The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-01-18
odds and Ends.

These vessels made of clay.
The song of the mortgaged church :
"Sound the loud Kimball."
We find self-made men very often,
but self unmade ones a good deal of
tenor.
The fashionable pancake should first
be rnff1ed and then tucked-into your
mouth.
s'Temple Bar torn DOWN. said he /;
$50 the crusade women are at work in
England"
The horn of the hunter is no longer
heard on the hill, 1t is carried in q
pocket flask.
A large number of fellows on the
Mexican border have needed whipping
for long time.
Most English special correspon-
dents at the seat of war receive from
$50 to SO a week.
A man was recently arrested in
Chicago for hitting another over the
head with Dutch cheese.
If DIR. Mary Walker should promise
TO marry man and didn't could he
sue her for breeches of promise?
After you have said a mean thing
you think about it and regret it; but
why didn't you think about it before
you said it.
A cave has been found in Wythe
county, Ly., which, it is thought, is as
large as the famous Mammoth Cave in
that State.
Judging from the numerous cases of
commissioning all over the country,
the dear-hunting season must have
fully set in.
The devil caused Eve to fall, and,
therefore, the devil was the first Eve
dropper. Is the question satisfactorily
answered?
There were, until last week, but
three nickle mines in the United States.
Professor E. l.. Bartlett has discover
ed nickle ore in Milan, n. h.
Turkish soldiers have recovered
from their wounds in q marvellous
manner in many instances, owing to
their strictly temperate lives.
The French authorities are going to
spend nearly $3,5O0,OOO in the i'm
provement of Boulogne barber which
is to be rendered capable of admitting
vessels at any state of the tide.
Queen Victoria is reported to be
better pleased with Lord Beaconsfield
than with any other Prime Minister
with whom she has had dealings.
Fewer railway and steamboat acct
dents have occurred in the United
States this year than in any previous
year since the introduction OF steam.
|
Moody has church in Chicago OF
which he is nomiRally pastor, and to
which he says he may, q few years
hence. entirely devote himself. The
house and ground cost $34 900, and are
entirely paid for.
DIR. Dyche Duckworth, the English
surgeon, says that alcohol is food, and
that beer is good for almost every body
to drink; but he advises that alcoholic
beverages be drank only at meals, and
never TO excess.
At Toronto last week two strangers
walked into the house of Mr.. Williams
an undertaken, on Gear street, sat doWI
and ate up the dinner prepared for the
inmates, whom they oVsrawed with re-
volvers and quietly departed.
Mr.. Scott Russell, the builder OF til,
Crystal Palace at Sydenham, has offer.
ed to convert the Coliseum at Rome in
to worlds fair building at the trif
ling expense Of stretching a Yelarinn
over the top and putting in new
benches.
Stage Manager Coe, of the LondoI
Haymarket Theatre obtained verdic
of $4,000 against Sothern, the actor
about year ago, for damage done by
a charge of selling positions In tn,
company. Sothern appealed, and tn,
verdict has now been confirmed.
The bank reward for the capture o
the Younger brothers has been award.
ed in equal sums to forty-one persons
who took up the chase the day aftel
the capture at Madelia. The State re
ward is to be distributed among ont
Thousand persons who participated In
the chase from first to last.
We are compelled to smoke as W,
walk the streets, and when we entel
the railroad depot. In travelling, IL W,
want sleeping car we pay extra fol
it. But who pays for the smoking car
The smoker must have his regular sea-
and the smoking car besides. We al
pay for it.-President Fairchild.
A countryman lately wrote TO .
friend in the metropolis, asking wha
kind of firm a certain house was
with which he had about decided Il
deal. The friend wrote back: sit L
guilt-edged," and somehow the coun.
tryman isn't quite satisfied that he haG
better trust any OF his gold there.
ssSad accident in st. Louis. While
young lady of that city was at worL
on one of the slippers intended as 6
Christmas present for her sdorer, thu
sea folding broke, precipitating he
violently to the ground, and the slip
per went down, crushing two her LITTLE
sisters, who CHANGED co be playing I'M
der it, to DEATH"
Elder Evans, of the Shakers, attri
butes TO the use of animal food tn,
thirst for intoxicating drinks. al hav,
found" he says, "by many years. ex
perience, that whenever get q mai
to abstain from the use of flesh meats
much salt, and other condiments, b
quite easily leaves ALCOHOL, tobacco ami
drugs."
For fourteen months dIphtheria ha
been raging furiously in Northwestern
Vermont, and the scourge shows N
signs of abating. About forty pc
cent. of the children in Burlington be
tween one year and twelve have haG
the disease in that time, and three an.
dertakers report 1913 burials where i
was the cause Of death.
The man who was hired to mind tn
door on New Years day at the nous
of certin popular minister, who re
ceived friends an day, happened TO b
by professions carpet cleaner. As tn
callers departed from the house, b.
handed TO each one Of them his bust
ness card. But the thrifty way il
which he made the most OF his oppor
tunity made disagreeahle impression
both on the callers and the clergyman
Here are some OF the diseases declar
. ed by candidates for employment il
the English postoffice 70 be prevalent
in their families: "Father had sun
strokes and caught &c from him. isis
/ ter died of compnIsIon y SHY it'll
: brother died of some funny name
A great white cat drawed my sister
breath, and she died Of it.D aAppeF
Iplexit7.n stauyFalgeF IN the head
|. / F.Shortness Of breadth .s4ndfeeetsol
/ OF the lungs s-Sisser was consumpt