Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1883-05-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL KOTES.
The N. Y. World has passed
into the hands ofJos. Pulitze:, of tn.
ST. Louis Post st-Dispatch. He win give
the sedate New Workers a little tastt
OF breezy, western Journalism. We
look for little fun as soon as The mu'
Sic gets fairly started.
I'VE cannot furnish any more
back copies Of the GRAPHIC containing
he Hired GIRL" The supply IS ex'
hausted. The story is taking every.
where and We are receiving cards and
letters every mail. calling for missing
numbers. We need few copies oi
number ? fthis volume ourselves.
kansas City has heretofore flat
tered.itself that it was cyclone proof
owing to Its peculiar location, but that
notion no longer exists. Sunday eve-
ming about four o'clock the inhabitants
ofthe city were visited by one which
left desolation wherever it touched.
About fifty houses were wrecked and
three or four people killed. Among
large number of people who were more
or less injured and bruised by the storm
we noticed the name of Prof. J. NJ.
Greenwood. He received a sprained
ankle and slight wound on the head.
The total damage to property is esti-
mated at from two to three hundred
thousand dollars.
1t is becoming a serious ques-
ton with people, whether this cyclone
business is to go on increasing in fire.
quency and desructiveness year after
year, or not. We can very well re.
member the time when people in this
country pittied the poor unfortunate
denizens of the West Indies, whom the
histories and biographies pictured as
fleeing in terror from the track of the
terrible hurricane, or showed them cling
ing like grim death to saping, while
all about them was flying timbers.
stones, animals, falling chimnies, zig
gag lightning, and such other startling
effects as the lively imagination of the
artist might suggest. Little did we
think then that such foreigner would
ever become naturalized in civilized
America, especially west OF the Missis-
sippi, or that we could learn to calmly
discuss the chances or put our trust in
a hole in the back yard, and take out |
cyclone policy on our houses as We do
against fire and lightning.
A decision rendered last Monday by
the Supreme Court in regard to schools
has caused not a little speculation and
excitement. The suit was brought to
prevent the teaching of foreign langu-
ages in the common schools OF St.
Louis and to prevent pupils under six
and over twenty from participating in
The benefit of the public funds raised
b y taxation for school purposes. The
lecisiun holds that the word common
does not apply to the branches which
may be taught but is used in the sense
hat the school is common or free to
all children between the ages named
md to no other. The effect will be to :
ripple the kindergarten schools on the
me hand, where children under six
years are admitted, and the night
chools where adults are taught. There
re some who think the decision will :
lso affect the various State Normal
chools, and even the University, a
lajority fthe pupils of those institu- I
ons being over the age Of twenty.
'e hardly agree with this view of the :
lse, as the funds for the Normal J
:hools are appropriated by special '
ction ofthe legislature from the gen. ?
al fund of the state, and do not con. ?
itute any part of the "school fund.-" q
/ least we so understand it. n
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