The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1884-05-29
GLEANINGS.

| Colonel John Hays share in the late
AmAAa Stones estate is about 81. co.,
Mad foxes are reported near Hart
ford Conn They attack people with
ferQcity.
Meissonier, the French artist, who is
now az, does not dye his hair, but
wears beard like river god and as
white as snow.
Queen Victoria dimes at S:45 in the
evening. the Emperor of Brazil at l in
khe afternoon. and the Emperor of Ger
many half way between.
| D. Il. Macdonald has been in Ludlow
Street Sail five years on q civil suit for
S50OOa For three years he has not
seen sun, moon or stars.
William h. Vanderbilt il shaved ev-
cry day by the same barber, an old
German, Jacob Aber, who shaved Fer
nado Wood for over thirty years.
Bradford, Pa. has elected a Japan
csc to the Office of City Engineer.
This Is the first time a Japanese has
been elected to a civil Office in the I'm
tied States.
Her latest photograph shows Sarah
Bernhardt enwrapped from head to
foot In . wonderful wad of furs, SWELL
ing her to the size of q dime museum
fat woman.
The Sheriff of Solano county, Cali
fornia, has received letter from man
in Oregon, Offering to reveal the where
9bouts of murderer who escaped from
Soiano county in 1854
Pensacola claims, and claims it bold
| b, that she is not only the Oldest city
In america. but that she possesses
more lovely ladies of the old Castiliau
type Of beauty than any other.
Thus far soapstone is proving itself
an excellent substitute for fire-bricks. /;
stands very high temperatures and it
does not glaze, and it has several 9TH
er desirable properties which renders
it very useful in the house and foun-
dry.
The late Bishop Clarkson. of the
Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska, was in.
strumental in building over fifty
churches in Nebraska and Dakota.
Trinity Cathedral in Omaha, was built
mainly through his exertions and in.
huence. He also established a child'f
hospital at Omaha.
| The murder of the Penningtons, mar
and wife, on 8 farm near Frankfort
Kan. last February, has brought up 9
peculiar point of law. The statutes Of
Kansas provide that the estate of q cou
pie dying childless shall go to the
heirs of the last deceased. As there il
no proof of how the murder was execu
ted, or which of the Pennington
breathed last after the wounds were in
aicted, the right to the 160 acre farm
remains in doubt
It has been discovered that . either
Of Cincinnati who fell dead in q rail
way car the other day was poisoned b!
tobacco smoke. He was an occasions
sufferer from heart disease, and thu
trouble was so aggravated by the suffo
eating smoke of the car that he dice
after breathing it few minutes. Thu
car in which he rode had only ont
compartment for men, women anC
children, and the smokers were allow
ed full sway in it. Two other passen
gers were overcome by the tobacco
fumes.
Mr.. William Houston read a papel
on Spelling Reform" few days age
at a meeting of the Canadian Institute
in Toronto. He stated that he read be
tween 5000 and 1000 letters a year
and finds that hardly more than three il
100 are correctly spelled, and that as &
rule the uneducated spell more correct
ly than the educated. Modern spelling
he thought, is tyrannical superstition
inherited from the eighteenth century
and Milton's spelling was much more
correct, both etymologically and pho
netically. 1t will be news to many tina
Edmund Spenser did not use the u il
such words as honor, for emitting which
Americans have been so severely criti
Cised by the English. Doubtless a re
form in spelling is desirable, but the
practical difficulties in the way of &C
complishing it are great.-Nca0 Yorj
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