Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-29
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
SEYENTY-FoUR streets were added to
Lon Ion last year.
SENTIMENTAL slush" is Professor
Swings description of the Moodyand San
key songs.
ONE only needs to shoot at the the king |
of Spain in order to establish reputation
for insanity Or feebleness of intellect.
A FOOL ceases to be fool the moment
that he knows he is a fool. So that to
know one is fool it is necessary to cease
being fool. 1t is evident that fool can
not cease being fool.
THE governor Of Rhode Island, in his
annual message, recommends that women
be given the right to vote on school ques-
tions, and that prohibition take the place of
the present liquor law.
DUBLIN has done we'll to abandon her
banquet. and give the money it would
have cost to the poor of Ireland. 1t would
be unseemly to have feast in land call
ing for aid for famine-stricken multi
tude.
THE Interior and New York Ecangelist
are exchanging cOurtesies in very enter
tanning and highly edifying manner for
religious journals. The Interior calls the
Evangelist coward; the Evangelist calls
for bill of particulars, with some
little remarks about the slang -whanging
kind of journalism. The Interior replies
in paragraph as "keen as it is mean,"
ending with the highly remarkable propo-
sition to wipe the Interior nose upon the
Ecangelist coat collar.
'.THE nature of man is so frail that
wheresoever the word of 4 single person
has had the force of law, the innumer-
able extravagances and mischicfs it has
produced have been SO notorious that all
nations who are not stupid, slavish and
british have always abominated it and
made it their principal care to find out
remedies against it by SO dividing and
''-::aIlcing the powers of their government
that one or few men might not bc able
to Cypress and destroy those they ought to
preserve and protect. This has always
> been as grateful to the best and wisest Of
princes as necessary to the weakest and
worst. .''-AlgcrnOn Sidney.
RECENT preparations for the increase Ill
the German army have caused commotlon
in all German capitals, and there is
| general feeling of uneasiness in all diplo,
! matte circles. Rumors of a probable col
| lision between Russia and Germany arc
l seriously discussed, and the relations be-
tween the two powers are considered quite
e precarious. The Gar receives daily re-
/ ports from the commanders Of armies con
| cerning the condition and state of the na
v tiOnal defenses, and there is marked
S activity in military circles. There art
4 also reports that Russia is endeavOring tt
: negotiate an alliance with France. On tho
q other hand it is asserted that Bismarck i!
n to secure the cooperation of Austria ant
Italy in his designs, whatever they maybe
The new United States senator from
- Mississippi, Hon. J. Z. George, is at pres
ent the chief justice of the supreme cour
> of that state. He was Il formidable compel
itor of Mr.. Lamar on the occasion of th'
;, latter election to the Senate in 1877, il
:, whose favor. however, he then Withdrew
. from the contest. Of Judge George S fitness
, for the place, a local newspaper says: "W'
doubt, indeed, if wiser selection coult
possibly have been made. lie is recognized
throughout the state as citizen of ire
= proacllable character, as tirst-class law
yer, and as gentleman of great ability
}, He was never prominent in politics unit
= 1874. Then it was as chairman of thu
Democratic state executive committee he
3 exhibited his great executive ability ant
did so much to redeem the state from tht
= disgrace and death of Radicalism.'
THE evidence that the senatorial com
J. mittec that is investigating the subject O.
C the negro exodus from North Carolina has
| CnuS Idf ScCuHeu llltilcttIcS CHlC Iuc NloSC
; ment is neither philanthropic nor pOlitica
3 in its bearings, but is the result of work
Il done by the immigrant agents Of the rail
:, roads over which the negro families would
have to travel OH their way to the North
}, west These men have flooded the state
with circulars descriptive of the demand
y for negro labor that exists in the north
western states, to which are attached
y copies of letters pufporting to be writer
! by negroes who have emigrated thither
u They have also organized secret clubs, for
IL by giving an air of secrecy to the move
y ment, they have been able to do more with
!, the credulous people upon whom they
u have been working than they could if theil
canvassing was done in an open manner.
Mrs. GENERAL SHERMAN, in 4 private
y, letter to the editor of the Christian Union,
b encloses "cry for help for Ireland" ad
n dressed to her, from Sister NJ. F. Clare, OF
o the Convent of Poor Clares, Kenmare,
IL Ireland, which gives very tersely picture
of the distress in the Southwest 81 appeal
: to all Christian men and women for helI