The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-12-31
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country. It weighs 900 pounds.
A valuable fragment of Homer's
odyssey" has been found at Vienna
1t dates from the second century.
Pearlie Gleason, a little girl only nine
years old, took the first prize for oil
painting at the Los Angeles fair.
Nothing but part of the foundation
now remains of the house in which
Shakespeare spent the latter portion of
his life.
Cassius NJ. Clay, though not far from
rs, is managing large farm in Ken
lucky, and nearly as vigorous in mind
and body as he was in his prime.
Congressman John B. Storm, of Mon
roe county, Pennsylvania, occasionally
exhorts from the Methodist pulpits in
the absence of the regularly ordained
ministers.
A new sect has sprung up in Canada
whose doctrine is that women have no
souls, because the Bible nowhere mem
Frenchman.
A Masonic trowel made of solid silver
for General Lafayette, and which he
used at the laying of the De Kalb monu-
ment in 1925, is in the possession of q
Mime. Modjeska has sent to the New
Orleans exposition doll dressed by her
own hands as the Scottish Queen Mary,
and the costume is an exact copy in
miniature of her own dress in the last
act of MARY Stuart"
The Princess of Wales, who is still
wonderfully pretty (says Edward King,
writing from Paris), has been several
- AA lafs
daughters, and the young Processes
wander about town in the mornings as
no Partisan girl would dare to do.
Miss Cleveland's conversation is said
TO have oracular quality of her writing.
To one lady she said: al wish l could
observe Washington life in its political
phase, but ] suppose / am too near the
centre to get an accurate prospective of
that. Those who live on Mount Athos
do not see Mount Athos.
Miss Maud Powell, who has recently
met with some favor as a solo violinist
at Theodore Thomas Philharmonic con-
certs, is a daughter of the superinten-
dent of public schools of Washington.
Mrs. Annie Louise Powell, who has sung
for Mr.. Thomas, is also a Washington
lady, though not related to the former.
The improved kind of explosive known
as cocoa powder is said to possess such
superior value for many purposes that it
has been introduced into the famous
Krupp factory. 1t is asserted that, with
equal pressure, this substance gives
greater velocity to ball than can be at
| tanned with ordinary powder, while its
smoke is found to be less dense and to
clear off more quickly.
the small nugget of gold, little larger
than a pea, that first met the eyes of
James Marshall in the saw-min wall at
Sacramento, and was the beginning of
those discoveries in California that have
added nearly $1,000, 100000 to the
worlds stock of precious metals. The
nugget is kept in glass case, and is an
object of curiosity to all visitors.
There are two well-known house
decorators in New York City who are
brothers, of the same height, weight,
complexion, and build. wearing clothes
Of the same color and style, and lunch
| ing together, without speaking a word
to each other, every day at Delmonico's.
The ordinary mortal cannot tell them
apart, and one never knows which OF
the two he is talking to.
A brewer in Toledo, O., said to carry
on the largest business of the kind in
the State, has had incorporated brew
ing company with a capital of $500, 600,
and has distributed one-half of the shares
gratuitously among his employees. It is
explained that the owner, fearing that
he would not long live to enjoy his
wealth, has taken this method of divid.
ing it among those who helped him &C
cumulate it.
The Euphrates River, once a mighty
stream, seems likely to disappear alto
gether. For some years the river bank
below Babylon have been giving way
so that the stream spread out into 8
marsh, until steamers could not pass
and only Inflow channel remained
for the native boats. Now the passage
is being filed up, and the prospect is
that the towns on the banks will bt
ruined and the famous river itself will
be swallowed up by the desert.
The Duke of Abercorn, says the Lon.
don Truth, was peer and a landowner
of the best type. He had been promf
nent figure in society for more than fifty
years, and he was certainly one of the
most popular men of his time. Prince
Albert was particularly fond of him anG
often consulted him with advantage
about both public and private matters
The Duke and Duchess of Abercorn bott
figure prominently in 'Lothair," anC
J they were great favorites of Lord Bea
consfeld, whe regarded them as idea
specimens of the ''high nobility"
A writer in the New York Tribune i.
told that Robert Bonner is making
curious provision for continuing TIT
Ledger after his death in the same stylt
in which he has been conducting it fo
about thirty years. He holds, it issun
derstood, that it will take his successes
fully three years to learn his methods 81
as to select the class of literary mattel
which has given the Ledger its peculia
success. He has, therefore, begun t,
collect extra material with the design o
securing enough to last three years ate
his death. Already about enough cop,
for one year, or ffty-two numbers, ha
been accumulated.
Now that cotton is coming in the OF
mills are busy. Nothing about cottol
need be wasted. The fiber having beef
separated, the seeds are again "linted,
all the cotton adhering to them bein;
J removed and sold to the cotton men
Then the husks are removed and uset
: for fuel in the furnaces on the premises
After the seed is ground, cooked ant
pressed, the oil being extracted, the re
fuse forms an oil cake, which is shippet
in large quantities to Great Britain 70
food for cattle. Last of all, the ashe
have a virtue of their own, and are soil
at high price. The oil goes to Chicag
to make butter and lard; in Cincinnati
where an Illuminating oil is made fror
it, and 70 an eastern city to be made in
; to pure olive oil for salads. It is alread
taking the place of lard in cookery
J greatly to the advantage of everybody
Inferior grades serve as the basis for tn
, best soaps.
The calculating machine, invented b
Professor Thomson, appears to excel, i
its ingenious adaptation to variety @
results, even Babbage's wonderful aI
paratus. By means Of the mere friction
of disk, cylinder and ball, the ma
chine is capable of effecting numerou
complicated calculations which occur il
+ the highest application of mathematic
to physical problems, and by its aid a
unskilled person may, in given time
perform the work of ten expert mathe
T maticians- The machine is applicabl
alike to the calculating of tidal, magnet
} ic, meteorological and other period
phenomena; it will solve differentia
equations of the second or even highe
orders, and through this same wonder
full arrangement of mechanical parts tn
problem of finding the free motions Q
any number of mutually attracting PAL
: ticles, unrestricted by any of the al
proximate suggestions required in tn
, treatment of the lunar and planator
theories, is done by simply turning