The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-01-31
sLEANIyas AND GOSSIP.
Alexis is flirting with the slant
eyed Japanese girls.

Alexis Is flirting with the slant
eyed japanese girls.
Wade Hampton is announced
for lecture in Savannah, Geor-
gia.
Governor Oglesby is not about
to be married, as has been re-
ported.
The estate of Pike, the opera
house man, is expected to realize
about 5000, 900.
Pueblo, the metropolis of South
ern Colorado, spent $500. 200 in
improvements last year.
Some newspapers pay in Aus.
tralia. The Melbourne Argus
yielded $780, 600 to its owners last
year.
The locks at the Willamette
Falls, Oregon, have been complet-
ed, and steamers now pass through
them.
A venerable colored man and
his wife are among the most dill
gent scholars of the Iowa City
public school.
A Peoria lady on returning
home found her cow in the parlor
chewing its cnd and gazing con-
tentedly in a mirror.
Charles Mathews, the veteran
actor, says that as long at he can
afford an audience amusement he
will stick to the stage.
The increase in the amount of
opium used in this country has
been a million ounces per month
for the past year.
Keokuk is trembling in her
boots because the Rev. Mr.. Ham
mond is coming there after he gets
through with Dubuque.
1t is rumored that all the an
thracite coal mines in Pennsyl-
vania are to pass into the hands of
the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road Company.
The st. Louis people are going
to supply the county jail with a
library, and thus hope to win the
prisoners from cards. As a first
start, they have purchased thirty
volumes of Tupper's cheerful
works. ~
Crime has become so intolerable
in Nevada. that the citizens of
Phoebe held meeting to form a
vigilance committee.
The table on which the Declara-
ton of independence was signed,
is still in existence in South Caro-
lima. 1t has always remained in
the Laurens family, one of whose
ancestors WIS ''signer."
1t is thought Father Burke lost
about $4,000 by the scandalous
conduct of Mr.. Froude, who ran
away home just as the eloquent
Irishman had begun to make him
useful as an advertising medium.
The Saratoga authorities held a
meeting and prohibited a contem-
plated cock-fght. The cock fight
ers adjourned to Troy, and the
Saratoga authorities adjourned
with them, looked on, bet, and lost
heavily.
Cleveland has fourteen rolling
mills in operation against eight In
1870. In 1871 OHIO manufactured
over $4,000 tons of rolled and
hammered iron-one tenth of the
whole amount made in the United
The London Times proposes
that the telegraph offices of Eng
land exchange dispatches with our
Signal Bureau, in order that
meteorlc storm-waves which may
be traversing either continent
may be anticipated and guarded
against.
A Philadelphia manufacturer is
preparing a plan for column one
Thousand feet high, to be construc-
ted entirely of iron, in open work,
/ from tho summit of which the
grounds of the centennial exposi-
ton are to be illuminated by means
of a Drummond light. If adopt
/ ed, it will be the loftiest monu.
ment in the world. asll53 -,
1 James NJ. Jaeger, talented but
eccentric inventor, whom his
| friends think will get the $4,000
| prize offered by New York, for 8
| steam canal boat, is on trial al
New Haven for stealing four mules
some time ago, when he wanted tc
raise some mouey to secure a pat
ent on one Of his inventions. 5a
4 JIM. Snyder, a private in Tho
!. late war, now residing near Og
den, Boone county, Iowa, came
into possession of set of army
buttons. He wore them until iat
returned from the war, when they
became playthings for his chill
dren. a few days since one o
them dropped 10 the floor anC
burst, when there fell out new
. crisp, neatIy-folded five dolla
greenback.
u The Danbury News says that /,
boy who was told he should al
ways try to cheer the aged, trieC
! ''thrce times three and a tiger OF
| his grandmother Christmas morn
ing, and the old lady was so start
, led that she spilled a box full o
{ snuff on him. He looks upon tn
beauties of nature with his lief
eye now. sa
:, A Nashville negro, applying u
I the recorder for marriage license
and learning that it would cos
7 him $40, left the room sadly, re
marking, '1Dat's mighty squ:
price, boss"
hl Knoxville invested $500 In til
!, Louisville lottery, and drew bacI
81 SIS. Pittsburg invested owe
r FIVE times that much and didn'
8 get anything. On the other hant
Ell the managers invested nothiD
d and drew large amount. H
e FIVE dollars per hour was til
y charge for hacks in New York O
J New Years Day. Some youn
q bloods paid thirty dollars each Il
L their riding on that day, whicl
luckily for their purses an
9 brains; comes only once a year.
a The law OF compensation is sue
% that when sight is put ont I'll
sense of feeling is rendered doubl
a strong. Hence it is that Chic
N go blind beggar can tell at a glant
~ whether you drop ten cents or
quarterinto bis hat. go
st Only think Of that! A Ne
1r Yorker went to Australia ,vaa ~