The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-02-07
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Over eleven hundred miles of
railroad are now completed in
Texas.
A Yienna microscopic has
demonstrated that flies dissemin-
ate small pox.
A Mississippi coroner's jury re-
turned q verdict that both the
dead man and his horse had but
ted their brains out against a tree
when intoxicated.
The taxes paid on oysters in
Virginia last year amounted to
$4,000, and yet this inoffensive
and law-abiding bivalve is denied
the right of suffrage.
Murder is a very serious thing,
sir,'' said an Arkansas Judge to q
convicted prisoner. at is next to
stealing horse or mule, sir, and
shall send you to states prison
for year, sir"
The Chinese have an aphorism
very similar to " Man proposes,
but God disposes." It is: "Jen
schwo, soo-treei soo-tree? Tien
schwo, wei-jaul weijaulr' "Man
says so! so! Heaven says no. mo"
A negro in Coffee Co., Georgia,
who bet two dollars and seventy
five cents that he could ride a roam
mule with pine burr under the
saddle, lost the money. He was
followed to the tomb by a large
and enthusiastic audience.
Ague-shaking matches are q fea-
ture of life in Michigan, and, like
the pampered children of luxury
who inhabit Toledo, invalids fire.
quently meet in saloons and
"shake" for the drinks, the one
whose teeth ceases to clatter first
being considered the loser.
A Western publisher lately gave
notice that he intended to spend
fifty dollars for 80 a new head" for
his paper. The next day one of
his subscribers dropped him the
following note. "Don't do it.
Better keep the money and buy
new head for the editor
1t is told of an Oxford under
graduate that, when asked who
was the first king of Israel. he was
so fortunate as to stumble upon
the name of Saul. He saw that he
had hit the mark, and wishing to
show his examiners how intimate
his knowledge of Scripture was, he
added. confidently: = Saul-also
called Paul"
The one hundredth couple who
have blown out gas stopped at
hotel at Glen Falls, New York,
last week. They were from the
rural districts. The late retiring
guests smelling it notified the por-
ter, who woke up the couple, tel
ling them that the gas was leak
ing. "Is it?'' asked the swain; 81
thought 1 blew it all out"
A San Francisco firm advertises
FOR skulls of deceased Indians.
An eastern paper has for it's
motto a prominent line as fol-
lows: 1.-TWO Almighty Dollars a
Year"
Which would you rather, that
lion ate you or a tiger? Why, you
would rather that the lion ate the
tiger, of course.
The silicate of soda mixed with
zinc white makes a very good
paint, and can be used for render
ing fire-proof wood, paper, linen,
etc.
ST. Louis is rather proud of a
young man who stole the Bibles
from three churches and sold them
to get Christmas bonnet for his
poor old mother.
There is only one paper in Hi
nois that did not thrill the world
with the announcement that "the
old year is dead" and that one
said, Tomorrow the old year
dies"
Americans read more newspa-
pers than any other people, but do
not read moro books. Probably
because the average newspaper is
better than the average book.
The Jacksonville Journal states
that blooming, blushing school
girl called at the Office the other
day and inquired for ''papers for
week back" The idea suggested
was that she wanted them for a
panier.
Another, in the delicate, pun
gent Western style: "Ten million
dollars is the sum that S. n. Pike
was unable to take with him. We
have not heard whether any evil
dence of insanity exists in the
shape of a will"
A certain little damsel having
been aggravated beyond endur-
ance by her brother, pumped
down upon her knees and cried:
30 Lord bless my brother Tom.
He lies, he steals, he swcars; all
boys do; us girls don't. Amen"
Major Zeb Crummet in his lee
ture, 'New Tangled Notions"
says-"It requires more brains to
run a popular local newspaper
than is usually carried into the
White House under the hat of
the President of the United
States"
A new use of paper is that of
forming it into window shutters,
which are said to be fire-proof.
The paper pulp, while wet, is press
ed over thin Sheet-iron plate,
which gives body to the shutter,
while the exterior form is obtained
from the mould in which it is
pressed.
The Postoffice Department will
put into practice, in several large
cities, the new arrangement of
having newspaper mails made up
and labeled in the publication of
flee, and sent direct to railroad
depots, without going through the
postoffice at all, each office being
allowed to prepare its own mail.
Symptoms of Liver Complaint
and of some of the Diseases pro-
duced by it: A sallow or yellow
color of skin, or yellowish brown
spots on face and other parts of
body; dullness and droWsiness
with frequent headache; dizziness,
bitter or bad taste in mouth, dry
ness of throat and internal heat;
palpitation; in many cases a dry.