The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-01
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The campaign in Tonquin cost he
French @96. o00. 600.
In Ohio there il one divorce for evsry
twenty marriages
The American hummiHg-bifd can
whip the English sparrcW.
Ninety out of every hundred predic-
tions made by the French weather bu-
reau last year proved true to dok
Last year there Wers $500 suicides
in France, an increase Of about one
thousand on an average. over the PIE
ceding decade.
A cigar tester in New York says thai
q simple way TO ease heartburn nom
smoking Is to touch some Of the ashes
to the tongue.
Scrap iron shipped from Portland.
Ore, 70 Hong Kong, 10 turned into lit
tie razors, with which the Chinese
shave their scalps.
Miss Adelaide Rudolph. Of Cleveland
the State University of Kansas. She's
. niece of Mrs Garfield
A New Jersey man has gone "a
Florida and established Q cocoanus
farm. It comprises 1850 acres and
has 200, 900 cocoAnut tre0A
The newest thing in musical inseru-
ments is . duplex strung VIOLIN" By
which, it Is claimed, tone is produced
equal to two ordinary Instruments
The deserted mansion Of Bancroft
Davis, near Marlborough, b. r. which
cost 800. 900, now stands empty and
idle. and Is . prey Of bats and rata.
moth and rust.
The production of cotsonseed oil In
the United States each year is about
equal to 200, 900 tierces Of lard ThO
quantity might easily be doubled 4
there was an adequate demand for It.
In Paris the people are asked q
give their sous in aid Of . project g
bore q big hole far down into the earth
to see what is going on inside this mys-
FERROUS planet, upon the unscratche0
crust of which We live.
There can be no lightning without
thunder and rain. The lightning seen
of q summer evening, sometimes called
heat lightning. IL an accompaniment
of q distant storm. The lightning can
be seen much further than the thundeS
can be heard.
Bombay's ice is provided from i'm.
mense machines, in which the leo i
manufactured daily. Recently the
water supply gave out, and for thEee
days no ice was to be had. During
this time the death rate Of the city
moro than doubled.
A French scientist predicts very %.
we're volcanic disturbances for 1886, g
occur at time when the attractive in.
fluence of the other members of tho 30.
lar system is most strongly felt upon
our planets, or, rather. when that In.
fiuence is most unevenly distributed
during q near approach of the great
attractive bodies
Winooski claims the inevitable dis,
tinction of being the worst governed
town in Vermont, according to reports
from that State. The hoodlums burn
and rob as they please, in spite Of thS
efforts of the law and order league
Two houses belonging to members o.
the league have been burned recently,
and mill where many members work
ed.
The late Dean Bucklapd is said =,
have been so intimately acquainted
with the properties of all the geologic
al formations of England that beins
one night belated, and not knowing
where he was, he alighted from hi
horse, took up clod of earth, and eK
amined it He Immediately exclaimed
'Uxbridgel" and proceeded on hi
journey.
When Emperor Napoleon signed TIT
declaration of war against Prussia b.
recalled by wire his cousin, who haG
sailed for the north pole with Renan
After Prince Napoleon read the dis
patch he ordered the captain Of hi
yacht to fire up. ''Where are We 20
ing, prince?" asked the officer. at,
Charenton" q. g., the lunatic asylum
shouted the prince in thunderOul
tones.
James Arkinsall. one of New York.
champion swimmers, says sWimmin,
is fast becoming moro popular will
women. Five years ago, he says, az
woman who could swim was locke,
upon as masculine and . girl VIII
dared to confess such q thing was in
cluded in the condemnatory catalogu
of 'tom-boys.' Now at every watering
place You see women away beyond tn
line of ropes"
A girl writes to q Cincinnati pape
that she has invented and wishes +
patent a combination hustle and chair
She explains that the hustle Il con
structed like the usual article, to b
worn under the draperies Of . dress
but that within it are adjusted the leg
and seat of q chair. arranged 80 tha
when the bearer bends to sit dow
they will automatically drop into plac
to support her.
The Glasgow Philosophical Societ,
has demonstrated that at about II
degrees below zero. Fahrenheit, tn
flesh of animals becomes SO hard Is t
ring like porcelain when struck, an
also to be capable Of being crushed =
a fine powder. Microbes, however, liv
ing in the flesh before freezing, haV
been found alive when thaWing too
place, after an exposure of 200 hour
to this intense cold.
Among the odd German ideas is on
for universal language, and there ar
now ffty-tWo associations for learnin
and extending Il. To give an exampI
the word to think is tik, and is decline
tikob, think; tikol. thou thinkesi
tikoms he thinks; tikobs, we think
tikols, you think; tikoms, they think
And it appears these practical peopl
tikoms that the world will adopt thi
and the tower of Babel be forgotten.
From q Michigan Supreme Cour
decision in the case of sharpers VII
had swindled q countryman by q "a
miliar card trick: 1--WE do not thin
it profitable to draw overnice NETS
physical distinction to save thieve
from punishment If rogues conspir
to get away q mans money by sue
tricks as those which were played here
it is not going beyond the settled rule
of law to hold that the fraud amount
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