The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-11
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New Hampshire has the longest
lived people, on the average.
This country controls three-quarters
of the cornfeids Of the whole world.
A child was born at LawrenceviHe,
Ill, with one of its legs entirely black
1t is estimated that ton of gold is
buried each year with those who die In
this country.
Out of the word s.incomprehensibil-
ity," Connecticut lady made 2,24S diff
ferent words.
A walking-stick concealing a match
box and cigarette holder is late
English device.
A statue of Garfield. to be set up in
San Francisco, has just been cast at
Nuremberg, Germany.
The ties and wood fuel used by the
railroads of the United States cost an
nually about S25, 000, 900.
A freak Of nature owned by farmer
at Derry, N. H. is a calf with two
noses, two tongues, and three eyes.
The royalty received by the inventor
Of barbs on fence wire is said to be
$40, 900 a month, or 1920. 600 year.
Drunkenness is greatly on the in
crease in Mexico, according to state
ment in the ItOo Republics of that city.
A Manitoba farmer who tills $4,000
acres of land communicates with his
employees by the use Of the telephone.
From an estimate made by Miss Kate
Field, it appears that Brigham Young
has now over 1,500 living descendants.
Mrs. George H Pendleton was Alice
Key, daughter of Francis Scott Key,
who wrote the ''Star Spangled Ban
ner."
In New York jewelry store window
is exhibited a large knot, cut from q
tree, which is the exact counterpart OF
a human ear.
The municipal schools of Moscow, il
is said, will accommodate only 1000
pupils, although there are in the city
l00,00 children of school age.
What is said to be the largest dia-
mond in the world is about to be cut IN
Amsterdam. 1t was recently found in
South Africa, and weighs 475 carats.
A room at Harvard is decorated with
the handkerchiefs snatched by the Har-
ward boys in the Blaine torchlight pro-
cessions from the hands of the girls on
the sidewalks.
Yale, Harvard and Columbia col
leges are the most expensive in this
country. The minimum expenses are
from $500 to 5000, while the maximum
are put at $4,000.
Hop vines, usually a waste product
in this country, are said to have proved
not only good stock for fine paper, but
the best substitute yet obtained fol
rags in French paper-mills.
A late device for checking the collec.
tons of street-car conductors is pho.
Geographic apparatus that at intervals
photographs the interior of the car and
its passengers. -BoStO11 Post.
The oldest ex-Congressman in the
United States has been found in tbs
Ohio. He is in the ninety-frst year O
his age, and is full of "reminiscences.
A down-East veteran named John
son undertook to collect some pension
arrears lately, and was amazed to fine
that his widow had got ahead of hin
on two occasions. as far back as 1856;
and 1867.
A fountain is to be erected in Bacl
Bay Park, Boston, to commemorat
the early visit of the Norsemen to thi
country. 1t will cost 5000, and vii
be ornamented with Norsemen, galley
and bas-reliefs.
Western lumbermen are poking ful
at Tom Nast's picture in Harper S
where single span of horses are rep
resented as drawing a sled loaded witt
fifteen large logs-a quite impossible
and improbable feat.
A new building, 130x15O, has jus
been completed for the USE of the Sitka
Alaska, public school. There are nov
forty boys and sixty girls in the school
rotary of the Interior.
There were few clocks owned b
families in portions of Connecticut
half century ago, says an old Litchfiel
resident. and it was a very commo
thing for families to pay % cents
month for the use of their stoves.
The Office of the London Times hs
been so altered and rebuilt that it
unacceptable by any one who saw
few years ago. The circulation
not thought to be now over $4,000, 81
the advertisements show no decline.
In Japan there are seventy-eigl
normal schools and 9,254 gramma
intermediate and high schools, with a
attendance of 3,017, 09S pupils. Man
nation that calls itself more civilize
cannot make as good showing as thi
Most of the private structures in Ru
STA are built of wood, and it is sal
there are always twenty fires, at leas
in different parts of the empire. II
bulk of these wooden buildings, az
cording to recent estimate, burn dow
every seven or eight years.
Near Cairo, Ill, resides a man WI
claims to have discovered pure paint
large quantities on his farm. 1t is
several different colors-red, whit
blue and yellow-and requires no pr
pairing but to mix with oil, after whiC
it is ready for USE"
Recently. IN Tallahassee, a coup
were married who had only been pc
sonally acquainted for the brief periC
of ten minutes. The courtship b;
been carried on through the aid of Il
mails. The groom, a widower, r
sides in Florida, while the bride hal
from Texas.
In some sections of New Hampshi
children of school age are remarkab
scarce, according to the following lite
! from a Boston journal: In Warn
there is one school district which co
tains but one pupil; four districts ha
but two pupils each, and two have on
six between them.
The sign of Libby prison is in t
possession of Edward j. Bartlett,
J Concord, Mass. He took it from
place on the building on the mornil
of the first occupation of Richmond
the Union troops. The sign is smi
: one, made of tin, and bears simply t
: words, Libby & Co.
! A four-year-old boy fell a distance
4 eighteen feet. near Eugene, Ore, la
", and. alighting on his head, "
thought to have been killed. The lit
how was prepared for the grave,