Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-05
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
A New YORK engraver got out some
wedding cards in these words: ''Mr. and
Mrs request your presents at the mar
riage Of their daughter
THE uaedited letters of Peter the Great,
which are preserved in st. Petersburg,
some s, 600 in number, are to be edited and
published. 1t is estimated that they will
fill about fifteen volumes.
WHEN Emerson was travelling i'll Egypt
an Englishman paid him particular atten-
tion, though the philos oher was known to
him only as an American. At parting the
Englishman said II have tried to devote
myself to you because you are country
man of the great Emerson
EX-ATTORNEY GENERAL LEAR writes a
letter to the Bucks Comfy MteHiyencer to
illustrate some of the dangerous tenden-
cies of politics with the Quay Cameron
performances in this state. Lear himself
is frightful example of some dangerous
tendencies, forcibly exhibited in taking a
1000 fee from a corporation against
which he was prosecuting claim for the
state.
THE Republican members of the su-
preme court are strongly in favor of the
appointment of Edmunds to the supreme
! bench in place Of Justice Hunt, and re-
gard the appointment as certain to be
made as soon as the latter is provided with
| IL pension. One reason why they prefer
Edmunds is that they fear that he is the
| only Republican whom the Senate would
| at this time.
THE New York SIN points out that al
active minority has always been influential
IN New York delegation to Republican
national conventions, and. though Seward
in 1860 and Conkling in 1876, each had q
large majority of the delegates, there was
such fearless and abe opposition tC
them among the minority as to completely
destroy all chances of their nomination
Whether the Republican opponents OF
Gen. Grant in New York will have skill
and courage enough to wage much of {:
battle against the third term policy at the
state convention for choosing delegates to
| Chicago. remains to be determined
The "tramp act" has certainly been OF
signal profit to the taxpayers of Cumber-
land county, whose representative \. NJ.
Rhoads had it passed Situated on the
direct route travelled by tramps on their
journey from the cast towards the Shenan-
tloah valley, in Virginia, these general
! t ourists'' were committed into it by MOus-
aa,ds, especially during the time when the
old fee bill statutes, relating to their com
initial, maintenance and discharge, was in
| force. In the last four months of 1873
t heir maintenance cost the county s., 1G2.
81, while last year they only cost for the
same time $49j. Thus showing Il differ
encc in favor of the county, in the space of
four months, of s4, G67.31. The appearance
Of the Jail, now, is entirely changed. In
stead of being "vercrowlcd it is compara-
tlEcly vacant.
THE following old ballad was first pub
lis;hcd in 1864 by VIM. MurtaSh in coIlec-
tion of ballads, whose authorship is invoIv-
ed in obscurity. The fourth line in the
last stanza has been the subject of much
inquiry as to its origin:
| Come Joan. my lass. ill up the glass.
Wen drink our own good health:
Tho poor we be, content arc we.
We cOvct no mans pcf.
Hard beds to tired folks are sweet.
And hunger SwcctenS plaincst meat.
SO here to Joan 5 and Robin.
But Rob. my man, if wealth were thine
Then Joan would take new graces:
Gay as the best. in satin dres't,
With jewels. silk and laccS;
Then lOuting low. the crowd would cry.
While in our couch we passed them by
Long life to Joan and Robin,
TuSh, tush. my lass, such thoughts resign.
Comparisons are cruel:''
Fine pictures suit. in frames fine.
COnsistency's a jeUei.
For thee and me coarse clothes are best,
Rude folk in hOmcly r;,iment drcSt
Wife Joan, and good man Robin.