The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-12
PEOPLE IND EYENTS


The Jail in Grand Isle county, VT, has
been without an inmate for over two
years.
The imitation alligator skin SO large.
ly used for little sachels, pocket books.
etc, is made OF pigs skin.
There has never !H..a season when
so much attcuit"n has been given to
ladies stockings 10y the ladies them
selves.
Can man marry OF $40 week ~ is
the conundrum. Yes, he can, if he can
find the girl who Is fool enough Hart
ford Post.
Now that John Brown is dead, the
Queen should get u corset and ST.
Bernard deg. Then she viii be- safe
Rochester Port Express
The walls of Paris, which are TO come
down, cover Ia strip U1 ground 100 feet
wide and p miles loug, and the city will
gain $2O.OO0OO0 in land by their re-
mUval
1t Is well enough tor physicians to
recommend elephants milk to patients,
but The neat thing is to secure the
address OF the f1uudry engaged IN its
manufacture.
Al Owen county, KY, hen sat on if
teen eggs and brought out nineteen
chickens, says an exchange The hen
must be sErewd one, or else there's u
newlY-hatched lie out.
The use of arsenic is said to be in
creasiBg among fashionable female
idiots in the West II beauties for
a while, but leaves a CHASTITY wreck of
aithered cadaverousnese.
Mr.. George w. Guilds, of Philadll J.
phia, who has been confined to his
house by the advise Of his physician, is
again able la be cut engaging in his
numerous benevolent enterprises
The Rev. DIR. DIX howIs because
American women dn not bear larger
families, but it isn't likely that all his
hOHilng will accomplish much in the
way of reinedying the evil.-Lowell
| Citizen
The death of Mrs. Harriet Lane John
sons only surviving child recalls the
memory of her gracious presence In the
White House when Buchanan was Pres
ident and how Lord Lyons, then British
Minister, was engaged to be married TO
| her.
The Dismal swamp is fast losing ali
its romantic charms under the invasion
of utilitarian man. Its morssses are be-
| ing converted into fertile fields, canals
and railroads penetrate il in every direc-
ton, and even Lake Drummond, that
famed haunt of ghOstly maidene, will
probably soon be drained.
John G.. O'Neill, the recently elected
mayor Of Port Huron. Mich, is pros
porous and deservedly popular mer.
chant in that city. Although nominated
by the Democrats his election gives
satisfaction 10 both parties. Confidence
is expressed on all sides that his admin
istration will be wise and just one.
AT the last sitting of the French Geo
| graphical Society. Mime. de Ujfaigy
| Bourbon gave an account of the expio.
raiions made with her husband In 1876
and 1880 in the western Himalayas and
the Valley of Cashmere. She was the
! first European woman who had -penetra-
ted TO the foot of the Monstag in the
l Karakorum mountains
The New York Sun having denounced
the Vanderbilt ball as representing
nothing but the accumulation of i'm
mense masses OF money by the few MT
OF thelebor of the many" the New York
| World calls attention 10 description In
the Sun of the dress worn BY Mr.. Paul
Dana, the son of the Sun, or at least the
Suns editor
VIM. Vanderbilt is said 20 make some
people hold their breath when thew eee
him drive. A Glan worth $500 Goo OOC
and nearly IS years old driving himself
al weigh of $50 pounds in = wagon
weighing 1S4 pounds, at rate nf a mile
Ia two minutes and q half, on a road
crowded with fast teams, Is thought by
Gath" TO be "a pretty healthy, ruddy
specimen Of the richest citizen in ths
world"