The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1880-04-09

,ood a recordS
All Europe is arming and watching
md waiting. Scarcely q monarch is
lappy, or devoting his time and energies
o the pursuits of peace and the happi-
less of his subjects.
Mr.. Seth Green says he will have |
!, OOO, 900 California brook trout for dis
ribution next year Think OF the bound |
ess possibilities ia the way of lies con-
aimed in these 5000, 900 innocent fish.
The Rev. Murray says he may soon re-
TURN 10 Boston and fill pulpit. He no
longer cares for blooded hens at $40
apiece, and he has conquered his desire
to travel faster than mile in four min
utes
Mr.. Edwin Fair, brother OF the Ne
vada millionaire, James G. Fair, has ar
rived in this country from ireland,
where he was II renter, paying an annual
rent on eight acres of land of $40 per
acre.
Chicago has 213 churches and 5000
saloons. The churches are opened twice
a week, the saloons are opened seven
days in the week, and seven nights in
the week are brilliantly lighted and
warmed.
The first step in the project for the ul-
innate erection of Alaska, icebergs, seals,
Indians and all, into state, has made
its appearance in the house in the way
OF bill providing for a territorial or
ganization.
VIM. Fl. Vanderbilt's income has been
ciphered down to four cents per second.
He couldn't feel much easier if he were
fairly beyond the reach of want, but like
Gould, he wants everything he can lay
his hands on.
The treasury department purchased
1884, for the Philadelphia and San
Francisco minis. Coinage at the United
States minis for the month of March
was $7,475 900, of which 50, 35O,OOO were
silver dollars.
Earl Beaconsfeld was never better
than at the present moment. Health
and spirits are both excellent, and he
is so good a walker that he tires Out
any lady friends who venture pedestrian
exercise with him.
The congressional proceedings of the
past week go to prove that the untamet
Democracy is once more at large. Tit
prophets who foretold a quiet session ev
identity forgot that the Democratic CHR
is an unruly member.
George Mitchell, a painter of Sar
Francisco, was arrested on the Both, a
his place of business. on charge of in
sanity, preferred by his employer. H
had become insane over the fifteen puZ
zle, and covered the floor and wall will
figures in his attempt to solve it.
When a New Hampshire chap wantec
to break off the engagement to anothe
fellow of the girl he loved, he didn't TT.
to persuade either that the other wa
false. He just contrived 10 get then
both to join the same church choir, an
in less than week they didn't speak.
The character of insanity which a
flicts Fairfax Williamson, the persecuto
of DIR. Dix, would, in old scriptura
times, have been described as being "po
sessed of the devil" There are doub
less many new diseases, but this old on
is by no means obsolete or uncommon.
A German traveller in Africa chara
terizes people he came across as 'il
tensely black, dolichocephalic and pl
tyrhine, prognathous, dichotomatic an
dolichodactylic." We have seen ms
knocked down for less than that. De
is, the martyr, never said anything ha
: so bad.
There are three graces in Kentucky
Martha, Mary and Margaret Devoe,
Jessamine county. They were born
the same parents in the same hour
t 1927. and have grown up to be middl
C aged spinsters together. When tn
5 were young ladies their father exact
s from them vow never to marry al
:. never to separate until death. This pro-
= Use they have religiously kept
After Washington had been preside
Il for two terms he was chosen justice
d the peace for his county in Virginia, a
/ John Adams, too, although he retir
l. from Washington to Quincy in no sw'
temper of mind, consented to serve
neighbors in the same official capaci
These shining examples are commend
to other ex-presidents who are anxious
: looking for somevent for their exuber;
,. political activity.
j. The bill entitled an act TO compl
e the Pacific railway system and for oil
E purposes, reported to the house on I
70 End, by Mr.. Chalmers, proposes radi
a. departure from all former methods
a railroad legislation, and aims to &C
8 plete the roads mentioned, and aid otI
II. projects of public improvement With
7, entailing any tax upon the people, or
n volving the government by the endol
off ment of the railroad bonds. II propo
to to restore to the government log, 500i
~ acres of public land heretofore gran
+ to the Southern Pacific railway, 1
n from their sale, at an average of two {
lars per acre.