The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24
HERE AND THERE.

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Vanderbilt is threatened with paraly-
sis. We don't believe we would swap
places with him after all
The fast trains recently put on be-
tween Chicago and New York make an
average run of about thirty-fve miles an
hour.
IT may interest bald-headed gentle
men 10 know that there is to be atransit
of Venus IN 1892. Quite number of
front seats have already been taken
Judge Folger is a female suffrage
man, being enc of the nine men who
voted in favor of giving the women a
ballet in the New York Legislature in
1861.
The Globe Democrat explains the fact
that there hasn't been a murder in ST.
Louis for two days upon the ground that
the weather has not been favorable for
out door exercise.
TIE local press states that Wednes-
days r,ceipis of hogs of all classes in
Kansas City aggregated 11,069. 1t is
fair to assume that the free-lunch coun-
tiers did land Office business.
p. MeCabe, an intelligent and well
educated young colored man, was elect
ed county clerk of Graham county, on,
the Rspublican ticket at the recent cleo
ton. He had four opponents, all white
men.
To the statement of correspondent
who says that the notorious Quantrill is
dead as door-nail, the Lawrence Journal
enters denial and says that sooner or
later Quanttill will be brought to JUS
tice-
The Queen of Ronenia is grossly ad-
dic;ed 10 writing novels aud poetry. IT
is little remarkable that the Nih:lists
should never have awaited themselves
ofsuch a fine business opening as her
dominions seem 10 afford.
Blooded, housekeeping bays. resplen-
dent in magnificent harness. gorgeous
coupe. kid gloves and an immaculate
shirt, are the things with which the
aristocratic Astor twisted his political
head off in New York. No man can
drink enough beer with the boys to off
set that display, Especially in Il Demo-
cratic "deestrict.'
THE state of wisconsin, which has
been under Republican rule for a quar-
ter of century. is we'll fixed financially.
The annual report of the state treasurer,
just published, shows that she has in
her treasury $685., 10000 cash, while her
total Indebtedness is 8, 252 ,057, all of
which she owes to her school fund. No
outsiders hold any of her bonds.
There is a movement on foot at To-
peka TO establish a home for destitute
and unemployed working women. We
hope to see the efforts in the direction
of securing such a noble charity
crowned with abundant success, as we
believe they viii be in the hands of the
ladies' at the capital.
A dental magazine says that in this
country alone twelve manufactures pro-
duce 10, 100000 teeth annually, "or one
to every five persons in the United
States" The amount annually squan-
dered on teeth is 100000. A half q
million of gold is used every year to fill
teeth. We are thus rapidly becoming a
nation of gold mines.
An eastern exchange notes number
of eminent Americans who were born IN
the. year 1911. Among Them Horace
Greeley, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phil
lips, Elihu Buritt, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, Fannie Fern, Edgar Allan Poe,
DIR. j. w. Draper, Fannie Kemble, Noah
Porter, president of Yale college; Hora-
tito Seymour, Alfred B. Street, the poet,
and William Page, the artist. Of these,
Phillips, Mrs. Stowe, DR.. Draper, Fannie
Kemble, President Porter, Horatio Sey-
mour and Page reached their 10th year.
The oldest and richest convict in the
Ohio pcnitentiary Is one Horace Brooks.
who is now "a years of age, and has
been within the walls of the prison
thirty-one years. BE owned a farm in
the suburbs of Cleveland away back in
1850, through which railway passed.
One time the cars ran over some sheep,
for which the company refused TO pay
damages. To ayenge this wrong Brooks
obstrueted the track and threw off a
passenger train, in which five persons
were killed. He was arrested, tried for
murder, and sentenced to the penitenti-
airy for life. At the time of his convic-
ton he was very rich, and his wealth is
now enormous, his farm having since
become part of the city of Cleveland.
The idea that American grapes are
unsuitable for the manufacture of rails
ms must be considerably staggered by
the announcement in the Riverside Press,
of San Barnardino county, California,
that the raisin crop of that state this
year will aggregate more than $4,000
boxes In 1878 the reports of the asses
sors did not mention that any such in
dustry existed. Perhaps it did not, then;
but in three years it has reached an an
nual production of half million dol
lars worth, and is rapidly increasing.
An interesting circumstance connected
with it is, that ali of this years. crop
was raised on about I, 400 acres, while to
produce a crop of wheat of equal value,
q, 900 acres would be required.