The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-07-11
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A Boston child remarked, after gaz-
ing earnestly at man who was bald,
but had heavy whiskers, "His head was
put on up side down, wasn't %
Senator Gordon's sheep ranch in
Georgia comprises 10000 acres. Negro
convicts will enclose it with stone wall,
seven miles of which have been COM
pleted.
The cost of the late Durham strike in
England is estimated at 50, 200 600; near
ly half is borne by the men, Without
reckoning interest, it is computed that
1t will take 81 years to make up the
sum lost.
A former hotel manager writes to a
Vienna paper that 80 per cent. of the
names given as guests from America, ia
pan. India, ETC., in leading German ho-
tells, are false announcements made with
a view to gain custom.
The total average attendance of each
pupil in the Chicago public schools, is
only 40 days; yet the system of in
struction contemplates course oftwelve
years. The facts are said to be about
the same IN all the large cities of the
United States.
Packages warranted to contain the
means of sure death for potato bugs,
without poison, were sold at n fair in
Illinois. Each contained two blocks of
planed pine wood, on one of which was
written, "Place the bug on this block
and smash him with the other"
Kemmler, who killed his children at
Holyoke, Mass, still maintains that he
had moral right TO do as he pleased
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German, and the author in that language
of a devotional book, containing a
prayer and hymn for every day in the
year. His sanity is doubted.
One feature of the increasing exporta-
ton of American manufactures, is ma
chlne-made joinery. We have exported
TO England in single year as many as
100000 doors. Windows are too bulky for
general expectation, and blinds are
scarcely used in England, so that our
business in this line there has been CON
fined almost exclusively to doors. Some
flrms are turning out as many as seven
hundred doors day.
A company of Russian soldiers, while
recently on their way to EliZabethpol.
were beset with clouds of grasshoppers,
that frightened them more than the
Turks ever did. At night they could
not sleep; their guns, their uniforms,
and they themselves were covered with
masses of these insects, that crept into
their mouths, noses and ears. The of
ficers fed into the houses, but the plague
ofgrasshoppers had previous possession.
region of fifteen miles was thickly COW
cred with them, and all the grain and
grass were instantly destroyed.
The aggregate steam power in use in
the world is at present Z, 500,0 horse
power employed in stationary engines,
and 100000 horsepower in locomo-
tive engines. This force is maintained
without the consumption of animal
food, except by the miners who dig the
coal, force maintained in their muscles,
is to the force generated by the product
of their labor about l to 1880. This
steam power is equal to the working
force of %, 600, 900 horses, and one horse
consumes three times as much food as
one man. The steam power, therefore,
is equivalent to the saving of food for
100000 of human beings.
In a London paper we read: "Was
ever such a season of impecuniosity
known? People of the higher rank are
already fiocking away from London to
economiZe. Country house visiting is
GUS that in more than one house re-
markable for its hopltality, there has
this year been none. Trade with the
firms is at a standstill
went yesterday into a shop in the
Strand paying $500 a year. The pro
prietor held out most dismal prospects,
and said he had seen nothing like it for
years. Moving on to Cornhill entered
another firm of forty years standing
Not Il single customer had entered their
doors during the day, and these two
houses were in the busiest thoroughfare
in London"
A mining engineer, writing to the
London Times about the inadequate
ventilation of the Metropolitan Under
ground railway, says that while travel
ing on that line recently he became al
most suffocated by the poisonous atmo-
sphere, and had to be assisted out of the
train before reaching his destination.
On applying to druggist for restora-
tive, the latter instinctively exclaimed:
"Oh, l see, Metropolitan railway" and
and at once proceeded to pour out a wine
glass full of peculiar fluid, which pro-
duced the desired effect. When asked
whether he often had such cases, he re-
piled, "Why, bless you, sir, we have of
ten twenty cases day" This is de-
nounced AS a disgraceful state of affairs,
in view of the fact that the road can
easily he ventilated by the erection of
large fans.
The Roman correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle writes that loud CON-
plants reach Rome in reference to the
Anglo-Roman church. Bishop Am
herst has resigned the see of Northamp-
ton, ostensibly on plea of i'll health, but
really on account of the despotic con-
duct of Cardinal Manning. Men born
Catholics are elbowed out in favor of
converts, by whom all the bishoprics
are gradually being filled, apd many of
the men thus appointed are of inferior
capacity. Any priest is removable at
the will of his bishop, and years of serv-
ice confer no privilege. The result is a
widespread disgust Father Law, an
eminent OratOrian, has left the priest
hood; Father Roberts, a relative of DR..
Manning, has become sick of petty tyr
amy, and taken a wife; another West
minister priest has gone on the stage. 1t
is asserted that the intellectual stand
ard of the rising generation of the cler-
gy is being lowered. The Cardinal is
intensely unpopular.