The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-08-22
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@ Just IN all your dealings
t The French government propo- 9
9 ses to build eight new railroads.
The scarcity of horses in Eng
land is exciting grave apprehen-
|. sions-
t The Canadian department of the
l Vienna Exposition consists of two
1 bottles of tanners OIL
Many new and pretty STYLES in
jewelry have been introduced for
the fall and winter season. -s-z-ss e
Kentucky has 1890 manufacturing
establishments, and ranks in this
respect the fourteenth State in the
Union.
The spring clip OF wool shipped
from San Diego county, Cal, for
New York This year Was 249,004
pounds.
The movement toward establish
ing a permanent Industrial Expo
sition at Pittshurg IS meeting with
success. a17
The Indianapolis Sentinel thinks b..
the regatta news, as set forth
in Massachusetts papers, worse than
the cholera
| Seven Texan horsemen pursued
n wild horse for five days, during
which he hardly broke a trot. and
finally escaped. .W
The photographers recent con-
vention at Buffalo decided that
members of the profession wcrc
entitled 10 he called artists.
y line of refrigerator cars from
Denison, Texas, to New York, in
connection with Texan slaughter
houses, will be established in Oct
American newspapers and maya
zines published in German have
| been forbidden by the German
government 10 be sold in that conn
try.
The Cleveland tunnel under Lake
Erie is nearly completed. 1t viii
be mile and a quarter long and
furnish GO,Oo0,0O0 gallons of water
daily
One hundred ana sixty Russian
families have just arrived in Omaha,
and will take up homesteads in Ne
braska, one hundred miles west of
that city.
1
convict in the Georgia State prison e
had seasoned the dinner with arsenic
saved the State the expense of three
hundred piUe collins.
The Shah's visit TO England has
given the burlesQue writers ample
material for Christmas pantomimes
in London. In Paris they have al
ready "shOwn him mp" at the cheap
| theaiers.
| The mail and express trains on
the Rock Island road are now sup
piled with Springfield rifles, breech-
lorders, furnished by the State.
Locking the stable after the horse
is stolen
England is afflicted with myriads
of mosquitoes, creatures heretofore
unknown to that climate, produced
by the recent unusual heat, and
the suffering natives are writingfo
the Times for help.
The plans of the new courthouse
in Chicago are severely criticized
One writer says: "The general CT
feet is that of n segar box with a
pickle bottle at one end and lot
of pepper castors on top ..
a man at Lansingburg, NYOrl1,
wagered that he could jump fifty
feet, and he won the wager By t
jumping off building. The sat
isfaction of knowing that the idiot
broke his neck is withheld
The Chronicle newspaper conf
pany of Washington gave thous
and poor children of the District
q free excursion a few days ago, TO
the country seat of Hon. +. L.
Blair, at Silver Springs, Md.
The Miami county soldiers will
have q grand reunion at Troy, o.,
on the 18th and 18th of September,
and the 122d regiment at Zanes-
vile, on the 10Th, the anniversary
of Sheridan's Winchester fight. -...
The English government has sue
ceeded in finding coal in the central 1s
provinces of India. The mineral
extends over surface area of sixty Cd
miles in length, aid from fifteen TO
twenty miles IN breadth. u
Warren county, in Virgins, prom
ises to take rank in the iron-prodnc-
ing localities of the country. a
competent English mineralcgist
pronounces Green Hill, a spur of
the Blue Ridge,a vast iron mountain
There are SI2 paper-mills IN the
United States, and the total capital
invested in the business is S43, 500,-
GOO. The number of laborers en-
ployed is 22,042, and the product
last year amounted to 81, 1897 tons,
valued at $50, Az, S25. Essz-a5.
There is no necessary connection
between severe mental toll and ear ed
ly pFostEation. There is no more
vigorous mind in France to-day than
that OF Theirs, yet he has been a
hard worker. England is ruled to-
day by men of more than three score
Why do they call the people that
live in some of the South Sea Is
lands cannIbais2 asked an Old man -
| of sailor. Because they live on
| other people, answered the sailor.
Then, said the old man, pensively,
my sons-in-iaw must be c9nnibals,
for they live on me.
The whole number OF dead letters
received and disposed of at the
Post Office Department during the
month of July was 32l, 319, a larger
number than for some time past
OF this number 7,701 were returned
from foreign countries, and 1870 -
| were returned to foreign ohieas. ss-
On Tuesday, in Newark, during
the absence of the family, storm
occurred, and the water poured
down through an open trap-door
on the roof into the closet. It pas
sed through an American flag, and
| on to number of light silk dresses.
dyeiBg them all red, white, and
blue. Loss about 800.
The cattle plague has broken
out afresh in Russia. The Prus-
sian government has forbidden the
import and export of cattle or
meat, as well as all animal sub
stances, except milk, butter and g
cheese, across the infected from
tier.
The London Advertiser saws the
report of the Committee on Coal
may, in unofficial language, be
summed up in thsee lines: "We do 5.
not dnow how coal came to rise TO 81
its present price, and we know still
less how it can ever be brought
down again" - -,
Beet root culture in the United j
States seems to be still discourage $,
ed, although we trust it may be >
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