The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-06-28
HERE AND THERE.


Russell Sage who is worth go. OOO, 900,
walks rather than to pay car fare, and
eats free lunches.
The Brooklyn bridge authorities have
ten suits against them Of from $500 to
5000 damages for injuries in the re-
cent panic.
Hanlan is pretty nice man after all.
he has made $4,000 in the last ak
years BY rowing. That is nearly As
much as the average printing office has
made in that time.
Iowa expects to raise 200 OOO, 900 bush
els Of corn and 22.OOO,O 600 bushels Of
wheat this year, and the oat crop prom
Uses TO be the largest ever known. At
this rate Iowa Will soon catch up with
Kansas.
Some Of the Hindoos believe in 6. 400
600 stages Of existence for every mortal.
II would be exceedingly interesting 10
their friends 70 know Just what stage the
editors Of the leading Topeka papers are
in At this time.
It il said there are p, 600 women in
Tennessee who support themselves.-Ex-
| change.
That's nothing. There are many
women in Kansas who support them
selves and their husbands too.
A mud-turtle has been taken out Of
womAn's stomach in Topeka The pub
lie will be glad to hear that the people
Of that great city have turned their st.
tentiOn 10 new enterprise, which
will undoubtedly have tendency to de-
crease the desire to commit suicide.
A German economic writer says that
Russian gold mines yielded last year
$50, 10000 The great increase in pro-
duction daies from 1877, when the gov
eminent abolished the heavy tax on
gold mining. The output promises to
be very large indeed.
Senator Dawes" said . reporter in
Washington on Wednesday, "what IL the
leading issue in Massachusetts? ?" "But-
ler," Dawes replied. "What other issues
are there?' "Butler." ''Who will be
the next presidential nomInes.'' "But-
ler-if he is reelected this fall"
An interesting discovery has been
made on the south bank Of the Yellow
stone river, near Miles City, on q great
sandstone rock, where appears carved
In large characters the name of "Will-
lam Clarke, July %, 1906. Clarke was
associated with Merlwether Lewis in
1866 in exploring the northern half OF
he continent.
Dorsey now threatens 70 publish all
the correspondence which fell into
his hands as secretary of the National
Republican committee in 1880, and then
as last crushing stroke to the Republi.
can party, he will go over to the DemOc-
racy, just as many another scalawag has
when caught and exposed by the Repub-
licans. We certainly hope he will not
neglect to carry the latter portion OF his
threat into execution.
Kansas City Journal: A leading pork
packer. who ought to know what he is
talking about, declares that q large por-
ton Of the lard manufactured IN Chica-
go contains about 90 per cent of pure
lard, the other half being made up of
tallow, cotton seed oil, water and clay.
He further claims that in order 10 pro-
tect the public and the honest portion
of the trade, congress should legIslate
on the subject.
Edison is In Chicago. To 9 company
Of scientific gentlemen the other night
he said: 81 started in 1873 TO invent q
system OF electric lightning to take the
place of gas. About six weeks ago I
closed my laboratory and now have
got the system worked down to the min
utest detail. There is nothing more IN
electric lighting TO be invented or re-
quired. It has been fully shown to be
capable Of replacing gas scientifically
and commercially under all conditions
and we have started In 20 do it."
Mrs. ROsalind A. Young, who q
couple of years ago wrote an article
about Pitcairn's Island for Scribner's
Magazine. Is still living In that out-of-
the-way spot. Her father is pastor Of
the island church and teacher OF the
school, and abe is organist and assistant
teacher. She Is about 20 years old, and,
writes n retired sea captain who not
long ago visited her at her home, ''she
weighs 200 pounds, meyer had a shoe on
her foot, and If necessary could swim
off to ship four miles from the leland
and back to the shore, and then go into
the church and play the organ nearly as
well as any young lady IN the States"
Mr.. Howard Carroll of the New York
Times has written taking book, EMIT
led twelve Americans, their Lives and
Times" These twelve representative
men are Horatio Seymour, Charles
Francis Adams, Peter Cooper. Hannibal
Hamlin, John Gilbert, Robert c..
Schenck, Frederick Douglass, William
Allen, Alien G.. Thurman. Joseph Jeffer
son, Elihu B. Washburne, and Alexan-
der H. Stephens. The very variety of
this list makes it attractive. The vol
ume is dedicated ito George Jones, of
the New York Times, faithful friend,
good citizen, true man, modest, IN.
dependent, fearless" Mr.. Carroll is
very clever writer, and no doubt his
book will find q throng OF readers.
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