The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-24
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pleasing announcement that red-head-
ed girls are in fashion
Port is the best thing to quiet the
stomach of q seasick man. This NAV
not be news. but it is q fact. Harper's
Bazaar.
It Is estimated that 100, 600 people 90
into London by rail every day to earn
their living, and leave it again every
night
Wires and bars are now produced di-
rect from fluid steel by pressing it ont
through dies In manner similar to
the production OF lead pipes from lead
The honey crop for this year in San
Diego county. California, is estimated
on good authority at 2. liz. 500 pounds.
This would equal LOSS tons, or over
100 carloads
Miss Blanche Williams, colored, who
has matFiculated at Toronto UNIVERSE
ty, is said to have passed an excellent
examination in French and German. as
wen Is in English.
People like the grip-cars right well
for one reason. Cigarette Smokers
can't stand on the front platform and
ill the car with their vile flavor of
burning paper. CiBcisGGti Enquirer.
1t is learned from the Sanitary Ne,os
that carbolic acid sold for disinfecting
purposes is aduiterated until but 5 per
cent of its active principle remains,
while there should be at least IS per
cent.
Two young Philadelphia sportsmen
were recently freed for a whole day up
in Potter County by bear, which, as
was afterward found out, was perfect
IN oo1orod nat. f,,F tba,- aid
$40 for the privilege of shooting it
A French scientist who says he has
investigated 5,400 shocks of earth
quakes attributes them, like the tides.
to the influence of the sun and moon.
The interior sea of fire, he argues. is
subject to the same laws as the surface
! sea of water.
When the ropes with which oil wells
are drilled are worn out they still have
their uses. They are purchased by junk
dealers. thoroughly cleansed of oil and
reduced to a pulp, which forms the
basis OF the heavy paper OF which flour
sacks and wrapping paper are made.
In preparing to play the part of a
boy in her new play, The Trump"
Mrs. Langtry is said to rehearse sever
| al hours every day in pautaloons Ito
| get the hang of EN-" and yet she is be-
heved to have worn them continuously
during her sojourn with Mr.. Langtry.
The Pail Mall Gazette, referring to
| the deposing of Bret Harte as Ameri-
/ can Consul at Glasgow, says it is q
/ standing joke with him and his friends
| that the last time he went there he in
| quired what place it was when the train
arrived, and it was notorious that he
seldom went there.
| The internal heat of the earth, is be-
ing Investigated by the German Gov
| ernmenk A shaft sunk at Schlade-
bach has penetrated about 4.566 feet
| under ground, believed to be the great
est depth yet reached by boring. AT
this point the earth's temperature is
120 degrees Fahrenheit
An English naturalist recommends
the importation of the blue titmouse in
to this country to devour the worms
and caterpillars, He mistakes the
country's need. It is an animal that
will deVour the English sparrow which
was brought here to do the work for
which the titmouse is recommended.
A new method of dressing wounds,
by which their healing is said TO be
FASTENED and the pain made to disap-
pear at once, has been brought into no.
tice by q French surgeon 1t consists
in the application OF congresses wet
with decoction of thirty parts of val
erian root in 1000 parts OF water. 1t is
expressly stated that the treatment is
of no avail in deep wounds.
Pottery was discovered, Grant Aller
suggests, by accident A savage car
ried some water in a calabash-tht
hard shell of tropical fruit-when il
occurred to him to smear the outside
with clay and put the calabash itsel
over the fire This he did, the water
boiled, and upon removing the calabash
he found it incased and protected by a
hard, red, stOne-like substance.
Something akin to mirage may of.
ten be seen at Lake Griffin, Fla. Il
one looks north across the lake, from
the south, as rainstorm is approach
ing from either north or south, he will
see the timber and other objects at the
north end stand out in bold relief as il
they were in the middle of the lake and
half the distance they really are away.
The change is striking and unaccount
able.
A piece of evidence in a Quebec
breach-of-promise case was a cuff with
an offer of marriage written on it. One
night, while the defendant was hold.
ing the plaintiff hand and Whispering
fervid words. he popped the question
in manuscript on the smooth linen al
her wrist. She was sentimental Oh
shrewd enough to keep that articHe out
of the wash, and now it is of practical
value.
Louis Antoine De Bourienne, Napo,
Icons private secretary, says in hi.
published book: Among the private
instructions which Bonaparte gave me
one was very curious. During the
! night he said, enter my chamber a:
seldom as possible. Do not awake me
when you have any good news 10 COM
municate; with that there is no hurry.
But when you bring bad news rouse
me instantly. for then there is not s
moment to be lost
The big Woods of Minnesota wei
deserves the name, for they cover B..
600 square miles. or 3,20O,O 900 acres o
surface. These woods contain onl,
hardwood growths. including white
and black oak, maple, hickory, bass
!; wood. elm. cottonwood, tamarack, anC
} enough other varieties to make an az.
gregate of over fifty different kinds
The hardwood tract extends in a bel
across the middle of the state, and sur
rounding its Northeastern corner is al
immense pine region covering 21,00(
square miles, or Is. 40. 900 acres.
There are men in this very town, >
said Sam Jones recently in Murfrees
boro, ''who meet a neighbours wife OF
! the street and take off their hats anc
bow ami smile as sweet and tenderly
and say, How are you, MADAME anC
then go home and wound their OWL
) wives with their tongues. Clever t.
: all wives but their own. And SO it i.
with some wives; they are all smiles
and kind words in company, and cut
their husbands to the heart with theil
tongues God pity the man who has
such wife as that
London is now a city of gardens.
Even in the heart of the city proper
you are constantly stumbling on yer
dant hooks bright with flowers. Com
Portable benches abound, which are us
ually well filed, moro especially il
such delightful summer as that with
which England has this year been fav-
i cred. Between l and some of thess
haunts are full of young business men,
who, after luncheon, seek their repost
with cigarette and newspaper, for 4
precious half hour. The ground around
St PauPs is now beautifully planted
and bright with parterres.
A correspondent who has been study
ing the personal characteristics OF
Vanderbilt and Gould says there is
something wonderfully alike in the
manner of Vanderbilt and Gould, In
spite of the fact that one is large in
physique and the other small; and |
presume it arises from their distrust OF
mankind. based on the superstition that
everybody who approaches is reaching
for thaiP nursa They ara visihIv rorv1