Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-04-17
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
An English newspaper has ali advertise
ment calling for can organist who can
also take the village blacksmith business"
Such a man would make ponderous sue
cess of the anvil chorus if he would intro
duce it literally into his voluntaries.
THE widest dream never surpassed the
romance of the widow of the third Napo
leon sailing from England to touch at St.
Helena on her way to look upon the spot
in Zululand where fell fourth and last Ma
poleon. The empress is said, as she left,
tohave looked sadly broken, and her hair
has turned gray.
SHE had pretty diploma, tied with pink
ribbon from one of our best young ladies'
colleges. In conversation with daring
and courageous young man, after he had
detailed the dangers and delights Of riding
on locomotive, she completely upset his
opinion of independent education Of the
sexes by inquiring, GLOW do they steer
locomotives anyhow. 90
JUDGE Logan E. Bleckley, the eccen-
trio Georgian, who resigned his seat Oh the
bench some weeks ago, has built for him
self a log cabin and retired from the public
gaze. The cabin is on the side of the
mountain that Overlooks the town of Clay
ton, in Raburn county, Ga. The ex.judge
who has for companion little boy, and
who does his own cooking, thus leaves the
haunts of men that he may write book.
THE Robert Raikes centennial will be
celebrated in Great Britain and the United
States in June in cOmmemoratiOn of the
founding of the Sunday school system. 1t
is proposed to raise 800, 600 for the Ameri-
can Sunday school union, and also for the
American Baptist publication society and
Presbyterian board Of publication as per-
manent funds, the interest to be used in
promoting the formation of Sunday-schools
in the United States and other countries.
Bob 1NGERSOLLs compliments to Rev.
Flavius Josephus Cook. "He has taken
upon himself to say upon one occasion
that was in favor of the dissemination of
obscene literature. When he made that
statement he wrote across the forehead of
his reputation the word Liar He is a low
and infamous man. Meanness cannot de-
scend below the level of him who would
endeavor to destroy the reputation of an
other because he could not answer his ar
gument. 1 despise, execrate, with every
drop of blood, any man or woman who
would stain with lust the sweet and in
nocent heart of youth. I despise with all
my power any man who would be engaged
directly or indirectly in the dissemination
of anything that was not absolutely pure. "
IN illustration of the trite truth that pol
itics makes strange bed fellows the Potts
vile Ecening Chronicle says that at recent
political caucus in Philadelphia there as,
sembled Hon. Samuel Josephs, the illustri-
GUS legislator of thirteen winters, Judge
Ross, Of Montgomery, and Judge Hagen
man, of Berks. Further, that to aid him
in Schuylkill county Mr.. Wallace has
called into his confidence the head and
front of the Greenback party-no less a
parsonage than our townsman, Hon. F.
w. Hughes. Mr.. Hughes
has no political rights which Democrats
are bound to respect, and Mr.. Wallace has
none which permits him to send an enemy
into camp to corrupt our trusted officers
and if the senator will only stop to con-
slider that just such action gives color to
the charges that there is a Wallace-C Came
ron alliance, he will bite his thumb nails
clear off before he sends the leader of an
opposing organization to disorganize the
representatives of the party which has
honored Mr.. Wallace with the highest
office in it's gift.'