Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-03
PITY poor PassmOre.
MINOR TOPICS.

WILL l.. MARBLE, a st. Louis artist has
applied for divorce from his wife. One
of his grievances is that she sent a broken
frying pan to an art show, where some
ofhis pictures were on exhibition, with
request that the hanging committee would
give it a position as ''an example of the
way in which the talented Mr.. Marple
provided for his family's necessities.
STATE SUPT. WICKERsHAM publishes Il
letter written to State Treasurer NOyes
telling him that as the law is mandatory
requiring the state superintendent to draw
the school warrants, he proposes to do SO
now whether there is money to meet them
or not. He has refrained from Obeying
the mandatory law heretofore because
he did not want to see the warrants dis
hOnored.
Boz INGERsoLI is said to be extremely
anxious to 60 to the Chicago convention
and make another speech in be-
half of the plumcd knight of
Maine, and for this reason he is
concerning himself to no small degree Oh
the question of restoring District suffrage.
Bob is now resident of Washington, and
must go as the representative of the Dis
trct of Columbia if he goes at all.
TIE report of the commissioner of pat
ents shows that during 1879 there were
presented 20,O59 applications for patents,
and 12, 725 patents were issued. The total
receipts of the Office for the year were
s103, ,931, total expenditures 1929, G3S.
The total balance to the credit Of the pat
ent Office fund, on January /, 1890. was
81 42O SOG.
The Altoona Sun thinks this sentiment
transmitted by President Tilden to the
Iron City Tilden club of Pittsburgh,
on the occasion ofits first annual reception,
should be ''printed in letters of gold
punctuated with diamonds
Obedience to the choice of the ma ority
as expressed in the elections is the vital
principle of selfgOvernmcnt. without
which its forms are a sham, representing
only fraud Or force.
THAT is rather fishy story now going
the rounds to the effect that Don Cameron
has made an arrangement with Blaine by
which he agrees to deliver the Pcnnsylva-
delegation over to the latter in the event
OF his needing it to secure the nomination
at Chicago. Don is for Grant, and he is
not of the kind that make concessions even
of the rcmotest character before they know
they are beaten. 1t may be counted as
reasonably sure, anyhow, that Cameron
prefers Sherman to Blaine as second
choice, if he has allowed such contingent
cy to enter into his calculations at all.
Col. ROBERT P. NEvIN's new two-cent
morning daily in Pittsburgh has made its
appearance, and the signs OF the Times are
that it has come to stay. 1t is about the
size of the New York Sun and las all the
features of progressive modern Journal
ism. 1t proposes to be a newspaper in all
| that the term implies, and announces that
its political course following along no
fixed lines Of party, will be such as an hon
est desire to pursue the right and shun
the wrong on questions arising from day
to day may determine" Wherefore we
infer that it will not be a Grant organ as
as had been alleged in some quarters.
Sir EDWIN LANDsEER, the great animal
painter, was once looking at his own pic
lures in the South Kensington museum,
and seeing some dust ON one of them,
leaned over the barrier and wiped it off
with his handkerchief. Instantly apolice-
man Oh duty was upon him. "What are
you ADDING of, " said the force, "a touch
ing of that there picture ?'' why, " an
swcred Sir Edwin. smiling, GIVE often
touched it before. ''Have you, tho':"
cried the indignant pceler; ''thcn more
shame for yer! You come along wi me-"
And he walked off the unresisting painter
to the officers of the museum, who, of
course, recognized the culprit and con-
doned his offense.