The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-08
ConGIornerasIon.
Clowns arc getting good wages.
While smoking on a powder keg,
Lie dronnel n cindcr down:
Then rose he like a meteor,
To wear the golden crown,

Nio~ us arc SettlHS SOOu Wages.
While smoking on powder keg,
lie dropped Il cinder down;
Then rose he like a meteor,
To wear the golden crown.
Mrs. Lincoln, who is staying with
her sister at Springfield, ILL.,. accosts
everyone with "Now you don't be-
lieye me insane, do you
A cracking firc-pan of apples
girl anxious 10 be loved--oid folks
dreaming-ah who said he wanted
summer 10 last a thousand years
A Cairo lawyer agreed To go out
aud duel a Cairo doctor, but when
six o'clock In the morning came
they net each other at the depot,
each having q ssfchel and each in
tent on getting ~ 81. Loais by an
AIRLINE route.
Another trottiug wonder has
made an appearance in San Francis
co. 1t is a mare belonging TO air.
Stark, and-is accredited with trot-
ing a mile in 2:lS15, trotting the
last three quarters OF the distance at
the rate OF 2:I3.
They are very much blessed with
snakes iii Dallas county, Texas. In
one bedchamber there, since last
spring, they have killed one rattle
snake of five fee', three tarrantulas,
aud one long fellow, simply dcscrib-
cd as a serpent.
II is reported that Mr.. Sharon has
rendered to Mrs. Ralsion, wife OF
the drowned banker of San Francis
co, IL suite CT seven rooms in the
Palace Hotel, with private servants,
and private coack and coachmaii,
so long as she may see fit to use
Ihcal.
/ A party Of Boston capitalists con-
template building a mammoth hotel
in ST. Louis. II Is to be- a tw elvC
story flat, three hundred iect square
one undre.l feet high aud contain
two Ihou-aiid rocmS, capabie 81
accommodating 81 0l0 people. l.
will Do built on The e iiuiIurs mad
ei tor such establishments.
Surprising she did walk three
tourihs of a mill. in ikc rain, sol
h,r new striped ckiE9s, atd uc;si
Is ruin her drcsS, wi u wa inti II
comparison 10 the jO' Of being tn
iirsi one To tell Mrs. jones that tn.
Smiths coultlu'G board at the IeVcr'
this winter, rs old Smith had Jailed
A writer in the Chicago Tribun,
says that the moXa is not Il hot irol
nor a surgical instrument. 1t is iii
down of the dltcmiSid si7lelasiS form
2 ed into small cones of half an inc
:, high. These are placed on the spo
where counter irritation is desired
and set on fire, burning down 10 tn
skin and deeper.
A tramp called at a house in Nor
witch the other day, asked if the MAJ
of the house was at home. "No,
\ replied she who had served him
\ "but I'll let you know mi CITY quicl
4 that the woman of .he house Is q
! home," and, taking down an oil
+ sword, she started for him. ii
> took to his heels.
: More than one fourth OF the sol
h diers of our army desert every year
e The men enlist not 10 become sol
y diers, but To get relief from tenIpOI
e airy distress. The army il an aim,
4 house to thousands thrown out {
Il employment as lab rers, or impoy
:, erished by debaue;ery. or oblige
by crimes to flee from home and jus
tice, or who hlbituaiiv live the live
OF tramps ut he eXpnnse of the gov
5 ernmeut. Is grim fact that on
D army has in il uauy soldiers VIII
D have deserted nnd re-cniisted in iii
}, terent prrt- al the country rs 0fte
J. as five o. six times.
> The lbs Angeles (Ca) Iieral
!. says: - e culture Is sprcaslin!
! rapidly. a the present rate OF i'll
crease a j. estimated that there wi
:, be la fottc We rs one million stand
i OF bees in This aud the Two adioin
!. ing counties, which will produce an
nuaIly 100,000000 pounds of honey
. worth $4,000, 600, which is NOR
than the value of the sugar and me
Iasses crop of L0uisiams. Texas, an
. Florida combined"