The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-06-25
GLEANINGs.

The salary of lady In waiting to
Queen Victoria is $500 per annum.
The name of n. de Giers, the Rus
sian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is pro-
nounced ''Geeren."
According to the London Times the
price Of diamonds has steadily fallen
from SIS to 1915 per karat
Mr.. Charles Loder. England's Iarg.
est personal taxpayer, is assessed on
property Of that description at $1i5,-
100000.
Railway loans constitute almost the
entire Prussian debt of ETA, AS, 100.
The charge on this debt amounts to
81, $50, 600 for interest.
A Louisville gentleman had the first
tooth of his grandchild mounted on q
gold pin and wears it on his scarf as
an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (Ky.) Coatr-
ieT-J0Ur1sGL
N. Renan is photographed as a man
of almost repulsive exterior, who COM
pensates by the charm of his manners,
his fascinating smile. and his agreeable
conversation.
When the President wished that the
poiygamist Mormons could be alike
the rest of u.s. he seems to have gone
to an extreme, since he is himself
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
Maurice Kingsley a son of Charles
Kingsley, the novelist, has made for
tune in silver mines In Colorado, and
is about to settle in New Haven, Conn.
for the purpose of educating his chill
dren.
T. a. ovoo4;o,, 80 49,, h,,;l,I:,. -. Ia
year Chicago is credited with having
spent more money than any other
Western city, Minneapolis ranking
second, St. Paul third, and ST. Louis
fourth.
The curfew law is rigidly enforced in
Albany, Ore. Young men under q
and ladies under 18 must be under
cover by o'clock at night unless they
have legitimate business out--SGn
francisco Gail.
A theory new and novel is that the
vast depressions of the ocean beds are
to be accounted for by supposing that
the moon broke away from the earth
more than fifty million years ago. The
basins are the scars then made.
1t is stated that the practice among
reformed inebriates is to take adVan-
tage of the bracing properties of tea,
''thus repudiating," says a medical
paper, ''absolute teetotalism and
adopting the plan of total tea-ism."
San FraQcisco City Hall is furnished
with water from reservoir placed on
the roof. Recently several very large
and many small fish were discovered in
the tank, although it is shown that
none were ever put in there by any
person.
A ledge of white stone, which some
what resembles marble, and is suscep-
tible of high polish, exists in Para
disc Valley. Nevada. When quarried
it is said to be much lighter and softer
than ordinary rock, but hardens upon
exposure.
John Leveridge, ESQ.,, of New York,
is said to be the oldest lawyer in the
United States. He was admitted to the
bar in 1911, and fought in the war with
England the following year. Only q
few days since he argued a case in
court
Col. I. w. Higginson finds it neces-
sary to deny that he ever said of George
Eliot that ''if she had ever held q dead
baby in her arms she would have
wanted something better to console
her than the philosophy of Herbert
Spencer.
When MIR. Cleveland went to select
pew in the Washington church which
he attends, he was asked what part of
the building he would like to sit in.
''Wel," he said, 81 don't want to be
so near the minister that he can see
whether or not am listening"
The Andanian Islanders believe that
their deity lives in big stone house,
and that his wife is green shrimp. A
small body of heretics assert that the
deity's wife is red shrimp, but they
are regarded as of little account, and
are vigorously prosecuted on general
principles.
A writer in New York paper de-
mics DR.. Talmage's assertion that
Daniel Webster never used tobacco.
The writer says Mr.. Webster used to-
bacco moderately for smoking, and
even for chewing, during the greater
part of his life, and was guilty of some
verses in praise of it.
A prominet surgeon, not long resi-
dent of Buffalo, says that he is sur
prised at the amount of cancer existing
in this otherwise unhappy community.
He says that in two years resid ence
here, practicing general surgery, he
has encountered over $50 cases of can
cer.-BabalO Express.
The house in London which Dickens
describes in 'tDavid Copperfield' as
containing an extraordinary staircase,
down which David describes himself as
tumbling and having at the time q
vague impression that somebody was
falling downstairs, is now occupied by
William Black, the novelist.
Oriental proverbs give an idea of the
estimation in which Herat is held in
the Oriental mind. "Khorasom," runs
one, sis the oyster she'll of the world
and Herat4s the pearl, (Which Is the
most splendid city in the worldP If
you answer truly, you must say Herat,
said another when the city was at the
height of its splendor.
New York men have taken to wear
ing bOutOnniereS of late, and flower
stands have sprung up from one end Of
the city to the other. Every other man
wears flower in his button-hole, even
when going uptown from business,
and at night even a larger proportion
are decorated with rose, lily of the
valley or some violets.
The oldest soldier, measured by his
term of service in the United States
army, is Ordinance Sergt. Charles
LANCE, now on duty at San Francisco.
Sergt. Lange is few months over SO
years of age, having been born in Han
over, Jan. q, 1927. He has been thir-
ty-eight years and three months in
continued service in the United States
army.
A smart colonel of an Irish militia
regiment was lately found fault with
by the inspecting general for the indif-
/ ferent shooting of his regiment. The
. colonel replied: ''Sir, must explain
that stand before you in two posi-
tons, one as colonel of the regiment
and the other as an Irish 'landlordr
AS far as l am concerned, consider
the shooting good enough"
He Got q New Hat.