The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07
GLEANINGS.

The British army contains 31,694
Irish soldiers.
Philadelphia has three millionaire
newspaper men.
Two thousand varieties of apple trees
are now cultivated.
The cost of patents has now been re-
dueed one-half in England
Birmingham, England, has the most
extensive button trade of any city in the
world.
1t is estimated that there are 1900
persons on roller skates in New York
City every night.
Stockmen compose majority of the
new Montana Legislature. There are
but eight lawyers in the body.
white shelled" eggs are becoming
the rage in New York. Some produc-
ers scour them with sapolia before
bringing them to fastidious customers.
A South American traveller speaks OF
localities where the natives seem to
place no value on sandal-wood trees,
that would in the United States be
worth $1,000.
Black walnut sawdust is now mixed
with linseed gum and nodded into or
namentation for furniture. When var
nished it is handsome and more dura-
bic than carved wood.
Two Memphis Republicans have
agreed not to take another drink until
the election of Republican President.
The one who breaks through first is to
give the other $75 suit of clothes.
There has recently been discovered
in the Yellowstone Park the mineral
known as ''cryolite, 1" which is of great
value in the potash manufacture. II
had previously been found in Green
land.
Street cars in Venezuela are always
open ones, and are SO small that they
will seat only twelve persons. The
conductors carry horns, which they
blow upon approaching street cross
ings.
'.At present suffering from last sea
sons bad guessing on the turf is the
delicate way in which New York cor
respondent expresses the financial con
dition of Gen. Grants sor-in-law, Sar
toris.
David Dudley Field is reported a!
saying: 81 wouldn't take any office
and all talk of me in that connection il
nOuS6uSSs L WOu4un ~ W 11AE46AS
as Minister for gift of the British Is
lands"
The agricultural editor of the Los An
geles CCal.) Herald recommends fig
and grapes as the best possible food 70
hogs and says that they are being thu
used extensively in California
Louis Republican.
The Agricultural Bureau reports tina
Kentucky owns 371,S78 horses, valued
at S25, 436, 455; 116,064 mules, value
80, 867, SOC; 3O4, 720 COWS, value, $40,
119, ISL; 503, 807 oxen and other cattle
value, $13, 554, 200.
The Arabs grind their coffee as fin
| as flour and boil it in a copper sauce
pan without lid. They would not OIL
any account boil it in covered vessel
as any lid or cover would prevent 9Th
deleterious qualities from escaping an
making the coffee bitter"
Judge David S. Terry, who kille,
| David c. Broderick in duel in Sal
Francisco, which created such a sensa
| ton a quarter of century ago, is nov
20 years of age and still practicing lay
| in Stockton, Cal He is almost un
known, having killed himself political
| ly when he killed Broderick.
The floor of an Indianapolis skatin
rink is made entirely of paper. The move
| surface for roller skates has been teste
by thousands, who united in pronounc
ing it admirably adapted to the pun
pose, being without joints, perfectl
smooth, and, in comparison with WOO
and cement floors, noiseless.
Mrs. Mackey has given to the papa
nuncio a magnificent cross in remem
brance of the marriage of her daughte
to Prince Colonna. 1t is studded wit
diamonds and sapphires. In the insid
of the cross is place for relics whic
can be inserted by pressing a sprinj
which connects with the movable bach
A Michigan man claims to have bee
J miraculously cured of rheumatlsr
which had made him helpless for man
months. His hired man was carryin
a hive of bees through his room an
: dropped it. The patient is now an az
tive member of society, and says he
thankful to an inscrutable Prov
. dence."
The ancient Egyptians held tribur
t al over their dead. Any one was q
2 lowed to bring to this tribunal accus;
5 ton against the corpse, and if it ws
i | DuOWu ne ndu uNCu al Shl1 A4Op JUL
e was refused. If no accusation W:
e brought, the relatives ceased lamentir
and pronounced encomiums on Il
dead, enlarging upon his many vi
tues.
ANY one DESTROYS of making Sars
Bernhardt "boil over" has, to be full
gratiied, only to hint that she has {
idea of playing in Germany. A Fren!
= paper having lately announced that 81
/ would appear as Theodore in Berli
q she has expressed her amazement tn
a Frenchman could have so degrade
Il himself as to give currency to such
Y infamous libel.
Il A method of testing the purity Of "
1t ter is to fill clean pint bottle thre
9 fourths full OF water to be tested, a.
i dissolve in the water half a teaspoon1
u of the purest sugar-loaf or granulat
y will answer-cork the bottle, and pla
= = it in a warm place for two days. If
y twenty-four or forty-eight hours the "
ter becomes cloudy or milky it is ur
"a for domestic use.
D. 1t is said that, though, since the pa
n ing of the education bill in 1870, in I
5 gland, board schools had been start
d all over the country, instead of tn
'e taking the place of voluntary schoo
se they have given an impetus to the
for, whereas, in 1870 there were 7,S
! voluntary schools in the country, tbs
a are now 1880, with three and o.
= quarter millions of scholars.
=