The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-07
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A close shave-Two per cent. month.
The Astor library now has 1900
volumes.
There are $50 butter ard cheese fac
tories in Iowa.
You can see seven states from the top
of Roam mountain, n. C.
The cultivation of rice is a great and
growing industry in Louisiana.
Whittier believes all the statements
in his Barbara Fritchie" are true.
A household with baby is founded
on rOck.-[ New Haven Register.
Both Tennyson and Thaekeray left
Cambridge without taking degree.
Run if you like. but try to keep your breath;
Work like man, but don! be worked to death.
-tOliVer Wendell Holmes
Comb and brnsh my heir" as the
fond parent said to the barber-[ Koko-
mo Tribune.
Money cannot supply young mans
| wants if he happens to want good sense.
-GNew Orleans Picayune.
There is computed to be over $50, 900
girls not yet II years of age, already
wage workers in the United States.
When whisky gets the better of man
he may be sure the devil is forclosing
his mortgage South Bend Herald.
We like to see man who can take q
| joke. But we respect him more when
he gives credit for 1T Ynnkers States
| man.
They tell us matchesa are made in heav-
| Gu; but somehow they never smell that
way when you strike 'em.-Lowell Citi-
zen.
4 writer in Lippincott's Magazine
says that of the $4,000 words employed
by Shakespeare, ab'ut 5000 appear but
;ncc.
ITnw wisely Nature. a. dered all below,
| Forbade i.c4rd svomau's chm grow,
For law o.ti.i sh- be shaw d " hat r the skIiD
Wu-se tongue ~..u'd lever ier her CHA be still.
Glls- W. "a J, ,r-eS are now made
! gin ~',ch perfection that the animals
ia nl.,.iNs's caEi,pt sec through the de-
| '~',''l II.
| Il yon can approve of yourself, it
IN !, t,ns fittis Inference whether the
s-,.'r,-sc~ i IA ,.r not Detroit
.'.s~.
80 = .;r:,rr has written some
's.-'sr-. :. .'.,ti paper. 1t is very
'''':: ne arr''ss one p,'et who is
:i.r". LEA.
III i,,.i;..Y ~litrr says that 5000
ar si:;vc ia. ii ari,ten since 1900, of
.,.",. I3.;i',1 nave ir,"n produced by
tt,. 50! l...i!.
i.%.e,r..':rr i not 81 much school
,t''..rc n,,n larn~ wisdom, as lie learns
W.T. = csriinn'ri,ai fool he has BEEN.
is alta Bend rrii'une-
The names Of towns and settlements
in Altoona p1eac- iic air of originality
Here are some Of them: Good Enough
Tough MT, Contention, Family Fuss
and Discipline.
1t costs $32 apiece. per annum to edu
cate the forty thousand pupils of New
York ut the public grammar schools ant
the seventy Thousand primary schOo
pupils cost $l5 apiece.
"Where there's will there's a way,
mGrmured the profligate youth, as h,
: went around paying up his bills aftel
the receipt of legacy from rich ana
doting uncle.-[Lowell Citizen.
In making ''pure ground coffee" tn,
! rule in Boston is to mix one bushel o
;, beans and one of roasted peanuts witt
one bushel of cheap coffee. The package
is then labeled: ''None purer-bewar
of limitations"
The Galveston boy is progressive. H
was standing in a crowd of boys on tn
sidewalk, when his mother called him t.
q go down town and bring her a demiiohl
of whisky. ''Send the old man. Nv
i, got considerable confidence in him.
Galveston News.
Tim, l want TO borrow your blacl
= Sunday pants to attind n funeral" sal,
; one. Galveston Irishman to another
/ 'tAnd whose funeral is it We are so anx
/ ious to attind in NE black Sunda,
e pantsp ''Your own. be dad, eff yol
don't lind 'em to me"
In the worlds broad field OF battle
Where many dangers luTk,
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