The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-09-26

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A correspondent of the New,
York Mail says that to" kiss lady
with an Elizabethan ruff on is
about as much fun as embracing
n circular saw in full motion"
The Abba, Iowa, Independent
was two days late net long ago.
Its principal compositor had eaten
twenty-three ears of corn, and the
doctor didn't get him reconstruct
ed on time.
The precocious schoolboy, who
quoting from a distinguished
statesman, said he "knew no North
nor SOUTH" was surprised to find
himself put ut the bottom of the
class in geography.
a fascinating young lady ut a
party in Tuscaloosa, few even.
mgr since, was asked If she ever
read Shakespeare. She replied,
with n toss of her pretty head
shakespeare? OF course / have.
| read that when it first came out"
III say fellows" remarked loaf.
er to some OF his companions, '.let
us see who can tell the biggest lie."
'All right" said one. "I'm the
biggest fool in America"
20, pshaww exclaimed the first,
contemtuously; ''We agreed TO tell
nothing but lies, and You begin
by telling the truth"
Never put your horse to hard
work on full stomach.
A little girl was one day reading
the history of England with her
goVerness, and coming to the state
ment that Henry l. never laughed
after the death of his son, she
looked up and said: "What did
he do when he was tickled?'
A brother in a Thursday night
prayer meeting at La Crosse, add.
ed to his prayer: "And that fell
low who stole my horse-hit him
with thunderbolt before he gets
over into Iowa"
Tn, boy that recommended a
few drops of panygeric on sugar
has his match in another who, az
ter successfully spelling "chican-
cry" defined il to he a large coop
to raise chickens.
There is now quite an active
movement in the fur trade, in an
ticipation of the approach of win
try weather. A direct shipment
OF thirty carloads of seal skins
from San Francisco arrived in
New York a few days ago. Mail
adyices from San Francisco re-
port the arrival in that port of
large and valuable cargo OF furs
from Alaska by steamer. The list
includes $1,000 seal SKINS, which
will be shipped to London.
The King of the Belgians gave
a dinner and reception at his pal.
ace to the representatives of the
iron and steel industries of Great
Britain and Belgium who recently
assembled at Liege. During the
evening the King conversed freely
upon the subject of presenting the
Emperor of China with a short
line Of railway. 1t is being talked
up warmly by q number of Belgian
and English ironmasters, who are
forming n committee for CARRYING
out the project.
Only the rich dead can obtain
permanent repose in the suburban
cemetaries of France. At the end
of five years the corpses of those
for whom immunity has not been
purchased are dug up to make
room for others. 1t is assumed
that five years term is q good
average period for bereaved rela-
tives to mourn over graves. That
this cold-blooded theory does not
satisfy the public mind is shown
by the proposed revival of crema
ton, or the burning of corpses.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has decided that the per-
son who sells at the place of man.
utactuTe wines made exclusively |
of grapes of his own growth is not |
liable to a special tax rs a liquor
dealer for such sales, but if selling
such wine away from the place Of
manufacture, he is liable. A vim
tor, however, who sells wines from
grapes not exclusively of his own
growth is subject to a special tax
therefor, whether selling such wine
pit the place where made or else
whore.