The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-11-30


Their surname was Pritchard;
They lived without strife;
And the reason was plain
They abOunded 10 riches,
They no care had nor pain,
And the wife wore the Dreeches.
An old fashioned watering place
A pump.
Better to have loved q short girl than
never to have loved tall.
Striped stockings do not come as
high as last season-in price, we mean.
The song Of the widow: sWhat is
home without another %
Do not find fault with-a boy because
he throws stones at bird. He never
hits bird.
| What must be q potato bugs opin-
ion of the humanity that goes around
| putting poison on the Victuals of hum
BILE insects?
] Judging from the divorce stories
told before our courts, there is too
much birthstone In the matches. Z
Little things should not be despised.
The little toe is the smallest on the foot,
but 1t always has the largest corn.
fla man reap whatsoever he s0weth,
what a harvest of coats and breeches
the tailOrs will have one of these days.
avoid that which you blame others
for DOING says one of our wise men,
EWen, things have come Co pretty
pass il man can't kiss his own wife.
Speaking of dancing, a clergyman
hits the nail on the head with the re-
mark that people usuaily do more
harm with their tongues than with
their toes
Rufus Choate once said when he had
been on the hhine two days he knew
the river perfectly; couldn't have
known iG better il he had been drowned
in it.
AecordiRg 10 Truth, the wife of a
gallant Colonel and N. p, being told
by her husband that he would bring
her home sDombey q Son., ordered
beds to be made mp for them.
At a social gathering few days
since, the following toast was propos-
ed and drank: SIN ascending the hill OF
propriety may we never meet a FRIEND
1 An Indian said, when he frat heard
it, he was much surprised that the
] white men killed their Saviour, but
they didn't steal his clothes.
Out of one hundred men you run
against, you will find ninety.nine wor-
rying themselves into low spirits and
indigestion about troubles that WI
never come. & ga 81 - s.
Put that idea Of knowing all things
in heaven and earth out of your heads
It Is very little that we can ever know
Ieither OF the ways of Providence OF
the laws of existence.
A man in Weston, Missouri, fired in
the dark at man who was stealing his
corn, and the next day the county
sheriff was around with his arm in 8
sling. 90 fs-s
1t is said that nature intended thai
persons should sleep with their feet @
1.-THE equator. But when your wiz
comes back from starting the fire o.
December morning and deposits her
cold feet against your equator, doesna
1t seem as though the intention of ma,
ture in this respect must have beer
uninterrupted?
The late Mr.. Hart, the sculptor, de
voted himself many years to his stain,
: Of the ideal woman. One day an 40
quaintance In Italy spoke to him of tn,
long time he had given 20 the work
'Well,' said he smilingly, since is tax
nature eighteen years TO make bean
tifnla woman, why should finish m,
, work more quickly p
Mrs Barry Is q very religious lady
: Last Thursday night, as she was saw
| ing her prayers, Peter, who lie of
? sportive nature, pulled the chair OF
which she was leaning from under he
inst as she was saying, God bless littl
Sarah, and little George, and Pc
Then she wiped her nose on the floor
then she fired the Bible, and The Pow
er OF Religion, and stVFtnnowe.
Hymns" at Peter and chased him on
l doors, and Peter had 70 stay there al
t night with nothing around him but
young shirt and the front stoop.