The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-04
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4HeFe was only O44 divorces gran
r ted in Connecticut last year.
Brooklyn girls pickle their hands
twice week to make them white.
: There are forty oranges, with q
membership of over l 900, in Bour-
bon county, Kansas.
The wheat harvest in Central ILL.,
nois Will be much above the aver.
age.
Randolph county, Illinois, ex.
poets to raise l,0S0, 600 of wheat this
year from an area of $4,000 acres
sown.
i The City Council of Boston has
appropriated So, 600 for the open air
concerts this summer, and the Hub
its rejoice thereat.
a new town in Minnesota has
been christened Byron. The re-
spectful attention of Mrs. Stowe Is
called to this fact.
The city of Mexico has four the
aters-three of them devoted 10 m.
era bouffe and the fourth occupied
by Congress.
Burlington, Iowa. boasts of q fe-
male, young and lovely, who stands
SIX feet, seven and one-half inches
in her stockings, and is still going
up.
Tracts on profanity would have
been wasted on those Alabama
burglars who worked three days on
safe and found only twenty five
cents in it.
The old Cross Keys Hotel, at In
tercourse, Penn, built in l776, has
just been demolished. and its logs
were found to be almost as sound as
when first cut.
| The population of London is g.
356,072; Liverpool, 505, Glas.
gov, 49S, 1852; Manchester, 354O57:
Doublin, 3l4. 666; Edingbnrg, 2OS,-
Long Branch, on account of the
mum Der of actors andactresses spend
ing the hot months there, deserves TO
DO called the green room of the sea-
side resorts.
A minister having remarked
"there would be a nave in the new
edihce the society was erecting" an
old lady said she knew the person
to whom he referred.
One of the Vienna correspondents
states that Bunker Hill monument
could stand under the dome of the
exhibition hall, and not come with.
in forty feet of the roof.
Iowa claims to have fewer idiots
and insane persons in proportion to
her population than any other State
In the Union. No wonder the Re.
publican majority is so heavy.
The male portion of Macon, Ga,
vary the monotony of existence by
catching rats with q baited hook and
line, IN the railroad depot. The
amusement is far more exciting than
base bali.
The Emperor of China has decid.
ed not to give audience to foreign
Ministers unless they kneel while
IN his imperial presence. This they
will not do, and there is but little
nope of compromise.
The Macon Telegraph says that
the only chance for Geogia cotton
planters to get out even this year is
~ means of the hay crop-and to
do that they must be prompt in puI.
ling the cotton out of the grass.
The Philadelphia city passenger
railways do an enormous business.
Ihelr receipts from passengers last
year amounted to $4,107, 980.69, and
the number carried for that sum
was III, 66l .456. The profits were
81 ,O4l ,979.75.
Yale county, Maine, spent S25,.
600 in building q new jail, and the
Sheriff is responsible for the state
nent that every lock in it can be
picked with q rye straw. twill
doubtless become a regular paradise
ior prisoners.
Five hundred dollars was the
caGse of it. An Iowa paper tells
of the separation of q man and wife
IN Cass county, who have lived to.
gether for thirty-five years, and all
on account of the wife coming INTO
the possession of the sum of $500.
which she refused to divide with
the cid man. The manufacturer of
Betsy aud are Out" should look
this case up. @ s
A young lad in Conneautyille
entered sewer pipe twelve inches
In diameter a few days ago to re-
cover lost ball. When he at.
tempted to back out he found il
impossible, and he very pluckily s
| showed himself through the pipe
the whole length, a distance of
seventy feet. 1t was a perilous ad-
venture, but he saved the ball.
| The Baltimore American saws
there is prospect OF q warm per.
sonal discussion in the next Con.
gress on the subject OF the salary
steal voted at the last session. The
members who took the money re.
gard the action of those who refus. =
ed or returned it. as an imputation
on their ofhcisl honor and Integrity
ana they DO not propose TO let &c
pass by Hnnotieed. 58s
Another victory for America and
the San ErRnciscoans are fnbfIant
over the event. On the 9th 6av of
February last the American shin
Young America" and the British
ship Sic Escocesap started from
San Francisco for Liverpool &C the
same hour, and bets were freely
made on the resnlt-the stakes lie.
ing between $4,000 and 10000.
/ The telegraph announced the srriv-
al of the "Yoang America at Iiv.
erpool, having made the trip In IO6
days. The British vessel has not,
been heard from.
At the present session of the
Maine Medical Association. DE-
Haskell, of Stocton, read q paper
on criminal abortion, In which he
made the startling declaration that
more than two thousand abortions
were produced annually in Maine.
The statement was not challenged
by any of the eminent and experien.
ced gentlemen present at the meet.
ing. On the contrary, several in-
telligent physicians gave IL as their
opinion that 1t was an under rather
than an over estimate Of the whoIe-
sale murder prevalent in that State.
A farmer and his wife called at
a Detroit pallery last week, to or
der some photographs of her, and
while the operator was getting
ready, the husband gave the wife
some advice as to how she must
act: "Fasten your mind on some.
thing" he said, or else you viii
laugh and spite the job. Think
about early days, how your father
got in jail, and your mother was
an old scolder, and what you'd
have been If I hadn't pitied you.
just fasten YOUR mind on to that %
She didn't have any photographs
taken.