missouri Associated Press,
reported by the secretary at the
meeting held in Leavenworth last
Wednesday. The Bulletin, of Leav-
enworth, the Record, of Topeka,
the Union, of st. Joseph, the News,
of Emporia, and two journals at
Springfield. Missouri, constitute the
list of daily papers that have thus
dropped out of the Association and
out of existence. They made a Wig
orous fight for life some of them
were edited with ability and man
aged with prudence, economy and
enterprise; all of them enjoyed the
Associated Press. But the patron
age necessary to sustain them was
not given. In many of the cases it
was impossible for the communities
to give it. 1t was beyond the
means of the people, generous as
they might have been in their sup
port. And SO these papers went
down.
Few people have any idea of the
great outlay of money necessary to
sustain a good paper. We believe
the Champion is managed as eco
nomically as any daily in the West.
It has no ornamental attaches.
There is work to do for everybody
it employs. Ono editor and one
business man do the entire work
pertaining to its editorial and bust
ness management. Yet the abso-
lutely necessary expenses of the
Champion, cut them down as close
ly as it is possible, average over
$3.50 per week, or over $4,000 per
annum. And this amount does not
include any allowance for the sala-
ry of the editor and proprietor, or
for the expense necessary to replace
type, presses and other material
wearing out by. use. 9#
And the Kansas City Journal of
Commerce adds:
There is something about the
newspaper that places it outside of
the ordinary rules of business. A
man may invest his money in almost
any other business, and by industry,
economy and strict business appi-
cations, calculate on a given return.
When a newspaper starts in that
way, it is like the fellows game
the more you put down the less you
take up-and the man who, having
other business, puts his capital in a
newspaper, particularly daily, is a
fool.
Another reason for so many fail
ures is that the market is livestock
ed. There are now just about one
half more papers in the West than
there is public demand for, and they
make no money for their owners,
nor do they benefit the public. Then
again, where there are so many,
they not only injure the business,
but the effect is to detract from the
character of journalism.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
BUSINESS.

The st. Louis butchers have sold
$50 buffalo carcasses killed by thG
Grand Duke. They get a fresh losG
every day.
A Connecticut man has contract
ed at Tecumseh for $4,000 feet o.
Eastwood lumber. He says he il
going to make mouse-traps, but
everybody knows what Connect.
cut manufacturers do with bass.
wood.
There are $4,000 postmasters in
the country whose salaries, being
under $500, the civil service regula-
lions viii not touch. There are,
however, ), 100 who receive more
than $500, who will, when vacan-
cies occur, have to stand a competi-
tive examination to gain the APP
pointment which has hitherto come
from the member"
There are about ten thousand
printing offices in the United States,
and estimating that each buys on an
average, say only $3.50 worth of
type per annum, two-fifths of which
would be saved to the printers if
the tariff on type was removed,
this would be saving to the print
ers of the country of 100000
each year, with but little loss to the
revenues of the country, as no
type to speak of is now impor-
tod
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
VOLUME 10,
FROM WILSON COUNTY.
The C0untry-Frodsaia-PRice Of Land
the RailrOad-PrOduce.
FREDoNIA, WILSON Co.,
KANs.. Feb. / 1872.(

kAHs., Feb. 1878
DEAR NEws:- I'll thought 1 would
give you a few notes from this part
OF the country.
The country is pretty well settled
up, and settlers are still pouring in.
There are not many claims not tax
en- at the present time. l came over
land down here, and the country /
came through was very good. u
FREDoNIA
is the best city came through with
the exception of Burlington. Land
is worth from $3.50 to So per acre.
Our town viii soon have . railroad,
and then of course It will increase
in everything. At present farmers
cannot get half what their produce
is worth. Corn is Is cents, in cash,
or 20, in trade; eggs 10 cents; but
ter 20@25 cents; bacon 121S cents,
and other things in proportion.
Buffalo meat is worth cents per
pound. Prairie chickens Is cents a
piece. N. b. 7.
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RAILROADS.

The new iron bridge just complet,
ed across the Housatonic, by The
New York and New Haven rail,
road, is truss, one thousand and
ninety-one feet long, and cost $780,.
600.
The Airline railway bridge al
st. Thomas, Ontario, Is 500 feet
long and rs feet high. The contrac.
tor, Maj. Ellison, will build bridge
across Otter creek, at Tilsonburg
200 feet long, and ITO. feet high,
The Canada Southern bridge spans
the deep ravine at the west end OF
the town, is l, 400 feet long, and sc
feet high.
The Northern Pacific railroad
company has just completed a con-
tract with the locomotive establish
ment of Baird s. Co., of Philadel-
phia, for fifty first-class engines.
In addition to these and some forty
other engines, the Northern Pacific
railroad company has already pur-
chased railroad material in Phila-
delphia to the amount of 81, 600, 600.
1 Among the great railway projects
of the country is the West Shore
and Chicago road, the general route
of which is given as up the west
shore of the Hudson from New
York city, thence it will take a west
ward course to Buffalo, and thence
by the most practicable route to
Chicago. This seems 10 be entirely
different from the Canada Southern
railway, of which Mr.. Milton Court
wright is the President.
The trade between Northern Tex
as and st. Louis is far greater than
the Galveston News had supposed.
Two years ego company put on
train of fifty wagons, to transport
produce and merchandise between
Sherman and the southern terminus
of the Missouri, x ansas 81 Texas
since which time the in
crease of the trade has been such
that now five hundred and seventy
five wagons are employed to supply
the demand for transportation on
that route, and very many of these
wagons carry over three thousand
pounds of freight each. The charge
for freights from Sherman to Saint
Louis is S4.75 per one hundred
pounds, and for cotton SIS per bale.
st. Louis Times.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02

The Edinburgh Review relates an
anecdote of n. de Sainte-Beuve.
He once fought q duel. When the
principals took their position it was
raining hard. Sainte-Beuve had his
pistol in one hand, and with the
other hand he held up his umbrella.
The seconds protested. 'I have no
objection to being killed." said he,
"but as to being wet-nol"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02

Few people are sufficiently sys,
tematic and orderly in business re.
lations. One or two days neglect
of the regular routine of duties puts
a persons work back for a week
It is lack of system that so many
people are driven beyond theiI
strength, and hurried through life
grooming and fretting under bur.
dens which would be light enough
if properly distributed through the
week, month and wear,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

NERVOUS HEADACHE.--Nervous
headache il said to be Instantly re-
heved by shampooing the head
with a quart of cold water in which
a dessertspoonful of soda has been
dissolved.
CHARCOAL. AS A. DENTIFRIoE.--
Pulverized charcoal makes an ex-
cellent dentrifice, but it should not
be applied with brush. A small
quantity should be rubbed gently
with the finger on and around the
teeth on retiring at night, and no!
removed. This not only keeps the
teeth. clean and pure, but has an
excellent effect on the stomach,
when that organ is disordered.-
Home and Health.
DRINKING WATER,-If we could
establish the habit of drinking wa
ter freely in the morning, soon after
rising, commencing with small
quantities, increasing gradually as
we learn to relish it, until the chief
portion taken during the day lie be-
fore breakfast, it will promote the
health to q much greater extent
than it ordinarily does, eradicate
disease from the system, and be.
come a most decided luxury in
time. -. e.-.
CURE FOR CRour.-The following
very simple recipe is recommended
by the Philsdelphia Star, and in 10.
calities where physicians are not
near at hand il would be well to
bear it in mind ssTake the white
of an egg. stir it thoroughly into. &
small quantity of sHesfened water
and give it in repeated doses until {
cure Isl effected. If one egg is mo-
sufficient, q second. or even = third
one should be used. re-.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02

A gentleman of leisure and ele-
CANT attainments has been occupied
for some weeks past in writing q
tract upon hereditary badness"
The idea was suggested to him by
the fact that he is quite bald him
self, and that the baby with which
his wife presented him few weeks
ago is also quite bald.
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NUMBER )
HASH.

Care TO our cof6n adds ANAL, no doubt,
Ard every grin. so merry, draws ole out.
/ Some peoBie say there Is no wi
In pun. Well, it is no pun ques
ton. -
Let the slandered take comfort: Il
is only at fruit trees that thieves
throw stones.
Ladies who wear corsets and thin
shoes ought to be arrested for break.
ing the Constitution.
The latest ballad is "Bury Won.
dog in the garden it will make
your grapevine grow" &.
Some one wants to know why an
almanac is simply advice thrown
away. Because It comes in at one
year aud goes out at the other.
"Your dress" said q husband to
his fashionable wife, "will never
please the men," 81 don't dress to
please men," was the reply, "but to
worry other women"
Several elephants were recently
lowered into ships hold at Cal
cutta, greatly to their trepidatiou.
All shed tears, and one delicate fe-
male elephant actually tainted, and
was revived by . couple dozen
fans and 3 hogshead or two of
water.
as this seat unoccupied ?" asked
an exquisite of an elderly lady OF
rustic design in the cars at Norwalk,
Saturday evening. :"I don't know"
said she hastily, running her hands
with q great deal of solicitude over
the surface. at feels mostly like
plush, but you can't always tell"
They have q new way of getting
up surprise parties in certain parts
of Illinois. A resident receives an
anonymous letter, stating that q
surprise party will be with him on
certain evening. He prepares for
1t. Nobody comes, and the surprise
of the party is complete.
A csndy-boy, passing through q
car. saluted cross old gentleman
with Popcorn, pop-cornI"
'Hain't got any teeth" angrily re-
piled the man.
''Gum-drops! gum-drops per-
sisted the enterprising youth.
The farmers are to catch it next.
Bergh, after having assured the
safety of the pigeons, proposes to
apply for an Injunction 20 prevent
the use of scarecrows In .ornfields.
He has discovered that everal old
crows nerves have been lopelessly
shattered. ..