Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-07-03
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
THE principal subjects of editorials in the
country papers at present are as follows
No paper next week. "does advertis-
ing pay and " the great circus to visit u.s.
GENERAL GARFIELD came out of Chi
cago as a dark horse. He grows daily
darker and bids fair to disappear entirely
from the public eye before the race is run.
A "sIX- FOOT tripod is the latest and
most startling discovery by Mr.. Keely, the
inventor of the L" Keely motor" That is
what a reporter Of the Philadelphia Record
calls it, anyhow.
AN exchange says Gen. Garfield might
have stolen himself rich during his con-
gressional career and it is to his credit that
he is comparatively poor man." 1t is to
his Credit Mobizier that he is shockingly
poor candidate.
ATTRACTS from the official reports of
Poland's committee, touching Garfield's
false evidence about the Credit Mobilier
stock, are called "mud" by the Republi-
can editors. Who put mud into that cele-
brated Republican report?
THE Harrisburg Telegraph says "Mr.
Clerk, please remove Connecticut from the
Democratic to the Republican column"
Well, that is just the way in which Louis
lana, Florida and South Carolina were re-
moved four years ago. Mr.. Clerk - did
the business, regardless of the will of the
voters.
TO-DAY, July Sd, is the 18th anniversary
Of General Winfield Scott Hancock's mag
nificent achievement on Gettysburg's
bloody field, when Lees invading hosts
were repulsed, and the great state of Penn
sylvania saved from the desolatiOn that
would surely have followed but for Han
cocks colossal courage at a crises when the
Union army WAS threatened with utter
rout.
The older graduates of Harvard have of
late years been using their influence with
the younger alumni to induce them to
adopt the custom of setting forth for their
classmates and friends on commencement
day milder beverages than have ordinarily
been used. This resulted in an experiment
on last Wednesdays occasion. The ex-
ample of the older classes, who provide
nothing stronger than claret at their class
rooms, and who never allow the lemonade
bowl to be empty, was generally followed.
SAYS the Hartford Times: The Repub-
lican journals can produce partisan
speeches by Mr.. Garfield, and partisan and
selfish work upon committees. As yet
they have failed to produce statesman
like paper from Mr.. Gartield's pen at all
equalling the official papers of General
Hancock. Nothing from Garfield can be
compared with Hancock's order No. 40
and his letter to Governor Pease, so far as
clear constitutional ideas are concerned, or
noble sentiments on the side of a govern
ment by the people,"
The typical modern American is de-
scribed by a young lady graduate of
western college as compound of patriot
ism, smartness and common sense, flavor
ed with honesty and frosted over with re-
ligion. He is man of business, able, with
small capital and few furnished vic
Tins, to pay off the national debt with the
fruits of his prospective speculations fu-
riously and demonstratively patriotic, a
great reformer a believer in all the latest
theories imported from Paris and Berlin !;
and a worker for the good time coming
"when there shall be but one national en-
sign, and that the Stars and Stripes
We have frequently been inclined to
think, says an English reviewer, "that
the most generally delightful passages in
fiction are those which describe eating and
drinking. To mention no other case it is
interesting to see how carefully Scott ar
ranges his victualling department. To
read of Dandie Dinmont and Van Beest
Brown, and the doings of the Knight of
of Fetterlock and the Friar of Copman-
hurst is enough to give oneself an appetite
for dinner. Perhaps the same principle
may account for the pleasure with which
an audience always contemplates the con-
sumption of imaginary food at theatrical
banquet.
A WASHINGTON correspondent tells an
amusing but not likely story anent his
own theory that members of Congress are
rather neglectful of their spiritual welfare.
The tale runs that one day dispatch of
Importance, and demanding an immediate
answer, was received for a certain distin-
guished Representative. It was taken to
his hotel, the House not being in session.
He was not there. He was sought for in
every presumably possible place, and the
hunt was not confined solely to the respect
able resorts, but no word Of him could be
had. Presently his friends became anx-
ious, fearing that something had happened