Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-18
ANOR TOPICS.

AnNOR TOPICS.
AGRICULTURAL journals are advising
farmers especially men no longer young
not to 60 West.
IT is given out that Secretary Sherman is
in the canvass for good, and yet Texas
sends a collector of customs to Chicago
with instructions for Grant first, Blaine
next and Sherman never.
IT is believed that jute could be profit
ably raised in large quantities in New
Jersey. 1t is too bulky for distant trans
portation to pay. The Indian crop of jute
is worth $50, ,OOO, 600 annually.
The microscopists and the photograph
ers, too, must have been considerably as
tonished at the entirely new use for the
camera obseura discovered by the Era re-
porter. The obscurity was in his
mind" as the camera lucida was obviously
intended. Try it again.
THE British navy is becoming q school
for royalty. Not only are the two sons OF
the Prince of Wales midshipmen, but
Ernest, the thirteen-year-old son of the
Grand Duke of Hesse and the late Princess
Alice, is about to join. Queen Victoria is
said, however, to be rather Indifferent to
the navy, taking more interest in the
army.
GENERAL H. V. BoYToN, correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, who demanded
a court martial of General Sherman fol
the expression that he would ISLANDER his
own mother for a thousand dollars, " is
out in a lengthy circular reviewing the
conduct of Hayes, Secretary of War Ram
sey and General Sherman in refusing the
court martial. He severely censures all
these officials.
The Chicago Times published on Satur
day 1876 special kilograms from II North
western states, giving an estimate of the
yield of winter wheat this year. If the fig
ures are trustworthy, and if reasonably
fair weather prevail, the increase in thu
yield over the large yield of last year will
be about sixty per cent. This depends
however, on the weather of the mex
month, as severe frost on the fields barr
| of snow might produce disastrous results
THE Partisan dealers are very sly. On
of their favorite tricks is to place thei
pseudo-antiquities in country inns ant
cottages in Brittany and Normany. Ths
tourist or the sportsman sees them ON
day the innkeeper says they have been il
his family for hundreds of years, and tin
unsophisticated amateur pays long pric
for them and restores them to their nativ'
Paris, where they had left perhaps only
few weeks before.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, chairman of the
Senate committee on library, hesitates t.
accept any one of the numerous applicant
who are now besieging the committee
doors with urgent demands that they shal
be permitted to complete the limitation
bas-relief fresco on the frieze of the 70
tunda of the capitol begun by the latt
Signor Brumidi. The art editor of tn
Philadelphia Telegraph abominates "Brum
idi's daubs'' and says "Mr. Voorhees, can
without any difficulty, find among tn
colored brethren of Washington any mum
ber of frescoers who are competent to d
Brumidi's work very abundant justice
One of them, armed with pail of Whit
wash and good stout brush, could.
the course of an hour or SO, put some d.
cisive finishing touches on this prepo:
ferrous composition which would for til
future prevent it from being the di:
tressing eye-sore that it is at present, an
that it will continue to be unless deaH
with in some such fashion as that we haS
suggested"