The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-04-23
VARIOUS ITEMS.

Lake Superior is frozen over. a
very extraordinary occurrence.
The public debt of France now
stands at S4,500,O0O.OOO, and the in
terest is over $I65,0OO,O0O, being
considerably the largest which is
paid on any debt in the world.
A young woman in Liverpool,
disguised for months as cabInan,
was at last detected by her uuvary-
ing civilty, proper language, and
refusal to take or ask more than the
legal fare.
The two largest mixed. colleges in
the country are Oberlin and Michi-
gan University. Of the 1880 stu
dents at Oberlin 633 are women: of
the 1,191 at Michigan University 100
are women.
a female lawyer in Wyoming
was recently Obliged 10 suspend her
argument before the justice in order
to administer to the wants of her
baby, who was arguing for its din
ner in an adjoining room.
One Cyrus Stack, while sick in
Florida and expecting to die soon,
recently confessed the murder of
BENZ. Rhodes, of Dorchester county,
Md, several years ago; but he got
well, and the officers nabbed him.
A case of mistaken identity re-
suited in the arrest at Topeka of the
Russell county member of the Kan
sas legislature, by q detective who
had been tracking him for o year as
father of the murderous Bender
family.
Professor T. V. Hayden, the we'll.
known geologist and explorer of the
western wilderness, has recently
written a letter in which he says ::
81 do not believe there is any gold
in the Black Hills. l think it is all
speculation"
The boys tricked the girls in a
spelling match at Providence. The
agreement was the words should be
selected from the city newspapers
of the day of the match, and the
boys secured the publication of q
scientific article full of unfamiliar
terms.
The most cruel thing that the
baggage-smasher has yet done was
to break a Detroit box directed to
the grasshopper sufferers, and re-
veal that it contained only old
boots, frozen potatoes, and a card
inscribed, "The Lord Ioveth a
cheerful giver."
A gentleman from New Haven.
who provides postage stamps for ali
unpaid letters deposited in that of
fee, has received from q person in
this city who was the recipient of
one of his favors, lava cigar stand,
with the cigar receptacle filed with
the fragrant Havanas, and the match
safe with postage stamps.
A house dog in Upton. Mass, had
the measles simultaneously with
the children of the family, from
whom he caught the disease. He
was carefully doctored, and was
getting along finely, when one day
he slipped out of doors and PLAYED
in snow b1nk. This indiscretion
was fatal. He took cold and died.
A man down East" returned
his newspaper to the printing of
fee with 'Jackass" written on the
margin, and in the next issue the
editor started the fact, and wound
up the paragraph by asking: Twill
cur indignant subscriber please to
let us know at what stable he can
be found?"
Besides several who were in the
Confederate civil service. there will
be ia the new House of Represents
tives sixty-eight men who actually
served in the rebel army. The
number of Union soldiers chosen is
twenty-five, or little over one
third of the proportion of rebel Of
flcers. A pleasant comparison to
think of, and one of the fruits of
the Democratic reform move
ment."
The use of the steam whistle as a
signal for mariners is spreading. A
whistle has been erected on the ex.
tremity of cape dor, in the Bay of
Fuudy, which, during thick wealth.
er, fog or snow storms. blows q
blast of six seconds duration twice
in each minute. The sound will be
heard to q distance of twenty miles
| In calm weather. and from I've 10
| eight miles during storms, and will
| thus give timely warning TO vessels
approaching the coast.