The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-11-20
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS

OhO huSb InhO SAiO nv" AtC Janus
pity. In France a farmer found a
little gypsy girl OF III years in the
road. She said her sister had de-
erted her. Ont of pity he took her
hOme--and two weeks later she ran
away with his baby, 8 months old
In Belgium a fruit grower has
had great success in communicating
artificial flavors to natural fruit.
He procures the fruit and keeps it
few seconds in a solution of the
fiaVoring substance, and permits it
to ripen subsequently,.
The lifting power of plants is we'll
illustrated by an oak tree in South
lIadley, Mass. A rock had seam
in it, and a fibrous root from the
oak crept into the seam, grew, and
lifted the rock, weighing over ton,
to height of one foot.
On the Champs EIysees an Eng
lishman riding a beautiful horse
threw his hat into landau in which
were two ladies; greatly surprised,
they looked at him closely, saw his
head fall, screamed. Policeman
came-and the Englishman was dead
IN the saddle with apoplexy.
Corruption in Prussia also! Gen
eral Moltke's accounts were recent
ly found to be wrong. lie had
drawn, during the war, one wig and
one paper of smoking tobacco for
which he had never accounted to
the proper authorities. Demand for
remuneration has been made.
The plaster model of MacDOn-
AIDS colossal statue of the late FitZ
Green Iialleck, of GuilfOrd, is now
in the hands of the nOlders for re-
production in bronze. The poet is
represented seated upon the lawn in
an antique chair, in the act of writ
ing. The statue and pedestal will
cost $4,000.
Funny decision in France OH an
insurance case. fla house is insur-
ell for the total value, the value of
the land must be included in the
sum, and may be deducted by the
company from the payment of loss.
So that one must pay premiums for
the insurance of that which cannot
be destroyed, though he cannot have
the benefit of that insurance
There are no furs coming into the
Ottawa market yet. The season has
been so mild that skins are not
''prime" yet. a few mink have
been caught, but the skins are not
| within fifty per cent. of being as
valuable as they will be mex tmonth.
Otter and beaver are beginning to
come in, but no regular quotations
can be given as yet.
NJ. SchlOssmaker is reViving, in
France, the art of making beautiful
porcelain services. His work ex-
cells what is done at SeVres, and
promises to retain for France the
supremacy that she was losing.
French Journals rejoice over this as
n national event, but it is odd that
they can hang any national vanity
on name so evidently German.
A Paris cab driver, who was sent
to take a wedding party from church
to the breakfast, recognized in the
bridegroom q man who had once
had him put in prison for debt.
Once fairly on the way, he whipped
up and drove away from the other
cabs, and landed the bride and bride
groom. badly damaged, after an
hours hard drive, in desolaLe ru.
raj district on the wrong road. They
got home at midnight.
Our hard times have reached Chi.
ma. In that country the demand fol
silkworm eggs is SO much smaller
than usual that there is great dis.
tress throughout the country. So
if ones resources are shortened or
this side the world, his numerous
daughters buy fewer silks, and the
manufacturer makes fewer calls fol
his raw material, and so it goes from
point to point, and the last ripple o
our panic is felt, perhaps, in the
middle of the Chinese Empire.