Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-12

first page. when i New \ Ork eplcllre
entertained his company with strawber-
ries costing fifteen cents apiece, and fur
nisled them bills of fare that cost Slo
each.
MINOR TOPICS.
THERE were ST. births, 1872 marriages
and 54S deaths in New York city last
week.
IT is many years since the Hudson river
has been open to navigation SO late in the
season.
THE tolls on the New York canals in
1879 were s941, ,541.22. The total miles of
boats cleared were 8, 226, 947.
The New York children's aid society has
recently found homes in Prince George and
Sussex counties, Virginia, for 200 wards,
and it is thought thousand more can
find homes in that section of Virginia.
THE Philadelphia Times has been polling
the party papers of the state, and out of
&C Republican organs 26 declare for
Blaine, 90 for Grant, for Sherman, for
the field, for the nominee, and ; for the
best man.
A REVISED portrait of Victoria will pres
emily adorn the current coins Of the British
realm. 1t was about time. The present
profile has done service ever since her
majesty's accession, and is about as like to
Hercules as to the Victoria OF our day.
NORTH 1merican.
THE two cases of pamphlets belonging
to NJ. Chottcau, containing articles on the
proposed Franco American treaty of com,
mcrce, which were seized by the customs
authorities in New York as liable to duty,
have been returned by order Of Secretary
Sherman.
THE Democratic prcsidcnt-clect of the
Maine Senate, LamsOn, did not wait fol
any supreme court decision to assure him
self of his legal right and duty to act as
governor. He takes the chair To-Day anC
he is reported to be a man with back
bone.
ENGINEER W. Ii. WEBB, of New York
in view Of the recent disaster on the Firtl
of Tay, calls attention to the structure O
the East river bridge, which he claims
will not support more than one fifth of al
the weight that is likely to come upon it.
and will have no reserved strength fol
/ extra trains.
THE great rcd spot on Jupiter continues
to attract the attention of observers both
in this country and in Europe. Its vast
extent (if it is an opening, the earth could
be dropped through it), its peculiar color,
and rermancnce of form and position make
it probably the most remarkable object on
the disk of Jupiter with which physical as
tronomy has ever had to deal. Bredechin,
Russian observer, has noted an interest.
ing popularity about this spot. He has
detected brilliant white ridges or faculr
surrounding the spot, resembling those
that are seen in the ncighborhood of sun
spots. This seems to favor the view OF
those who regard Jupiter as a kind OF
half-lustrous sun-a sun whose fires arc
dying out, and which, in the course OF
some millions of years, may become fiji
| abode of life.
AN English judge has decided that q
set of artificial teeth is not one of til
:" necessaries'' of farmers wife, which
the husband is bound to provide to
pay for when furnished without his con.
sent by dentist. The question has just
been raised in one of the county courts OF
Ireland whether the Bible is a necessary
of life to a married woman. The good
wife, during the temporary absence of hcl
husband, bought Bible, had it charged
to him, and then ran away with another
man. She soon returned to her husband,
who received her, out obstinatcly refused
to pay for the sacred volume which she
had purchased preparatory to her clOpc-
ment. The Connecticut court of errors has
held that neither pew in church nor re-
ligious instruction is among the nccessa-
ries which husband is bound to provide
for his wife. 1t has been held that a yoke
of oxen, but not 4 saddle horse, nor fid
die, nor fiddle strings, arc necessary for a
youth in his teens. While an English
court denied to a worthy farmers wife the
necessary and very economical means of
enjoying her roast beef, it has decided that
s47O worth of lace and silver fringe for a
petticoat and side saddle are necessaries to
the wife of a sergeant. The supreme court
of Illinois held in recent case, that one
revolver was necessary to a Chicago grocer
travelling, but that more was supcrflnous.
Peter IIcrdic Again in Trouble.
In WilliamspOrt, on Saturday morning,
the jury in the case of Peter Herdic and