The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-12-10
GLEANINGs.


There are 507 miles of paved and
LOO of unpaved streets in Philadel-
phia-
Thirty American girls arc teaching
normal schools in the Argentine Re-
public.
ABoston firm has spent $1,000 in
getting. out fine edition of Italia
Rookh."
A German statistican finds that there
are 100000 blind persons in the
world.
A firm at Bartlett. N H.. turns out
1000 bushels of shoe pegs each work
ing day.
There are 6.sS2, 954 Roman Catholics
in the United States and 10, 187, 764
Protestants.
In London proper land is very dear,
having recently been sold at the rate of
$4,000, 900 an acre.
The curious discovery has just been
made that Vegetarians are never affect
ed by sea sickness.
A single chandelier in the mountain
castle of that spendthrift, the King of
Bavaria, cost 1900.
The mortality Of chloroform is l to
vows budl VI clI0cT, 1 10 1O,O4S, budb
of nitrous oxide, to 10000
Sixty murders and only three con-
Victions since the war is the criminal
record of Sumter County, Tenn.
Jay Gould's family have an income
of 81, 400, 900 year for their invest
ment in Missouri Pacific Railroad
stock.
It is now said that the over-draw
check rein, by reason of muscular strain
upon the eyes, produces blindness in
horses.
Icelandic women have for ages voted
in church affairs. The custom is kept
up by the Icelanders who have come
to this country and settled in Dakota.
There are no fewer than sixty-four
volumes of the German Bible for the
blind. 1t costs $25. The letters are
in haut-relief and the paper very thick.
An old regulation at Yale is that q
student shall lift his hat at distance
of ten rods from the president, eight
from professor and i've from tutor.
Father Hyacinthe, in a recent SER
mon in Paris, declared that war could
not be dispensed with, and that those
who advocated its abolition wore dan
gerous people.
Cardinal Newman was received into
the Roman Catholic Church over forty
years ago -the 9th of October, 1916.
He had been vicar of St Mary the Vir-
gin at Oxford.
Robert Toombs has personally known
every president of the United States
except Washington, Jefferson, John
Adams, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and
Cleveland. He was the first secretary
of state in the confederacy, and later
served in the field as brigadier gem
eral.
Tho proposed universal day meets
with no encouragement from astrono-
mers. Upon the proposition to count
the hours of the day from to "a in
civil life one of them says that it will
scarcely ever be adopted. for nobody
Except, perhaps. sick people lying in
bed), will have patience to count the
strokes Of the clock up to twenty-fonr.
Doctors say that mothers who have
pride in the weight of their newly-boru
children should weigh them as soon as
possible after birth. Children lose
weight during the three first days of
life, and the loss sometimes amounts
to twelve ounces or more. 1t takes
them nearly u week to regain the
weight they had at the time OF BIRTH
When Rubinstein was in this country
"Josh Billings"Was introduced, to him,
and the pianist in conversation present.
ly endeavored to impress upon the
Yankee an idea of his high family rank.
Indeed" he said, II have ascertaiued
that my ancestors were prominent men
in the Crusades. and one of them ac-
companied the Emperor Barbarossa."
ION the piano. suppose, said JOSH
Mime Annie Louise Cary Raymond,
while in Scarboro, Me-, last summer.
learned of little girl in town who had
hip trouble that threatened TO cause
permanent deiormity. Mrs. Raymond
| had the child sent to tho Maine Gener-
al Hospital. where she maintains free
bed, and under the excellent treatment
/ there the little patient seems likely to
be entirely cured.
| A writer in the Eastern Medical Jour
nal says that the medical idea of a tea
| spoonful is one fluid drachm. This is.
| in fact, about the measurement of that
article as used by our grandmothers.
| But this and the dessert spoon are now
(. made so much larger than formerly
that they hold nearly two drachms,
| and people who measure medicine by
them overdose themselves The table,
spoon remains as in the old days.
Justice always falls on somebody in
China. A barber in Haukow threat
ened his assistant with prosecution on
the charge of stealing "a cents. where
upon the accused man took opium. An
official investigation was ordered, but
the barber bought up the mandarin,
who acquitted him, but, as it was
necessary TO make an example Of some
body, ordered the policeman in whose
beat the barber lived to be fined and
severely whipped.
1t is said that the first restrictive
liquor law ever passed in this country
was enacted in little town in Rhode
Island and read as follows: '.Every
saloonkeeper who sells more than one
gallon of liquor to q minor shall be
| lined 81 and costs" The first temper
anee pledge remembered in circulation
ia New England was thus worded: -
solemnly swear to abstain from tbs
use of Intoxicating liquors on all occa
sions except on training days. wedding
. days. banqueIs. and other great ocea
/, sions. ~
The popular old ballad Of "Bille.
: Taylor is said to have been written ii
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IN the IaSt Century. OAo paEHucA Ac
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