The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-01-16

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The editor of the Louisville. Re,
iporter has lost a number of chick.
ems. He thought that skunks were
,Iaround, and when hes hear,l q her
squalI and heard the remark
3 S'wring his neck he was perfectly
: satisfied. A'oi s1A - a "a
Il The Boston Board OF UnderWfi.
tiers has confrmediits rating eom'
mittee's decision that buildings hay.
ing Mansard roofs other than Who'll
ly of iron or copper shall pay an adj
ditional one per cent ksaa sI
An attache of the New York
J Herald, named VIM. q. Stevens,
/ who was passenger on board the
4 steamer City Of San Antonio, from
{ Key West, jumped oyerboards and
was drowned on the passage. 4asws
q The total number of pupils ENROLL
ed in the schools of Tennessee is lis,
4 076. OF this number 24325 are col
& ofed. There are $50, celered
4 schools in tie State now organized,
! and .542 colored teachers employed.
The Intelligent seontrabandp and
the "reliable gentleman" of war
times have a successor just now in
"the experienced banker, who is
loaded to the mHzzles with schemes
for the relief Of our financial Ills
This is q good season in which to
cultivate the art OF conversation in
families. This would tend to de-
velOp attachment 1to the home,
which is sadly wanting in many
households besides promoting the
education of children. 70 p
Quite a number of men are en-
ployed in Newbaryport, Nassachu-
1 sets, in catching frogs for frog
eaters. One man has taken 1000
and another 600 this season. They
are kept in tubs and fattened with
meal and shipped to order. sTzl ~
Woman suffrage is declining in
England. The Liberal party orig
inaIIy supported the movement;
but it is found that, SO far, the
woemn who have voted on the ba-
| sis of property qualifications de-
Velop into full-groWn Tories as
sure as the pollywog becomes a
frog.
The apparatus designed by the
astronomer royal to represent the
transit of Venus consist of an open
ing cut i'll screen, through which
the rays of the sun are thrown by
mirror. Across this opening is
a glass slide, on which black disk,
to represent Venus, is drawn Dy
clock work. ..-----E 80
Louisiana, which before the war
was behind some of the other
States in production of cotton, now
S Irpasses every other State It's
crop this year will be 100000 |
bales of the 100000 bales raised
in all the south. To do this the
State has largely abandoned thu
cultivation of sugar.
The law in Michigan regulating
the sale of kerosene oil condemns
as unfit for use all oil which will !
flash when heated TO one hundred |
and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. Re
cent experiments have shown that |
very little of the oil sold, even
when labelled at one hundred and |
seventy-five degrees, will stand the
legal test. -aEaEa44 zf
A Philadelphia engineer has con-
ceived a project for uniting the |
waters of the KaW, Verdigris, |
Neosho and AIariasdes Cygnes into |
one channel to the head of naviga-
ton on the Arkansas, that will float
boats of at least one hundred tons
tonnage, and give the farmers of
these valleys water transportation
for their products.
There is no probability that
work will be resumed on the Pa
ola, Garnett 81 Fall River Railroad.
Judge Spriggs' the President, is in
St. Louis, and writes home to Gar
nett that he SHALL not return until
he has made arrangements. for the
money to build this road. We nat
urally have 4 suspicion from this
that the Judge has permantly lOcat-
ed in St. Louis.-Paola Spirit.
The Emperor of Russia has con-
scented to arbitrate ia the dispute
between the Peruvian and Japan
ese governments as to the cody
ship Maria Luz. The Japanese au-
thorities haYe readily consented to
give up the vessel, but they refuse
to pay auy compensation for the
losses sustained by the Peruvian
merchant in consequence of the
liberation of the coolies.
A Connecticut man while eating
fish, got bone in his throat, which
irritated and panied him excessive
ly. For forty-eight hours he tasted,
in the hope that the bone would
leave the throat but it did not. a
friend suggested that he should
swallow an egg. He tried the ex-
pertinent, and felt the bone move;
he then swallowed another egg,
and it was gone entirely. This
may be worth remembering.
| Reports from western railroads
generally continue to show the i'm
provement in business which has
been heretofore announced, aud
specially in those which haYe the
carrying trade of the heavy crops
of the northwest. 1t is announced
that the earning of tho Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad Company for
the second week of December, 1873,
were S172, 700 as against S127, 46I
for the corresponding week of 1872,
thus showing a gain of over
| S45, 900.
| What "estate" do editors belong
to? The term "estate' in politics
signifies a division or class of men
participating directly or Indirectly
in the government. In France
there have been three estates-the
mobiles, clergy and commonalty-
the last. designated as the ''tiers
etat" or third estate" In England
three estates are.Esimilarly recog-
nized, viz, crown, lords and COM
mons. Hence the English designa-
+, tons applied to the press Is
"fourth estate in this country,
in which no class distinctions le-
! gally exist, the term "estate' has
2 only a poetic relevancy: but If il j:
to be applied to our press at all il
should undoubtedly be used as By
the English.
+ lGx0RING PARTY.-'fhe Earmer'l
t Association of Illinois has declared
2 its members absolved from ale.
: glance to all political parties. Thii
: determination is wise as a deciera
ton of intention, but il so happens
that the politicians have a way o
s rushing to the front wherever tf1er'
f is prospect of carrying out thei
l.