The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-11-24
HERE AND THERE.

HERE AND THERE.
Nearly $4,000 people visited the exhi-
bition of electricity in Paris on Sunday.
al see that week of prayer has been
appointed for young men. l must be
lubricating my knee joints''-S. j. Til
den.
After Thanksgiving, Congress. The
order in which the events occur is high
ly conducive 10 the exercise of popular
gratitude.
1t would be moderately interesting
spectacle TO see Sergeant Mason and Mr..
William Jones shoot for the gate money
at the side OF barn.
There are at least half dozen parties
who claim 10 have invented the speaking
telephone before Mr.. Bell thought of it,
with China still TO hear from.
The asylum for the feeble minded
burned at Columbus, Ohio, the other day.
1t seems that the Greenback party are in
fearfully hard luck this year.
Philadelphia Press: my ex-wife," is
Guiteau's way of speaking of his sun
dered tie. Ere long she may be able 10
come back at him with 'my. executed
husband
1t would be an extremely valuable
contribution to American statistics to
ascertain how many thousand pairs of
slippers are in process of construction
fir President Arfhnr
Mr.. Keller, of Ohio, still seems to
have the pole in the race for the speaker
ship of the House. Your Buckeye pol
itician generally manages to keep
abreast of the band-wagon.
The Philadelphia Press calls a GER
tain English preacher the "Talmage of
London" 1t is estimated by careful
attorneys that the claim for damages
will hardly fall below 100000.
A Mount Pleasant, Iowa, young lady
is cutting her third set Of teeth. We
should think the dentists of that town
would bring suit TO enjoin such an I'M
natural and damaging proceeding.
The faith expressed by Guiteau that
the Lord will take care of him would be
much more impressive if the demands
of the cowardly assassin for a reinforce
ment of guards were less importunate.
The announcement that Omaha has
the worst streets of any city in the west
will prove somewhat of tax upon the
credulity of persons who have ever toiled
through the thoroughfares of Kansas
City.
The official figures of the census make
the population of the United States So
156, 7S3. 1t seems that the dawning Gle
eros of the country, in their late Fourth
of July orations and campaign speeches,
have left 156,7S american freemen"
out in the cold.
The first instance of self-killing ever
known among the Cherokee tribe is that
of young buck, who shot himself at
Muskogee the other day. The hope that
suicide will ever assume the form of an
epidemic among the Indians is not
cherished by even the most stalwart OPP
timists.
Commander Cheyne, of the British ma
Wy, lectured to large audience in New
York on the subject of Arctic research.
He asks the public of England and
America to contribute $3.50, 900 to enable
himself and Lieutenant Schwatka to
reach the north pole by balloons from st.
Patrick's bay.
The last words of Augustus Smith, a
licentious brute who was executed on
the 18th at Smithfield, North Carolina,
were: Farewell! Meet me in heaven"
According to the testimony of expiring
criminals it would seem that the Lord
gives general reception to visitors from
this planet every Friday.
A well known newspaper correspond
ent at the state capital of Missouri has
applied for divorce upon the ground
''that he finds married life and journal
istic pursuits Incompatible and intoler-
able" The inference is that the wife of
the petitioner has been sustaining an I'M
due Intimacy with his bank account
Inc NCH
minister of that city in the declaration
that dancing as now carried on is un-
healthful, but, says the Herald, the old
style of dancing, when the ceremony
consisted more of an interchange of
courtisies than of miscellaneous en-
bracing, was e most beautiful and health
giving amusement.
Capital; The idea that once prevailed,
and to some extent still obtains, that an
eligible juror should be an idiot, is very,
much modified. At least so much so
that the supreme court of Pennsylva-
MIA has decided that he need not neces-
sarily be a man who fails to read the
newspapers and forms no opinion of
what he hears.
We fear that the familiar cognomen
of the aspiring individual who sought
to achieve deathless fame by his as
sault upon Guiteau last Saturday is
somewhat against him. Without enter
ing into a discussion of the merits of
his deed, we believe it will be readily
conceded that bill Jones' were not zone
of the few immortal names that is not
born to die"