The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-21
GLRANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

]. Cars run from Joppa to Jerusa,
!, lem in two hours.
The English laws punish vice;
the Chinese laws do more-they
reward virtue.
! One county in WISCONSIN covers
| its books with sheetiron covers, so
as to lessen the danger of fire.
| Madison, Wisconsin. society
bellies put healthful glow upon
their cheeks by rubbing them with
\ brick.
A Vermont man has this year
shot seven large eagles, which he
sold at $40 each-just an eagle for
an eagle.
Some "blarsted'' foreigner says !:
F'Giye an American 4 newspaper
and . pie and he will make himself
comfortable anywhere"
The richest university in the
world is that of Leyden, in Hol-
land. Its real estate alone is worth
over four million dollars.
Chester county, Pa, has a calf
that will not begin to enjoy life
until fiy-time, owing to the fact
that it has no eyes or tail.
A Mr.. Dixon proposes to re-
move Cleopatra's needle from
Egypt, and place. it on the Thames
embankment, for $4,000.
Assaf9dita is used as "relish"
in the East, and to assist the APP
petite, as Worcestershire and Hol-
ford sauce in this country.
DIR. SchileIaan processes to have
found live toads, three thousand
years old, quietly snoozing fifty
three feet beneath the ruins of an
cient Troy.
A Western young mems society
has ascertained that what they
paid Anna Dickinson for one lect-
ure would buy three thousand
glasses of beer.
The friends of the University
of Michigan begin to inquire if
nothing can be done to stop the
frequent resignation of professors
in that institution.
One hundred and thirty-nine
thousand of the I64,OOO Massa-
chusetts veterans who are entitled
to soldiers diplomas from the
State have not yet applied for
them.
The women of the imperial fam
lily IN Russia are among the most
beautiful specimens of the sex in
Europe, and the men are not less
remarkable for their imposing
presence.
Among the saddest episodes in
the late storm in Minnesota, &C
cording to a Western paper, was
the freezing of the hands, nose,
forehead, everything except the
cheek, of a life insurance agent.
Gotham abjures visiting cards.
The correct thing on the hall
table of every house Is a gorgeous
ly bound visiting book, wherein
each visitor records his name and
any message he may wish to send.
The local of the Ell Paso Senti-
mel has been presented with an on,
ion weighing eight and a half
pounds and measuring nineteen
inches in circumference - big
enough to go around at a first-class
funeral.
Children ought to open their
eyes when told of the enormous
amount of time, material and Ia
Dor bestowed on objects for their
amusement. We see that toys
worth 100000 are imported into
England alone.
A man in Illinois committed su-
icide by drowning in six inches of
water. He couldn't have done it
alone, but his wife, with the self
sacrificing devotion and helpful !
ness so characteristic of her sex,
sat on his head.
All do not know that lemons
sprinkled with loaf sugar almost
completely allay fever:sh thirst.
They are invaluable to the sick
room. Invalids afflicted with fec
verishness can safely consume two
or three lemons day.
A malicious libel is going the
rounds that vegetation is so scarce
at Cape Cod that two mullen stalks
and wortleberry bush is called a
grove. The truth is that unless
there are three wortlebeery bushes
they never think of saying grove.
A conductor on q Michigan rail
road was bitten in the hand three
weeks ago by man whom he was
putting off the train for refusing
to pay his fare. In a few days the
hand began to swell, and he was
compelled to take to his bed, and
will probably lose his arm.
About 1000 acres are cleared of
timber each week day in this coun-
try. OF the annual crop $4,000
worth goes for fuel, and twice as
much to fencing. The locomo-
tives in this country consume no
less than 100000 cords a year, or
500 acres annually.
By a curious and melancholy
coincidence two deaths occurred at
nearly the same time and place,
on the same train, on the Central
Pacific, a few days ago. One pas
senger died of quick consumption
and the other of infiamatory rheu-
matism, which struck to the heart.
A rubber muzzlc, to assist gen
tlemen with horse-tail moustaches,
while eating soup, has been invent
ed. 1t also acts as a spray nozzle
when the owner desires to eXpecto-
rate, thus distributing tobacco
juice evenly over his shirt-bosom,
instead of in patches as hereto
fore.
A curious suit was begun last
week in the Superior Court of
Hartford, Conn.,, to recover $4,000
for the death of a child who died
in 1870 from the effects of a cold,
taken while on one of the boats of
the Hartford and New York Steam
boat Company. The plaintiff
claims that there were no accom-
modations in the cabin or else
where, and that the consequent
exposure was the cause of the
death of the child.
Owing to the Encouragement of
the Washington estate by the Mt.
Vernon Ladies' Association, the
privilege of visiting the home and
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