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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
The Richest Copper Wine I'm
the World,

The Calumet and Hecla consolida-
ted mine near, Portage Lake, Mich,
now acknowledged the richest cop
per mine in the world, was discov-
cred by pig some ten years ago.
1t had been known for several years
that the ancient mound builders had
worked copper on Lake. Superior
centuries since, aud these old mines
are, visible along the top range of
Point Keeenaw nearly 100 miles. A
miner, who had cabin in the woods
put q litter of pigs into one of the
ancient pits, and found some time
after that one, of them had rooted
up q nugget of copper. The land
was owned by the ST. Mary's Canal
Company, and was regarded as only
good for timber. II was purchased
by good laundering, after which
the old works were cleared out, re-
vealing rich and heavy lode. Two
companies were organized and two
mines opened--the Calumet and the
Hecia. They were not long since
consolidated, and thus put under
one management. The mine pro-
duced last year over 1900 tons of
inget copper. There are eight shafts
on the vein, occupying three-fourths
of mile, and more than q mile of
lode has not yet been opened.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
Paper for Building.

In the rapid progress made by all
of our manufacturers, of late years.
the paper makers haye not been
idle. Not only have they perfected
numerous improvements in raw
materials aud methods of manufae-
turing, but they have also increas-
ed the varieties of the article, there
By adapting it to the number of
uses to which it never was put be-
fore. Among the new services that
paper is performing ID the, at first
sight, somewhat anomalous one, of
taking the place of lumber in struc-
lures of all sorts. For this purpose
paper is especially prepsred-and,
what is of moro importance, it has
satisfactorily stood the test of actu-
al use answering the purposes in
tended so thoroughly and well, that
q mill has been erected by stock
company in: Wisconsin, where
sixteen tons of building paper are
made every day, orders pouring in
faster than they can be filled
Building paper is thick and in
durate pastebeard, turned out in
sheets thirty-two inches wide, and
Is divided, for transportation, into
rolls of varying sizes, weighin g
from twenty-five TO one hundre d
pounds. While running through
the machines whereon it is made, it
is subjected to pressure of sever
al hundreds of tons to the square
foot. This process YIELDS the flores
into homogeneous mass, perfectly
air-proof. When dry and ready
for use, this paper is superior to
wood for building purposes, being
one of the worst conductors of
heat and cold extant. A house con-
structed of this material is cool In
summer and readily heated in win
ter; neither does it shrink or warp
as wood does, aud requires no sea-
soning save the drying it gets at
the mill; neither does it burn as
readily as lumber does, and is quite
as impervious to water. Cheaper
than timber, and more easily trans
ported, it is rapidly coming into use
in the region where it is manufac-
tured. AS the superior qualities of
building paper comes to be more
generally known, the area for its
consumption must expand and
more mills foc its production be
erected.
If paper makes desirable and
cheap floors, roofs, window shut
ters, and weather bsardings for
houses, there is no reason why it
should not furnish the materials for
chairs and tables, bedsteads and bu-
reaus. In short, if paper houses,
why not also paper furniture? II
anything, paper would serve even
better in the latter capacity than in
in the former; there would be no
exposure to the Vicissitudes of the
weather, and no such rough usage
as floors are of necessity subjected
to- Protean paper, In these new
forms, cannot fail to save our for
ests, the rapid destruction of which
so many men of science are lament
ing as an injury to the health of
onr climate; and also quiet the
fears of the Over-apprehensiye peo-
pie who have for years been won
dering what would become of
mankind when all the wood was
used up.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
A Gigantic Model Dairy.
From the London Court Circular.
IT, Ell nR IT,


The food supply of the metro
polls has long engrossed a large
share of public attention, and
upon the purity of the articles
supplied depends in a great meas
ure the health and happiness of
it's Inhabitants. Some ten years
since the design was introduced
of supplying the dwellers in the
great city with milk and other
dairy produce which, for general
excellence, could not be surpassed.
Like most good works, these land
able efforts were at first in a great
measure abortive, but by dint of
perseverance and good manage
ment. the Aylesbury Dairy comp
any mas assumed an Importance
far exceeding even the most san
guine expectations of its origina-
tors, and may fairly be designat-
ed one of the most useful and
prosperous corporations now in
operation. To give some idea of
the gigantic nature OF the bust
ness so successfully developed by
the company, we may state they
daily supply some 5000 families
with milk, which is guaranteed, so
far as human care and judgment
can ensure it, to be not only of the
purest description. but obtained
from perfectly healthy sources.
Upwards of $4,000 gallons of milk
are dealt with every week, being
the produce of nearly so farms in
some of the best of our dairy
counties. To carry on this enor-
nous trade the company have in
addition to their town premises
in st. Petersburg place. Bayswater,
a large factory at Swindon and
a dairy at Bouton, where all the
surplus milk is converted into
cheese. With admirable sources
of supply it is not a matter of
surprise that the business has
rapidly extended, aud that so
successful a commercial result
has been achieved. The Ayles-
bury Dairy Company can take
into their Swindon factory 5000
gallons of milk daily, which they
hold, as it were in reserve. In
the Summer time, when the fash
ionable world is seeking recrea-
tion in garden parties, and when
the strawberries and cream and
other such-like seasonable deli
cacies are in request, the comp
any is in position to meet any
sudden demand. They possess
every modern appliance suitable
for the dairy, and have the power
of settling 1900 gallons of milk
in 800 square feet of milk-pans--
the product from which In 10
hours time would be a large
quantity of cream. The cream
is daily sent to London, and after
orders are executed the surplus
is made into butter, the excellence
of which is such that the demand
exceeds the supply.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
SErEnEency Of the Maine LIg-
ar Law

The amendment to the Maine liQ-
uor law just passed by the legisla-
ture, which includes native wine
and cider when used for tipping
purposes among the list of intoxI-
April. Under the law the manUfac-
ture of all Intoxicating liquors is
prohibited except cider, and heavy
penalties are imposed for convic-
lions under the search and seizure
clause. For the first conviction any
person who sells any Intoxicating
liquor manufactured by him in this
State, except cider, is liable to a
punishment of two months in the
county Jail and fine of $1,000. A
penalty of one hundred dollars is
imposed on any magistrate Or coun-
ty attorney who in preparing COM
plants, warrants or indictments,
knowingly negiects or refuses to
allege previous conviction. The
law as now amended does not ex-
cept sacramentai wine used by
some churches, which contains q
large percentage of alcohol. The
exclusion of such will bring into
general use the unfermented juice
of the grape for sacramental pur-
poses, q domestic fluid that many
churches nave used for some time
past.
The new law will be the means
of banishing from the market all
native wines which have been ex.
tensiveiy sold for few years past,
one Portland manufacturer doing
large business in this line, and
who has now on hand some ten
thousand gallons ar more, it is rep
resented. 1t will also be the means
of closing up brewery in that city
which has been doing q large bust
ness. There is diversity of opip-
ion as to what effect the law will
have on political parties at the next
State election. The Democratic
leaders feel sure that it will inure
TO their benefit, while the temper
ance Republicans feel as equally
sure that the law will meet with
the appreciation of the great ma.
jority of the people, and will not
cost the Republican party single
vote, in spite of the fears of some
that it will be the heaviest load the
party ever carried in this State
Bangor Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
p1axI.n. of observation-disclosures.

He who lives without folly is not so
wise as he thinks.
1t requires greater virtue to sustain
good fortune than bad.
There is no man clever enough to
know all the evil whic b he does.
1t is much easier to limit ones graft
tude than ones hopes and desires.
Many complain of their memory,
but none complain of their judgment.
tits not so dangerous to doeVil to
most men as TO do them too much
good.
In the adversely of our best friends
we always find something that does
not displease us.
The surest way of being deceived
is think yourself cleverer and more
cunning than anybody else.
People are never made so ridiculous
by the qualities they possess as by
those which they affect to have.
If we had no faults ourselves, we
should not have so much pleasure in
discovering the faults of others.
That which often prevents us from
abandoning ourselves 10 single vice,
is the fact that we have several.
The evils which we do does not draw
upon US SO many prosecutions and SO
much hatred as our good qualities.
Among the mass of mankind graft
tude is nothing but a strong and Sc
cret desire for still greater benefits.
Our repentance is not so much a re-
greet for the evil we have done as q
fear of what may be the consequences.
Old men delight in uttering good
precepts-to console themselves for
being no longer ia condition to set
bad examples.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13

---v blazer AADles. "A
Th.- exportation of fresh beef To-
T. glsBsi IL com paratIveIy new
radr. II averages at present one
undfed aud fifty carcasses day,
I epre-snfiug money value of be-
ern SII,UO0 and $4,000, Is rapid
ny grow wing, and far surpasses the
most sang neutrality-suspicious. OF those
who first initiated the movement.
The markets. OF Londan, Hanches-
Ter, Birmingham, and Sheffield are
now regularly supplied with Amer
lean meat at Sd. (sbout 16s.) per
pound, while English beet. costs
from 10d. to one shilling John
Bull is deIfg hted with the new sys-
tenn which cheapens the roast beef
of old England to the extent of
twenty-five per cent. His only fear
at present seems to be that IL is too
good to last, that with the constantly
and largely increasing demand the
supply will give out. He need have
no nneasiness on this score. Prac-
Ideally the supply is inexhaustible.
At present only the very clOicest
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Mis-
souri, cattle are used for export, but
=
on the prairies of the west and the
plains OF Texas. The possibilities
OF the district between the Missis.
sippi and the Rocky Mountains as
grazing and stock raising country
can hardly be computed, while the
actual cost of raising cattle is almost
nominal, the only expense during
nine months of the year being the
outlay of herdiDg and an annual
branding. th& @}E,2at
The English grazier pays, to start
from the beginHinR, at the rate of
$50 per acre per annum for pastur-
age, while hay, oats, barley, and all
kinds of fodder ate are dearer there
than here. Under these conditions
Tit becomes possible toIsend Ameri-
can beef distance of three thous-
and miles and retail it to the Eng.
lish consumers at twenty-five per
cent less than the native. Arrange
ments are now being perfected to
largely increase this branch of Que
export trade. So far the pioneers
in the movement had much to con-,
tend with in the way of imperfect
charges and high charges-natural-
ly incidental to The establishment of
an entirely new industry. A healthy
competition is likely to decrease
the cost of transportation and en-
large the vOlEme of exports. New
outlets for American beef will be
found at all the great centres of
European population. within twelve
hours of continental seaports by
rail. Masses of people abroad who
heretofore have been unable to pro-
vide themselves with meat as q daily
article of food will hail this new
American industry as a blessing.
Boats are in the future to be built
with a special view of accommodat-
ing this growing trade, which prom
ises TO be source of great wealth
to the country. 1t is believed that
Europe will take within a few years
all the fresh beef we can furnish at
sixteen cents per pound.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
aHanuEactOrIes and AgrIc1I-
l5Ire.

Few are really aware Of the
wonderful resources of. the United
States in the two items of the rails
ing of agricultural products and
the manufacturs Of ALI articles of
trade aid commerce. The histo
ry of our growth in this respect Is
almost incredible. A century has
witnessed the most remarkable
changes. A small grist or saw
mill upon some eligible stream, an
occasional furnace, the hand loom
and the spinning wheel, constitu-
ted the simple beginning. The
number of manufacturing establish
ments now existing are 100000,
employing 100000 horse power
aud 9, 25e, 900 hands. The amount
of capital embarked is 50, 100000,
600; the annual wages paid are
$500, 100000; the annual products
are valued at 81, 800, 200, 900.
There is scarcely a commodity
that is not manufactured in our
midst and by machinery of Yankee
invention; all of which finds ready
sale in every market and compete
successfully, in price and quality,
with foreign goods. Our agricuE
tural growth has been quite as re-
markable. We can say of our
selves what Germany, England
and France cannot. We feed our.
selves and have more of the cereal
products TO sell than. any other
country in the world. The inn
proved farm land of the country
equals 100000, 600 acres, while
a, 100000 acres more are annually
redeemed from wilderness and
subjected to agricultural purpose.
The cash value of these farms is
over SIC, OO0, O0O, 900, and the value
of all farm products approximates
s., 900, 100000. We raise SOC, 000,-
1000 bushels of corn. and 200, 000,-
600 of wheat. The value of all
our cereals amounts to the sum of
| 81, $50, O0O, coo. -
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
Ola FnnnIe..

A very searching investigation was
carried on few years ago in the North
of England by two families who were
searching up their respective ancestry.
The strife was great between them,
each determining to lock into antiqui-
ty further than the other. One of the
families, whose name was Spencer,
employed an artist to paint an historic
scene, representing the building of
the ark and the loading up of the ship
by Noah and his sons with its multi
farlous and various cargo. On the
gang plank leading to the deck of the
ark two men were seen rolling up a
large box, on one side of which was
painted in large letters, s'RelIcs, insig-
mia, and papers belonging TO the Spen-
Ger family" This was considered
coup d'etat hard to beat; but the other
family. determined not Co be outdone
in the antediluvian pretences of their
name, prepared at great cost and re-
search record of their antiquity.
In describing the exploits of enc of
their ancestors at a very early day,
who was represented as man of some
authority, this remarkable passage
occurred: "During this year Adam
and Eve were driven out OF Paradise"
Rural New Yorker.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
GENERAL Nofaa.

The Boston Advertiser says that
Rev. Robert Laird Collier is a candi-
date for the Swiss mission.
The Democrats of Chicago nomi-
mated for city officials As Irish
men, 13 Germans, and 10 Americans.
A Topeka woman recently knock
ed down three BURGLARS, one after
another, her husband meanwhile adj
miring her from the top of the attic
stairs.
The custom of serving dinners TO
the moarners at funerals still prevails
in portions of Lebanon county, Penn.
On one occasion lately nearly 500
persons partook.
Ingenious persons were selling eggs
at 81 so per dozen the other day in
Portland, Me-, when the suspicious
police seized their stock, an discover
ed that the shells had been filled
with a choice article OF whisky.
A pointer dog jumped from the
tower of q hotel in Galveston, Tex
as, 20 the ground, s distance of loo
feet, the other day. He lay stunned
for some minutes, then got M,
shook himself, trotted of, apparent
ly none the worse for his venture.
Ii ever household affections and
loves are graceful things, they are
graceful in the poor The ties that
bind the wealthy and the proud to
home may be forged on earth, but
those that link the poor man to his
humble hearth are of the pure met
al and bear the stamp of heaven
Dickens.
A San Francisco man, said to
be worth a quarter of million
dollars and having no family but
his wife, has been sued for the
support of his father, who is old,
feeble, and destitute, as well as
sober, industrious, and willing
to work when able to do so.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
The SVvedenbOrgIan Belief of
Heaven.

The New York Sun says: The
Rev. E. r. Reyes preached to the
Gospel number of twelve persons
in the Swedenborgian Church, at
Communipaw and Crescent Ave
nues, Jersey City, yesterday.
"Rome," he said, "never twined a
wreath of celestial flowers for Hy-
mems brow, never chanted heav-
emily epithalanium, never over
Swallowed the nuptial conch with
reverent wings, never diffused q
sanctlfying power to exercise the
Genii who invade and Gesecrate
its mysteries. It leaves the sweet
est of all human affections in the
grave, where the body perishes,
and inscfIbes the sentence of ever
lasting oblivion upon It's mute re-
mains. Professionalism is corpo-
real. Hymen is not represented
by it with winged cherubs or
hylnning seraphs, but with beasts
and creeping things. It marries
for time, it divorces for eternity.
It denounces as carnal the doc
trihe of union of two kindred chas
titles into one beatitude. It is no
church of God. 1t was LETT for
Swe1enberg and the new church
to announce the permanence of
the sexual character. Men and
women appear as men and women
in heaven. The same ineffable
felicity that exists among lovers
here will continue 10 exist in
heaven. Those who would unsex
the sexes at death have not duly
considered the sources of emo
bling enjoyment that are thus de-
MED them. People couldn't en-
dure existence in heaven with sex
abolished. AS well might we at
tempt to reproduce the sublime
strains of Mozart or Haydn or
Beethoven without the harmoni-
Gus blending Of bass and soprano
and tenor and contralto, or seek
to bring forth from the earth she
green grass. the blushing flower,
or the fruitful tree without the ge-
NAL showers and the fructlfying
light and neat of the sun"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13

The Colorado potato beetle, or
potato bug, as we generally call it,
mas at last found its match in the
shape of a mite parasite. Prof
Riley. at meeting of the St. Louis
Academy of Science, exhibited q
potato bug which was so complete
Iy covered with q mite parasite that
the point Of needle could not be
placed on any part of the beetles
body without touching one Of the
parasites. He estimated the num-
Der of mites at 800. The bug had
been attacked by these enemies and
killed. The potato bug seems TO
have q number of natural enemies,
such as the toad, the crow, the rose
breasted grossbeak and domestic
fowls. There are no less than TWEEN
ty-three insect enemies that attack
and kill it. The bug has also been
migrating eastward across the con-
tineRt for several years, until It has
now reached the Atlantic ocean.
We hope it may ind watery grave,
and let the waves sing its requiem.
Rocky Mountain News.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
An OLD HAN who HAS
Seen life

The DAYTON soldiers home has an
in innate with wonderful history in
William A. j. Mcclure, now in his
10th year. lie was born in New
Jersey, and from his 18th to Both
year was in the merchant service,
nearly every port in the
world. In 1904, he turned trapper
on the Ohio river, and finally enlis-
ted in the army, being captured at
Hulfs surrender and taken to Dart
moor prison, but was freed in time
to fight at Lundy's lane, under Gen.
Scott, and got seven wounds.
When IA, he saved a woman from
drowning at Charleston, s. c., and
married her, but she died at New
Orleans, three years after, when he
served as scout for Gen. jackson in
Florida. Then he went to sea
again, was wrecked in the Mediter-
ranean and, with seven others, was
captured aud enslaved by the Arabs,
but was bought and freed by the
American counsel. Byron died
abOHrthis time, and the rowing to-be
centeparian entered the Greek SER
vice, after little as marine under
AOhAAto al ASONSSASS SOLVCO IA tAC
Seminole war, then in the Mexican
war under Rodgers, going to sea
again was wrecked in the Albion on
the Irish coast, and was one of the
nine saved from that Inflated crew.
He naturally tired of the sea, went
west, aud was, for many years, mail
carrier between Cincinnati and Lex
ington, Ky, narrowly escaping
death from cholers. For the past
20 years he has lived in Missouri,
where he married three more wives,
having % children, only three OF
whom survive. His last wife, who
was go years his junior, died in
1871, aged 40. The old gentleman
Is still active, and talks of going
back to Missouri, in the summer,
in skiff. He has been at Dayton
since October, an5 the officers be.
lieve the strange story Of his wan
behring's, as papers at Washington
authenticate his age and American
service
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-04-13
OMAN"

Like as the damask rose YOU see,
OR like blossom on = tree,
Or like the dainty flower in May.
Or ike the morning to the day.
Or like the sun, or Ike the shade,
or like the gouri which Jesus had;
Even such is man, Wnese threa is spun,
Drawn out and out, and so is done.
The rose Withers, the blossoms blasteth,
The flower fades, the morning hasteth,
The sun sets, the shadow dies.
The gourd consumes, the man he dies.
Like to the grass that's newly sprung.
Or like a tale that's new begun.
Or like the bird that's here to-day.
Or like the pearled deyE in May,
Or like an hour, or like a span,
Or like the singing of a swan;
Even such Is man, who lives by breath,
Is here. now there, in life and death.
The grass withers. the tale is ended,
The bird is flown the dew'S assembled,
The hour Is short, the span not long.
The swans near death, mans life is done
Like the bubble in the brook.
Or in d glass much like look,
Or ike the shuttle in weavef,S han 1,
Or like the writing on the sand,
Or ike thought, or like dream,
Or Ike the gliding of the stream;
Even such is man, who lives by breath.
Is here, now there, in life and death.
The bubbles ont, the looks forgot,
The shuttte's hung, the writings blot,
The thought is past, the dream is gone,
The waters glide, mans life is done.
Like to an arrow from the bow,
Or like swift course of water flow.
Or Ike that time 'twiXt flood and ebb,
Or like the spiders tender web.
Or like Iaces or like goal,
Or like the dealing of . dole,
Even such Is man. whose brittle state
Is always subject unto fate.
The arrow shot, the flood soon spent.
The time no time, the web SOON rent,
The race soon run. the goal soon won.
The dole soon dealt, mans life soon done.
Like to the lightning from the sky,
Or Ike a post that quick doth HE,
Or like qeayer in a song,
Or like a Journey three days long.
Or ike the snow when summers come.
Or like the pear, or lik e the plum;
Even such IS man, who h caps up sorrow,
Lives but this day, and dies TO- morrow.
The lightning's past, the post must go,
The song is short. the journey So
The pear doth rot. the plum doth fall,
The snow dissolves. and SO must all.