The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-12
PEOPLE AND THINKS

aDfOau.
Grain in Lake county. Cal. is six
inches high.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is at ST.
Augustine, Fla.
Parson Brownlow has to be car
ried to and from the Senate.
A Providence firm is making
$500 rifle for King Kalakaua.
Cincinnati has the spelling match
fever. H-a-wg; Pork. Next.
The Sultan of Turkey requires
ninety-fOur dishes for his dinner.
Mary Mapes Dodge blows her
little nose on $75 handkerchief
Frederick Douglass is going to
stump New Hampshire for the Re
publicang.
a critic pronounces Rosina
Bloch. the prima donna, fat, ugly,
swarthy, and old.
The latest candidate for a monu-
ment is John Mason, who, they say,
discovered New Hampshire.
The late Senator Buckingham. of
Connecticut, gave at different times,
to the Yale Divinity School, ssh.
OCO.
Fragments of the Iowa meteor
are about as numerous as the charm
bells made from the bell of the
Chicago court house.
Out of 500 men who went TO the
can-can in Kansas City, 600 were
bald-headed. Still youthful de-
prayity will be used as text.
The goose-quill pen with which
The judge signed the death warrant
of the bandit Vasquez is now own
ed by man who values it at 81 600.
Large fiocks of snow birds are
making a living in Kansas in eating
the eggs of the grasshoppers, which
the frost has heaved out of the
ground.
The dentist 10 the children of her
royal Uighness the Crown Princess
of Prussia, is lady, q gradute of
the Philadelphia College OF Dent
istry.
Three columns OF the Liverpool
Mercury are given to an account of
one of the revivalS of Messrs. San
key and Moody, the American re-
viyalists.
The New London (Conn.) Tele-
gram says that David A. Wells will
not accept nomination for Con-
gress from the Democrats of Iude-
pnedents.
The Spanish word "bonaza" hav-
ing come into general use, it would
be proper to adopt its antithesis, !
''borascs," meaning mine that
don't pay.
Virginia City, accepting the ineY- |
liable, makes the most it can out of |
it. There are sixteen faro banks |
there. each of which is licensed at t
81 $50 per annum.
Miss George Anser, of Santa |
Rosa, CAL, is a successful deer hunt |
ress. She is sweet, single, and six
teen, and not such a goose "a her |
name wonld imply.
The indianapolis Journal CON-
plains that there is hardly . church
in that city where the the windows
haye not been broken by stone
throwing urchins.
The Patten (Me.) Tribune was
obliged to suspend publication last
week, the heavy snow storm having
so blockaded the road that q supply
of paper could not be obtained.
Vassar College opened its muse
um on the Odd. Among the nota-
bles present were Louisa Alcott,
James Freeman Clarke, Peter Coop
er, and Benjamin j. Losing.
The Rev. L. NJ. Lee, of Ball Prai-
RE, Wis, died recently. He was
80 years of age, sixty years of which
were passed in the clerical labors of
the Baptist church.
Consistency evidently is not
among Olive Logan's jewels. After
being advertised far and wide as
the best dressed woman in Ameri.
CO, she has written 3 letter to Har-
peris Baxar condemniDg extrava-
gance in dress.
Among the valuables of the
Duchess of Medina Cell is a pearl
necklace composed OF twelve or
fourteen strings of the purest gems.
Its value is $4,000, and when she
wears it, it covers her corssge from
the throat to the waist.
The Hon. Angus Cameron was at
Chicago Saturday. Mr.. Cameron
denies the report recently publish
ed that he will unite with the Inde-
pendents in the Senate. He says
he will act with the Republicans.
A Page County (Iowal man died,
leaving an antemoFtem request to
have the following inscribed upon
his Tombstone:
As am now so you must be-
o then prepare to fellow me
Where?