The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-24
People and Things.

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De big sunfower may rise above
De modest later vine,
Am brag about its Sunday clothes,
An put on airs so fine;
But when de winter bowls around,
An de snow lies at de dOah,
De big suDhoWer, oh W har am hep
De later hez de hoahI
New York women who embroider |
all day do not make oyer So per week
Boston has exiled fruit, newspaper |
and merchandise stands from the pub |
lie streets.
At Deshier, Ohio, a girl ate fifty raw
eggs in fifty minutes for wager of |
calico dress.
Colorado is the only State in the
Union that does not promise an I'M
usually heavy harvest.
She that hath a new bonnet is more
consumed with desire to go to church
than seven pious women.
A man walks on the water at Taun-
ton, Mass. He wears immense tin
shoes, in which air is confined.
Widows above fifty can not marry
in Portugal; but there is some difficult
ty in discovering when they reach that
age. -.
All! What growing days these are
The interest on a mortgage climbs
half way oyer house in one night
Detroit Free Press.
They make no provision for insanity,
either temporary or confirmed, in
Florida. There is not an asylum for
the insane in that State.
They think OF opening a shop in
Cortland for the manufacture of glass
collins. This is a new invention, and
is said to have given general satisfac-
ton to all who have tried them.-GrO-
ton Journal.
To sign the pledge and afterwards
be presented with a bottle of prime
wine is one of those dreadful things
which will occasionally happen. Peo-
pie talk about suffering, but they
don't know anything about it.-Dap-
bury News.
The cold world little realizes the
sense of desolation that shuts down on
d man who thinks he has been handed
to much change by the grocer, when
he lodges around the corner and finds
it right to a penny.-LockporG Jour-
nal.
Senator Don Cameron has six chill
dren. The oldest is a handsome girl
of q, whose step mother will be 10.
Miss Cameron owns a farm in her own
right, and manages the business sue
cessfully herself. She is very fond of
Miss Sherman, and favOrs the mar
riage.
Mark Twain told q newspaper re-
porter that he was going abroad in
order to find quiet place to write,
where he would not be disturbed once
day. 1t is singular that it never Oc-
courred to him to remain at home and
6a1Ir e. or hat AnSf
advertise.-NOrristow Herald.
On Monday last, little girl IL years
of age, living in Bullitt county, KY,
while engaged at her fathers chicken
house, was attacked by a large game
cock. The fowls spur pierced the side
of her head, entering the brain.
: Partial paralysis followed, and at the
last accounts the girl was slowly
! dying.
Postmaster General Keys home il
} at Chattanooga, Tenn, and he is re-
ported as saying that the first ball that
I was shot in the battle of Lookout
. Mountain went through his house, and
: that he has now made the man
who commanded the United States
! troops, by whom it was fired, the
Postmaster at Observation-Disclosures
, ter Spy. E
, A serawny-lookIng individual came
, into the Office the other morning to
advertise his wife, who had left him
that people should not trust her on hi
account. He asked the bookkeeper thu
v price, and when told, said, in SOM
! surprise: els that so? Why, that
what paid TO advertise my first wife
: I thought prices might have COM
down."-Danbury News.
q The man in whose house Lincoln
3 died wishes to sell the place to the
. government. After Lincoln died b,
r sent the governpen5 q large bill
e charging even for the soap with which
q the physicians washed their haads
IS He also charged for admission to th,
house, and so made money. This maj
q is the one who had his soul balzncet
: on the point of cambria needle.
+ In Crawford county, last week, 8
D, year-old daughter of August Fable ap
preached some burning grass, wheI
e her clothes took fire. She ran TO
{ home, mile distant, and the folk
being away and the door locked, sh
IS crawled through window, got int
q the bed, and there died in q charrel
and cinder-like condition. The sui
y fering of the poor child must hav
I. been horrible Sioux City Journal.
$ A juror in st. Louis snored so loud
ly that he aWoke the Judge, and th
e latter was SO indignant that he fine
II him SO and sent him out of the boz
ir after which the case was adjourned
he the defendant refusing to proceed wit
le only eleven jurors. Snoring, accord
> ingly, is contempt of court, unless tn
y Judge does it himself; so that about a
A. the average juror knows how to
p well Is taken away from him.
d Probably the most valuable dog /
- the country is the English setts
= Paris, owned by Mr.. L. Fl. Smith, c
IS SErathroy, Canada, and valued by biz
OF at $780, 600. He has won the followin
er trophies: A first prize At Detroit
ke first prize and silver cup for the be
setter dog az the New Yerk show, an
the champion prize at the Centennia
q cup at Memphis; four prizes in G.
:. great American field trial at 1875 an
:" 1876, and the best English setter pri:
In the recent bench show In Boston.
e. The raging rhinoceros had tuss
ne with 3 steady going, brass-mounte
locomotive at Pittsb0rg on MOnda,
The cages of menegerie were loal
ed on nat cars, and three of them wei
overturned at the Point bridge. III
superan1ated lion groWled, but cou
not escape. The irrepressible rhinoc
e ros started up the railroad track ar
IL fast gate and made lunge at the D
ds connective, tearing OF an iron bar fro
~ the pilot. The keeper caught up wi
ng him just after he had knocked 3 b
lit hole In the side of 3 freight car, "a
be attempted TO lead him away BY d
az ear. The Infatuated beast was ffnaI
lie forced into q box car, from which
ID, was transferred TO the cage. A live
al young bear also escaped, bnt was +
~ captured without difficulty Phil
ldelphia Telegraph.