The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-05
TELEGRAPH AND NAIL ITEMS.

TELEGRAPH AND NAIL ITEMS.
St. Paul wants more laborin g
men.
The only food that is always
cheap and abundant is food for
laughter.
Artesian wells will be tried on
the hig ground between st. Paul
and Minneapolis
Grundy county Iowa, has thir-
teen farms of over 500 acres each,
the largest $3.50 acres.
The black walnut Will be sub
stituted for the maple in planting
trees en- the prairies.
America has only thirteen pic
lures at the Vienna Exposition,
while France has over one thous-
and.
Persons caught in France with
pieces of the castings of the Ven
dome column are sentenced to
years Imprisonment.
Michael Cain, a notorious bur-
glar, now confined in the New Jer-
sey State prison, cut off his thumbs
last week to get rid of working in
the shoe shop.
The crop of chestnuts, butter
nuts, hickorynuts and walnuts
promises to be immense in many
localities this fall. The trees are
fairly bending beneath their loads.
An electrotype of the seal of
the confederate States is on exhi-
bition in a jewelry store in Wash
ington. Fac-scmiles will be made
and sold for the benefit of south
ern charities.
The General Assembly of Con-
necticut, at its last session, passed
an act allowing anybody and
everybody to catch fish in East
Hampton pond, through the ice,
each month IN the gear.
A sanguine Virginian is writing
a pamphlet to prove that the Dis
NAL Swamp is capable of being re-
claimed by drainage, and he pre-
diets that it will be at some future
day the richest district in the
South.
A young lady in Monmouth, Ill,
while making her bed the other
day, found rattlesnake comfort
ably coiled up between the sheets.
Immediately after the people
thought the corporation law
against steam whistles had been
violated.
It is argued that there will not be
| the same monetary stringency
this fall that was felt last year and
one or to years before, because the
balance of trade against us is much
smaller this year, our imports hav-
ing declined and our exports large
ly increased.
Adversely exasperates fools, de-
jects towards, draws out faculties
of the wise, puts the modest to the
necessity of trying their skill, awes
the opuIent, and makes the idle in
dustrious. Much may be said in
favor Of adversely, but the worst
of it is it has no friends.
New South Wales has entered
into a provincial contract tor a
mail service between Sydney and
Liverpool by way of San Francisco.
The contractors, who represent ex-
ltensive firms connected with the
colonies, are now in London to
complete arrangements previously
made by telegraph.
Miss Lizzie A. Stewart, of Fair
Haven, and Miss Cordelia Torrey,
of Boston, on Saturday last went
in bathing at Quissit, a small
island near Falmouth, Mass, got
beyond their depth, and their cries
for help brought Mr.. Hardy Davis
/ of Falmouth, but the ladies drew
him under water and all three were
drowned.
General JEFF. G. Davis, command,
ing the Department of Columbia
has authorized the post quartermas'
ter at Fort klamath to issue to thC
Modoc Indian prisoners now in con-
finement at thst post such small
quantities of clothing as can be
spared from the supplies on hand tc
/ prevent unusual suffering among
: them. Damaged clothing to be
, issued if practicable.
The vital statistics of the Cen
trail Park Menagerie of New York
have just appeared. There ar
now in the establishment five hun
dred and eighty-one quadrupeds
birds and reptiles. During las
year there were born two lions
one leopard, two pumas, one camel
and one hyena, the last named an
!. imal being, as is supposed, the frs
of the species ever born in tn
: United States.
Post Master General Creswel
has addressed letter to the Pos
+ Master General of New Found
: land, approving of the proposition
\ tof that officer for the reciprocs
$ exchange Of postal cards betweeI
. the United States and Newfound
I land, on the same terms as are j
d operation between this countr
and Canada. These terms provid
q for the exchange of postal card
3 by affixing an additional one-cen
n stamp thereon.
q 1t ia a curious fact that, out {
y every thousand persons who stud
: photography, only half doze
T. attain to excellence. It is cas-
3 enough to learn the alphabet {
q this branch Of writing-it may I
L done in two weeks-but it is ii
y practice that tells upon the studeI
of the art. 1t is Wearisome, e.
acting and exhaustive! Henc
y those VITO begin the study wit
v enthusiasm, abandon it with II
y, 4 patience before they have half 81
y ished their apprenticeship.
s. A fruit-canning establishneI
ye that was started last year in Ne
ly Orleans has proved a success
ne and this year large number
Is figs and artichokes viii be sc
m north. or the latter fruit a Ne
Mt Orleans paper says: "The sout
he ern artichoke is 8 vegetable so |
st tie known at the north that pc
lis pie having never seen it befo
nd cared little TO purchase it at fir
n but those who acquainted their I
nd lates with the delicate flavor of {
ut Louisiana artichoke speak 10
ut praises for 1t, and commend {
manner of preservation"