The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-22
MssrNGENKs.


Bosworth battlefield is cut into
quarters by canal and 9 railroad.
Both the sons Of the Gear are slight
gentle-looking boys. resembling their
mother.
German gsologists estimate that the
Dead Sea win be mass of solid salt q |
thousand years hence.
A bill in the Georgia Legislature
proposes q tax Of 800 for every base
ball game played in the state.
One of the English railroad COM
panies has supplied all its employees l
with red neck handkerchiefs, the wear
ing Of which is compulsory.
San Francisco fishermen say the seals
and sea lions in the harbor must go.
They consume A. 900 tons of fish year
enough to supply the whole city.
A national movement is being sue
cessfully carried out in the Colony Of
Victoria to erect q memorial statue in
Melbourne to the late Gen. Gordon.
The popularity of Southern Califor-
mia as o sanitarium is such that there
are over 200 cottages, worth from
$500 to $4,000 a piece, in course of
construction in Los Angeles and SUI
burbs.
In front of Yankton, d. T., where
| the channel of the river ran twenty
feet deep five years ago, there are now
100 acres of land six to eight feet above
low water mark. The river is shifting
to the Nebraska side.
An Essex, VT, man recently paid q
debt, it is said, of Sc, 900 with the hard
cash-an in silver-he had boarded up.
The box weighed $50 pounds, and the
To Nyh AZ kr0
nights watching his treasure
Since New Years Day $50 inventions
have been fled in the Patent Office rel
alive to roller skates. Boxwood. of
| which the wheels are generally made,
| has doubled in price. Contracts for
| 10000 tons of steel for the skates have
been given out.
When Bismarck made the acquaint-
| ance of his present doctor he was sick
and peevishly declined to answer ques-
| tions. ''As you like" said the doctor;
''send for veterinary surgeon, as such
practitioners treat their patients with
| out asking any questions" The Chan
cellor was captured.
| William Henry Hurlbert writes from
London that Mr.. Forster once said of
| the late Lord Houghton: ''Foibles or
no foibles, this is to be said of him by
me. that of all the men l have ever
| known he is the one man to whom
would go at once, not only were 1 in
trouble, but were in disgrace
Five bits of Robert Lees lead cut
round holes through the hide of 1.-The
Drummer boy of the Potomac" Dem
mis- Sullivan, of the Irish Brigade. Mr..
Sullivan, now in Washington, says
| that he was but one week more than
ten years old when he enlisted, and he
claims, therefore, to be considered as
among the youngest of the Union sol
| diers.
THE gold and scarlet of the sun" is
| rivaled in the cupolas of st. Peters
Cathedral, just finished at Moscow.
There are five of the cupolas. and no
less than 900 pounds of gold were used
in OVERLAPPING them. The doors of the
temple cost $4,000, and upon the
marble floors were expended 81, $780,
600. Ten thousand worshippers can
be comfortable if their souls let them
within this $12. 500, 900 temple.
An old resident of Jasper, Tenn, has
left a large property in trust to be used
for suppressing the habit prevalent
among men of eating with their knives.
He had also felt the disadvantage aris-
/ ing from his own early lack of training
in such matters, and had fairly become
| a monomaniac on the subject, stopping
or calling attention 20 those whom he
noticed INDUCING in the use of the
knife in lieu of fork.
| Young Duval, who squandered for
tune on Cora Pearl, is a son of the
founder of favorite cheap Paris restau-
rants, and is now settled down, pros
porous, and happily married. He long
since recovered from his passion for
| Cora, whose present deplorable state
has furnished the occasion for so many
sympathetic articles in the Paris press.
She became years ago hideous wreck.
and has now fallen into utter poverty.
In the ancient graves in Tennessee
are found human skulls that are some
inches larger than any modern human
head. Within the last forty years there
has been a very marked dininution in
the size of heads in Philadelphia. Old
and experienced hatters in this city
I and New York, says the Ledger, will
| corroborate this statement. Somebody
| writes to an exchange to ask: lis there
a similar change taking place else
where, and what will be the resultp"
Why is it that the watch springs are
breakingP ''In my experience of thir-
| ty-three years, writes a workman in
the tinishing-room of a factory, -
have never known of SO large per cent
of broken springs at this time of year.
l always have noticed that there was a
large increase in the breaking of MAIN
springs in watches in the fall, but there
are more accidents of the kind now
} than ever. Why is itP'' No less than
5000 mainsprings in watches were
broken during recent storm in New
York.
At Gastein, when the Emperor and
Emnress OF Austria took leave of Kai.
ser Wilhelm, the latter wished to ac-
| Badeschloss. They begged him to
spare himself that fatigue. But he in
sisted on going. Then Franz Josef,
with dignified pleasantly. said;
} when you are wearing my uniform
you should obey my orders" Where
upon Kaiser Wilhelm, who was in the
dress of an Austrian Colonel. drew
himself up, gravely saluted, and re-
piled: II must, of course, obey your
| Majesty's commands
A man died at Montrouge, in France,
after strong reverse of fortune. He
was known in the humble society
} among which he ended his days as LIE
Pere Fallais, but under the Empire.
less tnan twenty years, No IlFou III
great luxury. He was the contractor
who undertook the work for opening
the Boulevard st. Michael. in which
millions passed through his hands.
: He afterward became utterly ruined in
unfortunate speculations, and lived fol
+ time on the charity of an old beggar-
+ woman whom he had promised to re-
munerate when he came into a fort
une he expected, but as the fortune
did not come she lost patience and
3 turned him into the streets, where be
i. was found lying dead on heap OF
a rubbish.
l. A colored man died in Chesterfield
{ County last week, leaving his thir-
ueenth wife to mourn his loss. Nc
9 better evidence could possibly be al
t forded of the vitalizing and bracing Ell
9 fects of the salubrious climate OF this
Z State. True, the remarkable powers
= | of endurance displayed by the old mar
! appear to have been Offset by the pool
health of his successive wives; but the
!, wives were probably drawn from Nortf
Carolina, just across the line.-ChGrEes
ton Is. CO. HeWs.
!: HsncoCkis Courtesy TO 6 ordOr.
: Gen. Gordon related an incident o
= his experience in New York which ap