Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-01

self-blnding reapers on the great wheat
fields of the Northwest.
LORD of peoples, Lord of lands,
Look across these shining sands.
Through the furnace of the noon,
Through the white light of the moon.
Thou. our morrOw's pathway knowing,
Speak and tell US where we are going!
We are weak, but thou art strong;
Short our lives, but thine Is long;
We are blind, but Thou hast eyes;
We are fools, but Thou art wise.
Whittier Song Of Aeues in the Desert
THE news that Prince Hohenlohe, the
German ambassador at Paris, has been re-
called to tighten Blsmarck's labors at Ber-
lin, and the rumor that Bismarck himself
is meditating speech of warning if not of
menace to France, will not allay the un-
easiness excited by the proposed increase
of the German army.
MIR. GR1NNELL, United States consul at
Bremen, predicts large emigration from
Germany to the United States in 1880,
owing partly to the contemplated increase
of the imperial army. The number of en-
igrants in 1879 from Bremen to New York
was &c, $50; in 1878 it was 20, 746-an in
crease of 5, ,504, or more than twenty per
cent.
JOHN BURROUGHS, the prophet of out
door nature, says: cit is fact in the
natural history of the country that in the
South birds run more to beak and claw,
and in the West to tail, than they do in
the North and East. The beak and claw,
1 take it, mean ferocity, mean bowie
knives and Kuklux, and the tail, l am 10th
to say, means brag. The West is windy,
the South is fierce and hot"
THE New York HeralTs Irish relief
fund has mounted up to $25S, ,O14.93. Its
committee has had meeting in Paris, all
being present except Cardinal McCloskey,
who has made the archbishop of Dublin
| his proxy. The committee has concluded
that the most urgent need for immediate
assistance is in those remoter regions of
the country that have as yet scarcely been
touched by the various committees organ
lied in Ireland and England and, that,
bad as the trouble is now, this may not be
the worst of it. Provision must be made
to feed the people for at least three OF
and therefore that if they are in want
and sore stress now their condition must
necessarily be worse by and by. The
Herald's committee will personally visit
and inspect the needy districts.
OF the prizes for architectural designs
of school buildings awarded in New York,
the metropolitan architects won nine, the
first goes to California, a state that is sec
ond to none in the attention she pays tC
her school system in all its branches. The
other prizes go to Boston, Milwaukee and
Philadelphia. The committee declare that
they have not been influenced in any way
by the exterior architectural features Of
any plan. 1t is to be noted that the COM
mittee is of the opinion that no schoO
building should occupy more than half the
ground allotted to it-that a large build.
ing cannot properly be lighted unless
all four sides contain windows. But
out of the hundred or more plans, many OF
them admirable, that have just been ex.
amined, the committee does not find one
that fully answers all requirements.
New YORK is agitated over what it
deems it's insufficient harbor defenses and
the Sun declares that against some of the
worlds great ironclads the metropolis
could offer as weak resistance as an African
sea coast village against a British cruiser.
The proposed important addition to the
present forts and submarine mines is twin
screw vessels, carrying each an enormous
gun, arranged to fire over the bow steam
rams and vessels to operate movable
torpedoes. The Sun thinks that we had
better carry out skillful method to neu-
tralize the great foreign irOnclads than to
spend millions copying them. A we'll
managed ram, few hundred pounds of
dynamite or torpedoes playing around
them in deep water, would make these
monster vessels only gigantic coffins for
their crews.