The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-28
GLEANIxGs AND GOSSIP.

| UEEAAlNUS and UVSSIT.
Vermont has grasshoppers that
hop around in winter. c
London, England, has not rs
many newspapers as Kansas City.
A number of Catholic residents
of New Orleans have sent a yalu-
able horse as a present ton the
Pope.
A Litchfield county man, nearly
ninety years old, can read without
glasses, and skip the long words
without crutches. ...-
An exchange announces on the
death of a lady that she lived fifty
years with her husband, and died
in the confident hope of better
life"
The stock of the Shepang Val
ley railroad company, in Connect
icut, is below par. A Leitchfield
man paid 300 of it for a small
dog the other day.
The A. T. & $. f. railroad will
be extended to the base of the
Rocky mountains. The work will
be commenced as soon as the
weather will permit.
The Greensboro Monitor says
there is an unusually large number
of coon skins in the market, and
wonders where they all come from.
OFF the coons of course.
Say, Jones, what's the matter
with your eye?'' "Oh, nothing;
only my wife said this morning I'd
better get up and make tue fire; /
told her to make it herself-that's
ALL
Bones are cheap, notwithstand-
ing the many uses to which they
are put at the present time. In
Cincinnati, last week, avery hand
some human skeleton was sold for
$3.50.
The San Francisco Bulletin re-
marks that probably in no city in
the United States are young men
more generally addicted to drink
ing and smoking than are the
youth of San Francisco.
The Brownsville States is of the
opinion that the sale OF kisses at
fifty cents apiece, to raise funds
for gospel purposes, should be
sternly sliscountenanced. The
States is right. They are worth 4
dollar apiece at least.
A man in Peekskill, n. Y, pick
ed up a pocketbook containing
$20S and returned it to che owner.
This was accounted for though
when we read further down that
the finder was an idiot boy, and
the owner saw him find the
money.
The Montreal Witness asserts
that the managers of the Belgian
Brother Reformatorv School in
that city have had a boy, who at
tempted to escape, confined for
three weeks in a cell three feet
square and eight high, without
seat, bed or bedding.
A generous citizen of Toledo
has beqneathed I60 acres of val
liable land, near the city, for the
foundation of an institution to
which both sexes are to be admit
ted and Taught in the arts, trades
and related sciences. The course
will be free to those unable 10
pay.
A Kansas man was arrested for
carrying concealed weapons re.
Gently. On lis person was found
two navy revolvers, three pocket
pistols, a pair of brass knuekles
and sword cane. They released
him when he explained to them
that he was only fitting himself up
for a trip to New York.
John A. Nelson, Salt Lake City,
has invented and is manufacturing
a windlass, which Will hoist five
hundred pounds from a peFpen-
dicular shaft at the rate of one
foot per second with the power of
one man, and when worked by two
men will raise from an incline one
ton in the same time.
Suppose a man owns a skiff; he
fastens the skiff to the shore with
a rope made of straw; along
comes COW; COW gets into the
boat; turns around and eats the
rope; the skiff, thus let loose, with
the COW on board, floats down
stream and on its passage is upset:
the COW is drowned. Now has Tho
man that owns the COW got to pay
for the boat, or the man that owns
the boat got to pay for the COW?
| Writ Skies, whose name Olive
Logan bears, has written poem
let of four verses for the Chicago
Journal, in which he appeals Il
somebody to sscalI back the, sur
that shone years ago., also the
tune that echoed in the air Whel
! life was young ssfhe kiss tina
thrilled his veins, and ali things 81
shadowy as these. . What is tn,
!. matter, Writ? Dostest the fafurl
look black, or is 1t the biiliousnes
n that tackles humanity In Ia
! spring time that worries yous