The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-27
GLEANINGS.

with partial success.
The first words of General Grants
preface to his memoirs are t'Man pro-
poses and God disposes."
Rossini wrote one of his finest operas
in bed. and was too lazy to pick up q
sheet that had fallen away.
w. T. Stead, editor of the Pail Nall
Gazette, IS a great admirer of the
American style in newspapers
At some time in their lives Miss
Cleveland, Mrs. Garfield and Mrs.
Hayes were all school teachers.
The United States produces nearly
80, 600 lawn mowers annually, and ex-
ports to every civilized country on the
globe.
Bonanza Mackay is said to be q re.
markable judge of men, to which in
stinct much of his success in life since
he won start by luck is alleged to be
due.
The wild story is circulated concern
ing Mayor Low of Brooklyn that he is
desperately in love with his wife. Out
side of Office hours he is generally at
home.
In the language of flowers a moss
rosebud is confession of love; a red
rosebud implies that the giyer considers
the recipient young and beautiful, and
if she returns white rosebud she de-
clares that she is too young to love.
Last years income of the Girard es-
tate in Philadelphia was $780, 900. Its
real estate alone is valued at 81, $780,
600 besides the college buildings and
grounds. The collieries of the estate
produce 1, 10000 tons of coal during
the year.
The Rev. William NJ. Blackburn, d.
D., late President of the University of
North Dakota at Grand Forks, d. T.,
has accepted the Presidency of Pierre
University. and will at once remove his
family to East Pierre and enter on the
duties of his office.
Immense quantities of writing paper
are used in the Baltic provinces of
Russia, but not for writing. As to-
bacco is extremely scarce, the Russian
peasant makes cigar out of cabbage
leaves and writing paper. and this he
smokes with perfect content
A Texas telephone experimenter
claims to have perfected a magnetic
telephone, the whole appliances of
which are simple transmitter and re-
ceiver and horse shoe magnet. With
this and single wire he claims to be
able to send a message around the
world. He proposes to secure foreign
patents before making application in
this country.
The actual cost of what are usually
sold as scent cigars at retail is thus
stated by one who claims to be in
formed on the subject: Actual cost OF
tobacco (namely, what the tobacco
raiser gets for it) for 1000 cigars, 81;
cigar-boxes, 81; wages for 1000 cigars,
IS; packing, 81; stripping so cents;
total cost of production. $3.50, or II
cents cigar.
A writer upon coaching in London
concludes that the use of the whip is
now nearly lost art, one reason fol
which is that whereas, in old times
almost any animal was considered
good enough for coach, and the slim.
illus of the lash was q necessity, now
only high-bred and not over-Worked
horses are employed, and there is little
occasion for urging.
Ohio has 1,O17,OOO head of cattle
making "a s to the square mile; Iii
nois 26; New York Is, and Texas, 10. 8
For the United States at large this is
head for each GAO acres. Germany has
| 80 per square mile, Great Britain 81
In the United States there are threG
head of cattle for each four inhabitants
while in Europe there is only one ami
NAL for each six persons.
1.-The Great American DESERT is 4:
thing of the past. The quadrant which
this ''desert" once occupied on thu
| map once embraced the area now oc
cupied by the States of Minnesota, Da
kota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kan
sas, Arkansas to the Indian Territory
ian area in total equal to nine New
Englands." The grain product of thi
desert in 1880 amounted to 642, 416,
200 bushels.
Last autumn a bookseller nance
Meyer, of Ronneburg, tied a water
proof label under the wing of swal
low which had occupied nest at hi
house, and had become comparatively
familiar. On it he wrote q query il
German to the effect that he wished tt
know where the swallow would pas!
the winter. The bird returned to it
former nest bearing an exchange labe
similarly fastened saying in German
also: "'In Florence, in Castelar,
house, and bear many salutations.
The instrumental music question
which has been debated annually 70
fifteen years by the PresbyteriaSs c
Ireland, but never satisfactorily SET
tied, well nigh caused schism thi
year. Indeed, number of elders di
secede from the assembly for a sho1
time and held an opposition meeting
In lew hours, however, truce wa
arranged, but such was the tension {
feeling that it was deemed inexpedieI
continue debate on the subject, whic
was accordingly postponed till mex
year.
In 1910 Obadiah Hills went frol
Newbury to Leominster, Mass, an
began making back-hair combs frol
horn, working in his kitchen with rud
hand tools and without an assistant
To-day Leominster is engaged in tn
manufacture of horn combs, chain
bracelets, lockets, knives, ornament,
trinkets and various other useful a
ticles, including horn chains. MOI
than q score of firms are in the bu
mess, and hundreds of people are en-
ployed. More horns of COWS, oxen ar
steers are worked up in this town tha
in any other place.
Very recently we moved a couple
bee-hives that were sitting on a be
about six inches above the ground an
placed them, when moved, about thrt
feet from the ground. The bees, @
returning loaded, would light on Il
box about the height of the former bo
We noticed, also, they would, on r
turning, 90 to the old place about for
yards distant, and seemed perfect
3 lost 1t took them over week
learn their new place and surrounding
The habit even of bee controls the
when once formed. Quitnsd,s Goa
NeaD South
An Eastern housekeeper says the be
? way to destroy moths is to take d
3 powdered salt and sprinkle it all ov
4 the carpet, particularly along Il
edges; then sweep it thoroughly. r
peat this about once a month in mo
time, and you will have no trouble fro
4 that destructive insect. The salt m;
4 also be sprinkled on any wooden fur
8 ture and brushed off with q viii
, broom. 1t is perfectly harmless al
a will help to cleanse and preserve t
color of the wood.
!. The Brockton Gazette says: The gre
: skill in doctoring claimed by c1airvo
D ants was fully illustrated last week |
I circumstance which happened
Sharon. An estimable lady who hi
been sick for a long time with q ca
Ger, which good physicians knew to
incurable, was induced to try clai
voyant doctor. The one selected W
{ certain ''doctor" of North Easto
o He professed to be able to tell the G
act condition of the patient witho
seeing her, and sent medicine and
: diagnosis each week. Every lett
: stated that she was getting better.