The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-22
Odds and Ends.

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Odds and Ends.
Brown eyes hoods
Cover moods;
The eye of blue
Is firm and true;
Gray eyes ever dry,
Gray eyes ever sly;
But the black eye gIist'ning, cleaning.
Like Gods ways, hath deepest meaning.
Mardi Gras this year tails on March
fifth.
The flowing train supersedes the fan
train.
Four hundred and seventy -seven- en-
igrants have settled, in Tennessee during |
the past year, under the auspices of
the Bureau of Emigration.
A woman in Baltimore, sane in other
respects, believes that she is a prin- |
cess, and insists on wearing nothing |
but purple, even to her underclothing.
They've just held convention of
undertakers in Orange county. This is
tomb much.
By some unaccountable. mistake at
recent wedding at Williamsport, Pa,
the bridesmaid was married in place of
the intended bride:
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Mass. They enter a house unihVited,
inquire if the inmates love the Lord
Jesus, distribute a few tracts, ard
make themselves at home for an in6ef-
mite, period.
A clothier has excited public curios-
ity by having large apple painted on
his sign. When asked for an eXplana-
ton he inquired: ST it hadn't been
70 hn ~
made clothing stores be to-day?'
sWhat becomes OF all the stage debu-
tantes p inquiries the Brooklyn Eagle.
They skip off with the collegians, who
call around at the newspaper offices
after graduation and offer their services
as editor in chief tor $4,000 a year.
Boston Post.
A Connecticut tailor of 90 measured
a customer aged 80 for suit the other
day, while several other lively young
fellows of eighty odd stood around,
cracked jokes, and wondered what the
fashions in dress coats would be TWEEN
ty years hence.
Poor young thing! She tainted
away at the wash tub, and her pretty
nose went ker slop into the soap suds.
Some said it was oVer-work, but others
however, whispered that her beau had
peepod over the back fence, and called
out: "Hulloa, there, Bridget, is Miss
Alice at home?"
An elegantly dressed lady got into q
Madison street car, the other day, and,
although the weather was cool she
could not wear her gloves on account
of her many diamond rings. A balky
| horse having twice stopped the car,
the lady went to the door, and, looking
at the team for few moments, remark
ed to the driver, ''That ere off boss
amt use to be druv on that ere side.'-
N. Y. Mail.
The other Sunday bright little girl
of three years attended service at an
Episcopal church where the rector was
one of her particular friends. She OBJ
iected to her mother making the respon-
SEES, saying, Don't speak, mama; don't
say anything. Uncle John isn't talk
ing to you Boston Transcript.
In Rutland, VT, the Congregation
aiists refuse to partake of the holy sa-
crament from the same cup with their
colored brothers and sisters. One cup
was passed around to 101 white mes
! and women, one of whom sat in the
pew with the four colored persons, and
then another cup-a pewter one-was
served to the two men of African de-
scent.
Mr.. Webster's famous recipe fol
making punch was as follows: EFouI
pounds lump sugar; one pint strong
green tea one dozen lemons, the pee
Icut of in small bits, and the juict
Isqueezed out; one ounce of mace; two
bottles Of cognac brandy, six bottles o.
champagne, and eight bottles of claret.
1 rHhfo ffilod N lama hnVzl Nvhiah afnnf
lon Mr.. Webster's side-board, in Wash.
lingtOn, and was never empty during
Christmas week.
The Carthage Republican remarks
Observation is a good teacher. Watcl
q young man of average industrious
habits, and you will find that he un
Iderstands when the hour of twelve o.
six comes to the half second, but pu
. the same individual of an evening
alone, in a pleasant heated front par
lor, with a pretty girl. and he won
have the least IDEA it's nearly 2 a. N
until he hears the roosters Growing.
, In 1853 James Hammond, of New
York, and Harriet Marshall, of Penn
, lsYlvania, were engaged TO be married
, Hammond, to retrieve his fallen tor
tunes, descended to forgery and swind
ling, was arrested, convicted, and sen
, to the penitentiary. He served on
his time, emigrated to California
changed his manner of living, and
. few days ago was married 70 his sweet
heart of twenty years ago. This is tn
! story ssin . nut shell of q woman's pa
} thence and womsn's love"
; Thew were taking evidence the 9th
. er day in a divorce case on the grounI
of cruelty. The husband was under ex
2 animation, and his wife, FRUSTRATED wit
grief, was weeping bitterly, covering
| her face with her handkerchief. Now
} says the Judge, sare you not ashame'
TO have thus brutality treated your wife
: q tender young woman of twenty-five
j The wife suddenly raised her head
/ III beg your PARDON she .sobbed, ttwen
j ty-four only and she again gave wal
D 70 her grief.
Mary E. Foster of Clinton, Iowa, ha
! had a case decided in hsr favor b.
> she Supreme Court of Iowa. The cas-
v was q liquor ease, in which Hrs. FOe
. ter fought the saloon keepers. Sh
: took the position that, under the liqso
: laws of Iowa, the saloon keepers nai
no right of replevin of liquor seized b
: virtue of search warrant. The lowe
: courts decided that she WAS right; I'll
saloon keepers appealed the case, an
: the Supreme Court reafirmed the d.
t cision of the lower courts. In appeal
Il ance Hrs. Foster is q handsome, ell
. IRsnEly dressed woman Of middle az
). win. a fresh Complexion, and snow
Whska hair arranged ia Duzfs.