The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-04-18
BREyiTIRS.

= Paper -four barrels arc the latest
n novelty proposed.
a There are ten acres to every in
: habitant in OHIO.
4 Chestnut and hickory trees
6 won't grow in California.
5 Shall lunatics be licensed as
, murderers? asks Troy paper.
f There are 100000 square
t milesof the earth's surface still
unexplored.
Continual cold feet are no long
er q ground for divorce in In
diana.
Subscriptions to the training
school for nurses, at New York.
foot up $l7,5O0.
Prince Napoleon is said to en-.
terrain the project of starting y
! q cheap newspaper in Paris.
The receipts of grain in Boston
during the year amount to 10000
600 bushels, and OF -four, 1,49G,547
barrels.
A thief watched g New York
man draw 81, 500 from a bank and
then snatched it from his hand as
he was passing out.
The manager of a single New
York hotel has effected contract
with q New York firm for Is miles
of carpet.
"A partially reclaimed 1rishman
named Godkin," is the way an
Eastern paper speaks of the edi-
tor of the Nation.
The Concord coach has become
famous all over this continent.
Its manufacturer, Lewis Downing.
has just died Mt the age Of 81
years.
a stage horse at North Troy.
VT, recently climbed a ladder into
the hay-loft, and they had to re
move the flooring to get it down
again.
One of the travelling circus
companies reports that it paid
100000 for licenses and $4,000
to hotels and livery stables last
season.
More than $25, 100000 was paid
by residents of the United States
tor paintings and statuary, last
year, most Of which came from
Europe.
Castelar's new life of Byron is
n volume of $50 pages, and it is
said, will be one of the most or
iginal monuments of Spanish lit
erature.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincln-
natl, proposes to refuse confirmn
ton to all children who have not
been for two years preceding pu-
pills of Catholic schools.
Several new companies are or
ganizing in the East to manufac-
ture sewing machines, and it is
predicted that $50 machines will
sell at $35 within a year.
Munciey, Pa, has ghost in the
shape of very beautiful young
lady, who goes from house TO
house, never speaking to any one,
and only murmuring, Il cannot
find it, / cannot find it,
The New York Mail, which is
quite pufist, tells us that a fa
vorite hotel is to be kept this sea
son at one of the watering place.
''bv the widow Of Mr., who
died last summer on new and
improved plan
A promin mt man near Spring
field has a fair young daughter
studying medicine ut the West.
She wrote home for $40 the other
day, and in another letter to
friend that she wanted the money
to buy dead man to cut up.
Recently the clerk of Kenton
county, Kentucky, issued a license
for the marriage of William Henry
Thompson, aged 10, and Mrs.
Mary Brown, aged As, it being the
brides third venture. This one
ought to last Mary as long as she
| lives.
An employee of Portland coal
dealer got the latter in trouble re-
Gently. While delivering load,
he was requested to fill the coal
box in the sitting room; but, look
ing through whisky filed eyes, he
landed the first basket in the Piano
| instead.
The Burlington Free Press tells
of an old lady there who had
rather Il dissolute husband, who
fell sick and died. She attended
the funeral. and upon her return
remarked that she had one conso-
lation, ''she knew now where he
slept nights
The monks and nuns in Italy
who are forced to leave their clois
tiers are not left by the govern
ment without a pittance for liz
ing. The pensions range from $50
up to 1920 a year, about equal TO
the professed cost of their exist
cnce in the eloister
1t was splendid joke on the
part of three Albany men to cut
one of the headquarters from
Newfoundland dog that had been
killed, dress it, and send it to
friend, who had it cooked and ate
it, thinking it was mutton. Yes,
it was a good joke.
The Pope has complained to the
Italian government that n. Rem
ans Life OF Jesus" is being pub
lished in n Roman newspaper, and
has asked the government to con
fiscate the paper. The govern
ment has, however, refused to in
terfere in the matter.
| A Lexington, KY, paper tells Of
q novel runaway match recently
accomplished in that Vicinity
father clipping with the elder of
! two sisters, and his son with the
younger, both proceeding by the
same train to jefferson, Ind,
where the double marriage was
consummated.
The Dickens Dictionary" pro
dueed in America, and prohibited
in England by the holders of the
novelists copyrights, is paralleled
by a Dickens Concordance, by
Mr.. +. w. Peacock, OF Manches-
ter, whose work now in tao press,
is said to have occupied five years
IN its compilation.
. Thomas Caldwell, president OF
the Nashville street railroad. nm
. dertook to '.beat" his fare the 9th
err day by telling the conductor,
who was 8 new man, 81 own this