The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-01-08

intervals is recommended by Berlin |
physician as a better remedy for dys- |
pepsia and sour stomach than soda, |
magnesia or lime water.
The best cabinet Rhine wine of the |
vintage of 1868 is reserved especially |
for the imperial table at Berlin. 1t is |
worth $3.50 a bottle. 1t is made |
from grapes picked one by one out of |
the Rhineish vineyards on account of
their perfection.
Many towns on the Pacific coast
forbid Indians to come within their
limits after nightfall-not because
the noble red man is dangerous, but be-
cause he is thief and sneak, and his
wife, who accompanies him, more upon
his order and for his profit.
General Berdan, of sharp-shooting
fame, to whose daughter Mr.. F. Mar
ion Crawford has just been married,
was sometime ago offered a field mar
shalship by the Sultan, but he declined
it, saying he could never wear any 9th
er than the American uniform.
Dom Pedro, when recently starting
on a pleasure trip on a small steam
Yacht down the Bahai ell Todos Santes,
from Rio de- Janeiro, fell overheard,
and was hauled out of the briny by a
naval engineer officer and an army Off
Ger. Both were made Barons.
Recent vital statistics show that I'M
der the age of fifteen there are more
boys than girls, but after the fifteenth
year there are more women than men,
and between the ages of ninety and
one hundred the proportion is three to
two in favor of women.
A literary man asked a friend who
was personally familiar with the home
life of the Lyttons whether he thought
Lord Lytton ever did really bite his
wife. The reply was: That cannot
say; but know that if had lived on
ly a week with her should have done
sou
Washington is the paradise of smok-
ers. A drummer says: There are
than any other place in this country of
its size." This is explained by the fact
that a great many of the Government
employees have nothing to do but sit
around, smoke and talkof politics.
A Bostonian writes: 81 cured my
self of an annoying habit of stammer-
ing by inhaling deep breath between
every few words, and by never allow
ing myself to speak unless the lungs
were fully inflated. A little careful at
tention soon made the practice habit,
and now l never stammer unless much
excited"
After much experimenting DIR. Rich
ardson has found satisfactory means
of causing painless death, and has intro
duced it into the Home for Lost Dogs
in London. The animals to be killed
are placed in a chamber charged with
mixture of carbolic oxide and chloro-
form vapor, when they TRANQUILITY fall
asleep and wake no more.
President-eleet Cleveland is a fine
dancer and will, it is said, "trip the
light fantastic toe at his inaugural
ball. He will be the first President
since Lincoln who would or could &c
through the merry, may figures of the
cotillion or reel. General Jackson and
wife danced at ball, given in theil
honor, to the tune of 'Possum up 6
Oscar Wilde suggests that for the fu-
ture ladies should leave off stays entire
ly and adopt the Eastern garb, notably
as regards the combinations and slip
pers. Like other geniuses, heis forget
full of details, and does not say how
slippers are to be worn on a muddy day
in November. For men he recommend
the period of the Charleses as being the
most becoming (not to say the most ex
pensive) age from which to copy.
Representative J. Randolph Tucker
the intimate friend of Garfield, relate:
that the latter once asked him if h
knew where the National motto, 81
PIuribus Unum," came from. Tuckel
admitted that he did not. ''Well, F"
comes from description in Horace, o
the preparation of a Roman salad" and
he turned to its There, surely enough
was the list of ingredients, and the re
mark that the result was sc pluribu
unum."
Lord Salisbury deserves his success
/, for during his recent campaign in Scot
land he appeared on a railway platform
and addressed a crowd, clad from hi
waistband upward in full evening dress
and below in full Highland costume
/ True, this remarkable attire, such a
Solomon in all his glory was not array
: ed in, was the result of a fit of absent
IAindedness, but that fact little miti
: gated the horrors of the situation. No
did the mind of Cecil hear much com
fort in the strident whisper of his vale
, behind him: my Lord! you've forgot
ten er'-brandishing a pair O
trousers meanwhile. No, after the OF
deal he deserves the solace of success
: 1t has been laid down as an axiom il
: diamond lore that the precious ston
/, was capable of absorbing rays of Ugh
and afterward emitting them in the dark
While this was abundantly proved b
: theory it has been difficult to put it I.
an actual test, for naturally the grea
diamonds of the world are not accessi
bic for the purpose. Recently, howeV
er, private person, the fortunate pos
ser of stone of 80 karats, valued a
$500. 600, lent his diamond for scientif
{ investigation. These have been very
satisfactorily conducted, and the phos
phorescent quality of the stone may b
. regarded as proved. The stone was ex
posed for an hour to the direct action O
the suns rays and then removed 10 {
dark room. For more than twenty
. minutes it emitted light streng enough
to make sheet of white paper hell
near it perfectly visible.