The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-03-19
HERE AND THERE.

ST. Louis has no great preachers or
newspapers
Omaha girls take saw-mills on a
breach of promise case.
The annual hunt of the empress of
Austria costs about 350,000 forms.
The Duchess of Edinburgh has a muff
made of the feathers of the bluejay.
The Methodist church of Toronto re-
fused to permit its church choir to sing
Pinafore.
1t is stated that the trappers on the
Patula, in Stewart county, Georgia, are
making from $40 to $50 week catch
ing beavers.
They have honest elections over in
England, you know, and yet lord Ram
sey is $65, 700 out of pocket, and beaten
at that in his late run.
Cleveland is arresting men and boys
who congregate on street corners and
stare at the female sex. Homely women
might as well stay in the house.
They have new religious move
ment' in Maine. At Universalist So
ciable in Augusta, five young ladies were
sold at auction at prices varying from 80
| cents to So.
1t is now asserted by Boston dentist
that the only true way to clean teeth is
| to bite into a raw potato three or four
times a day. Sand paper won't take
the black off.
| Mr. E. Remington, the gun manufac-
turer, has built a house at Cairo, Egypt,
at a cost of 100000. He has a pending
claim against the Khedive's government
for 100000.
4 robust cOuntryman meeting phys
ician ran to hide himself behind wall
Being asked the cause, he replied: at is
| so long since | have been sick that | am
ashamed to look physician in the face.
| Among the unclaimed land patents re-
Gently taken from the cobwebbed cuddy
holes of the land office at Washington
was one issued by president Pierce to
| Abraham Lincoln for service in the
Black Hawk war.
The Pope, who was great pedestrian
in the days of his youth, still distip-
cuisines himself in that way, taking his
daily walks in the gardens of the Vati-
can at such pace that his attendants
can hardly follow him.
1t is thought the i'll health of Mrs
James Russell Lowell will prevent heI
husband, the American minister 10 the
court of st. James, from being a great
entertainer, and the English society
gracefully appreciates his position.
1t is said of Sir Isaac Newton's
nephew, vino was a clergyman, that he
always refused a marriage fee, saying
with much pleasantly, go your way
poor children; have done you mischief
enough already, without taking YOU
money"
A southern city is said to boast of &
colOred lodge, part of whose title is THE
Grand Council of the Grand Ancient
Order of the Sons and Daughters, Broth
ers and Sisters of Moses, of the United
States and World at Large" The secre
grip lanes man tor six months.
AN UNEXPECTED PLEAsURE.-BelOveG
but irresponsible fair one: $50 glad Il
see you, cousin Charley, and so kind o
you to drop in! Now, you'll sit a couple
of hours with grandmamma, won't you
just to amuse her, while Arthur and
take stroll in the garden. And b.
careful to speak as loud as you can, fol
she's very, very deaf, poor dear"
Mr. Longfellow is said to write easily
but very slowly, weighing every wore
before jotting it down in lead pencil
There is hardly an erasure in his manu-
script, but when his work returns to hin
in proof hardly anything of its origina
form is left. 1t is asserted that "The Di
vine Tragedy" was written after tn,
most of it was in type.