Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-02-07

been preaching upon the wickedness of
entering church late and disturbing the
congregation, and his sermon Las had the
effect of decreasing the number of tardy
worshipers in his church.
An esteemed contemporary seems to
think that a Republican national conven-
ton composed of delegates elected by the
Pennsylvania plan, with attendant bum
mers yelling for Grant, would be an edify-
ing spectacle for the heather to contem-
plate.
THE Maine Legislature has had prayer
offered for, before, at or to it, by a ''Rev.," "
which the Lewiston Journal prOnOunces
"spicy and full of practical suggestions"
If, as We suppose we have right to pre-
sumo, the prayer was addressed to the
Almighty Ruler Of the universe, the kind
ness of the gentleman who made the
s.practical suggestions " is noteworthy.
DAN RYBOLT started for church, at
Freesville, Minn., and on the way asked a
neighbor who was to preach. "Parson
Newling," was the reply. I'D rather
die than hear him, said Dan, and turned
off toward wood. He was afterward
found hanging lifeless to tree. The be-
lief is that, as the clergyman was deliver
ing a course of sermons on the dreadful
ness of sin, and as Dan was an unregene-
rate sinner. an awakened conscience led to
the suicide but the scoffers have 4 theory
that death might reasonably be preferred
to hearing one of Newling's long dis
courses.
GORDON PAsTA gives a correspondent
this graphic and pleasant description of
King John of Abyssinia He is about
forty-sevcn years old. Never smiles :;
never looks you in the face, and has a
most ungovernable temper. He cuts off
the lips of all those who smoke tobacco,
and cuts off the noses Of all who take
snuff He detcsts the use of tobacco in
any form. BY means of torture he has
converted one hundred thousand Moslems
to the Christian religion. His favorite
method is to pour boiling tallOw into the
eyes and ears of his victims. His people
all hate him.
TO take pound of flesh from the body
or his debtor without touching a bone or
shedding a drop of blood is feat which
that eminent merchant, Shylock, erewhile
of Venice, did not venture to undertake ;
yet nothing could be more simple, and
scarce anything could be easier. The Lon.
don Sporting Times is responsible for this
story. A noted horse trainer was witness
ing for the first time "The Merchant OF
Venice" and Irving, the renowned TRACE,
dian, was the Shylock. When they had
reached the trial scene and while Shylock
was pondering over the dilemma suggested
by Portia, how to take flesh without the
blood, the excited horse trainer shouted
''Sweat him, Shylock, sweat him. Actors
are at liberty to adopt such emendation OF
the text as may enable them to avail them
selves Of the Jockeys advice.
THE New York UerdlTs splendid gift O
500, 900 to relieve the distress in Ireland
has excited the admiration of the world
and it may be questioned, in view of the
abuse Mr.. Parnell is rewarding the great
newspaper with, whether that gentleman
has not the interests of Parnell nearer al
> heart than he has those of his starving
| countrymen. The matter reduces itself tC
this simple proposition: The suffering
people of Ireland will receive the benefit
of that money ; the method of its distribu
ton is of minor Importance to the outside
world, only SO the object is fulfilled. Fol
Mr.. Parnell, therefore, to broadly intimate
that the Hsrald's generosity is nothing
more than a gigantic scheme of advertising
and all because the proprietor of the news
paper preferred to place the money in Other
hands than his own, is calculated to repel
the popular sympathy which hearty and
, dsinterested cooperation in work OF
charity is always sure to receive. Mr.
Parnell has carried his quarrel with the
F Duchess of Marlborouby and her col
leagues too far.
MAYOR MACGoNIGLE has received an ur.
gent circular from the Citizens Irish
famine relief committee of Philadelphia,
John Wanamaker, chairman, appealing to
; our charitable citizens to constitute an
, auxiliary aid society, OF to make private
individual subscriptions to the philan-
thropic cause Of relieving the sufferings OF
the Irish folk. In the southern, western
and northern counties of Ireland, and in
|, some parts of the central and eastern dis
tricts, multitude of our fellow creatures
are now on the verge of famine. Their
potatoes rotted in the ground during the
, continuous wet weather of the past sum-
mer, and their annual gatherings of turf
has been destroyed. Letters and appeals
for instant aid speak of sore and increas-
ing suffering for want of food and fuel-of
| children found dead for want of proper
nourishment-of mothers slowly starving
to death that they may save their scanty
store for their children. The distress has
already reached proportions which are
beyond the capacities of local means of
relief to cope with. Their calamity has
become one for the worlds pity and the
worlds help. The first need is money.
There is food in Ireland, but it is in the
hands of those who arc themselves too
poor to give largely, and who must sell it
out of the country, as in 1S47, to meet