The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-19
VarOus items.

New Bedford is said to have but
one whaIer left-a schoolunaster.
The rival brass bands promise to
give Philadelphia "Hail Columbia"
next year.
The sensation of Paris three
weeks ago, was the death Of goose
aged go years.
Frogs were the original green
backs, and ever since they drew
first breath they have been imitation
lists.
Hugh Evans, the iron-jawed man
of Barnum's show, is in Jail in
Cleveland for illegal voting. lie
hangs a willie to bar by his teeth
every day, for his own and fellow
prisoners amusement.
Ex-Judge Tourgee of North Caro-
lima has written a novel entitled
''Toinette," the heroine of which is
negro girl, and the hero an ex-
colonel in the Confederate army.
The authors aim is tn popnlariz'
miscegenaiion.
A La Crosse Liam, who commit
ted suicide wrote note for his
wife, which said: Il am going
to- country where red headed wo-
men are never seen" She was so
mad that she wouldn't attend the
funeral.
The Marshall Messenger regret
fully remarks: "One by one the
old pioneers ofour country passed
away" But this is not so sad as
If they were to pass away two by
two, or three by three.-Norris-
town Herald.
Look out for q grand military
display at the Centennial. Eleven
New York regiments, three from
Massachusetts,, five from Pennsyl'
vsnia, two from New Jersey, to-
gether with companies from New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode
South Caroline, New Orleans, Chi
cagO and San Francisco have al
ready promised to be there.
a correspondent sends us very
touching description OF n scene o
domestic felicity he witnessed a
the home of II young married coup
10 in Connecticut. 81 came upor
them quite unexpectedly" h,
writes. "She was sitting in thu
front parlor eating peanuts, and b,
was crawling around on his hand
aud knees picking up the shells"
A fair and buxom widow in Port
land, Maine, who had buried three
husbands, went, with q gentleman
who had paid her marked attention
in the days of adolescence, to inspec
the graves of her dear departeds.
After contemplating them som'
minutes in mourful silence, sh'
murmurcd to her companion, "Ah
Joe, you might have been in tina
row If you had little more cour
age
Alta great outlay of time ana
money n wagon road has been com
pIeted from the highway passins
through the Delaware Water GaI
TO the summit of Mount Minsi, tn
peak forming the Pennsylvania wal
of the gap. The mountain is on,
thousand feet high. A suspension
bridge is to be built from the sum
nit of this mountain TO that OF Mt
Tammany, on the New Jersey sid,
of the river. This will be the high
est bridge in the world. IL will b,
over half q mile long. The cost o
the structure will be about 500 000
Physicians practicing in fever dis
tricts are graiuitously furnished
with the receipt that Bangkok doc
tors guarantee .as infalible. TAX
small pieces of rhinOcerous horI
and elephants tusks, the teeth o
the tigers, crocOdiles, and bears
three portions of the bones OF vul
lures, geese and ravens; . fragmen
of stag aud bison's horn, and
minute piece of sandal wood re
iuce the whole to powder and mi.
it with cold water on q stone. Hal
the potion is to be swallowed b
patient, and the rest is to be rubbe'
over his body"