The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-21
HERE AND THERE.

L lhC COllNtItih wv PNho az thS
mind that Guiteau's name would en-
bcllish tomb stone with marvelously
picturesque effect.
Puck: Come, come ladies, there's
poor Charlie Guitrau languishing in
Jail, and not single bouquet yet. What
can the matter be?
The Boston Globe conceived a new
motto for the Fourth of July-"MclOns
and collie, one and inscparable, now and
forever. L pluribus cucumbers."
There is no community in the country
now, making prctensiOns to the least en-
terprisc, that cannot produce score or
more of men who have been shot through
the liver.
Elberon, the name Ofthat part of Long
Branch where Grant stays and Garfield
was visiting, is only short for E. l..
Brown, who laid out the grounds and
built the cottages.
The Japanese Mikado Is to have n 3d.
GOO, 900 palace at Ycddo. 1t is evident
from the moderate cost of the structure
that no plumbers bills arc included in
the above estimate.
We should judge from the weather re-
ports which reach us from Cincinnati
that it would not be a difficult under
taking to organize an expedition in that
city to go in search of the missing jean
nette.
The utility of the U. S. Navy has been
| finally demonstrated. Secretary Hunt
has placed it Mt the disposal of the en-
gineers who are engaged in reducing
the temperature in the Presidents sick
chamber.
There are some redecming featuresIof
character in even as abandoned a wretch
have failed to discover that he was ever
addicted TO the ACCORDION or manifested
a pcnchant for writing original poetry.
The Garfield fund reached $135 600
yesterday. An eastern exchange says
"No intimation has yet been given, and
| from the nature of the circumstances
none can be given, how the gift will lie
regarded by those for whose benefit it is
suggested"
The charge that Guitcau was RESPONSE.
bic for the Morey letter forgery is gen.
orally resented by all fair minded poo
pie rs the malicious invention of some
political iconoclast bent on celebrating
every trace of Bill Barnum's fine Italian
hand in the last Presidential canvass.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, favors the
passage of law forbidding any Office
seeker Ia sec the President. The veal;
point of such a regulation becomes
readily apparent when We pause TO re
fleet that it would cfTcctually isolate
President Garfield from all of his Ohio
friends.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: From tho
large number of men who have come
, forward to testify that during the wal
, they received wounds exactly like Gar
fields" it is painfully evident that 1
good many brave soldiers on both side.
were shot in the back during the late un
pleasantness.
One man has notified Secretary Blaine
/ that he is ready at a moments notice t.
, relieve the government of all response
f bility in the matter of dispOsihg o
: Guiteau. The individual who is so will
t ing to serve his country in such valu
=, able capacity should be given job with
I out an hours delay.
3 An American clergyman contemplate
c the outrage of travelling over Englan,
, on bicycle. We would merely sue
3 gest TO Secretary Blaine the immincn
. danger of such rash experiment il
view of the present condition of GU
standing army, and the pre-eminence O
Great Britain as maritime power.
A colored man died in Baltimore tn
9 other day who had policies on his lif
aggregating 100000. 1t proved hant
some windfall TO his legatees, but div
E ision of the fortune among the severa
: heirs will probably no more than CON
!. pensate them for their agonizing effort
(; to restrain their hilarity at the funeral
!, New York Herald: How like an old
!, iamiliar story reads the report that DO
b has been playing with a revolver an
shot another person! If boys must max
!. toys of loaded pistols let them do it i
f rooms where they are alone, and where
y if they must point the weapon at some
: body, they may point it at themselves.
!; DIR. OSWALD, Surgeon Barnes and severa
G other prominent medical men hav
= made the important discovery that rock
!. ing babies is almost certain to max
them weak-minded. The proprietors c
+ male infants who are averse TO seein
: their progeny develop into Greenhacl
|. politicians should cut this out and past
, it in their hats.
Atchison Champion: If Guitcau ha
, been turned loose in the joint CONVEX
s ton ut Albany, with mitrailleuse, II
II stead of in Washington with revolvel
u there would have been no serious regret
= We have never heard of body of me
n in the world who needed killing wors
G. than do the members OF that joint COZ
.. ventiOn, individually and collectively.
4 Says the Saturday Review: "WoDe
]. are VIGOROUSLY indifferent 10 their foo,
Is If European community could be d,
4 serted for year by the men, We veril
N believe that the women would slide bacl
Ne first into custom OF having tea and
Is chop at every meal, next into pecking
= some bread and butter at any hour whe
in they felt the pangs of hunger, lastly in
Is the condition of savages who live on CT
n ual roots and the gum and bark Of tree
=, :. 1t is man, proud man. who keeps woml
< up 90 the civilized mark in the matter
or eating and drinking"