Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-12
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
TIE New York World is soon to come
out in new form and improved by large
expenditure of money. A new Office is
among the improvements contemplated.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, has declined
the position of first comptroller of the
treasury to succeed Judge Porter, the Re-
publican candidate for governor of lndi-
ana. Judge Lawrence prefers to run his
chances for a congressional nomination in
the district now represented by Mr.. Kieffer,
and it is believed he stands a good show of
defeating the would be Republican leader
of the House.
TIE human finger nails come to the
sclatch-that is to say, are wholly renewed
every one hundred and sixteen days in
summer. The nails of the right hand of
the right-handed individual grow faster
than those of the lest, and vice versa in the
left-handed. 1t differs again with the fin.
gers, the increase being faster in propor-
ton to length. In children the growth is
the most rapid, in the aged the slowest.
GREAT BEITAIN's new Liberal govern
mcnt has refused to legalize cremation.
Just why the friends of a man who died
with longing for mundane incineration
should not be allowed to execute that wish
in legal manner is a question which 1t
would lie hard for even 4 conservative Eng
lishnan to answer. It is very inconvenient,
| the Ramsdell's Republic remarks, to have
a government with a church attachment.
An unknown lady having saved an aged
one armed gentleman by putting a lifc-pre-
server on him in the Seawanh aka disaster,
the latter advertised in the HraH person
ais. He found her in the person of 4 lady
who had also saved her two daughters. In
strong contrast with this heroine is the
story which comes from st. Paul, in which
seven strong men swan away to shore
from Il capsizcd boat and left seven
women and children to drown.
Edison has rival in Professor Jamin,
of Paris, whose plan of electric lighting is
to place three or more candles in lamp
one ignitinS when the other is burnt out
thus dispensing with the renewal of can
dies by hand every few hours. An acci
dent to one lamp does not affect the others
Jamin processes to have cheapened consid
crably the production of the electric cur
rent and to he able to increase or diminisl
it's intensity at pleasure.
WITH the unpleasant New York custom
of blowing up, drowning md frying people
new industry has sprung up. 1t consist
in calling on married ladies whose hus
bands are down town and informing then
that the latter are dying or dead at SOM
hospital AS such 4 piece of news has the
stamp of probability the frightened and ex
cited wife grabs few necessaries, sui
of clothes, &c, puts them in charge of he
informant, who is supposed to be hospi
tai attendant, and hurries off. So does
he. But they usually so in opposite di
rcctions.
PRIVATE SECRETARY ROGERS is on
voyage of discovery after his lost health
Hayes has settled down for the summer a
the Soldiers home {; Sherman is off in Mani
toba somewhere, surveying the land Gar
field has not explained about the Credi
Mobilier yet; Hartranft is still undecided
Whitaker hasn't lost any more ears
Tanner still continues to lives on air ant
sponge baths the peace commission hasn'
brought peace the sea serpent is still
alive George Francis Train has given vi
peanuts Chicago has reached half a mil
lion population it is awfully hot, but tin
country is safe and the world moves on
Times.
, In the great ratification meeting il
F Music hall, Cincinnati, Saturday night
, where the united Democracy of the who'll
country nominated Hancock and Englisl
to lead the presidential contest of 1880
Democrats of all shades of opinion OF
questions which do not enter into thi
canvass attestcd by their presence TIN
harmony of the. party in support of In
candidates who stand for peace, order ant
. reunion. In the speeches delivered there
as in the excellent speech with whicl
General Ewing led off the work of tn
5 year the other day in this city, one not
, was dominant-the determination of th'
' whole Democratic party to sink all othe
issues in the paramount purpose of put
) ting an end to sectionalism in American
politics. That is the note of union ant
; the note of victory. The hour has com,
, for this good work, and with the hour W
, have the man.
William S. Shallenberger was renominat
Y ed for Congress by the Republicans of tn
t twenty fourth district on Saturday. Th
district is composed of Beaver, Lawrenc
, and Washington counties. Colonel Levi
) F. Watson, of Warren, was nominated il
the twenty-seventh district. Thirty-si
= ballots were taken before a choice wa
: reached. Osmer is the present membe
from the distaict.