The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1881-07-14
HERE AND THERE,

What docs Professor Tyndall think of
the prayer lest in President Garfield's
case?
The weather bulletins from 81. Louis
have given rise 10 the theory that wick
ed people go there when they die.
The telegraph companies could "dough
up" handsomely on the Garfield fund
without any violation of poetic justice.
Chicago Inter Ocean: a man so
years ofage, weighing 24O pounds. who
can turn handspring over be !, is in
good shape to resist an ounce of lead.
Memphis is al last enforcing the strict
est quarantine regulations. With these
and her new sewers she has an excellent
prospect Of warning Off her old plague.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat: Three
good things are tolerably certain: The
recovery of the President, the unity of
the Republican party, and the conversion
of Bob Ingersoll.
Bismarck Grove has been chrisiened
by the Kansas City Journal as THE
Chautauqua ofthe West" The healthier
who OBLIGATED at the baptism must be
possessed of tropical fancy. or have
very limited knowledge of the latter To-
cality.
Queen Victoria's message OF sympathy
TO Minister Lowell is the fourth of IFS
kind that she has sent. Her reign, be-
ginning in 1887, bridges the death of
three American Presidents. who have
died in office, and the fourth who has
come near death.
Considering the extremely hot weather,
the serious nature of his wound, and the
multitude of medical cOunsellors by
which he is environed, President Gar
field is getting on as well as tho most
exacting student of his case could
reasonably expect.
A curious coincidence is found in the
fact that the nurse who attended the
President at the time of his birth died
about the hour the assassin attempted
his life. Her name was Mrs. Stewart
G. Gardner, and she died at the residence
of her son, A. j. Gardner, in Mason
Township, near Dowagiac, Mich, ut the
age of 81 years.
There is something most pathetic in
the resignation of Mother Garfield when
the dreadful news of the disaster to her
son was announced to her. Calamities
have fallen thick, fast and heavy on the
good old lady in her declining years.
Her prayer, "May the Lord help him!"
meets a most tender response from all
the mothers of this Republic.
The sausage from which some Penn
sylvania miners lunched a few days ago,
to the immediate benefit of local under
takers, has been found on analysis to
contain poison, and there seems to be a
suspicion that It was made of the flesh
of poisoned animals. The unquestion-
ing faith of mankind in sausage has no
parallel in religion or even in politics.
The President when warned by a
friend some time ago as to the danger of
an attempt upon his life, answered: 81
must come and go as usual, and can
not surround myself with body guard. -
And again, he said: "If the good of this
country. the interests of pure govern
ment and of the people against One-man
power demand the sacrifice of my life, l
think am ready"
1t seems, from the discoveries of the
detectives, that Guiteau was on the
Presidents track during the whole, OF
the week prior TO the attempted assasi
nation, watching the White House and
DIGGING his footsteps. 1t is also said
that the assassin bought his pistol seve
raj weeks ago, and had been practicing
at target. The impression grows thai
Guiteau knew what he was about.
The heat Sunday was terrific all ovel
the country. A record of the maximum
thermometer and fatal cases of prostr,l
tion at some of the principal cities is al
follows: