Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-07
inal work should be done in presenting il

satisfactorily.
A spirited discussion was had as to the
probability of Alcyone, in the Pleiades,
being the centre Of our stellar system, the
views of dozen different authorities be-
ing quoted for and against this bold guess
of the astronomer.
A show of hands was called for, of those
who wished tickets to the lecture by Rev.
DR.. Warren on the Goth inst. Mr.. McCas-
key had thought it desirable to supple
ment the work of the Star club by illus
trated popular lectures from :he most dis
tinguished platform men in this depart
ment of science. The lecture by Prof.
Proctor had cost him about s1OO more than
the receipts. If the receipts from the lee
ture by Dr. Warren should make good the
loss on the Proctor lecture, any balance
remaining will be paid over to the treas
urer of the Christian Association.
At the close of the Star club work and
before adjournment, it was decided to Or
ganize Plant club, which shall study the
elements of botany, giving attention to
the wonders of plant growth and to the
practical analysis of plants according to
the tables of an approved text book. Each
member of the class will need text book for
home study and field work. The class will
arrange for eight or ten meetings between
this and the middle of June, and part of
the work to be done by each member will
probably include the analysis of at least
thirty Of the native Spring plants, with
description in proper form of family,
genus, species and habitat in the case of
each plant analysed.
The first meetin 6 of the Plant club will
be held at the call of the committee ap-
pointed to consider the details of it's Or
ganization. The members of this COM
mittee arc Messrs. J. D. Pyott, J. C.
BurroweS and Miss Marie Kemp.
About Stickers.
Those who were present III court when
the Seventh ward ballot box was opened
for the pupose of determining the contest
ed election for constable of that ward
could not have failed to observe that the
| placing of I ''sticker" over the name of an
Objectionable candidate is not very sure
way of having the vote counted against
him. Sometimes the stickcr won't stick,
and sometimes dishonest election officers
may take occasion to pull off those that dc
stick. thus not only ,lepriving the candi
date of the vote to be cast for him, but
giving it to his opponent. In the Seventh
ward case the repeated! handling
of the tickets caused quite a
number of the stickers to fall off. FOrtu.
nately none of these belonged to the Wega
votes which alone were examined by The
commissioners. But had it been necessary
to make Il recount of all the the tickets in
the box it wonld have been impossible fol
the examiners to have determined the re.
suit with accuracy SO many of the stickcrs
had fallen off.
At the coming election the great army
Of scratchers' should bear this in mind
The voter should first carefully erase the
name of the candidate he don't want to vote
for. The best plan to carefully write
in the name of the candidate he does want
to vote for. If stickers are used let him
see that they are properly put on and will
not he likely to come off.