The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-12-28
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Hayes should take one of the New
York Herald's staff into the cabinet.
They are the b'ys to give advice
Cour. Journal. Htnff anti
Twenty shares of stock In the Balti-
inally $50 each, were sold by auction
at 30 for the lot.
The total valuation of property In
New Orleans this year is Sill ,l15, 395,
a falling OF of nearly q million from
last years assessment.
The prolonged depression Of business
at Chicopee, Massachusetts, has had
the effects of driving away one-halt OF
the industrious French population.
There is an iron safe In Cincinnati
which lay for six years on the bottom
OF Lake Eriewitll $4,000 in It. Il
was got by diving bell process, and
now serves its purpose in an express
Office. rsFrt rrr rfsvr
Dutch doctors maintain that people
would live Ii niger, If they did not ex-
pectorate so much. This is claimed 70
be merely a repetition OF the great dis
covery OF BOerhave in-regard to diges-
ton. s Aa -
The Mayor of Covington, KY, for
mally recommends an allowance of
500 to George Hinkin's wife, for hav-
ing three children &t q birth. The
Council voted her 50 per week until fur
Their ordered. i
John Bright said lately that 'sYou
might as well ask the spider to give up
weaving his web, or to destroy that he
had woven, as TO ask the great body of
lawyers to consent to simplification
and publication of the law"
Compile lead no newspaper during
the last ID years of his life. "Living At
Paris" said he to friend, s'and seeing
so many people as do, hear every
thing that occurs" Journalism, he
added, would some day be driven out
of the field by placards posted on the
wall. He argued that reading inIerfeH-
ed with thinking.
Capt. James B. Eads, the successful
engineer whose genius has overcome
| the natural barrier 20 commerce at the
mouth of the Mississippi, does not car
ry the complexlty of science into his
social relations. He is q most enter
tanning talker, crammed with curious
and entertaining knowledge and deep
ly and curiously az Jdft Of she English
| poets.
i Gay Ou GuO new
York custom house state that we lose
| 20 per cent. of our customs revenue In
ITS collection, and that the cost of col
lecting customs in the United States Il
about oRe-third more than the cost Of
| the same In any European nation. II
ought 20 be easily possible "a make "a
decided Improvement in both these
respects.
Thirty years ago q woman in Full
louisville, N. ", put SIT away think
| ing it might be needed some day when
old age made It necessary for her tC
cease work. A few days ago she took
the money from its hiding place In the
toe of an old stocking and started oHt
/ TO make some purchasrs, but not one
/ cents worth could she get her money
was worthless. The banks had either
failed or been wound up, and the cur
rency was irredeemahle.
Gen. John B. Hood, the ex-confeder-
ate, has been sojonrning for q few days
| in Richmond, Va He believes that
the Mississippi jetties VIII open q
bright future for the city Of New Or
leans, 10 which he will carry back one
Of the Moffett liquor punches now In
use in Richmond, and will recommend
its adoption. The general, who travels
i with his family, Is accompanied By
three pairs of twins, three other child
rem, his wife and four nurses.
A traveller In Texas reports q new
decree of table etiquette. He discover
ed q few blonde hairs in the soup, and
he thought the Landlord would feel We
ry bad about IL, but that gentleman
merely remarked as he exeaYated q
perishing ny from. the butter: stAll,I
ask Is, Judge, that you don't fish 'em
cut with your finger. You have got C
use fork. It is one of the rules oil
the house that no geutleman.is expect-
ed q put his fieAsss In <thS1Vistles.
This amt no railroad town, but when
It. comes TO style and tone we carry
i off the blue ribbon every time the horn