The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-03-21
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ed at Morovie, Liberia, Is . curl
osity in journalism. Il discusses
only national matters, and its SUBJ
scription price is bushel Of I'M
hulled, red-ripe coffee.
An Iowa man demanded SIS, 600
of q neighbor for slandering him.
but after sitting down and count
ing the cost, and recfzoningup the
probabilities, concluded to- COM
promise the suit for $25.
A German in Buffalo fell into a !
beer vat the, other day and was
drowned. He drank as hard as
he could to save himself, and
would have succeeded had not q
floating cork choked him.
A. st. Paul wife, who had lived
with her husband for sixteen years,
recently discovered she had no
affinity for him. and eioped with
q mere boy, leaving seven children
for the father to look after.
Tho neW.'hotel at st. Louis, built
ON the sight OF the old Lindel
House, will be known as the Ames
house. Not called after Cakes,
but a deceased and respected
former resident Of that village.
The price Of a sewing machine
In the United States ls shout twice
the price OF similar article in
England; and it ia further stated
that good machine can be made
and sold probably for fifteen dol
lars.
at looked odd enough" re-
marks the Boston Transcript, ito
see that in Washington, lately,
General Banks carried an Adj
ministration measure over the de-
cided opposition Of General But
ler."
The population of San Juan,
the island SO long the bone of con-
tention between the United States
and Great Britain, has increased
from four hundred to two hundred
thousand since the loss of its neu-
trality.
Flirtations on the stairs are SO
common in Washington society,
and the stairways are so blocked
thereby, that there is talk of hav-
ing temporary staircases distrib
uted through the rooms for these
fond people.
The rapidity with which fish
will multiply is illustrated by the
fact that fourteen years ago four
teen black bass were placed In the
Potomac river az an experiment.
and to-day that is the best stream
in the country for black bass fish
ing.
Mobile papers complain that
several important industries are
kept back in that city by want Of
barrels, Notwithstanding that Ala
bama has along its rivers as fine
stave timber as grows upon the
globe, and as fine hoop poles, and
that slaves and poles from these
regions might be put down at ex-
tremely low figures.
There is something truly Won
derful in the recuperative power of
France when the Prussians charged
across her territory, her vim
tages were trampled, and many of
her cities fell prey to the flames;
and such anarchy and ruin fell up
on her that, as in the charge at
Balaklava, "all the world won
dered." France is ruined, said the
political economist; it will take
her half a century to recover. AS
to the war indemnity, it is a cruel
exaction OF that relentless, iron
hearted, iron-handed Bismarck.
France can never pay it without
being crushed to the very earth.
And now what are the facts?
France, to all outward seeming, is
little less prosperous than before.
The indemnity was to have been
paid by installments reaching over
years. Before the present year is
out, however, the whole amount
will probably be paid.