Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-13
MINOR TOPICS.

WHEN GAS You Like IT, was perform.
ed for the first time in the theatre at
Wilma, Russia, few weeks ago, it gave
such satisfaction that the audience began
uttering loud cries for the author. The
manager was in great embarrassment, for
he knew nothing whatever of the illustri-
GUS Bard of Avon. Nevertheless the man.
ager came to the front, and after some
preliminary talk rcgretfully announced
that Mr.. Shakespeare, the author of the
piece in question, had been dead for nearly
twenty-five years. Expressions of regret
arose from the crowd, who, however, were
quite satisfied with the explanation.
PHILADELPHIA has recently been the
scene of series of swindIes of peculiarly
heartless character. A man named Jos.
Kearney, casting about for an illegitimate
means of making money, hit on the follow
ing plan Going to several houses he rep
resented at each that a member of the
family had been seriously injured and de-
manded money for carriage hire, which
was promptly given. He then disappeared
and it afterward transpired that his state
ment in every case was cruelty false. 1t is
comfortingto know that he was promptly
nabbed and got six months in prison for
his miserab le crime.
As it is about time for the seventeen
year locusts to come to the front, the state
papers, particularly those of the rural dis
tricts, have much to say concerning these
enemies of verdue. A "bug- g-ologist" of
Washington county reports, from record
which he kept, that in 1868 the first locust
made its appearance on the Goth of May :;
first heard to sing May 2sth all out of
the ground June 18th; first began to de-
posit eggs June 18th began to die June
Goth all dead July 10th. These facts may
be interesting to those who predict locusts
every year, but We think the potato-bug
completely throws Mr.. Locust in the shade,
and he is always on time, too.
MUsCovITE ladies are celebrated for
their passionate enthusiasm. At the last
concert recently given in Moscow by Anton
Rubinstein, the ladies actually poured
around the artist and, in the fervor of their
grateful delight, kissed his hands. Some
years ago Capoul, famous for beauty of
person and grace of manners, took part in
a series of concerts at Moscow. After one
of his most brilliant displays, he found
occasion to wash his hands, and report of
this incident having reached the ladies in
the concert hall, they rushed incontinently
into the toilet chamber of the artist, and
having there emptied their smelling bottles
Of their fragment or pungent contents,
they forthwith filled them with water con-
by the unclean artistic hands.
The growth of Methodism in the United |
States has been SO great that the general
conference has found it necessaryto increase
he number of bishops from six to ten, in
,rder to secure an efficient supervision of
he multifarious interests of this great
Three of the new bishops
re already welLknown as the heads of
hree important Methodist institutions
)r. Foss, of the Wesleyan university, DR..
hurst, of the Drew seminary, and DR..
iaven, of the Syracuse university. The
ourth, DR.. Warren, is very popular and
ighly respected minister of Philadelphia.