The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-03-19

Ills IuullIy, anu All the sacred ODll'
cations of life, but he always re
members where he got that coun.
terfeit bill.
Colonel Forney appears in the
personals of the Italian papers as
Capitano Giovanni Fornez, and he
is in danger of being mistaken for
a bandit.
An English judge has recently
defined gentleman" as n term
which "includes anybody who has
nothing to do and is outside of the
warehouse.
A Washington man who was
treated to q "25center," slipped
back to the cigar store, the other
day, and economically exchanged
it for "three for a quarter"
jug not lest We be juged,' was
a copy recently 'set" by teacher
in one of the public schools.
Doubtless that teacher considers
spelling one of the ornamental
branches.
A bride in Indiana, after the
conclusion of the marriage cere-
mony stepped gracefully forward
and requested the clergyman to
give out the hymn: This is the
way 1 long have sought"
A school in Vermont is presided
over by cross-eyed teacher. A
few days ago he called out: THAT
boy that am looking at will step
out on the floor" Immediately
tWenty-sevM lads walked out in
front of the astonished peda-
gogue.
A Montana editor bemoans the
calamities of 1874 in the following
touching strain: First, that
Beecher business; then the grass
hoppers, then the democratic vic
tories, and now an increased tax
on whiskey. What is this poor
country coming to?"
What changes a few years bring
about - don't they? Yesterday
the citizens of Arber Hill were
aware of woman madly tearing
along, potato masher in hand, Civ
ing chase to her husband who was
flying from her presence like
deer. Eight years ago the same
female took a medal ut an Eastern
seminary for graduating essay on
"Repose of Character
The party who is supposed to
have aided the assassin of Abra-
ham Lincoln, by assisting him to
his horse at the side entrance of
Ford's Theater in Washington has
lately died near Bryantown, Nd.
His name is Edward Spangler.
The band of demented conspirators
against the life of the noblest of
men is rapidly being wiped from
the face Of the Earth, and already
the grave consumes, them, nearly
all. Booth, Harold Atzeroth,
Payne and Mrs. Surratt met q
speedy and violent death. o.
Laughlin died ut Dry Tortugas,
and Spangler now has succumed.
Only two are left-Dr. Mudd, liv-
ing where Spangler died, and Ar
mold, a wonderer no one knows
where.
In the days when rouge ct -noir
iourished at Baden Baden the
Prussian officers were strictly for
hidden to play. One of them,
however, dressed as civilian,
ventured to place 10 Napoleons
on q color. The color came up
twice and the officer was Just
about to take up the money when
his eye fell upon the King of
Prussia, who was watching the
game with interest. In his fright,
the officer did not dare to remove
his Napoleons. The play contin-
ued and the same color came up a
third, fourth, fifth time, and
1920 francs were added to his pile,
but the winner stood motionless,
erect as if on parade, expecting
the next instant to see all his win
nings wiped out, The King put
an end to his suspense by ap-
preaching and saying in a kindly
mood: al advise you to draw in
your winnings and to be quick
about it, before 1 notice you; your
luck cannot continue so favora-
BILE"
A sad suicide occurred in Yer
ona, Italy the other day. The
countess Maria Scioppo, nee Ran
diner, shot herself through the
heart with n revolver while in bed
early in the morning. She was
only 10. Her husband had gone
to Magdeburg to bring his moth
er-in-law to see her daughter, and
telegram announcing his return
with her mother had been received
by the Countess. On the night
before her death she sang and
played until . o'clock in the
morning, when she retired. The
maid who undressed her did not
perceive anything unusual in the
demeanor of the Countess. Five
or six days before she had bought
the revolver, saying that it was a
present for one of her relatives,
the young Count NJ. then at q mil
ltary collage.
A bill for the appointment of
public prosecutors, to perform du-
ties similar to those of our Dis
triot Attorneys, is about to be in
PRODUCED into the British Parlia-
mGnt. Strange as it may seem,
there is at present no public func-
tionary in England whose business
it is to bring criminals to justice.
In a few instances prosecutions
arc conducted by departments of
the Government; the Treasury
prosecutes in some murder cases,
and In such cases rs the blowing
up of the House of Detention by
the Fenians; the Post Office pros
ecutes when letters are stolen by
employees, and the Attorney Gen
eral prosecutes persons accused of
coming or nttering counterfeit
money. But the greater number
of prosecutions in England are
left to the parties injured by the
commission of the offence for
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