The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-10-25
EMPORIA NEWS.
FRIDAY, OCT. 25, 1879.
ALL SORTS.

uHSAAAS W A4OOAAlSHt are u SC.
Louis invention.
Oats sell in Olympia, W. T., at
IS cents a bushel.
A female life insurance agent is
devastating Wisconsin.
An English unframed yearling
colt sold in London lately for $1O,-
600.
The explosion in the Morley,
England, coal mines, killed forty
persons.
Beet-root sugar is said to do
better than any other kind for con-
fectionery.
One of the most charming things
about Mrs. Pere Hyacinthe is her
$75, 900.
Thirty per cent. of the men of
Massachusetts, emigrate West be-
fore reaching their twentieth year.
New York capitalists are con-
cerned in the proposed immediate
erection of three extensive blast
furnaces in East ST. Louis.
The practice of giving medals
for competition among the children
III the public schools of Boston has
been abolished.
An enthusiastic scientist pre-
diets that in less than twenty
years balloons will make regular
trips across the Atlantic.
Miss Alice Ingham, of Boston,
is making a fortune at Buenos
Ayers, having established whole
sale millinery store.
Rosa Bonheur's last painting, q
tiger fighting a hyena, is said,
without doubt, to be her master
piece.
The West Virginia school fund
for the coming year is 1921, 215,
divided among 170,031 youth.
Telescope hats have been in
troduced. They can be elongated
or fattencd to suit the features OF
the Wearers.
Apple whisky distilleries are be-
ing started in Bucks county for
the purpose of using up the sur
plus apple crop.
Persons bringing fever and ague
with them from the East divest
themselves of it in forty-eight
hours after their arrival in Puget
Sound.
A teacher of calisthenics in
ladies' seminaries says that he is
obliged to recommend the use OF
clubs, because it is impossible to
find dumb bellies in such places.
A Tennessee dog saved the
life of his drunken master by
dragging him off a railroad track
upon which he had lain down to
sleep.
A Kentucky editor says a neigh
Dor of his is so lazy that when he
works in the garden he moves
about SO slowly that the shade of
his broad brimmed hat kills the
plants.
The Austrian government is
taking strict measures to prevent
the Jesuits expelled from Ger
many from finding a refuge in its
dominions.
A Danube damsel, pretty as a
pink, entered q saloon, kicked
over a table, drew a revolver on
the bartender, and led her father
out by the ear.
A little girl was tenderly nurs-
ing her sick doll the other day
and on her mothers asking what
allied it, she replied: 'It's got the
Alabama claims very bad"
The New York Journal of Com
merce warns bankers that no
thickness of stone or iron will
keep a burglar out of a vault
If he can only hire the room next
door.
1t is gratifying to notice that
the Spanish Cortes has begun to
think something about abolish
ing slavery throughout the do
minions of Spain. Better late than
ever!
English sparrows are becoming
numerous in Allentown. The
Chronicle fears that in a few wears
they will become so thick that
they will have to be killed.
The physicians called in the
trials of Laura Fair as witnesses
have submitted bills for the ap-
proval of Judge Riordan to the
tune of 500 pei. day, or from $500
to 5000 each.
A husband, whose wife has ap-
piled for divorce, writes a pro-
test to the Judge, in which he
says: '.This plagued thing called
divorce has, in my opinion, parted
many man and his wife,
In an article on a recent fair in
that city the editor of a Macon
paper says a brother editor took a !
valuable premium-but an unkind
policeman made him put it right
back where he took it from.
Of the many distinguished men.
soldiers and civilians, who have
been brought into prominence by
the stirring events of the last six
teen years, few have been more
or useful than Oliver
p. Morton.
A mong the many artistic OBJ
eets that will figure at the forth
coming International Exhibition
1t Vienna, one of the most inter
'sting will be a model of Solo
mons Temple, carved in lime tree
wood, from the descriptions oil
Flavius Josephus.
A very strange death occurred
It st. Cloud, Illinois, last week.
young man commenced bleed
ng at the nose, tn en- at the lungs.
nd finally the blood oozed out oil
he pores of the skin. In this
ondition he fingered three or
our days when he died.
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