The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-07-23
GLEANINGs.

time and plain ones at another. ~
Nes0 York Sun.
GLEANINGS.
Mr.. Ruskin's father was a wine mer-
chant, and his grandfather kept tav.
ern.
Victor Hugo's publishers have cleared
$50, 900 by the sale of his books since
his death.
LordaSuderly is making an honest
living by manufacturing a superior ar
ticle of jam.
General Grants family expect TO
realize 81 900. 900 by the sale Of the old
commanders autobiography.
DIR. Farrand, of Charleston, w. Va,
who Is one hundred years old. remem-
bers seeing George Washington.
Commodore Ingraham, the hero OF
the Martin Koszta affair, Is still alive
and in good health. He lives in Balti-
more.
Thurlow Weed Barnes threatens to
start another morning paper In Albany
with some of the money Thurlow Weed
left him.
Plutsrch says that Alexander's left
leg was badly out of plumb. Hannibal
had VIGOROUSLY big heels and was
knock-kneed.
Goethe's pet was live snake, which
he kept in a chimney corner. The COM
panion of Tiberius, the Roman Emper-
or, was also snake.
Cicero was very spindle-shanked,
and Demosthenes is said to have had q
shuff1ing, stumbling gait, which meant
that his legs were not wholly in gear.
The Christian Ugton says that no
prominent thinker or influential mem
ber of the religious press supports the
doctrine of endless torment after death.
The Viscountess Folkestone has or
gained string band in England,
every one of whose one hundred and
thirty members is a lady aud an aristo-
crat.
A Miss Brown has graduated from
the Harvard Annex with a higher stand
ing than any of her male competitors,
but the boys don't mind. They won
the championship at base ball, at row.
ing and general athletics.
In the largest library in the world, in
Paris, there Is a Chinese chart of the
heavens made about 600 years before
Christ. In this chart 1,460 stars are
found to be correctly inserted. as cor
rObOrated by the scientists of the pres
ent day.
In Ecuador there are no smaller coins
than the quartillo, change is therefore,
made by the use of bread. On his way
to market the purchaser stops at the
bakery and gets a dozen or twenty
breakfast rolls, which cost about 1 cent
IL, 81.
as change for small purchases.
Rattlesnakes have two hinged teeth,
or fangs, which they project outward
in attack, which action frees q poison
GUS liquid contained in small sacks at
the root of the teeth. The bite of COM
mon water, garter, and milk snakes is
not poisonous, and black snakes do not
bite. but squeeze the life from their prey,
as does the anaconda.
In the Wisconsin Supreme Court
damages were obtained for injuries
caused by fall on 4 defective side.
walk. 1t was claimed that the dam
ages should be reduced on account OF
plaintiffs disposition to inflammatory
rheumatism. The Court decided
against this view, aud cited two cases
where, in like circumstances. increased
OaInaSeS HeT0 a1IONCU.
None but entire horses are exported
from Persia. Save as carriage horses
geldings are never seen, and Us a rule !
Persian will never sell mare. The
finest horses III Persia are bred by the
Eeliauts, or wandering tribes. The
| wealth of these people consist entirely
of cattle, sheep and horses. They wan
| der from their winter quarters in the
plains to their summer quarters, ol
| yeilsks, in the mountains, each family
having its recognized grazing ground
The new postal law went into efIec
July 1. An ounce letter can now b,
sent for two cents. Ibis will enable /
| young lady who Is writing TO q frlen
| whom she has not scdn for ten hours +
tell her all the news on two sheets c
| paper, instead of filling one sheet s
| full that half q column of the CORES
pondence runs over the margin an
| strikes out criss- cross, cat-a-cornered
diagonally, and otherwisely over tn
pages in order to save postage.-No'
ristos0ss Herald.
The bust made by Karl Gerhard
Mark Twain's protege, of Gen. Gran
is said to be so faithful that it arouse
the admiration of the General. III
unfinished likeness was SO good that, j
March last, while Grant was i'll, a frien
took it to the family. The Genera
saw and admired it and invited &c
hardt to visit him and complete Il
bust by studies from life. Present.
Gen. Grant, glancing from the bust
the mirror, said: Don't touch 1t agall
it seems to me perfect. ="
In answer to the question. "Do fis
ever sleepp" DIR. Joseph Leidy say
''Sleep is the suspension of the sensol
and voluntary motor functions alte
mating with periods of activity of Il
same, and probably occur in all an
: mails. During sleep the actions nece
sary to life are maintained by involu
tary muscles, as in the action of Il
heart and the muscles of reSpiratio
In the sleep of fishes their position
maintained by involuntary muscular
ton, as in the roosting of birds, etc
Signs for City Drug Store.-Sot
Water-The Spas at Home-One HUI
dred Springs-Public Telephone-Fr
} Attarnizer with Altar of Roses-Po!
age Stamps-Parcels Mailed-Packel
] Express; Trunks centS-Advertis
{ ments Received for All the Papers, al
! | for the New Ones to be Issued Ne
I Week-City Directory-United Stat
, Gazetteer Cigars-Messages Cheerf1
; ly Delivered We Know Everybody a
{ Everything-Oh! Come in-Don't
Past.-Ihe Current.
Three prominent men are stated
have lately tested the ''oxygen cure
The first drew long, deep breath fro
the receiver and reported that the ST
sation was delightful; he felt it TIM
IS to the ends of his fingers. The secO
!, took an inspiration, and became p'
l. and agitated; he was told that the OF
b gen had found the weak spot in
re anatomy. The third man declared
70 felt nothing; he could take the stuff
W day. Then it was discovered that
W professor" had forgotten that mo-
II ing tosconnect the tube with the oxyg
u reservoir. The patients had been brea
" ing ordinarv atmosphere air.
in In Pennsylvania the figures sh
u 17O. 524 males to 176, 465 females.
10 Virginia they bring to light the fact Z
ID there are 745, 589 males TO 766, 976
ID males. In Illinois there are 1856
as males to only l, 491, 348 females, or m
at than 5000 of an excess of the form