The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-02
CUR,4EN1s PARAGRAPms.

"Whom do great men marty %
asks aa exchange. We can't say pos
eitively, but The chances are that, like
their lesser brethren, they have mar.
ried women.
The only thing that it bofhers a
grasshopper TO swallow is q four
legged table. A well developed
hopper can worry it down, but the
legs tickle his throat.
4sust.ia wants a great deal of ar
tiiler>. and proposes to Krupp that
it will buy of him half what It wants
| II he will divulge the secret of the
composition of his metal, so that the
| other half can be made in Austria.
hrnpp merely raises his eyebrows.
A turkey hen in Lancaster coun-
| Is, Pa, disappeared from her usual
liauais a few weeks ago, and return
ed, ;tlJer short absence, accompa-
aird by brood of young patridges,
" iicL she is now taking care of in
the most motherly way. The little
stray r. are said to be very tame.
The order of Jesuits numbered at
the beginning of the present year,
8, l0l members, of whom 9, 303 resid-
ed in France, l,527 in Italy, and
| ESQ in England and her colonies
| ,JSS were employed On missions,
and the rest reside chiefly in the
United States, where St. Louis is
their chief seat.
"The Mississippi" says Mr.. En-
eTson, swallows the Missouri, the
Illinois. the Ohio, and other rivers. |
and does not widen its channel; so |
the Anglo-American race absOrbs |
The thousands of Germans, French,
Irish, and English, and remains un- |
changed in its characteristics.
The eliminating cross has been
Church, Hamburg, which exceeds |
in height any other existing spire,
the occasion being celebrated by |
great festival. St. Nicholas was one |
of the three great churches Destroy
ed by the disastrous fire of 1912.
During the recent food in Mid
dlefield, n. Y, little five-year-old |
the height of two or three feet
LAC AOuSO uC :" as 1
fell upon his knees and uttered the |
following prayer; 90 Lord, l
don't like this; take it away. You
said when you set your bow in the
skies you would have no more |
floods. Now, how is this? Amen"
Dyspepsia arises frsm a great va
riety OF causes, and different persons
are relieved by different remedies,
according to the nature of the dis
ease and condition of the stomach. |
We know of lady who has deriV-
ed greSt benefit from drinking q
tumbler of sweet unilk-the richer
and fresher the better-whenever a
b0rning sensation is experienced in
the stomach. An elderly gentle
man of our acquaintance, who was
afflicted for many years with great
distress after eating, has effected q
cure by mixing a tablespoonful of
wheat bran in half q tumbler of wa
ter, and drinking it half an hour aft
er his meals. 1t is necessary to stir
quickly and drink Immediately, or
the bran will adhere to the glass
and become pasty. Coffee and to-
bacco are probably the worst SUBJ
stances dyspeptics can use.
English sparrows are pugnaCious
little wretcbes. Here they are driv-
ing away the robins, bluebirds, and |
native American sparrOws by hun
dreds. 1t is strongly recommended |
by Mr.. Cones that they be sent back
to their own country. 1t does, in
deed, seem hard that blasted Eng
lish sparrow should come aud drive |
away the native bird from his own
soil. They should certainly be
forcGd to take out their naturaliza-
ton papers, or bring their own
worms with them,
General NORM has just exhibited |
before the French Academy a bottle |
containing eight kilogrsmmes of
osmium, the most poisonous metal
known. lie says il is enough to
poison the universe, as one MILL
gramme diffused througe 100 cubic /
metres of air renders it irrespirable.
This may only be a little joke of
General Morin's, but we really wish
the General would go away. We
don't much care where.