The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-09-04
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL NOTES.
Albert Edwards owes So, 200, 900.
California revels in "Rhode
Island clam bakes."
Paper -four barrels are to be
manufactured extensively in Wy
mona, MINI.
Over'$6, 600. 900 worth of prop
erty has been buriedin the Amer
lean lakes since the introduction
Of steam.
Gov. Allen, of Ohio, is being
quite extensively nominated. for
the presidency by the Ohio Demo
cratic papers.
Old Mr.. Nathan, of New York,
was . well murdered man. Some
ten or more Williams claim to have
done it for him.
The Boston Transcript thinks
Beecher's revelations prove that
Shakspearc's Iago is creature in
our own time.
The Illinois editor who refused
to publish a word about it was
sold out at Sherif's sale last We'd
nesday.-Brooklyn Argus.
There is a man in Dubuque who
Is so afraid Of hydrophobia that
he keeps his hat full of memoran-
da how to proceed in case he is
bitten.
The New York Sun is anthoriz-
ed to mention that Reuben +. Fen
ton has not left the Liberal Bepub
lican party-what ever that may
be.-Springneld Republican.
A patent has been secured by an
English inventor for a telegraph
worked exclusively by air. 1t is
specially intended for hotels,
offices, vessles, public institutions,
DC.
When they told an Indiana wo.
man that her husband had been
sliced up by reaper, she impa-
tiently replied: "Well, take the
pieces to the barn; i can't leave
the gooseberry sauce just now"
"Do you know our good pastors
chief end and aimf" asked New
York Sunday school teacher of her
tavorite pupil. "Yes," replied the |
sagacious child; ITO get his SER
mons printed in the Herald"
When Mr.. Jefferson was present
ed to the court of France as the |
American Minister, he was often |
asked, ''Is it you, sir, who replaces |
DIR. franklin" to which he gener.
ally answered, mo one can replace
DIR. Franklin; ] am only his sue
cessor."
In the English postmaster Gen
erals report it is stated that about
1900 letters were posted last year
without any address whatever, and |
that nearly 500 of the letters con-
tanning cash, checks, or bills of
exchange, to the value OF more than
E13,0O0.
Seth Cole and F. II. Bye, the pos
ial clerks who preferred the charge
of corruption against Postmaster
Yost, of Omaha, Neb., and special
Agent Furay, have been dismissed
from the service, and it is under
stood that the investigation made
by special Agent Hawlcy has clear
ed Messrs. Host and Furay of ali
charges.
A Western journal, not publish
ed in Illinois, says that in Chi
cago library book on '.self cul-
ture" never got a reader. The
librarian had it rebound and re oh
rlstened it "a Young Man on His
Muscle" and anxious readers had
to wait for weeks before they could
get it.
The young man who came into
this office this morning, sat down
on q box, and then bounced up
with a yell and fed like one he.
twitched, is requested to return
four long brass tacks that were on
the box when he took his seat.
No questions will be asked-we un.
derstand it all; but we want those
tacks.-Exchange.
Among the visitors st Santa
Cruz "a California watering place.
is q San Francico lady, the wife OF
n prominent stock broker, who has
made herself conspicuous by wear
ing a demonstrating mask of
chamois leather. 1t is said she
envelops herself in leather to save
q singularly beautiful complexion.
She is alluded to in town as "the
woman in the yellow mask"
The New Orleans Picayune has
examined into the status of lega-
cies left by rich citizens to that !
city. 1t finds that of ten million
of dollars but very little has been
realized, except by the lawyers.
The Picayune concludes that If
man has money, and desires to be
n genuine philanthropist, he had
better become his own executor.
The report that many emigrants
are leaving Kansas on account of
the grasshoppers is greatly exag-
gerated. The number is few and
in many cases is made up of shift.
less people, who will eventually
leave the world in the same desti-
tute condition, even though our
soil produced simply by request
Atchison Champion.
The Supreme Cont of Mime
sofa lately decided that railroad =
companies must pay for injuries to
those who travel on free passes
the same as for accidents happen
in & to passengers who pay their
fares. The numerous class of
deadheads will rejoice to hear it.
They can now travel for nothing | q
in Minnesota, lose a leg or an arm
with smiling face, and make a COM
Portable sum bv the operation.
That was shrewd adv vice of learn.
ed lawyer to q pupil: "When the
facfa arc In vour favor. but the law