Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-09


MINOR TOPICS.
THE South Carolina state library con-
tains $4,000 volumes.
THERE are 40, 600 American books in the
British Museum which has thus, in a mea-
sure, become the chief depository of Amer
lean literature.
THERE are in the United States 727
paper-mills, making 1, 800 tons day of all
kinds of paper but the writing paper used
is not 200 tons daily.
MORE than 1000, 600 volumes have been
added, during the last six years, to
"Mudie's Select Library" the greatest
circulating library in the world. Frequent
ly whole editions of new books arc taken
by it.
The Philadelphia Erening Telegraph
makes the point for Hayes that, notwith-
standing he is despitefuily used by his
party, four years of his administration put
it and leaves it in a good deal better shape
than did the Grant regime.
ALLEGHENY CITY is much troubled over
the disputed question whether negro chill
ircn shall 20 to the same schools as those
of white folks, and some direct question as
to the rights and duties of directors in the
matter have been put to State Superinteh-
dent Wickcrshan,, which with characteristic
evasion it is claimed he delays to directly
| answer.
A NOTED prize-fghter i'll the South
named McCool was washed from the wreck
OF steamboat last week, and tumbled in
to the Mississippi on dark night. From
the horrible tangle of drowning men lie
struck out wildly, and after swimming a
few strokes saw barrel floating along, to
which he fastened, and was saved. 1t was
a barrel of whisky. The moral Of this
story seems to be that, after all,
whisky-no! that won't do. The NOR
al is that the best place for whisky is in a
barrel, and the best place for the barrel is
in river.
PREACHERS, lecturers, lawyers and even
some speakers at teachers institutes may
profitably read this story related il
Greyille's memoirs A certain bishop in the
House OF Lords rose to speak and an
nounccd that he slould divide what he hat
to say into twelve parts, when the Duke
of Wharton interrupted him ami begged
that he might be INDUCED for a few min
utcs, as he had story to tell which hi
could only introduce at that moment. A
drunken fellow was passing by St. Paul.
at night and heard the clock slowly chin
ing twelve. He counted the strokes ant
when it had finished looked toward tho
clock and said Damn you! why
couldn't you give us all that at once 2
There was an end of the bishops proposed
speech.
BOSTON is at present occupied with tin
question of corporal punishment in th'
public schools. The superintendent il
his last annual report makes some disclo
sures that have quite shocked the scnsibili
ties of that aesthetic centre. He tells tin
Bostonese of instances of personal violenc'
and degrading punishmcnts that vivid!
recall scenes enacted at Dotheboys hal
under that prince Of school-room tyrants
Squcers, whilst according to the sam'
authority tho monthly reports Of gramma
schools come in ringing with the echoes 0
blows constituting record of cruelties ant
shame degrading to the teacher "injuriou
to the pupils, and shocking to the com
munity.'' The Pilot gives editoria
prominence to the city superintendent
disclosures. 1t takes the ground tina
corporal punishment is the sure resourc
OF weak and inferior teachers only, ant
backs up its position by quoting from tn
report of a principal of a colored school il
Maryland. where the rod is never used
"Nevcr was there a wilder or more hope
less chaos than the colored schools in thi
city (Baltimore) when started, less thai
two years ago, and would like to sec tn
New England schools. trained by the rod
which would surpass in conduct or prog
ress these schools trained without it..
The PHO: defines its views upon the ques
ton in the uttcrance of the hope that thi
remnant of barbarism will soon he utterl,
swept from the schools of Boston ant
from every school it disgraces in America
7 LATEST NEWS BY MAIL.
Commodore Shurelt, U. S. n, failed t.
effect a treaty with Corea.
Charles Clark. about 90 years Of age
was killed by the bursting of all emer,
wheel in a mill at Stamford, Conn.,, yes
terday afternoon.
The Obenauer mill in Griswold, Conn.,,
belonging to the Reade paper company,
was burned on Sunday night. Loss, s25,
900.