The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-12-17
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The death rate in Dakota Is only s ini
the 1000.
The new Washington mansion OF Col |
John Hay has cost him $100,OoO.
Costly living is given as the cause OF
the loss Of students at Yale college.
4 COWS horn, five and halffeet long,
is one of the curiosities of California
The population of the British Empire
is 310,o0o,o00; of the Russian, l0O,0Oo.-
a miniature copy of the capital at
Washington is being built for the State
of Georgia.
The Virginia Gazette, published at the
quaint old town of williamsburg, was es-
tablished in 1868.
Army officers say played out" In
stead of .'exhausted.,r' No army officer
can marry IN Boston
Tho Supreme court of Texas has de
eided that viii scrawled on q candle
box is legal instrument
The anti-tobacco people claim that
Mcclellan, like Grant. fell a victim TO
excessive use of the weed.
The fancy of G. A. Sheldon. Of Ram
dolph, N. Y, is for old carriages, in
which he has invested $20,000.
The suffice is still largely practiced in
India. Over 5000 widows by this means
devoted themselves to death last year.
A French author has hit on good
idea- He is about to bring out a collec-
ton of clever things said by children.
To avoid the danger of being persecut-
ed himself, the workingman must attain
from the persecution of others.-ChdrteS-
ton AetcS.
A San Francisco paper asserts that
there are on the Pacific slope to-day more
divorced and unmarried couples than in
all the rest of the country.
There are about 100000 cattle on
farms in this country and 10000, 900 on
ranches and ranges. The increase has
been more than three-fold in the last ten
years.
Colonel Ingersoll finds that the prom
ises even of this life are delusiye. He
brought his skeptical mind to believe in
one future state-New Mexieo-and now
| the titles to his lands there are held to be
| raudulent-BoStoh Transcript.
A number of Louisville's reformed
gamblers are filling places of trust and
| profit. One of them is clerk in a lead
| ing dry goods store. Another collects
fares on street car. Still another fills
the position of cashier for manufacture
ing company.
An italian astronomer declares that
| the planet Mars is peopled by intelligent
beings, who are trying to attract atten-
ton from jewellers on this planet. He is
now engaged in making experiments
with view to discover what the mes
sages mean.
Prince George of Wales, having got
through all his examinations, has been
| promoted to the rank of lieutenant He
has now been nearly eight years and q
half in the British navy. The Duke OF
| Edinburg was only four and half years
in reaching that rank.
Two-thirds of the wealth of this town
says the Palatka, Fla, Herald, is to be
inherited by young girls. Their fathers
have no sons and no poor relations. The
wealth consists mostly of orange groves
which will give an average income OF
$4,000 clear of all expenses.
Blue ribbon beer, manufactured in To
ronto, and claimed to be a temperance
beverage, was tested few days ago OF
two men, each of whom drank seven
glasses in an hour and half and theI
| became drunk. The court thereupon de
cided that the stuff was Intoxicating.
The Highlanders of Scotland have {
| curious custom of never referring to the
departed as dead. They mention then
as having shifted their abode, or as hav-
ing gone where they are better off. Il
called upon to speak directly of some
person who has died they call him thu
non-lasting or the non-enduring one.
/ Eight hundred feet of the Lookou
Mountain railroad have been graded anC
made ready for the rails. The tota
length of the road will be 200 feet. By
May, it is expected. people will be tran:
ported by rail to the place above til
clouds where Hooker fought his famou
battle.
:. One of the speakers in the Buffal
Faith Convention said that, previous
his conversion and his adherence to tn
cure-by-faith cult, he was 100000 i
debt and in the financial dumps general
ly. Subsequently he was able to pay al
his debts and become successful bus
ness man.
The importance and value of the tc
bacco crop in Virginia is very clearl
shown in the statement of the Lynchbur
Adcd1ace that Lynchburg pays NOR
revenue into the United States treasur
on the article of tobacco than any one @
the New England States pays ON every
thing it produces.
A st. Louis drug company recently re
ceived package of aloes tied up in
monkey skin. A writer in a wester
paper thinks this method of packin
rather rough On the monkeys, for
takes thirty or more of the little fellow
to furnish wrappings for a single hun
dred weight of the drug.
While a young lady of Lebanon, Pa
was walking along the streets of tina
town few days ago, a bright ribbon
dangling from her waist attracted
flock of geese, and one of the boldest O
them, running up, seized the streameI
Jerked it off and ran away with it. TIL
young lady was badly frightened.
The use of Jamaica ginger is bein!
carried to excess. A Philadelphia drug
gist says he has scores of customers VIII
take from one to three ounces at time
The alcohol which largely forms tn
basis of ginger accounts for the strang
relish shown for the novel drink by thos
who thus CRAFTY their perverted appc
tites.
When Judge Kelley, ''the father of tn
house." was last reelected, Sunset
Cox said to him: .'Well, judge, yol
will probably be kept in congress al
your life" 81 told my people, an
swered Kelley, II was candidate 70
life-barring lunacy or paralysis" ''Yoi
made your exception too broad, ;" reptile,
Cox; ''lunacy does does not disqualify /;
man for seat in congress.
The sculptor to whom was awards,
the contract for a statue of Longfellov
offers seated figure, with cloak thrown
back on the chair and the left leg GOV
cred. The left hand holds a roll o
manuscript, and the right hand hang
over the arm of the chair. The snuar,
| at the head of State street, Boston, ha,
been chosen for the monument.
A German scientist estimates the num-
Der of blind persons in the world a
100000. The European countries differ
somewhat in the proportion of blind in
habitants. In Austria one person is blind
of every 1-7S5; in Sweden, every Lbs
in France, of 1, 181; in Prussia, of ILL
in England, of I,037. Then follow, with
much larger percentage, Russia, Nor.
way and Finland. The largest number
Of blind persons is TO be found in Egypt
In Cairo one person among twenty is
blind.
DIR. LansdelL. the famous missionary.
was warned when entering Bokhara that
his conventional clerical garb would not
impress the natives with proper sense
Of the wearers importance. II had, -
he related. ''the red hood / wear as q
doctor of divinity and my square college
cap. also had a very elaborate ex-
ample of Persian waistcoat, which /
purchased as euFiosify I had also. rs