The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-10-17

been fined $4,000 for overcrowd-
ing his ship with Chinese emil
grants.
A New York chemist says he
can reduce boot legs to beofsteak. |
The Topeka landlords have had |
ten years the start of him.
A Louisville man has a sun
flower fourteen feet high, three
boils on his leg, and cold in his
head, but yet he say that there is
nothing worth living for.
'Tm so thirsty" said a boy Mt
work in a corn field. "Well, work
away" said the industrious farm.
or, "You know the prophet says,
'Hoe, every one that thIrsteth.' y
An Irish paper concludes a BIZ
ography of Robespierre with the
following sentence: This extra
ordinary man left no children ex-
ccpt his brother, who was killed
at the same time" .-H
A Philadelphia lawyer was max
ing u high-fown speech the other
day, telling about angels tears,
weeping willows and silent tomb
stones, when his honor said:
'Confine your remarks TO the dog
fight"
We knew the fool would turn
up somewhere who would put his
postal card in a stamped envelope
and mail it that way. Covington,
Kentucky, is responsible for him,
and he thinks the cards are a
great convenience. s ErR
Recent geological surveys of
the new Territories of the far west
revealed the tact that the known
coal deposits of the Rocky Noun
tain region extend over an area of
upward of 100000 square miles, in
strata varying from ) to 80 feet in
thickness.
"The Pawtucket Chronicle says
Of the building damaged by fire in
that village, Wednesday: "This
old building is the one in which
Samuel Slater opened q Sunday
school in the 1799-the first in
Rhode Island if not in the United
States" -
A negro held a cow while 4 cross
eyed man was to knock her on the
head with an axe. The negro, OBJ
serving the mans eyes, in some
fear enquired, ais you gwine u
hit whar you look?'' "Yes." Den
said Cuffee, ''hold de COW your
self"
Fred" said young man walk
ing up Cortland street the othel
day, after listening to his wonder
full story, do you know why yoI
are like n harp struck by light
ningw NO" says Fred, Il CIV,
itup." Because harp struck b.
lightning is a blasted Tyre"
A Cleveland copper speculate
fell asleep in church, from which
he was awakened by the Pastor
reading, "Surely there is q vein TO
silver and a place for gold, wher
thoy find it." Jumping to his fee
lie shook his book at the ministei
crying, "Pll take five hundre,
shares"
An Illinois editor who was en-
joying himself at San Francisc,
when Horace +. Clark stopped is
suing passes over the u. p. rail
road writes to his wife he is walk
ing home for his liyer's sake, an,
will arrive in the fall or early il
the spring.
A noted horse-jockey, "dowl
east" was awakened one night b.
violent thunder storm. Bein
somewhat timid he awoke his wifi
with, "Wife! wife! do you sur
pose the Day of Judgment ha
Gomez ''Shut up, you fool" wa
The affectionatc reply, show ca
the Day of Judgment come in til
night?"
The sugar crop of Lomsian
this year will probably be an aver
are yield, although in some dis
tricts the canes have not attaine,
their ordinary growth, owing t
the wet weather of the earlier par
of the season. The dry weathe
of the last few weeks if continue
may invigorate the cane, and as
has yet two months in which {
grow, it may attain Il fair size i
all parts of the State.
Juries in France occasional
have curious ideas of justice.
man named Cantau, lately tried il
bordeaux for wounding his neigh
Dor Tent with a reaping hooL
was condemned to pay a fine O
two hundred francs. AS he wa
leaving the court he deliberatel,
pulled out n revolver and sho
TENT and his son, killing the latte
ON the spot. Cantau was tried 70
this second crime few days ago
and though he declared that hi
only regret was that he had no
killed the father as we'll as the son
he was acquitted. The civil cour
then condemned Cantau to pa,
Tent Pere eight thousand franc
dsmages for the death of his sor
The NORTHWESTERN CORN CRoF
The Chicago Tribune of tn
22d, says; #tFE 80
Reports arc published in Oh
columns, this morning, which shoV
the condition of the crops and tn
effect of the recent frost throughou
this and neighboring States. Tn
substance of their statements
that much of the corn had bee
harvested before the frost came
the rest was badly damaged. Il
southern Illinois the corn wa
considerably injured in the low
lands, where it had not been Gu
before the frost. In upper Illinoi
the frost did much harm, and no
more than half a crop is expected
Ia Iowa reports are infiicting, bu
the weight of the evidence is tina
tho corn has been generally in
iured. In addition to the raw
ages of the FROST the influence o
u wet and late spring, and tn
summer drought have combinet
To lessen the yield.