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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

last ten days it has become certain that the
third term policy lacks popular strength in
the state, and that an attempt to make the
convention instruct the delegation for it
would create troublesome and dangerous
dissensions. This development has placed
the third term men in all embarrassing sit
uation, from which such an announcement
by authority as is now reported would hap
nilE rclieYc them.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
Unclaimed Letters.

The following is list of unclaimed let
ters remaining in the Lancaster postofiicc
for the week ending January 2G.
Ladies' List.-Miss Leah Barton, Miss
Mary Fasnacht, Miss Lizzie Fisher, Miss
Lizzie johnson, Emma J. Meyers, Mrs. NJ.
A. Noble, Miss Louisa Norris Miss Lizzie
Reist, Miss Sarah E. Sell, Miss Caroline
Wangner, Mrs. Mary Weaver, Miss Laura
ZOOk.
Gents Lia.-David Ford, Amos VI.
Frantz, John B. Good farmer). William
Gerber, Elias Hershey, Abner Herr, Robt
Kennedy, Oscar d. Knorr, Adam KiehI
Patrick Loughran, Jacob Mayrats. Samuel
Morns, Mr.. Norris, II. G. Pratt. \. :
Rosenbaum & Co, Carter Wilder. l.. f..
Wecker, J. L. Williamson. Atherton B.
Wadleish, Ge,. W. Williams. Samuel
Zook.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
DRINK and DiSOrOeriy.

On Saturday Alderman Barr com
mitted Collum McCloud, Eliza McClOud
and Patrick Daley (not Pat, the sexton)
for Is days each for drunk and disorierly
conduct. This morning Daniel ONeil,
for similar misconduct was committed for
90 days.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
Home Again.

Mr.. Willis B. Musscr, who did not accept
the position rendered him in Cincinnati
on his arrival there, and who afterwards
took a trip to Chicago, Sterling, Kan, and
other points west has returned to Lancas-
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

The TribuneG c regular correspondent at
Washington believes that the recent
events in Maine have advanced Senator
Blaine's prospects as a candidate for the
presidency.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

REruBLICAE> are un.ratctul-Phillp u
Baker was rejected 10y tlic delegates of hi
own ward.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

TIE machine convention which noml-
mated Boring excmplified its appreciation of
the free school system by giving Joe.
Samson a unanimous vote (26 mcmbers).
and not 4 single vote for Marriott Broslus.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
MINOR TOPICS.

BANJO playing is the fashionable accom-
plishment now of society girls OF wash
ington. ID. {.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26
Resigned.

Chief of Police POntz has placed his
resignation in the hands of the mayor.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

Or course Adam Eberly didn't want
to be rcnominated rs school director.
His present duties as select councilman OF
the Fifth ward will be sufficient to engage
his surplus talent until such time as he
shall be called upon t" act AS district
attorney.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

\ CORRESPONDENT Of the Washington
Republic claims that it was Zach Chandler
who originated Sherman grand march to
the sea. as early as December, 1861, in
letter to Simon Cameron, as secretary of
war. In this letter. which was recently
discovered anon. the correspondence of
the war department, when searching for
material to be used for Mr.. Chandler S
biography, the great stalwart, who was as
plain and blunt and energetic in 1861 as he
was in 1879 suggested that while the army
of the Potomac kept the Contederates
around Richmond engaged, hundred
thousand men be sent down the Misss-
sippi river ON hargcs to New Orleans, and
then marched back across toward Rich
mond, Subsisting upon the country which
was then well supplied.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-26

THE Republican school boalt! has twice
done itself honor and aided the cause of
education. by c!ectinS Marriott Brosius a
member of the board to fill vacancies. and
twice has the convention, composed of
1.-THE best workers of the wards kicked
him ont. :. Insatiatc archer, would not
0ncC suffice =?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
A Good Word for Slang.

There perhaps is nothing marking the Eng
llsh spoken In this country which gives rise TO
SO much concern as the asserted prevalence of
slang; certainly there is nothing more common
than the depreciation of its use. Ii is often
spoken or as the chief danger which threatens
lhe English tongue, at least as employed by US
Nest OF us have probably heard or read asser-
IONS TO that effect, many OF us have possibly
made such assertions ourselves; yet no evidence
has ever been brought forward to show that
more slang is produced or used In this country
than In England. That what is produced here
Is iar more raey, varied and vigorous is plain
enough from the appreciation IL meets there.
But even II IT be conceded that our soil is more
favorable to its growth, that need not be
looked upon as great calamity. Slang per-
IofmS an important and, Indeed, a necessary
part IL the development OF speech. Ex-
preston has always tendency to become
weak In the liteI airy language, just as, unfortu-
mately; the Individual In the process OF becom-
ing clV11zed is too apt to gain gentleneSs at the
expense OF yfgor. Less power is felt in some
way TO exist In the words, and SO close is the
relation between the thought and the garment
with which 1t is clothed that the former seems
often TO share in the flimsineSS of the latter
IL Is this gradual process OF weakenings which
slang comes In to counterfeit. The word is new,
OF vigorous expressions; for In its very nature
II is an effort to state more concisely and more
strongly what the established speech is felt to
say too dinuSely and too feebly. or course tt is
not an unmixed benefit. Much of IT Is silly:
much OF IL Is vulgar most OF 1t is worthless; but
from the countless words and phrases which
Spl1ng up In communities where men think and
lb1alllble instinct, will gain something to re-
crult It's own exhausted energies and to fmpart
70 Its expression additional fitness and force-
l. H. LOunS0,tfy an International EeCietr.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
Origin Of Amber.

Nearly 1900 years ago, Pliny, the naturalist.
wrote that amber was the fossil resin of an ex-
unct cone bearing tree, and modern science
can say OF it but little more The original
amber producing forest PROBABLY reached from
Holland over the German coast, through ST.
berla and kamschatka, even to North America.
one OF the most celebrated deposits Is on the
peninsula OF Samland, a portion of Prussia,
nearly surrounded by the Baltic Sea The
northern part OF this region, constituting the
prOmontory of BruSterOrt, is hilly, and the
coast banks are often $50 feet to 800 feet high.
At one time all the amber found here even by
the peasants in ploughlng, belonged to the
German government, the finder, however re-
celv1ng onete Of its value. For piece In
the Berlin Museum, weighing is pounds, the
finder is said to have received thousand dol
lars. During stormy weather, when the wind
and waves beat violently against the coast, a
great quantity Of amber is washed up. The to-
tai yearly product Is, however, apparently on
the decrease. and so the price Of amber is on
the Increase.
Professor Zaddach. of Konfgsberg, concludes
that the trees yielding the amber resin must
have grown upon the green's sand beds of the
cretaceouS formation, which at the time formed
the shores OF eStuarteS where the lower diyiS-
ion OF the tertiary accumulated. Immediately
over the amber-produc1ng strain rest the
brown coal beds, the fossil plants found In
which differ entirely from the amber bed flora.
Many insects and plants are found embaImed
in the amber. Over 500 species of the former
have been named, and over 100 of the latter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
A Word for the Hucksters.

Editor Stdr:-I read In last Saturdays STAR
letters expressing great satisfaction on the part
OF the writer's because the District Commission
ers had prevented the hucksters from proclaim
Ing their produce In the street, thus abating q
d1sagreeable nuisance. They seem indeed to be
looked upon as thieves and robbers
Sir, when see treated with such contempt
men who are endeayor1ng to make living for
themselves and families can not refrain from
expressing Indignation at the abuse directed
towards them, and feel like speaking word In
their favor: I admit that some of them were In
the habit Of making unnecessary noise; but this
could have been prevented by an order regulat-
ing without preventing them all together. The
result of this order will be TO increase the price
OF vegetables, and prevent poor people from get
ting what they want with the small means they
have at their command. And moreover street
vendors save the trouble OF going to market
and thus save unnecessary labor; while their
vegetables are cheaper generally than they are
In market and just as good. The influence of
this order against the huckSterS will ruin their
business, and prevent them from making the
profits they have been In the habit OF making,
which at best was small But the great 1n1us-
lice or the order appears in the TACT that it was
given after the license was bought, and thus
securing pront to the government, whilst the
hucksters must suffer q wrong.
June 2, 1SS0. G. W. K.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
(FoR TRE EVENING STAR.
THE SWEET LITTLE FOOL.
(THE lAMENT.)
/ WAS q fool.

CHE LAMENT.)
1 was fool.
When he looked at me hung my head
And caught at bic ssoming weed.
When he spoke felt my face turn red
AS If it would beed,
And when dare d look up again
He had turned the bend in the lane.
was fool
For waited there by the field of clover
Trying my love with q daisy,
And softly saying over and over
"Surely he must be crazy
Not to see that love him!" Why
Did let him pass. o, because l.
was fool-that's why.
Blow sweet wind. he will come again
And will be walking in the lane.
was fool.
0 shame. shame-I burn with shame
Why was so silly?
Again waited, and be came
Riding his cream-white FLY
And whistling, and when he tipt his hat
laughed and said 20 how glossy and fat
Is your pretty fly"
He only blushed. No wonder-for me,
That country girl 30 forward should be.
(THE SEouEL.)
Last night when the moon hung low
Across the field Of clever,
She whispered, "I love you 30
1t is sweet to say it over
And over sgain, close to your face.
But have neither beauty Or grace
1 can't believe that you love me. l.
But if you do, now. tell me why"
He answers, as he gently draws
Her lips to his, Il love you because
You're a sweet little fool"
JOHN HENRY BONER
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

THERE Is strange story attached to por-
trait exhibited In the Salon this year. II is not
q love story. A banker. who was paying bur-
fore q portrait which he recognized TO be that
of q diSlOyal partner, who had p0cketed the
capital of the house In 1870, under pretext OF
place. Since then he had never been heard OF
The banker as soon as he recognized his Old
partner, at once began to follow up the clue
given by the catalogue, and nnaiy discovered
Auteuil The explanation was hrief, and ended
IN the unloyal one restoring capitai and inter-
est II we divulged the name OF the unfaithful
inhabstant OF Auteuil we Should have to nam .
gentle man who has BET n much talked OF
lately. II Is needless TO add that thi name a
not his real one.-FhSfSfdn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
Straps and Relic.

1t is habit in some OF the schools and COL
leges for youths TO employ a strap or other
boy sets the example, and the others think II
right TO follow; so the practice becomes general.
and you find tight line indicating pressure
marked round the bodies of the wearers. For
tunately, in their case. as they emerge into
LIE, aid before great mischief is done. they
give up the strap, and take to supporting the
clothes from the shoulders by the brace, and
SO they escape further injury; but while it
lasted the injury undoubtedly was severe
There Is another and more permanent injury
OF this kind, however, carried out by boys-
even py men-which consists In wearing a belt
1or the purpose OF giving what Is called sup
port. Boys who are about to run In races. Or
10 leap. put on the belt and buckle it tightly. In
ORDER; as they say, to hold In their wind, or
weights OF carry heavy burdens put on a belt
for the same purpose, their declaration being
That 1t gives support Actually there is not q
particle OF truth in this belief. 1t is the ex-
preston OF fashion, and nothing more. The
belt 1mpe1eS respiration, congresses the alb
dom1nal muscles, congresses the muscles of
me BACK, sublecting them to unnecessary
hoy would think of putting belt tightly round
the body OF his pony if he wished it to win a
race or to leap hurdle; no working man
would put belt tightly round the Body OF a
load which it was drawing. On themselves
they commence the practice because somebody
mas S, set the example, then they get accustomed
" tiio !LpSuiLuCut. anu lllluh luoy can not get
on without it. Drinking is learned by lust the
same absurd process
Respecting this belt for boys and men there
is word more must say, which Is Of serious
import. When they put on the belt for the
sake OF performing some feat OF strength, they
risk another dangerous mischief Compress
ing the abdomen, they force during the ex-
ert1on, the contents OF the abdominal cavity
downward under pressure giving no chance to
resllleIce back again after the exertion or
shock. In this way they frequently cause
hernia, or rupture. 1 have seen several in-
stances OF this occurrence In boys, and amongst
Workmen who wear belts this disease is so com
mon that 1t Is the rule rather than the excep-
ton to find it present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

U-.Is lime good to put on melons7" asks an
agricultural correspondent. We presume 1t Is,
anybody likes IL, but We use Sugar.-BoSton
Post.
@A coupled reporters spent the night In a
cell with man who was doomed to be hanged
In Connecticut recently, and In the morning The
prisoner was perfectly willing to die.-Neeo
Orleans Picayxiae.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

"a AS an innocent-lo looking old man was going
up Washington street drayman nodded aI him
and asked: "Want dray, Mister" "No-o, l
guess not" replied the old man; I'm too fur
from home, and can't pay freight on it. Much
obleeged. though. vicksburg Is powerful nice
town. Teller back there asked me II l didn't
want coat: another inquired Ii l wanted a
hack. and now you offer me a iray. l wish l
lived here."-Vicksbury Herald.
TT 1t is believed that the word ''neverr has
been crippled for life.
" pair Of snppers-Two eels
~ great hardship-An iron steamer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

PRETTY American girl went OF late fire.
quently into the streets Of Paris unaifended a.
American young ladies are wont TO do. The
young Partsians followed and ANNOYED her
untll she invented novel method OF rebufrIng
tbem According 10 the Continental Gdse,fe
sic provided herself with a pocketful of cen,
times, each the value or a fifth or a halfpenny.
ara whenever man spoke TO her, pretending
10 mistake utterly his words, she gracefully eS,
,tnped her hand and dropped this coin into his
hs1d, saying In her broken French: "Hungry
are y5u, poor man? Well, take this and go buy
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

PROFESSOR GEIGER sat in an easy chair on the
deck, looking very pale. The compassionate
captain asked how he felt. Miserable miser-
able, Pm sick, captain, I'm sick. 1 have paid
tribute to Neptune till l have lost everything"
But" said the captain, 81 see you still have
faintly, ''but they were on the outside.n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

a FRENCH lady lectures her American sisters
ABOUT furnishing their husbands with the food
eXactly suited to their habitual occupations ami
haplts OF body and mind. She Insists that tn,
intellectual men or France are more whole
Souiely leo, out judging by what a good many
very often their dinners do not agree with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05
ca Ladies are not entitled IN hare arms w, j.

&c Ladies are not entitled TO bare arms when
hey nave TO load them with powder.
% A western actress recently fell doya a
Tight or stairs into a cellar ProbabIy ms
hurts person just as much as narrowly eSra1-
lbg oeath In runaway hack, but IL Will never
90 as method or advertising
es- The two rules OF the season: /. Get co IL.
H. Keep all you get-Phya. Bulletin.
eE Courtney's stroke varies. This time it WAS
auDSt roke.--IHiLd. BtTlpt5n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

IT Is related OF Auber that one day he was
coming down the stairway OF the Grand Opera
arm In arm with q friend OF his youth, and thai
both OF them breathed heavily with the exer
else.
"Ah," said his friend, tive are getting old"
"Well, " replied Auber, we will have TO accept
that fact, since the only way TO live long
while Is to get old"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

"THE FATAL 13."-m every circumstance OF
this life the comic is the next door neIghbor of
the serious. The other day, as the faithful
friends OF GuStave Flaubert returned from the
funeral they entered Mennechets restaurant.
There were Banv1lle, Mendes, Theophile Gautier
fills, Carpenter. Huyssmans, Paul Alexis. de
Goncourt, Coppee, Alphonse Daudet. E. lola,
Ceard, II. Morel and E. Bergerat They ali
looked sad. Gentlemen, the dinner is wait
Ing" No one moves. Gentlemen, the dinner
will be cold," says the garcon. They slowly
proceed to table. But they look very sad, they
touch neither knife, fork nor spoon. Even the
garc0n, who surely belongs to hard hearted
race, Is touched by this Immense grief of the
assembled literary men. Suddenly the eldest
OF the gentlemen abruptly leaves the table and
exclatms. I'VE are thirteen!" That was what
caused the general silence. But now the ice
was broken. The gentlemen, naturaliSts real
lists or sentimentalists. call them what you
win, were very hungry. "a fourteenth man,
get US fourteenth mani" was the universal
cry. They hunt In the hotel. No one to be
found; every body has dined They rush out
into the street, and there they see a modest
private soldier Flooding along. They seize him,
drag him to the dinner table, to hts great as
constituent, and do justice to the long neg
lected meal They were now fourteen, and the
humble private saw himself suddenly trans
formed into maJor-of the table d'hOte.-Tte
Partisan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

THE ENGLISH SPARROW is swaggerer. a
boaster har, and caucus packer, a frequent
er OF free lunches, and dead-beat generally.
He has no domestic virtues, and Is as devoid
public spirit as defeated candidate after a
county convention. His appearance In this
country was MISFORTUNE and his continuance
here Is nuisance that ought to be abated by
general legislation. Other cities may want him
to keep people eut OF their parks, but 50 far as
Toledo Is concerned The sparrow must go.-T)le
do Blade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

~ The Leadv1lle Chronicle tells of a man
who escaped with his life from the Indians.
The man who escaped without his Life hasn't
yet been reported.
a. They charge Is cents for drink of butter
milk at Key West, but as sort OF Offset they
hing the customer four dozen oranges ana tell
him to send dray after his bananas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

MILE. ALICE REGNAULT one of the pretttest
actrf sses OF Paris, Is not happy. Her portrait,
81. dnds0ne, by Boldtnt, has attracted much
attention at the Salon. The picture, 1t appears,
several times to the artist at his request on the
underSt anding that she should have the por-
tfalt when completed II she liked 1t. When 1t
wa, was ABOUT TO be. sent to tue Salon she invited
pleased with 1t that she asked the artist to put
price On It, The gallant painter vowed that the
honor she had done him in Sitting for her
his labor, and offered her the canvas. She ac-
cepted, and regarded the portrait from that
time as her own property. She was, however,
soneW mat d1sagreeably surprised few days
ago at receiving a letter from the artist, who
regretted that he could not deliver the paint
Ing, as 1t had been seen and purchased by
rich amateur. The lady insisted, however, on
having the portrait and told the artist to fix his
own price, whereOn he CALAMITY and modeStly
estimated its value at e1,O0O. Mile Alice
Regnault refused 10 pay the sum, and has asked
the law to decide whether the artist has any
right to sell her likeness. and perhaps the ex-
plantations she can give will induce the Judges
TO decide In her favor. An analogous case &C.
CURED last year, when a platOnfc admtrer of
Gamhetta ordered sculptor to make his bust
and her own. The conditions OF the order stipu-
lated that the two statues should be admitted to
Che Salon, and both Of them found favor In the
eyes OF the jury, although the hum
Die homage Paid to the young dictator
, vas SO dispensing to Mr.. Gamoetta, who looked
like some Jack-in-the box OF Hebrew persua-
SION, that he procured its removal through the
influence OF his friend and colleague, Mr.. Tur-
quet. Nine. Salyani brought lawsuit against
the minister OF fine arts, who, she argued, had
no right to have her statues removed after they
had been admitted to the Salon by the Jury. She
lost tie day, and the court laid down as a gen
erai rue that IL Is not permitted to execute
ana exhibit the bust OF any public man Or i'm
pcrtant parsonage without having first obtained
tEeir consent and approval
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

j WAS FALLING into a doze when a nlain
al mer- locking man across tho aisle poked m
Win his cane and said, Been up In the wesier
tolo MIN that had, almost to the land OF
Nod. But that didn't seem to make any Mods
10 MIN, for he continued: "Great country. that
west OF ours. 'Taint half appreciated vet
Gieeley Understood IL, though. lie knew what
1t could do for a young man, Now we had
young fellow up where belong-Huron county.
Suartern whip. Could do anything. But
DleSs ye he hadn't no chance round there.
place fun. Folks said II he would only 90
W est with all his talent he would soon he A
Dig man. He wouldn't listen 10 it for a long
nMe-kept struggling on, but finally he went.
1nls was TWO years ago. And now sir (rtsing
up Ia his seat with eagerness and animation
while 1, catching something OF his enthusiasm
nall rose myself, and. now this young man
who had no chance ia the world I'm Ohio. where
DO you suppose he is?" said didn't know, IRE
Stunning his seat)-"Damifido either. We
haven't heard a word from him since he lert,p
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-06-05

COMPLACENT I6NORANCR-Sc Scene, Museum.
Paris. Cad doing a Cooks excursion, con.
templating the venus" of Milo)-AWfully
knocked about aint 1t? Both arms OFF, Well,
will say this for our new museum we shouldn't
allow that. We do make 'em give up their
sticks and umbrellas at the door!