The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-15
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i The Shah was blackbalIed in
Whites Club, London.
A submerged forest has been
discovered in the Thames.
5 There wers 1859 cmig9ants
: landed at New York Monday.
The London Times Melted its
proprietors 100000 last year.
: Maine tourists find it necessary
, to build camp fires to keep warm.
Sir Elihu Washburne is what
Paris Newspapers call our minister
to France.
The estimate of city expenses
for Brooklyn, \. ", for next wear,
is $5,51T,S42.
: A Boston dairyman has been
fined $500 for not putting enough
milk in his water
San Antonio has meat extract
company which congresses TWEEN
ty-eight pounds of beef into one
pound of extract.
Phoebe, New, is ut the mercy of
an ice monopoly, and the eXorbit-
ant price of sixteen cents per
pound is demanded.
An Ohio man forged marriage
| license. married widow, had two
fights, run up a bill of 800 and
stole horse, all the same day.
|
Some of the army officers say
that General Sherman talks too
much, and is too fond of telling
the public what General Sherman
thinks.
1t will cost the dark eyed son of
Italy 800 to pick his tuneful harp,
or scrape the sad catgut in the
streets of Detroit, in future.
! Sound.
a benevolent physician was
lately fined 50 for interfering to
protect some mild Chinese wash
ermen from irate Irish wash
women.
An Ohio boy ten years old flag
ged train just in time to save it
from 4 culvert, and he has been
given pass for five years and a
gold watch.
The number of japanese stu
dents 10 this country is larger than
in any other, which is certainly
high compliment to our education
al institutions.
Laughing photographs are be
coming the rage, and various de-
vices are resOrted to by photo
graphers to get up a grin on the
face of the sitter.
Chicago pays out q good deal of
money for educational purposes,
| and is veXed to see some of her |
prominent business men hang out |
signs of ''two wrent."
In extent of railroad facilities |
Pennsylvania ranks first among
the States, the number of miles in |
actual operation, S,211, of which
1,6lS is double tracked.
Every retailer of Intoxicating /
liquor in the Territory of Dakota |
is now required to give bond of
$4,000 as security for all damages
growing out of the traffic.
Iowa farmers complain of a
scarcity of laborers. Three dol
lars day will not bring them help
enough to attend to their crops. |
And yet the cities are fall of idlers.
The King of Sweden and Nor
way has appointed Louis Dagger, |
formerly managing editor of the |
Washington Patriot, to the posi-
ton of vice consul of those coun-
tries in Washington.
One survivor from the Atlantic |
wreck claims 100000 damages
from the company for having lost
the use of his legs, and several
others wish to be reimbursed for
the loss of their trunks.
Robert Laird Collier has n new
description of hell. He says it is
hell, not because it is fiery, but
| because there is no fire there-no
warmth, no love. A place some
thing like Alaska perhaps.
The mail between Tullahoma
and McMinnville, Tenn, is car
RED in an old fashioned stagecoach,
although a railway is in full oper-
alton between the two places. The
railway refuses To carry the mails.
The train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, which carried the
Washington Steam File Engine to
the Baltimore fire, actually made
the distance, forty miles, between
the two stations in thirty five min
utes.
A Texas paper speaks of lady
at Dallas who has bonnet worn
by her great-grandmother 200
years ago. There must have been
some longevity among the people
as well as the bonnets of that
family.
A genuine autograph of John
Bunyan has been discovered in the
fiy-leaf of an old book called
Dwelling with God the Interest
and Duty of Believers" a once
popular work of Puritan theology,
published in 1870.
Mr.. Stinson, of Eagle Bend,
Miss, has we'll which spouts forth
water and inflamable gas alternate
| ". The water, which is excellent,
flows two hours. when it is relieved
by the gas, and in two hours more
tho waf0r ra-1nnaars
Some time ago Benjamin +.
Bates, of Boston, offered to give
100000 to Bates College, Lewis
ton, Maine, provided an equal
amount could be raised. That
amount has been secured and
Bates offer will be made available.
The Shah of Persia expressed
to Marshal MacAIahon his warm
satisfaction at the welcome he re-
ceived in France, and his admira-
ton of the beauty of Paris. His
Majesty said, ''Here l see the sun
again and am reminded of my
own country"
/ The most remarkable tokens of
the civilization of Europe which
the Shah of Persia will t Ike back
with him will be TIE journals of the
day describing his reception In
England, the illustrated newspa-
pers especially being objects of
wondering delight to mis- suite and
attendants
The q. s. Senator from Oregon
f has presented petition to the