The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-03

way, and the result L. that the pedestal
viii cost about $4O0 900.
An old horse with the brand ~. So
on his tanks is pulling . bread cart
about the City of Mexico. He was tax
en- down there with SCOTS invaders,
and has been earning his living ever
since.
An old log house standing near Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, since the time the
morning stars sang together, has been
taken down and WI be shipped to Chi
cago, where it viii form q part Of o
panorama
Mrs. Morgan, of New York, who died
recently, had what was reputed to be
the second finest collection of orchids
IN the United States, the best collection
being that of the Hon. Erastus Corn
ing at Albany.
! In the East they close and darken
keep cool, but the American housewife
knows more about such matters than
mere heather who feed their girl babies
70 the crocodiles.
Work In Russian factories Is by q new
law forbidden between 8 o'clock at
night and in the morning. It was
with view TO lesssning overproduc-
ton, that this has been done.
Near Cairo, Ill, resides man who
claims to have discovered pure paint in
large quantities on his farm. It is of
several different colors-red. white,
blue, and yellow-and requires no
preparing but to mix with oil, after
which it is ready for use."
Alabama's strongest man is J. Fl.
Clark, of Shirley. COVington County.
It is said that he can take 250-pound
anvil, and, by placing his thumb in the
mason hole, throw it off like marble,
and to handle two stout men at time
is child's play. He weighs about ESQ
pounds.
Street car routes in Scotch cities are
laid of in districts, the fare within each
penny on entering, and, as each new
district is reached, the conductor col
lects another penny. Tho system is
found to encourage short rides-the
most profitable to the companies
A Boston statistician says that 81 will
buy as much of the neeessaries of life
to-day as $3.50 in 1875. 81. 80 in 1855
81 cents in 1S45, and 81. 10 in 1925. In
other words the purchasing power of
81 is 10 per cent greater than It was in
1855. A dollar will buy more to-day
than in most previous periods in the
history of the nation.
By law which has Just gone into
effect in Japan, officials of all classes
must give up their native dress and
adopt the European when engaged in
their official work, and. as the latter is
beyond the means Of those who get on
ly small salary, q suit of European
clothing is to be furnished to each of
them at the cost of the state
There are probably $500, 900 sweat
glands belonging to each human being,
the object of the existence of this per-
spiratory system being to remove the
excess Of water and noxious gases. and
to regulate the temperature of the
body. Precipitation is always going on
and under normal conditions 1t
amounts to about two pints q day for
each person
Miss Adele Field, in a communica-
ton made to the Academy of Natural
Science Of Philadelphia, reports that
the common earth worm, after its head
has been cut of, has the power of re-
generating the whole of the dismem-
periments with such minuteness of de-
tail as seems to show that error in her
conclusions was impossible.
New portraits of the Tichborne
claimant are being exhibited in the
the slightest suggestion of the burly
.'Sir Roger" with whose features some
dozen years ago the public were so ia
miliar. Instead of the moon face, with
the wrinkleless cheeks fringed with
whisker, and the smooth, deliberately
arranged hair, there is . countenance
scanned and lined, almost square in its
contour, beard and mustache some
what irregular in outline, and q head
OF hair the very reverse Of smooth.
Georgians have novel entertain
ment, which they call 8 '.honey-gath-
ering." One in Irving County lately
was attended by eighty-fve persons,
and an account of it says the four trees
being on spot not much larger than
three acres, 1t was not any trouble to
move from one tree to another, and by
. O'Clock every tree was cut and re-
neVed Of its sweet contents, of which
there was an abundauce-so much SO
that everybody had enough and plenty
was left. The bees were in q good
humor and but very few were stung.
Payment to singers has sometimes
taken an odd form. When Mile. Zelle,
. vocalist from the Theatre Lyrique at
Paris, was making q professional tour
round the world some years ago she
gave q concert in the Society Islands.
She agreed to sing an air from '.Nor-
ma" and few other songs, and was to
get third of the receipts. When
Counted the prima donna's share was
found to consist of three pigs, twenty
three turkeys, forty-four chickens, s.
O00 cocoanuts, besides q quantity of
bananas, lemons, and oranges.
81 have not read Miss Cleveland's
book" said Col. Ingersoll to a report
er, "but il the author condemns the
poetry of George Eliot she has made q
mistake. There Is no poem in our Ian
guage more beautiful than The Low
ers, and none loftier and purer than
the Choir Invisible There is no
poetry in the beyond The poetry is
here-here in this world where love is
lin the heart The poetry of the be
ygnd is too far aWay-a little too gen.
oraL Shelley's Sky Lark was in our
sky-tho Daisy of Burns, grew in
cur ground, and between that lark and
bkl1b Oo1SJ - EOOLu AOE GU I10 real
poetry of the earth"
An English philosopher who had
been studying the fdgets of an
audience, says that the people compos-
ing it have a tendency to do the same
thing at the same time when the per-
Torrance Is interesting. When it be-
gins to drag the individuals cease to
forget themselves and each begins to
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fort of sitting long time in one posi-
ton. They sway from side to side,
and the interval between their faces,
which in a good performance is uni
form, becomes varied greatly.
A correspondent asks where the saw
ings "a nine days wonder" and s-Of
two evils choose the least originated.
Il is supposed that they were common
stock in conversation long before they
got into print. The first trace of the
phrase "A nine days wonder Is said
to Be found in ''Chaucer." The adaqe
'-Of the two evils choose the least, " Is
found in q Latin form in the writings
of Cicero. Thomas attempts. Who
wrote In the fifteenth century, says:
'-Of two evils the less IS always to be
chosen"
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