The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-07-23
VARIOUS ITEMS.

OOO,UOO OF Po,OOO.OOO,
mo, ma'am," said jeweler TO a
beautiful lady, az don't trust any
trustthese days. l would not even
bOdymy feelings"
Fully $1,000 Detroit people went
out to view the scene of the recent
tornado devastation, but only TWEEN
ty.seven persons attended the relief
meeting.
The Detroit Free Press thinks
that Beecher didn't want that prns-
sic acid to poison himself with. but
that he was going for the cats of the
neighborhoOd.
''For want of water" said an Ital-
ian, az am forced TO drink water; if
1 had water, 1 would drink wine"
He kept vineyard, and the drought
had killed his vines.
The recent scientific expeditions
to the great Sahara desert have re-
ported quite faVOrablY on the pro-
ject of covering It's sands with wa
ter let in from the sea.
A book agent took. refuge under
q hay stack during n thunder storm,
and the lightning struck him on the
cheek, glanced off, and killed a
mule two hundred yards away.
Michigan University graduated at
its recent Commencement I32 stu
dents in all, of whom I0l were from
the Literary Department,-the lar
gest number ever graduated from it.
No Norwegian girl is allowed to
have beau until she can bake
bread and knit stockings, and as a
consequence every girl can bake
and knit long before she can read or
write.
Harvard graduated its first-c lass
in 1857, William and Mary in 1862,
Yale in 1902, Princeton in l74S,
University of Pennsylvania in 1853,
Columbia 1854, Dartmouth 1863,
Rutger 1870.
The Union Pacific railroad COM
panies owe to the United States
$50, 72l ,632, principal, and $l6,80l,-
E60 for arrear ages of interests, or in
all $G9,922, 1892. And they will al
ways owe it.
There is n new counterfeit$l.0 ZOO
bank note in circulation. Editors
should beware Of it, and scan every
note of this denomination, which
comes into the Office, with more
than ordinary circumspectiOn.
A countryman fell off a ferry
boat at Vicksburg, and his wife,
waiting cOOlly until his head show
ed above the water, shouted,
"There, durn yer, knoW'd you'd
do it! Bet yer never get out, eth
cr!"
The occupants of six hundred
shsnties along the lines of New
York railroads make a living by
planting corn and potatoes between
the rails and the fences. 1t is said
that 900 acres are cultivated in this
way.
Elder Sister (condesce ndingly).-
See, Ethel, you had better come and
walk in my shadow. 1t will be
cooler for you'll Younger Sister
(whO resents patrOnage)-YOu are
very good, Maud; but 1 have q
shadow of my own, thank You!
During trial the judge called
a witness. No one answered, and
an elderly man arose and solmemn-
Iy said, Gle is gone" "Where has
he gone 2" asked the Judge, in no
tender tone. 81 don't know; but
he is dead" was the guarded an
swer.
Robert Dale Owen, the leading
Spiritualist of the country, has be.
come insane. 1t is SAID that the ex-
King" conspiracy in Philadelphia
tremendously shocked his nervous
organization, hence the news of his
insanity.
We are to have Princess Louise
daughter of Queen Victoria, and
her husband the Marquis of Lorne
to visit us next year. The princess
is a democratic lady. She married
below her rank for love, and, as q
result, took a higher rank in thu
love of our free people.
The receipts of wool in San Fran
cisco at the last report had reached
the large aggregate of l., Sl7 $50 lbs
the April receipts alone being near
lY 10000, COO lbs. At this rate the
San Francisco Journal of Com
merce estimates the years receipt;
at tho unprecedented figure of So,
OO0, COO lbs.
Professor Mccoy, a well-knowI
{elOcutiOnist among Western as wei
/ as Eastern people, has agreed Il
r read the Declaration of Independ
. ence next July at the Philadelphia
Centennial celebration. He is
man of colossal tone, and will east
ly make the great congregation o
all nations hear his rendition of IL.
= Somebody has figured out wha
the expense of supporting the Ma
: tionaI Government has been to eacl
3 voting citizen during the last al,
administrations. The table show
under Polk (Democrat) the expense
per head $2.05; under Taylor Fill
: more (Whig.) $1.S9; under Pierc
/ (Democrat) $2.33; under Buchanan
(DemOcrat) $2.2S; under Lincoln
, and johnson (Republican) $l.94
under Grant, SI.69. This is pretty
! good showing for "radical rule" i
il not?
Carl SchuTg is treated more royal
8 ly in Germany than Prince of tn
! blood would be. The Cologne Ga
Zette of the 10th ult., contains an &C
count of his visit to the House O
: Representatives in Berlin, accom-
E panied by Mr.. Kapp, formerly
"A Commissioners of Emigration i
New York, and now q member o
the Prussian Parliament. He re
ceived hearty welcome. Twenty
6 five years ago, Schurz fed frou
!. Germany, a revolutionary exile
Such is life.
{ A little zephyr struck Floyd coun
ty, Iowa, the other day and nearl
turned it upside down. It bleV
John Barney's house over, with Mrs
: Barney and the children in 1t, role
: it over three times, jammed |
a against tree and tore it to pieces
but the inmates were only slight,
bruised. AS postscript TO fill thi
Q we would say that Mrs. Barney
: who is somewhat deaf, never desis
. ted from her knitting all that tim,
and when the final crash came onI
u looked up and said : Come in
, don't knock.