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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01


The two cent pieces were abolished
five years ago.
Less than SIC, 600 of one cent pieces
were coined last year.
No ives or threes (nickeD were coin
ed last year for circulation.
The old fashioned silver dollar has
not been made for five years.
Silver is purchased at the mint to a
limited extent. It is paid for in gold.
Nickel and bronze coins are only
made in the United States mint in
Philadelphia.
The Eastern, Middle and Western
States take most of the nickel and
bronze coins.
Double eagles are being made for the
repositories because they are more
salabie.
No silver is coiHed In subsidiary coin
for depOsitors. The Government coins
tor itself alone.
In the South the people are now u.s.
ing one cent pieces and three and fives
very extensively.
Five times as many five cent pieces
as ones are sent away, and five times
as many ones as Ehrees.
There is no coinage charged on gold.
The only charge is tor parting, refining
and toughening.
No silver is exchanged for notes at
the mint. This is done by transfers
which comes through Washington.
Two weeks ago nearly $500, 900 in
gold dollars were made tor the SUBJ
treasury department of New York.
There are lying in the repositories
aud vaults of the sub-treasury of New
York nearly $500, 900 In five-cent nick
ell pieces.
Five cent pieces are circulated con-
siderably in New Orleans. Pennies
were recently sent TO the city, which
were the first ever called for.
A large number of early orders for
small coins came from the Southeast.
Recent orders are chiefly from this
section of the country.
A large amount of the S3S, 600, 600 in
small coins circulated within the ear
were manufactured during the same
period, and consequently the coins are
new.
The Government has issued over
$4,000 900 of small silver coins since
the redemption of fractional CURRENCY
began, and the market is fairly glutted
with them.
The demand for one cent pieces has
increased within the last three or four
months, and the demand for fives has
decreased. This is due to the issue OF
SO many dimes.
In brisk times the mint pays out
from $4,000 to 5000 a day for the ac-
commodaGion of people making change
and for shipment through the country
No trade dollars have been made this
year. Several millions were coined in
1877. Their coinage was suspended il
December. They were only coined tC
a limited extent for circulation.
Nickel and bronze are kept at PAL
by redeeming them in green backs.
They are deposited in the mint in sums
of not less than 800, receipted for, anG
checks sent to the deposition.
No silver five cent pieces have been
coined for five years. In fact they
have been abolished, as well as the sill.
yer three cent pieces. The nicke
threes are still issued, although but few
are used.
From So, 900 Co $1o, 900 of eagles, hall
eagles, quarter eagles and So pieces
are made every year, in order to keeE
up the history of the coin. About g.,
600 of ones are made aunnually for the
same purpose.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
=. SNAKE CHARN1ER.
SnaIEsh, an AbyssinHan Girl,
Exhibiting at the West
Minister Aquarium.
From the London Morning Post.

From the London Morning Post.
Some new features have just been
added to the attractions of the Roy
al Aquarium at Westminster, which
are likely to prove interesting to
the general public, and peculiarly
so to naturallsts. One is an exhi-
bition of the extraordinary power
which a female Abyssinian snake
charmer possesses over reptiles of
the boa constructor class. We had
an opportunity yesterday of wit
Messing this performance, which
is unquestionably of a most singu-
lar and astonishing character. The
snake charming of Snalla differs in
some respects from that of the In
dian snake charmers who were
brought to Europe by DR.. Lynn. In
the latter case the Venomous cobra
was shown to be capable of control;
but in the present instance the SER
penis belong to the non-vonomous
class, which kill their prey by COM
preston. Snalla has brought with
her three small anacondas and
boa constructor; and Mr.. Farini, to
whose enterprise we owe this re-
markable exhibition, has added a
SPLENDID python from the south
west coast of Africa. Snslla is ap-
parently about twenty-eight or
thirty years of age, of a light
brown color, with somewhat pleas
ing features, and 1.-THE and grace
full form. Her power over the SER
penis seems to be complete. The
anacondas (Which must not be con-
founded with the gigantic South
American water snake, though they
are of same genus), allow her to
treat them with the utmost fsmil-
iarity. During the performance
she keeps up without intermission
a low monotonous chant, supposed
to be one of the means employed
Tor the charming of the reptiles,
and they appear to be most dOcile
and affectionate One will coil it.
self around her waist and the 9TH
ers around her arms. The immense
muscular power of these creatures
is shown when one of them, clutch
ing her wrist with it's tail, extends
it's body horizontally and without
apparent effort sways itself to and
fro or erects itself into a vertical
position. The boa is about ten feet
long, and is q very beautiful SER
pent. 1t is remarkably tame. 1t
curls itself around Snalla's waist,
and its forked tongue plays around
her head in q manner that would be
alarming if the performer did not
convince rs by her confidence that
no evil would result. The python
is recent purchase of Mr.. Farini's !;
it is, therefore, at present only un-
dergolng the tanning process yet
Spalla has in q few days got it un-
der such control that it will submit
to her manipulations, while it will
fly fiercely at stranger.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
A NeW strap Rail.

The L rail for railroad tracks,
which drove out the old strap iron
rail, may become in turn superseded
by the new strap rail, known as the
Angle rail, which has been for
eight months in use on the Boston,
Winthrop s. Point Sherley railroad,
and is highly endorsed by the off,
GERS of that road and by a large
number of other railroad officers
and engineers, as being the best as
well as the cheapest rail yet intro
duced. 1t is made in Boston. The
weight is twenty pounds per yard
For a narrow gauge road of mod
crate traffic, seyS6teeR pounds will
answer. For a standard guage
road, twenty-eight pounds per yard
rails take the place of ffty-six
pound T rails. The rails are made
of both iron and steel. A wooden
stringer 5x5 inches is used for
narrow gauge road, and 5x6 for
standard gauge. The makers claim
that:
On account of the elias ITCHY of
the stringers, the rails will not
crush out as with the L rails, and
will certainly outlast two T rails a
large saving is made in wear and
tear of the rolling stock; much
less number of section hands are
required to keep up the track; the
rails will not break from the action
of frost. II for any reason a rail
should become broken, the train
would not be thrown from the
track, as the wooden stringer would
sustain the train.
Many rolling mills in different
parts of the country are soon to
make these rails.
The wooden stringers will not
decay any sooner than an iron rail
will be worn out. The Angel rail
can be put down again on new
stringers.
The makers, the Railway Angle
. Iron Company, Boston, Mass, sent
us an illustrated circular of this
rail. 1t looks feasible, and in case
where the expense of the T rail is q
serious obstacle in building a road,
we should think the Angle rail
would be at least an excellent sub
stitute, and we expect to see it come
into pretty general use before many
wears.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
Lo.t kingdom.

Russians and Turks fill up 80 much
of the public eye just now that but
couple of lines of cable dispatches
were devoted on Wednesday last to
the ending of q war compared TO which,
in duration, ferocity and slaughter,
that in Europe has been but child's
play. Most readers, learning that
s'the Chinese had regained the Kha-
nate of Kashgar," had o vague idea
of some little barbarous province
where Sinbad, yoyagtng to the ends of
the earth, had found the roc's egg.
The fact is that the re-conquered dis
trict is about twice as large as Spain,
high table land, vast oasis, indeed,
between two deserts, webbed with Ca
mails with which it is irrigated cover
ed with orchards and corn fields, and
thickly settled with villages and mark
ct towns. Several of the cities have 8
population running up to 10000.
Kashgar, the capital, was a CONNER
cial center before the birth of our Lord,
and is market now for central Asia
for all kinds of fine goods, embroidered
stuffs, gold work, etc. The people are
well fed, well educated, (having sixty
endowed colleges in a single town.,
and as industrious as it is in the ORR
entail nature to be. In Yarkand, an
English explorer found, ten years
ago, goods from every country for sale,
and q large and thrifty population OF
merchants, skilled mechanics, etc.
After Genghis Khan died and his
kingdom fell into pieces. these districts
sQuabbled with each other as perpet-
ually as South American republics, but
| in 175S they voluntarily invited the
| Chinese to take control of them. Four
teen years ago, however, a Tartar
| Cromwell, Yacoub Beg, a chief from
the gold dist let of KhOkan, headed 8
revolt, drove out the Chinese, and was
made Khan or Ameer. He was I'M
doubtedly a man of unexceptional
shrewdness and business tact, as vel
as military skill. He governed the
people with an iron rod, but opened 6
trade with England through Calcutta
and promoted manufactures and indus
tries in his kingdom. The Chimes
have been striving to regain this los
province for twelve years with then
slow patience and indomitable perse
Verance. AS their troops had TO eros;
vast deserts, they literally planted ant
waited to reap the crops as they march
ed. Years passed while part of thu
army was in transit to the capital o
Kashgar. When they did reach tbs
fertile plains of the reVolted province
their attacks upon &c were merciless.
The soldier Khan, AmeeF Yacoub
died last June, and his son, Kuli, an eft
Terminate fellow, succeeded him, con
trary to the wish of his father, who haC
willed the scepter TO a man able TO de
fend it, a soldier like himself, and thu
descendant OF the old Tartar kings o
Kashgar. This chief, however, declin'
ed to take up a cause already lost. anC
Kuli suffered defeat after defeat froR
the Chinese, until he was forced to fly
into Russia, followed by thousands Of
his subjects. The Chinese, as ou
readers will have noticed, are slaugh
tering those who remain, $1,000 being
put to death in one town. The farm
lands and villages thus left desolatt
will doubtless soon be populated by th'
half starved hordes of Mongolia.-Nev
York Tribune.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
HIngularftres.

A woman in Fairfield, Me-, has a
growth of natural hair eight feet and
one inch long, and has refused, it is
said. $4,000 for it.
A tree telling machine has been in
vented in England by Mr.. Ransome,
which, worked by three men, will do as
much work as twenty-four workmen
telling by the axe.
sHow shall we utilize the Chinese p
asks the California press. We suppose
it never occurred to the Csiifornisns to
pctrify the Chinese and sell them for
tea store signs.
Truth lies at the bottom of a WELL
We have often verified this by looking
down into q well and seeing Truths
honest countenance in the smooth wa
ter.
If anything will make a man feel
like sleeping with some one else, 1t is
to have his wife roll over and jab q
frizziHg pin into his left eye.
A young lady in Winneconne, Wis,
refused an offer of marriage on the
ground that her father was not able to
support larger family.
A new way of fastening on ladies
hats Is to bore the top of their ears, put
in gold loops, and have the hat strings
tied through them.
Moody Is sick from overwork. News
paper men seem TO be about the only
persons who can stand unceasing COM
bat with the devil.
The Ann Arbor Argus says 'If you
want to see strange sight go up to
the physiological laboratory and ask
DIR. Stowell to show you his dog ALEX
is.' alexis has silver tube extend
ing from the outside of his body to the
inside of his stomach. The tube is
closed by a cork, and by removing this
cork the contents of the stomach can
be drawn away and examined at any
time. The dog Is fat and sleek, and
seems to appreciate his netoriety.'
OF all the domestic fowls the goose
Is the longest lived. One died 8 few
days ago, near Baltimore, that was
Matched in 1924, on the day that Fafay-
cite visited that city, aHd during the
flfty-three years of its lie its owner,
now living at an advanced age, be-
lieves that she has realized, from feaEh-
ers and goslings, between five and six
hundred dollars. Although this spec
linen was not the fowl that laid the
golden egg, she produced for her own
her weight In gold.
In Falls Co., Texas, Miss Moore
was preparing for marriage, and invit-
ed 3 friend, Miss Williams, to sssist
her. In rummaging through some
clothes, an cd pistol wss carelessly
handled by Miss W., resulting in the
shooting and instantaneous death OF
Miss Moore. She was buried on the
day that WAS 70 have been the nuptial
occasion, and the other young lady.
who was the innocent cause is fs, has
become deraBged.
During twelve years, Albert Meyne,
of Boston, paid the premiums on S25,-
600 of life Insurance This burden was
the cause Of his bankruptcy but he
struggled hard and made the payments
believing that By doing 80 he was Sc
curing his family agefnst poverty az
ter his death. Within sgo years one
after another Of the companies Ia
which he was insured, have gone 70
pieces, and when he died, several weeks /
ago, ali his policies were worthless. ]
His wife and children are penniisss.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
Sense amdCenas

Organs of the gold monopolists are
fond of repeating the foolish statement
that-the friends of the silver bill desire
to make ninety-two cents pass current
for one dollar. ga true dollar consists
of 100 ceRts-n0thing more, nothing
less" says gold organ. Let as admit
the truth of the latter proposition. But
let us also answer the question: What
Is q cent? Ualess we can answer this
correctly, to say that true dollar con-
sists of 100 cents doesn't help I'D in the
least in determining what a true dol
lar is or should be. A cent is not
thing of definite and interchangeable
value by any means. The metal
value of our bronze cent is a great deal
less than its value as coin and that
metal value is subject to changes like
the value of anything else. A cent is
simply the hundredth part of what
ever may be in general use as q dollar.
The greenback Is In general use as
dollar. The cent is now the hundredth
part of that. The greenback has rang
ed from 35 TO 9718 since the summer of
1852, and all the while the cent has
been the hHndredth part of the green
back dollar. Itg value has varied with
that Of the greenback dollar from the
first. If the gold dollar were the dol
lar of general circulation the cent
would be the hundredth part of that.
If q dollar containing 371K grains of
fine silver were the dollar In general
use the cent would be the hundredth
part of that. If dollar based on the
subsidiary coin and containing 347.22
grains of fine silver were the dollar in
general use the cent would be hun
dredth part of that. And SO on in
definitely. And common sense teach
es the people that the silver dollar,
which consisted of 100 cents ten years
ago, consists of100 cents now, and that
such ::silver dollars are good enough for
the gamblers of Wall street, New
York, TO scramble for-Ss. Louis
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
VOLUME 21.

Hon. d. G. Haskell, of Kansas, in
his speech on the silver bill, in the
House, Feb. 8, said:
The Mint act of 1892 was the law
under which our coinage actually
began, and contained this provision {:
There shall be struck and coined from
time to time, at the said mint, dollars or
Units each TO be OF the value OF Spanish
miIled dollar as the same Is now current
and 10 contain 371Z grains OF pure or 4l6
grains OF standard silver.
BY this act the silver, not the gold
dollar, was made the monetary unit.
Primarily then when in q contract
the word f'dollar" was used it meant
the sSLUer dollar of 37l1S grains of
pure silver.
This act with reference to the sill
yer dollar remained in force until
1887, when its weight was reduced
to 4l215 grsins, and it's fneness was
increased. During all these years
from 1892 to 1887 silver circulated
to the almost entire exclusion Of
gold, for the reason that the gold
coins were worth more as bullion
than as coin, and consequently went
out of circulation into the melting
pot. In 1884 the gold eagle, which
by act OF 1892 had been made to
contain go grains with it's fineness
fixed at 9I64, was reduced to 25 8
grains in weight, and the fineness
was reduced to 500 225. The fine
ness was again changed in 1887 to
900, g parts pure gold to l part al
Ioy.) (See Money and Legal Ten
der, Linderman.) From this date
until 1873 the relative conditions of
gold and the silver dollar which had
existed from 1892 to 1887 were ex-
actly reversed; the silver dollar be-
came worth more as bullion than as
coin, and went out of circulation in
to the melting pot, the premium on
the silver dollar (measured gold)
about the date of its decentralization
being 103.1-2.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
Americas.
The mud holds out bravely.

The mud holds out bravely.
Last Friday was examination day in
the Americus schools.
The school lyceum proposes to give
an entertainment about the middle of
March.
Mr.. Whitney, of Illinois, purchased
the Curtis farm, north of town, and in
tends to make extensive and substan-
tial improvements.
Edward J. Griffin has established q
paint shop in the old drug store.
L. w. Sutton had his sign newly
painted, and it looks we'll. It is a large
one, AZ feet by %, and one-half long.
The sidewalk business is lively.
Last Friday night meeting was held
In the depot, which resulted In the ell
ectlon of N. Wise, President; E. B
Lesh, Secretary, and +. S. Domm,
Treasurer. As soon as the lumber can
be procured the work will be COM
menced.
Several parties from Aurora, IlllR-
OILS, have purchased land north Of town,
lately.
Friday, Feb. 18th some four young
boys took a box of tobacco of from
the depot platform and appropriated II
TO their own use. Their trial came of
on the 18th of last month. Also or
Monday, one of our town boys took uE
hand to thrash the teacher, J. Hill
with very uns satisfactory results to both
Boys, such work must stop. G. 8.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
Eagle Creek.

PERSONAL. Mr.. Thos. E. WEIGH,
has just returned from st. Louis,
where he went with two car loads of
fat hogs. The hogs were owned by
himself, Henry J. Stratton, David
Gard, James Doll and Allison Bay
singer. The prices obtained were
enough better than home prices, to
leave fair profit.
Mr.. Milo A. Tennis has got back
from Joplin, after a two weeks abb
sence, looking up his mining interests.
He reports business dull. wages low,
and mining Improbable, and will farm
In his'n- Mr.. Harvey link and fami-
ly returned from Indiana a few days
since, after = two months absence Wis
iting relatives. He reports having en-
joyed a pleasant visit, but is glad to
get home out of the mud.
Mr.. Cook, from Iowa, "a brother-in-
law of Mr.. VIM. Shockley) is here Wis
Iting the latter gentleman's family.
He confirms the statements of impasa-
BILE roads, and spoiled corn in that
State. owe are afraid much corn is
spoiled In Kansas aiso.) He seems a
very clever gentleman.
Mr.. VIM. Shockley has built and fin
ishcd a new barn 32x40 feet, 16 foot
posts, at a cost of some $500. Also a
cellar and clubhouse, tor storing ap-
Piles and smoking bacon, II feet square,
costing 500. He is one of our solid
farmers. Upon inquiry 1 find the
Winesap apples is still ahead as to
keeping qualities, and prolific bearing
alongside OF the Ben Davis aud Gen
nitan.
The tree peddlers are resplng quite q
harvest again this spring. Their
trees, however, have a better appear
snce than usual Why? Don't you
patronize home nurseries,! Home
grown trees are best.
The telephone is \ curiosity. A sin
gle chorded (corded) wonder. It has
reached Hartford. witnessed two of
her distinguished professors, and some
ladies performing with one the other
day at two hundred yards apart. The
parties were hoarse, and certainly deaf,
as the resonance, (from the instrument
of course,) we heard at least q quarter
of mile. Yours, II.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01
The Telephone two Centuries
Ago.


From the London Atheneum, Dec. Is.
Just 30 years ago Robert Hooke,
Fellow of the ROYAL Society, pub
lished a work entitled "Microgsph-
ia or, Some Physiological descrip
lions of Minute Bodies made by
Magnifying Glasses, with Observe
tons and Inquiries Ihereupon."
This, the first English treatiss on
the uses of the microscope, is still
in high estimation. In the preface
(sig. ~ occurs the following re-
markable paragraph:
"And as glasses have highly pro-
NOTED our seeing, SO tits not i'm
probable but that there may be
found many mechanical inventions
to improve our other senses, OF
hearing, smelling, tasting, touching.
IT'S not impossible to hear 3 Whis-
per at a furlong's distrance, it hay
ing been already done; and perhaps
make it more impossible though
Tat furlong should be ten times
muItiply'd. And though some IA
nous authors have affirm'd it impos-
sible to hear through the thinnest
plate of Muscovy glass; yet I know
a way by which 'tis easy enough to
hear one speak throgh wall yard
thick. It has not been yet thorough
~ examined how far Otocousticone
may be improv'd, nor what other
ways there may be of quickening
our hearing, or conveying sound
through other bodies then than
Air; for that is the only medium
I can assure the Reader that IhGUe
By the help Of a distended eotre prop
ag0ted sound to q considerable dis
lance IN an instant, or ecitb as SEEM
amgIy quick q motion as that Of
light, at least incomparsbly swifter
then than that which at the same
time was propsgated through the
Air; and this not only in straight
line, or direct, but ia one Bonded in
many angles"
The italics in the above paragraph
are mine. EDWARD VILEs.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-03-01

NYOTICE Is hereby given: That petition
~ has been presented TO the Board OF Coun-
y Commissioners OF Lyon 20. Kansas, asking
Tor the location Of county roads as follows,
to-WIts Commencing at the southwest cor
ner OF section thtrty-obe, township eighteen,
range thirteen; thence east ON the section
line IS near as practicable to Dry creek !;
thence on the most practicable route across
said creek, striking the section line at the
NEST convenient point on the east side of said
creek; thence east on the section line IS near
as practleable 20 the southeast corner OF
section EEfrty-four, township eighteen, range
thirteen, which Is the termination Of said
road; thence commencing at the southwest
corner Of section six, township ninetean
range thtRteens thence east On the section
line as near as practicable 70 Dry creek !
thence across said creek on the most praets-
cable reRtes striking the section line at the
most ccnvenient point on the east side Of said
creek thence east on the section line as near
- practicable - the southeast corner Of see
ton TIRES. township nineeeen, raage thirteen,
waich IS the terrninasIop Of said read. And
tnat Jacob Jacobs, Jr., o. y. Richmond and
W. = Asncocks we're appointed viewers. and
ordered 20 meet e the beginning of said road,
On March 7ka, 1873 ct ten O'Clock = M to
view and locate said road and t. give 20 al
pAFsfes hearing
By order Of Board Of Co. Commissioners.
selksz-mszz WA. 3. 4WtSG, Co. Clerk.