The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-01-14
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shad have Of late years nearly aban-
oned the Potomac.
Riefs confidential man, w. H JACK.
On. has turned lecturer.
There is a mountain in Mexico on the
DO of which ton of sulphur Is depos-
ed every day.
A Cleveland paper says large mum;
,er of Young men of that city paint and
'owder their faces.
Five blind ladies in New York City
ave organized free circulating library
or others similarly afflicted.
A large owl was recently shot in Brad
ord County that had leather strap
ouckled around one of its legs.
MAY the dogs devour your bones, Is
he cheerful salutation of Moslem ladies
TO Christians in Constantinople-
Mrs. Small, of Bowdoinham, Me-.
was 103 years old Nov. 10. She has u
daughter of IS and son OF 80.
Mrs. Bath, daughter of Gov. Lowry
of Mississippi, has been given teacher
ship at the State Female College.
North Carolina is as large as En-
gland, vet it has only 100000 inhabi-
tants, while the slight little isle" con-
tains 100000.
A natural bridge has recently been
discovered in the Tonic Basin, Arizona.
which is 1000 feet long, 500 feet wide
and 40 feet high.
Ex-Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, is an
accomplished linguist, speaking and
translating Greek, Latin, English, Ger
man, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Jeremiah Cleveland, an uncle of the
President, made clocks so good that they
are known by their owners as ''Cleve-
land clocks" They strike right every
time.
The exact expense of the funeral of
Victor Hugo has only just been added
ND and given to the world. 1t amounts
to S2O, SG6. The Chamber voted $4,000
for it.
The guitar has taken the place of the
banjo in New York society; and 1t Is
to be pretty parlor ornament, and to
match well with the Spanish jackets
now fashionable.
There were 1881 collisions between
Union and Confederate troops during
the war. In this enumeration the min
imurn of Union troops was 500 and the
maximum 100000.
Sixty tons of almonds were gathered
from a sixty-five-acre orchard on the
Oakshade farm, near Woodland, Cal.
the past season. At 10 cents per pound
the crop will bring $4,000.
Persons in need of $500 are reminded
that II. A. Chittendon, of Montclair, n.
| j., offers that sum to any one who will
prove that the earth revolves on its axis,
or that it moves around the sun.
Lord Hotchkiss, one of the swell cow
boys of Montana, recently won heavy
wager by walking from his ranch to
Miles City, a distance of twenty-five
miles, in four hours and four minutes.
| A recent investigator into the causes
| of consumption says the disease is often
| inherited because the heir has taken for
his personal use the decedent's old mat
tresses, upholstered chairs, and carpets.
| Young Mr.. Burdett-Coutts, nee Bart
lett. has an imitator in Paris. Count
de Lugival, aged &c. has just married q
widow aged ~. The ancient dame
brings the boy an indemnity of $780,
900 francs.
| An English traveller maintains that
there are five other peaks of the Hima-
layan range of mountains higher than
Mount Everest (29, 200 feet, heretofore
thought to be one of the highest eleva-
tons in the world.
Mr.. Spurgeon has completed the
seventh and last volume of his Treas
ury of David" His happiness over the
conclusion of his work has found ex
preston in the word "Hallelujah, y
which he prints instead of "Finis" a.
the end of the book.
Butte City, NJ. T., has population o
1900, 1000 to 5000 of whom are EN-
ployed in the mines at $3.50 per day
while fully as many men are idle. Th'
town supports five daily newspapers
FIVE brass and string bands, and fifteen
gambling establishments, four variety
theatres and one opera house, which are
doing a rushing business every night
The Andre monument affair has had
! the effect of putting Mr.. Field beforC
the British public in light he may no
! relish. The London Echo writes OF hin
as IAN able, pushing man of business
not too scrupulous to jeopardize success
bur, Oh the other hand, exceedingly
vain and fond of associating his name
with persons of eminence and rank,
more especially in this country"
An improved railroad tie, just invent
ed, is formed of two inverted bowls hay
; ing plain upper surfaces, two fastening
clips secured to the plain surface OF eact
bowl by bolts, with q bar connecting
7 the two bowls, and secured by the fas
tening bolts of the inner clips; the CON
cave side of the bowl is filed with cart
well tamped, or with concrete, the OBJ
ject being to furnish tie which shall
be practically indestructible.
Miss Winslow, tho American beauty
, who has been dividing with Miss Cham
berlain the admiration of the gay work
D beyond the Atlantic, belongs to g well
E known Boston family. Miss WinsloV
E is blonde, tall and stately, with regu
lar features, and the air that people Gal
= 'aristocratic" She came naturally Z
her personal attractions through he
y mother, whose portrait, painted by POI
ter before he had become fashionable
preserves the features of one of the mos
beautiful women the Hub has known.
The English royal family are blesse'
= with good appetites. They look upoI
d four substantial meals day as by n
5 means an excessive allowance of food
e Even at o'clock tea the wafer-lik
n bread and butter that customarily &C
t company the syrupy Souchong or Or
= ange Pekoe is supplemented by beauti
It fully cut sandwiches, pate dc fol graz
and other tempting delicacies, and ever
e justice is done to them by the illustriou
. ones without in any way spelling" th
e elaborate dinner that is to follow late
on.
= Cosmophobia, or "dread of-the worl
process" has been rescued from II
V metaphysical exclusiveness and is to b
3 studied as q nervous disease. A patien
d suffering from it is described BY DI
b Vance in the Medical ReUies0 as belieI
}. ing that ''the power Of the world Is
# power of evil. and existence q frenzie
y carnival" He is troubled with '.irT.
liability on that part of the physical ma
chanism concerned in the elaboratio
q of ntellectuo-emotional IDEAS" and
II generally out of joint with the world
IS tempermental predisposition being
i prime factor in the trouble.
Wellington Guernsey, soldier, wal
correspondent, composer, librettist, an
Journalist, who died suddenly of para
Is ysis in London few days ago, loved I
}, tell the curious history of his most cell
u brated song, "Alice, Where Art Thou7
- 1t was offered to half the music-publisl
: ers in London for $25 down, but thoG
J. Wiseacres refused it. Ultimately Dun
can Davidson agreed to issue it on sha
% ing terms. In the result, the sale or Il
d song several years ago exceeded q tots
of 10000 copies. Nancy Lee" oil
:, fered for $50, ultimately paid its con
T poser, Mr.. Maybrick, &35. 900.
1t used TO be humor of Sarah Bern
E hardt, when she felt particularly hatefu
: and sour of soul, TO get in a coffin an
pretend to take nap. But Bernhardt'
playfulness seems trifiing. indeed. &