The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-01-21
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only $3.50, 600 a year.
There is an old lady living in Ala
pathe, Ga, who was scalped by an In
dian during the Seminole war, fort
years ago.
l Nels Wheeler. formerly attorney gen
eral of Wisconsin, and the witty man O
the state bar, has suffered a stroke o
paralysis.
There are about 10000. 900 horses il
! the United States, of which LOCO, 0O(
are owned in New York and 100000 il
F Pennsylvania.
, Count de Lugiyal, a French noble
man, aged &c, has Just been married Il
at six million francs.
Sugar is strongly recommended as an
article of diet for cattle. They are said
to fatten quickly upon it, and it i'm.
proves the flavor of the flesh.
Explorer Forbes is going to attempt
to reach the summit of Mount Owen
Stanley. Is. 205 feet high. and hitherto
untrodden by the foot of man.
A new rose. pink in tint, and of ex-
quisite fragrance, is known as the
American Beauty, though, no doubt,
'twould smell as sweet under any other
name.
The Canadian Pacific Railway finds,
upon a remeasurement of the contract
sections to the north of Lake Superior,
that the contractors have received 81
zoe, 900 more than their due.
Joseph Jefferson and his family have
finally given up their old home in Hobo
kus. n. j., to settle permanently in
Louisiana. Mr.. Jefferson will probably
leave the stage at the end of this season
The Democratic speakers who have
served since the war were of the same
| age when first elected-48 wears old
which was the age of Mr.. Kerr, Mr..
Randall, and Mr.. Carlisle when the first
term of each began.
Miss Nellie Hobson of WaIlineford,
Conn, has been offered an appointment
to teach oil painting in college in
Northern India. The offer includes a
salary of $4,000 for five years, board,
outfit, and expenses paid.
In China metals are strewn about the
empire in profusion-enormous coal
measures, prodigious deposits of iron.
vast veins of copper, great tracts of
| galena. chrome, plumbago, cinnabar,
cupreous nickel (white copper, zinc,
| pyrites, manganese, etc, are found in
every section.
| About fifty young ladies have applied
| for admission to the new American
School of Opera" in New York They
will be able to become prime donne
under easier and safer conditions in
this country than abroad, and perhaps
when they have graduated the public
demand for opera will have increased
to meet the supply.
A party who discovered an alum cave
in Elks County, Nevada, explored the
opening with candles for a distance of
fifteen or twenty feet, when they came
to a chamber of considerable size, but
of irregular shape, the top, sides and
floor of which constituted solid mass
of crystallized alum. The rays from the
candies, reflected from the pendant
stalactites, gave it the appearance of
fairy grotto.
A Belgian botanist has published a
treatise. $50 pages long, on the singing
nettle. According to the author, a long
life would be needed TO acquire all the
knowledge to be gained from this
humble plant. Even then, it may be
presumed, the next generation, with
improved methods of observation and
research, would find as much work to
do" The chief interest of the singing
beetle to botanical students is in its mi
croscopic anatomy.
Miss Winnefred Howells, who has
been suffering from a serious attack of
nervous prostration, is becoming con-
valescent in the quiet and restful atmos-
phere of Auburndale, where MIR. Howeils
and his family are domiciled. In the
winter Mrs Howells and her family
rarely visit Boston, but Mr.. Howells is
frequently seen at his favorite book
stores and at receptions, although he IL |
harder to secure than when living in |
the midst of social life in Beacon street |
Venerable mail carriers seem to be |
not altogether uncommon in Sullivan /
County, New York, where Frederick |
Richards, who is ninety-tWo years old, |
and who carried the mail on fifteen |
mile trip for sixty years, recently gave |
up his route and it was taken by Adam /
Linklepaugh, eighty-two years old, who
is now carrying the mail there. Rich |
ards has twin sisters, Mrs. Betsey Brace |
and Mrs. Catharine Ryder, both living |
at Richmondville, Schoharie County, |
New York, at the age of ninety years.
AT his sons request the poet Brown |
ing has bought the PalaZzo Manzoni, |
one of the most beautiful houses in
Venice. It is of the fifteenth century,
and on the Grand canal, nearly in front
of the Academia dele Belle Arti, on
the left, before you reach, from the
lagoon. the iron bridge which Mr.. Rus
kin's 'taccursed Englishmen" persuaded
the Venetians to stretch over their great
thoroughfare. Possession of the palazzo
will not be given to the poet for some
months, and during these he will be in
London.
The colossal group on which Mr.. g.
F. Watts, R. A, has been engaged for
the last two years will be finished in the
coming year. It is a work of imagina-
tive design, and depicts youthful
energy" The nude figure of a youth,
in all the beauty of strength and man
hood, reins up his plunging horse. and
while shading his eyes with his hand
he looks round for something more to
do. The horse is ascending an incline,
by which the artist intends to convey
the idea of the upward and onward
course of life.
A recent traveller in Spain tells how
the children in Granada played at bull
| fighting. One boy, holding a pair Of
wooden horns on his head, represented
the bull. Other boys mounted on each
| others backs, were picGdors, while
others again, with their jackets in their
hands, were supposed to be 4ndtdd0rs
and cbalos. The bull would stamp his
feet and roar, then make a rush at one
of the chuLos, whose jacket was thrown
| up by the wooden horns, but whose
body was never touched. Then the
bull would charge one of the ptcddorS,
whereupon the boy playing horse would
throw himself to the ground. and allow
himself to be properly gored.
According to the latest official state
ment published by the authorities Of
Russia there are in that country not less
| than 1900 square miles of oil-pro-
ducino land. but of this vast territory
the field at Baku is the only one
worked, and even this covers only the
limited space of some three and one
| half miles. The output is enormous
and the fact is stated by one who wit
messed the opening Of well in that
locality that a column of oil spurted t.
the height of 100 feet, carrying greai
sUvl.rs with it, the flow continuing unit
q large lake of petroleum was formed
The product Is refined on the spot, the
, residue being used as fuel for steamer
: and railways.
The London journals preach homiliea
| about the late Mr.. Vanderbilt and ''thI
!, vanity Of riches which they shoulC
. blush to utter. A special dispatch b,
cable shows specimens of their cant
For nothing is surer than that Mir. Van
derbiIt's great wealth, had he been Al
Englishman, would have brought hin
the unsolicited offer of Marquisate-
perhaps Dukedom-from either part
in possession of ''her Majesty's Govern
: | ment, " IN the hope to win his alliance
: and these same Peeksniffs would hav