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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

a Cincinnati paper wishes to know
what girls look like away Lack in the
poke bonnets. Poke buries.
Tie play of 1.-THE Forty Thieves was
advertised in Philadelphia But il
didn't draw. The people wouldn't buy
tickets to it. They could go and see
their city officers for nothing.
A Chicago society offered last year q
prize of one hundred dollars for the best
treatise on the question, "How best to
destroy rats" The prize has just been
awarded TO Doctor Burnett, of Philadcl
phia, who answered: Increase the
number of cats.'
Water made slightly salt, and to which
bran to the proportion of one quart to
every gallon has been added, is said TO
increase the yield of milk by % pei
cent. if it is given to cows in their ordi-
nary drink. After 3 short time COWS
will refuse pure water, unless they are
very thirsty.
The sanitary importance of keeping
poisonous substances out of paints, wall
papers, and house decorations generally
has come to be so widely appreciated
that some of the leading firms of deco
rators in England find 1t to their inter.
est to have these articles carefully tested
for poisons by skilled chemists
When potatoes are frozen, the amount
of sugar they contain is doubled, the
starch undergoing corresponding dimi
mutton, while part of the protein passes
from the coagulable into the soluble
form During the process of roofing
the potato loses half its heterogeneous
constituents and the whole of the sugar
Minister to Rory-aWhy weren't you
at the kirk on Sunday:'' Rory was
at Mr.. Dunlop's kirk" Minister-"I
don't like your running about the strange
kirk in that way Not that object taf
yer hearing Mr.. Dunlop; but I'm sure
ye wadna like yer ain sheep stFayine
away into strange pastures" ROry-"l
wadna care grain, sir, if it were betteI
grass"
Little Willie wanted to know of his
papa what people said hallelujah for
| His papa told him because they Wers
happy. -WelI,'' said he, PA, 7 cam
say halleiujah, because my pants Ar.
| ragged" a few days after he ran to hil
papa and said, aPa, hallelujahi my
| pants are mendedI''
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
THE DISTANCE OF THE STARS.

The idea of distance is often best con
Veyed by some everyday illustration. In
q recent lecture by DR.. VIM. Higgins
the eminent English astronomer, as to
the result of spectrum analysis as ap
piled to the heavenly bodies, this strik
ing statement was made to give some
FAINT notion of the enormous distance OF
the stars: "The earth's orbit" said the
lecturer, which is more than 100, 600,
600 in diameter, at most of the stars
dwindles to mere point, and has nc
sensible size whatever. If you suppose
a railroad from here to the nearest fixed
star. which is supposed to be &c, OOO, 900,
600 of miles from usy and If you sup
pose the price of the fare to be one pen
ny for every 100 miles-not, mind, pen
ny per mile-then, if you take a mass
of gold to the ticket Office equal to the
national debt Ca, 1900 600, OO0l it would
not be sufficient to pay fo- 9
ticket to the nearest fixed
star And l think I should not bt
wrong in saying that there are stars q
far of that the price of one penny for
every 100 miles, the whole treasure O
the earth would not be sufici to pa,
for q ticket"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
THE ORIGIN OF THE BANG.

American has so seldom given Europe a
new fashion in return for the many it
has received that a great deal of quiet
comfort has been taken out of the sup
position that the feminine custom OF
'banging'' the hair was borrowed from
the Indian squaws of our Western
Plains. True, the feminine Indian is a
marvel of hideousness, while herr bang,
when she has one, lends to her ugliness
an air of irredeemable animalism and
abiect depravity; but if only becoming
devices were fashionable now, there
would be little now to record in ladies
journals or to display at churches and
theaters. 1t now appears however, thai
the bang is not peculiar to the American
Indians, II being quite common among
the savages of New Zealand. This faci
being admitted, the method of the advent
of the fashion in England may easily be
surmised. Returned convicts brought
this latest sweet thing in hair to theil
lady friends, who were glad to adopt il
for the very reason, probably, that New
Zealand's bellies did-it saved them the
trouble of combing and arranging thell
front hair. How the fashion spread II
the higher orders need not be asked, fol-
whatever is wild, peculiar and Immature
in woman's appearance may always b
safely trusted 70 make its own way il
the world.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
FOREST FIGURES.

II the figures which were presented al
n recent meeting of the Lumbermen's
Exchange in Chicago are accurate, the
timber regions of the country will be de-
nuded in less than quarter Of a Gen.
tury, and an American forest will be-
come almost rs precious as a gold mine
Our population is increasing in so mar
velous . ratio and the railroad and other
demands are becoming so great, that IN
less substitute for timber shall be
found. famine in that article is. in the
opinion OF those who have studied the
subject, one of the certaintiss of the
future The supply OF some OF the
western states, particularly of Mime
sofa, Wisconsin and Michigan, has, Il
seems, been very much exaggerated.
Minnesota, for example, according To
the popular estimate, is credited with
possessing forty billion feet, but the
tables which have been prepared for the
forthcoming census reduce these figures
TO six billions. In the same way the
Wisconsin supply Is cut down from be
tween eighty and one hundred billion
feet 70 forty and one-hAlf billions, while
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The Washington correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette has this TO say about
the forgers of the Morey letter:
1t Is now expected that legal proceed
ings will soon be instituted against all
the parties 10 the Morey letter forgery.
For some time past the law officers of
the government in New York City have
been exceedingly active in their efforts
to discover the connecting links which
were necessary to complete the various
chains of evidence which they have been
gathering since the first exposure of this
forgery. 1t is now reported here, upon
what appears to be excellent authority,
that these links have been supplied, and
that the guilty parties will soon find
themselves in the hands OF the law. II
Il Is asserted that several well known
Democratic politicians are criminally
compromised in this matter, and that II
will even extend to the indictment Of
some of the national Democratic com
mittAe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The difference between Socialism and
Nihilism was explained the other day
TO q reporter OF the Louisville Courier
Journal by Mr.. Louis Vierick, Socialist
editor from Leipsic, Germany. He said /:
"In Russia there are three factions Of so
called Nihilists. One of these aims at q
constitutional monarchy and free suff-
rage. The second aims at a Socialist
republic, and corresponds to the Social
lists Of Germany. The other faction is
composed of Anarchists, who are against
all government and would destroy every
thing. The Anarchists are the assas
sins. There are Anarchists In Germany,
but they are excluded from the Social.
istic party. Justus Schwab and Hassel
man, of New York, and Most, who's
paper was suppressed in London recent
", are Anarchists, and have been ex
cluded from the SOcialistic party. The
Socialists believe they can accomplish
their objects peaceably. and are opposeC
IN vi0lencen
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

A war of races has broken out in tue
valley of Canete, one Of the most fertile
provinces In Peru Moret than two thou
sand Cinnamon have been murdered by
negroes and cholos. and cane fields. su.
gar houses, machinery, and other prop.
erty. 70 the value OF millions, destroyed
The work OF murder and plumber Is still
going on, and all foreigners have fed the
valley. II is feared that similar scenes
will be enacted throughout Peru.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

There have been some extraordinary
demonstrations of enthusiasm by the
friends Of young Kalloch in San Francis
co since that gentleman's acquittal, and
he has been induced to respond to
numerous serenades and addresses.
Under the California law the unfortunate
jurymen receive no pay for their services
during the long and tedious trial, and 1t
is now proposed TO recompense them by
grand benefit concert" with tickets at
80 cents each. No doubt 1t was q dis
agreeable duty for these men to be cut
of from business, home and friends
week after week, but it is little doubtful
If the cause of justice will be served by
parading them rs the heroes of benefit
Derformance
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

Arch-deacon Kirby, of the church of
England, who has been engaged in mis-
sionary work in the Hudson Bay Terri
tory and Alaska for the past twenty-sev-
en- years, relates some interesting facts
connected with his experience among
the Indians. When he first went to Alas
ka the traders warned him not to preach
against the medicine men and polyga.
my; but he disregarded their advice and
attacked those evils boldly and with
great success. He estimates that !, 40C
natives of Alaska have accepted Chris
tianity, and nine of them have become
cvangelists among their own people
The books read by these people are
printed in syllable characters, and the
the natives who apply themselves to the
task easily learn TO read and write in q
months time.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

New York Tribune: The Republi.
cans are evidently . little rusty on how
to msnage q majority in congress.
President Garfield and family, follow
ing the example Of ex-President Hayes,
will summer at the Soldiers Home. near
Washington.
The piety Of the truly good Deacon
Richard Smith was meyer seriously
questioned till he employed his paper
the Cincinnati Gazette. to assist in the
election of Democratic mayor in that
city.
The majority Of Frink, the newly-elect
ed Republican mayor Of Kansas City Is
1902, the highest ever given for any Re
publican candidate, In that city.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
MAUD MULLER.
r worked at raking hay.


Maud Muller worked at raking hay.
And cleared her forty cents day.
Her clothes were coarse, bat her health was
And so She worked in the sweet sunshine
Singing as glad as . bird in May
'Barbary Allen,'' the live long day
She often glanced at the far-oH town.
And wondered If eggs were mp or Gown
And the sweet song died of strange disease
Leave phantom taste OF cheese,
And an app, tite and nameless ache
For soda water and ginger cake.
The Judge rode slowly into view
Stopped his horse in the shade, and drew
Ills nne-cut out. while the bieshIng Maud
Maryeied much 1T the kind he ''ehawed."
she was dry as = nsh. % he said with wink,
sand kind-o' thought that good square
drink
"'would brace him up" So the cup was
with the crystal wine that the old spring
spilIcd;
And she gave it to him with sun Drowned
THANKS" said the judge. in accents bland;
"a thousand thanksi for a swecter draught
From u fafrer hand''-but there Re laughed
And the sweet girl stood in the sun that day
And raked the judge instead the hay
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
BY SAM DAVIS.
.:-h4 ho-o ~

This he stuck up on the music rack,
and, though the inscription glared at the
Hequenter of the room until midnight,
it failed to draw any musician from his
shell.
So the merry-making went on; the hi
larity grew apace. Men danced and
sang to the music of the squeaky fiddle
and WORKOUT guitar, as the jolly crowd
within tried to drown the bowling of the
storm without Suddenly they became
aware Of the presence of q whitehaired
man crouching near the fireplace His
garments, such as were left, were wet
with melting snow, and he had half
starved, half-crazed expression. He
held his thin trembling hands toward
the fire, and the light of the blazing
wood made them almost transparent
He looked about him once in awhile
/ as IL in search of something, and his
presence cast such . chill over the place
that gradually the sound of revelry was
hushed, and it seemed that this waif Of
the storm had brought in with him ali
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

Michigan, according the testimony of
her most expert and largest lumber deal
ers, contains only thirty-ive billions
This gives an aggregate for The three
states OF eighty-one and a half billion
feet, and as the average annual destruc-
ton is about eight billion feet, it is easy
to calculate the problem of exhaustion
No greater or more important question
could occhpy the attention of the nation
al as well as the state governments, and
it is to be hoped that some measures
will be adopted to check the present
waste and destruction and make suitable
provision for the future.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The present Shah of Persia. it is SAID,
once painted g picture in which q camel
in the background was higher than a
tree in the foreground, and in which an
old mill on the lett was not so large as a
dog on the right This canvas he sent
To the committee Of en- annual exhibition
at Teheran, who, of course, did not hang
il either above or below the line. Had
they dared to do so, they would soon
have been Q headless committee. The
critics, as q body, were equally plant
They eulogized the picture for Its depth
of tone, artistic grouping, and fineness
of sentiment They maintained that his
majesty was a Raphael and MessionieI
rolled into one One critic, however
was rash enough to hint that in hIs
opinion the picture lacked feeling. In
few hours he lacked feeling himself
for the simple reason that he lacked hi
head
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The Kansas City Times. with u degree
Of unsaltedness that should challenge the
attention Of the local board of health,
makes the refreshing announcement that
the st. Louis Republican "is in its dot
age, and has no weight whatever in Mis-.
souTi matters" AS an illustrious exam.
pie Of the invidious references made by
the kettle 70 the complexion Of the pot
this not only takes the.cake, but captures
Of one fell swoOp, the entire bakery.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

Topeka Commonwealth; Hon. Thos
Ryan received the sad intelligence
Wednesday that his mother died Tues
day morning, in Towanda, Pa. The
friends of Congressman Ryan, all over
the state, will unite in sympathy for him
in his afIiiction. He leaves today
Thursday for that city, 10 attend the
funeral, and will go from there to Wash
ington, and will not return to Topeka
until after the deadlock" in the senate
IL ended and the called executive ses
sion has adjourned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

Statistics Of the wheat traffic of the
Northern Pacific road show thai last
year there were shipped from the Red
River Valley to Duluth, over this road.
2, 7e6, 25S bushels Of wheat, of which rs
per cent. was No. 1 hard wheat Itises
timated that between four and Ave mil.
lion bushels Of Red River wheat were
produced last year, of which threeoua--
tiers consisted of the best gram in The
world. The yield this year Is expected
to exceed this amount
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The statement started by the reliable
Kansas City Times, that Senator Ingalls,
had gone TO Colorado with 4 party Of
friends, is still "going the rounds Of the
papers" 1t seems unnecessary 10 say
that there is not q word of truth in the
statement. as the senator has never left
his post of duty at Washington.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

It would be obviously impossible for
President Garfield to recognize the per-
sonal preferences Of Mr. Conkling in
making his appointments, a. the senator
from New York does not seem TO want
an Office, and could only fill one If he did.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

A member of the Paris academy OF
sciences asserts that the glass of the by.
drOmeters employed in sugar refineries Is
50 modified in Its constitution by the
action of the heat to which it is exposed
as seriously TO impair the accuracy Of
the Instruments
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

The suspicion seems 10 be dawniDg
upon senator Conkling's mind, that his
vest might be large enough to make an
over-coat for President Garfield, after
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

More cases of sick headache, bilious
ness, constipation, &C., can be cured in
less time, with less medicine, and for less
money, by using Carter's Little Liver
Pills, than by any other means.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
TERMs or SUBSCRIPTION.

Ben Hill should be put down in the
new. school histories as the discoverer of
Malone
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
No Change.

CHICAGO, April S.-There is no change
in the condition of affairs on the West
side street car lines. The company,
with infinite difficulty, ran one car down
Madison street this morning, the people
hooting and expressing their disapprov-
al in every way possible, and attempted
to make a trip on Milwaukee avenue,
but were prevented by the people along
the line, and wisely abandoned it. The
hostility of the citizens to the company
arises, not alone from sympathy with the
men whom they believe TO be harshly
treated, overworked and ill-paid, but
also from a long standing discomfort
with the penurious management of the
road, which, having an entire monopoly
on the West Side, provides accommoda-
lions totally inadequate to the travel, and
shows great indifference to the expressed
wishes of the public, and leaves no Op
ton to the people except riding in dis
comfort or walking.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
The Yankton Freshet.

Yankton, d. T., April The ice
gorge which has been resisting The on
ward flow of water at this point for
twenty-four hours, broke AN hour ago,
and the water is flowing rapidly. Low
err Yankton had been submerged since
Monday morning. The lower floors of
two hundred dwellings, shops and mills
were covered from one to four feet.
Much damage has been done to houses,
goods and buildings. The steamer Peni-
nah broke from her mOorings, as the
gorge began to move, and has tioated
with the current mile, lodging on the
railroad track where she now sits.
The following intelligence from the
submerged farming districts was receiV-
ed last evening: The rescued parties
have been found and landed in places of
safety. About two hundred persons
would have persisted with cold and
hunger had they not been rescued. The
good work still progresses, and hopes
are entertained that nearly all the ice
and water bound sufferers will be res
cued. The weather remains cold and
the situation becomes more serious daily
The food supply has been reduced to a
minimum, and many kinds of provisions
are running short. The freshet has
swept away thousands of cords of wood,
and to-day not single cord is for sale
| in this market.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
Notified to Leave.

DODGE CRY, Kas., April THE old
city government having refused to turn
over the government, as there was no
legal board of canvassers, body of sew
enty men broke the locks from the Jail
doors, armed with shot guns, when City
Attorney II. E. dryden and Hon. r. M.
Wright effected a compromise, and de-
livered the keys to Mr.. Webster, who
Immediately issued a notice, notifying
all thieves, thugs and confidence men TO
leave town within twenty-four hours.
There is great excitement, but no one is
injured as yet, though City Attorney
dryden and others have been warned.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
Kansans at Washington.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April THE
following Kansas appointments have
been made in the pension bureau: Capt
A. r. Banks, of Lawrence, an examiner,
at an annual salary of $4,000; Col. John
K. Rankin, of Lawrence, at 81 800; w.
s. Barton, of Minneapolis, transferred
from the surgeon-general's office 10 the
pension bureau, at salary of 81 GOO;
w. FL. Johnston, of Hiawstha, at 81 200 !;
Mr.. Laughlin, of Thayer, at 1900; and
Clarence A. Bryan, of Topeka, at 81 200.
Mrs. ex-Gov. Osborne, of Kansas, has
returned from Chilli, South America, and
is stopping with relatives on MassachH-
sets avenue The new CHILEAN minister,
on his presentation to the president, took
occasion to remark that exIGov. Tom
Osborne was well liked at the Chilian
court and that his retention as minister
would be agreeable
A Demand for LAborers.
DENVER, April 7.-Much difficulty is
experienced in obtaining laborers for
the railroads being constructed through
out Colorado. The Denver s. Rio
Grande alone require from 5000 to TO-,
600 men for grading the extensions
which they have under contract in Col
orado and adjoining territories. They
offer work at about two dollars per day
to able bodied men, who apply at either
Denver or South Pueblo. New exten.
tions are being projected, which, on CON-
pletion of those now under way, will
give employment TO a large force
chieagois New Archbishop.
CHICAGO, April Tin presence of six
bishops, one hundred and twenty cler-
gymen and five thousand people Arch
bishop Fehan was formally indicted
into his exalted Office of archbishop of
this Catholic diocese, the ceremony be-
ing the bestOEal upon him of the Pal
lium or robe of Office, brought TO this
country from the Pope The ceremony
was performed at the Cathedral Of the
Holy Name, and was very interesting.
novel and impressive.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15

II, c. Gross, President.
Wa hAR7IYDALE, Vice Pres't
=. S. GROSS, CasAfe5
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-15
HERE AND THERE.

The postmaster general deserves the
thanks Of the country for urging a re-
ductiOn Of the cost of registering small
sums of money.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-08-25
PROFITABLE LESSONS.

Dry seasons and short crops are
sometimes a necessity perhaps. They
teach us how to economic and make
the most of things. We have just
read very interesting article written
by Judge E. L. Gurdenhire and pubs
ished in the Smith County News.
The writer gives his recollections of
the great drought of 1854, when
there was no rain from July to the
middle of September. 1t twas alarms
ing, anduniversal want was generally
predicted. But the gloomy predic-
lions were never verified. The farm
ers provided winter pastures by SOW
ing rye and other small grain, and
used their forage in the most eco-
nomical manner. They sowed wheat
extensively, and the crop of 1866
was one of the best ever known, as
is generally the case after dry sea
son.
The crops of Middle Tennessee
have suffered more from drouth than
ours in this end of the State, and it
has been bad enough here. Judge
Gurdenhire advises farmers to
SOW winter oats early, SO that they
may be used for pasturage during
the winter, and urges them to make
thorough preparations for early
crops of small grain next year. He
makes various other recommends
tons of a similar character.
Now, why are not these recon-
mendations good for any year, Oui
farmers might raise thousands Of
bushels Of turnips for feeding theii
stock, which may be done at small
cost and with little labor. There are
divers ways of economizing that
farmers never think of when they
raise good crops, which, if resorted
to, would add largely to the profits
of the farm. AS the country grows
more populous these savings will be
come necessity, and if they were
resorted to now, would add thou
sands to our wealth every year.