The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-10-27
HERE AND THERE.

The late DIR. Holland realized $4,000
from his Life Of Lincoln " 1t was his
most remunera,ive work.
II Looks as if Parnell had fooled
round with the tail of The British lion
till the entire animal has become stir
Ed up.
Secrclary Blaine told the Monsieurs
that he could not talk French with them,
but he was ready to pick a frog.leg with
them at any time.
1t is to be hoped that the announce
ment that President Arthur has strong
literary sympathies will not subject him
to the infliction of correspondence
from Private Dalzell.
The London Times thinks that the
people of this country, in picking out
their presidents, "have never yet made
bad choice, though one might be bet
ter than another
A Methodist preacher in Ohio is said
to have "prayed for Guiteau" as fol-
lows: "May curses be on the hand that
did the deed. May the wretch be
eternally tormented."
Three prominent members of express
companies have died during the last year,
viz: Mr.. Gather, of the Adams; Mr..
Fargo, of the American; and now Mr..
Morgan, of the United States,
A Kentucky man reports the dis
cOvery of eleven comets in one bunch.
If he lived in Kansas he would be re-
garded as an extremely eligible witness
in effecting convictions under the pro-
hibitory law.
Man, says the London lancet, was in
tended to eat slowly. The railroad com
panics who allow the travelling public
ten minutes in which 10 get away with
a seventy-five cent dinner, should make
a note of this.
Champion: The indictment against
Guiteau charges that the pistol with
which the shooting was done was "of
tie value Of So" Here is chance for
a defense; prove that this British bull
dog was only worth $499 This is one
of the beauties of that exact science"
called law.
A man was paralyzed by a stroke of
lightning at Highwater, Mimi Some of
his friends reasoned that if the earth
would receive electricity from the buried
end of lightning rod it would in the
same manner draw out the charge with
which they supposed him TO DO filed.
Therefore they dug hole and covered
him up to the chin. He died in that pc
sition.
DR.. Dio Lewis is about to build a
hotel in Boston. If it is run in accord
ance with his views of alimentary re-
form, it will prove a grand sanitarium
for those dietetical cranks who pin
their faith to cold wafer, Graham bread
and theories on hygiene, and abjure the
normal and universal impulse of every
well-regulatcd American citizen in the
direction of hog and hominy.
A prize dog fight for $1,000 a side
took place near Louisville, Kentucky,
bhS OLhSl idy anu WIS hItHSSScI DH an
immense concourse of The blue grass
chiyalry. The poor animals furnished
diversion for the intellectual crowd for
over an hour, when the death of one of
them ended the cruel sport. The print.
tive character of civilization in Ken
lucky is probably due TO a prevalent sus-
picion that missionaries are eaten in
many of the remote Businesses of that
Democratic commonwealth.
Tic Missouri papers are not pleased
that the New York Times charges that
Europe is alarmed ut the brigandage in
Missouri; that England views Missouri
as without law and order, and that Italy,
where a case of brigandage has been I'M
known for two years, regards brigand-
age in America rs deep blot on the ma
ton and an evidence of the demoralizing
influence of Republicanism and Protes-
tantism. 1t is asked if there is case
like the robbing of the Missouri trains
and towns, where two or three men in
open day put town of 1000 in abey-
ance, and rob train of $50 persons
without resistance?