The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-01
sIfaInSs.

A bridge should be tried by its
piers.
One house in every twenty-one
in Boston is unoccupied.
People who are always wishing
for something new should try neu-
ralgia.
A good temperance work-Re.
moving the bars at the mouth OF the
Missippi.
Rev. J. w. Mellar, of London, has
a mastiff that has won $4,000 worth
uf prizes in different dog shows.
The Milwaukee girl who was ar
rested Tor stealing pair of shoes 10
wear to Sunday school says that & he
will never try TO be good again.
A young man in Philadelphia has
been warned not to keep his white
haired old father much longer
chained up in cellar with the
dogs.
Ore taken from the newly dis
covered mine AZ Berkshire, Yer
mont, yielded at an assay $50 OF
gold to the ton and 80 per cent. oil
copper,
There was q place apart in heav-
en- for good wives who could judge
q wicked thing as harshly when a
man did it as when q woman did it.
But it has never been occupied,
believe.
The Wisconsin man who had 10
pay 500 to prove his right to four
teen of his own chickens desires the
address of the person who says this
is the best government the world
ever saw.
The census takers of Winchen.
don, Mass, have come across the
case of q woman twenty-five years
old, married at twelve years of age
who has had ten children, the old
est being now thirteen years old.
Says the Topeka Blade: "Miss
Lillian ID. lockwood runs a paper
in Jewell county. Several girls
hereaway are in the newspaper bus
mess and with little more prompt.
ness would succeed we'll but theil
papers are always behind"
The residents of Rockport, Texas
and neighbOrhOOd are gathering
their own salt in large quantities.
off the fats on the bay coast, neal
by. The hot, dry winds have pro
duced SO much evaporation thai
tons of fine salt have been deposit
ed and await gathering.
Captain Scott, in addition to thu
Cushman and Equinox, was for
merly owner of the Z. ID. Cauldwel
and the IrOnsides, which was blown
up nearly three years ago at Bntfa
10. In the management of thes'
vessels he spent the greater part o
his time since 1855.
While a lion tanner in a circus q
Des Moiues Was performing ant
putting his head inside the animal'
extended jaws, the brute CLOSED
them wi u - snap. There was grea
commutIun for IA sho, time amonI
tn showmen aud the >pectators, bu
the man was released from his peri
with only Il badly cut face.
When they came TO examine til
hull of the Great Eastern they founI
81 0O square feet of iron plate in
crusted with mussels. in some place
TO thickness OF six inches. Tn
total weight of these incumbrance
was timaIed at 300 tons, enoug
To load Two brigs or 30 freight Cars
shady, Ky, Republican Tn
wort ease OF selfishness that W
have ever been permitted TO presen
10
youth who complained because hi
mother put q bigger mustard plas
ter on his younger brother tina
on him. after they had partaken
little too freely of melon and hsr
apples.
John Henry had a guest at Dime
the other day, and during the pans
in the conversation the enfant ter
rible spoke up: 81 wish wa
you." Do you, my little boy, an
why do you wish You were me
"Cos you don't get your ear pinch
ed when you eat vittles with you
knife" How touching is q boy
dream of manly independence.
} Jimmie Wharton, who was SUP
: posed to be q pretty fast man, wa
recently married. On the morniu
after the wedding, the lady aske
her husband to perform an Office Q
: the toilet for her maid. Her hus
} band did It willingly, and when
J was concluded was astonished (
} | lind his pretty wife in tears. "Wh,
my own precious" said he, "whati
: the matter with her own hubby
; pet77 sob, Jimmie, Jimmie 2" re
: piled the poor girl, crying as If he
heart would break, "if you hadn
laced q thousand corsets you neve
> could have done il like that!'