The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-09-07
People and Things.

When Tartar meets Turk.
With their mutual feroclties, ~
Then--hoFrible work. ~ Fl
Comes the tug Of atrocities.
Indians never kiss each other,
and having seen few Indians, we
can't blame them. a
AN old negro cook says: "Sass
is powerful good in everything
but children. Dey needs some
oder kind of dressin."
The Free Press assumes that
serenades to public men not only
show that the man is appreciated,
but prove that he furnishes the
cash to pay the band.
b. F. Butler is credited with
aspirations for the nomination for
the Presidency by the new work
ingmen's party, which he hopes
to aid in building up before 1880.
It is said that not single mem
Der of the American Rifle Team
has black eyes. This fact gives
support to the theory that light
eyes are the best for long-range
vision.
Tommy-Gie us a bite oyer
apple, Billy.
Future Diplomatist-Can't do
that, Tommy. Don't yer see this
ere apples only a puddin apple
and I wouldn't like to give a friend
a bite of q puddin appIe.-Bazar.
Times are so hard that gentle
men with large. families scatter
the girls around different summer
resorts, so that after having worn
all fheir dresses once they can ex-
cewnge buds by express, and thus
keep up appearances.
In private Mark Twain is fall
of jests, keeping them up even at
his domestic hearth. His wife
asked him one day, when he was
fondling his first born, "Yoa do
love the little thing, do you not,
Samuel?''. 81 can't say / love it,
but I respect it sincerely for its
noble fathers sake"
Mr.. Gideon Palmer of New
brunswick, who has never had less
than six ships engaged in foreign
voyages during the past twenty
years, has never insured them, and
never lost q vessel. He has al
was built them, and his custom
has been to sell those which we're
getting old, and replace them with
new ones.
Mr.. william Beach Lawrence
gave q dinner to General McClel-
Ian at Newport last week, and
among the guests were George H.
Pendlet and his, wife. Although
Mcclellan and Pendleton ran for
President and Vice President
together in 1864, they had previ.
Onsly met but once, and their wives
had never seen each other before,
More haste, less sense. Edwin
hurriedly }, as he starts for town
Look here, dear, I must get the
Imawn lowed. Angelina You
mean - Edwin - OF course, oil
lc6urse-this Town mswed. Ange-
llina-Oh, you silly thingP Edwin
well, my dear, you see what .
hurry I'm in. OF course, when
lsay mown Town, / mean lawed
mawed. Confound it! Exit,
L A lady farmer in Arkansas says
she has increased the flow of mill
from her cows fully one third By
tgiving them tepid water, twice /
iday with 8 handful of salt in it
In er1er to make it palatable she
puts bran in it. Bran and sal
moistened with tepid water anC
| fed to COWS twice . day, is said to
cause permanent increase of the
milk.
i A Califcrnia paper describes
sthe latest thing OUT as . nev
horse. shoe made out of tire,
thicknesses of rawhide, compress
] ed together by heavy pressure
It is said to last longer, weighl
!, only one-feurth as much as tn,
common shoe, never splits th,
Ehoof, and has no bad influence OF
1.-THE foot. 1t is so elastic that tn,
horse's step is never uncertain
This viii remind the farmers VIII
I drove cattle and horses across tn
hplains in early days OF the fact
fnOwS almost forgotten. that thi
Is no new invention, for the cal
tile and horses too were ottel
Tshod with shoes made out of but
. falo hide, cut from the neck, WheT