The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-25
Personal ITEMS.

Steady application to hard work
would cure the South of half her
ills, and the other half would disap-
pear with .idleness.
Miss Kate Field Is writing SER
les of Notes on England for the st.
Louis Republican.
The reading public is promised a
cool and refreshing book, from the
pen of Bayard Taylor, all about Ice
land, and its GLORIOUS thousand
years." in season for Christmas.
Theirs was fine amateur actor
when young. He has acted pretty
we'll since.
It is fortunate for Miss Winnie
Ream, of Washington, that she pos
sesses, in clay, the only bust ever
made of ex-Gov. Richard Yates, of
Illinois, since she is likely to receive
commission to put it into marble,
for 81 600.
Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is
not engaged to a gentleman in Chi
cago, but is engaged on a history of
the United States which will be
published shortly. And she reads
better than eyer.
Times have changed, if we may
believe the Boston Transcript, which
says that forty years ago Judge JO-
seph Story and Jared Sparks deliv-
cred excellent popular lyceum lect-
ures for $50, and in many cases
paid back the fee to aid the institu-
ton that had been thus liberal to-
ward them. But then there was no
James Redpath about in those days
Isaac Adams, inventor of the Ad-
ans press, has bought large tract
of land in Moultonborro, n. H., and
is raising forest. He has shut up
fourteen houses and stopped mill
in order to cultivate his wilderness.
1t seems a step backward toward q
state of Nature to be sure, but there
is good deal of land in Now Eng
land that could be profiitably util-
lied in that way.
There is now upward of fifty So
cieties for the prevention of cruelty
to animals in the United States and
the British American Provinces
Mr.. Bergh established the first
about seven years ago; and sooI
after the Pennsylvania Society was
set on foot. Fifteen new societies
were founded last year; and from
the energy manifested by all the va.
rious organizations, there is hope
that in time the wrongs and want.
of the dumb animals in our land
will receive just attention.
Mr.. Edward Atkinson has q grand
scheme for the enlargement of Bos
ton, by filling some two hundred
acres of flats, just below Sumner
street. The state has just filled
twenty-five acres, and very profita
bly, too, and he thinks could use one
!, half of the proposed improvement
to great advantage for railway de
pots. Boston has almost unlimited
possibilities of growth in that direc
ton, and may fill the Atlanti
ocean if she is not restrained.
Grace Greenwood is spending III
, summer in her own little rural cot
tage at Manitou, Colorado. 1t is
little brown cottage among the cot
. tonWoods and willows and y0un
, oaks and clematis vines at the foo
. of Pixies Peak. She Gays "this par
! ticular region of the Rocky Noun
tains maintains the character Whic
Fremont gave il more than thirt
: years ago of being the storehouse c
/ thunderstorms. We have q gran
D demonstration nearly every afteI
g noon. The old mountains cannon
? ade each other furiously-Pike
Peak blazes like Sinai, and th
heavy clOuda roll down his might
3 granite sleeps like black avalanche
= Grander storm and cloud elfec
:. than we have here it is scarcely po
Il sibIe to conceive"
Mrs. Phoebe Hanaford will be il
stalled over the Universallst churC
y at Jersey City next Thursday. 81
?. is an active, enthusiastic ministe
n and pleasing speaker.
Mrs. Edwin A. Stevens has bal
. memorial church at Hobeke
l. called "The Holy Innocents."
Of will have 9 school and hospital CO
B. nected with it, and provided 4
Re with an endowment of $2O0, 600.
N James Freeman Clarke says the
& is altogether too much driving al
too little leading in religion. Il
a. old Syrian shepherd used to go B
" fore and call the sheep AFTER hi
le but the modern shepherd prefers
u. go behind and drive with q VIII
g. That is what all the sects are doiI