The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-06
VOL. 2s---NO. 80.
GLEANENGS.


A son of Prof Agassiz is a successful
sheep-farmer in Colorado.
The cattle ranches of the West oc-
cupy 1865, 600 square miles OF land.
Gloucester, Mass, has at present ITO
schooners engaged in the mackerei
fishery.
Germany has 324 and France S25 To-
comotives for every 1000 kilometres Oh
railway.
A Livingston County. New York.
woman is the mother of twenty-seVen
children.
PATHS European contract is made at
just one-half the figures for which she
sang in this country.
Vaccination is carried out so strictly
in the Prussian army that not soldier
has died of smallpox since 1875.
Aroostook County, Me-, produced
last wear 1000 tons of starch, made
from 500, 900 bushels of potatoes
Mr.. Edmund Yates will not forgive
the London Times. In his World he
refers to John Walter, printer and
printing-machine vender, living In
Berkshire, and having place OF busl-
ness at Blaekfriars.
An Ohio man got off bad joke in
Mr. Cleveland's presence. He wore
Straw hat and the President asked him
if he had not invested too early. ION,
no." he answered, II didn't want to be
considered too slow in making the nee
essary change" Grover smiled.
Gen. S. W. Crawford of the army
has Just completed book OF political
and military "reminiscences. He is one
of the three surviving officers OF the
In Dor q
diary all through that engagement.
This diary will appear in his book.
One of the rules of Monte Carlo is
that when visitor has lost everything
at the gaming table he must leave
Monaco. The administration pays his
fare to whatever part of the world he
may desire to go, but if he has no
means of support he is not permitted
to remain. Thus it is that there are
no miserable poor persons in the prin-
cipality.
Judge Stallo of Cincinnati, the new
disappointed Minister to Italy, is the
author of an abstruse, metaphysical
work entitled Fundamental Concepts
of Modern Physics" He is, however,
best known to the American people as
the man upon whose piano Carl Schurz
played The Heart Bowed Down" the
afternoon of Mr.. Greeley's nomination
in 1872.
A Lewiston physicians father, when
quite Young, was bitten by vicious
horse, the horses teeth closing over the
ear lobe and taking out a small piece of
the upper part. The mark of the
wounded ear skipped one generation
and has appeared in the Lewlston's
PHYSICIANS SON, there being on the lit
IL. IL tho Y.Hoin marking pf
the ear that showed, years ago, upon
his andfather.-LegOiStOn Journal
1t is said the white brick now made
in France from the immense accumula-
tions of waste sand at glass factories is
likely TO prove a valuable industry.
The process of production consists in
subiecting the sand to an immense n.y.
draulic pressure, and then baking in
furnaces at high temperature, SO as to
| produce blocks of various forms and
Dimensions of uniform white color,
and of almost pure slick. The product
is unaffected by the heaviest frOsts, or
| by the sun or rain. -.
There is wonderful fish in Goose
Lake, Oregon. 1t is called by some
the greenback fish, for it is certainly an
! inflationist. 1t has the power to fill
| itself up with air until it becomes very
much like a round ball. Of evenings,
about shutdown, they may be seen play
ing on the surface of the water. They
| viii swell up by taking in the air, and
the wind will blow them over the lake.
They reflect ali the colors of the rain
| bow, and when sporting over the lake
are a grand sight.
As long as landowners look at the
| question of forest preservation or tree
| of charity for nnGtnTifU
the great majority of them will go
on cutting down their trees indlscrlmi-
nately and refusing TO plant. Discus
sion on this subject Is now, writes a
correspondent, taking new direction.
The scientist is able to show that
larger returns may be secured by judi
cious timber culture than by gold min
ing or even wheat growing, save In
exceptional localities.
The new Connecticut law against
''fiash" literature, which has just gone
into effect, imposes a fine of $50 or
less, and imprisonment for three
months or less, or both, at the discre-
ton of the court, upon every person
who shall sell, lend, give or offer, or
have in his possession with intent to
sell, lend, give or offer, any book, mag
azine, pamphlet or paper devoted
wholly or principally TO the publica-
ton of criminal news, or pictures and
stories of deeds of bloodshed, lust or
crime.
On the shores of Casco bay, six
miles from Portland, Me-, in the local
ity known as Falmouth Foreside, there
exists a water-course that is unique
among the springs of the world From
the bottom of deep canyon that runs
up from the bay through a bed OF
quicksand that engineers have been I'M
able to sound there comes out stream
of water in volume sufficient to sup
. ply small city, and in chemical purity
, unequaled by any known water. Neither
drought nor rains diminish or increase
its flow.
To lift $50 pounds, the average
weight of man, calls for six-horse
power, while mans power is estimated
! to be about one-fifth of a horse power
when exerted TO the greatest advantage
+ In other words, if the machinery fol
} the purpose weighed nothing, mans
2 strength must be increased thirty timeI
at least before he can sustain himself in
s the air. Even then he could fly only
!. in a calm. Men can not hope to fly by
, muscular exertion. Any flying appar
7 Atus must weigh less than twenty-five
!. pounds per horsepower, in order Il
sustain itself, and, if supported by
balloon, must be even lighter.