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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16
The Plant Club.

Despite the unfavorable weather, the
! attendance at the meeting of the plant club
last evening was quite large, the room
being we'll filled with interested students,
of the delightful science of botany. The
first work of the evening was the answer
ing of questions upon the lessons assigned.
These were upon the "Flower," its uses,
its structure, and the general "plan upon
which it is built" as these facts are de-
veloped in the textbook used by the
class. This, which was very interesting
feature of the meeting, was followed by a
description of the "Stem," its structure,
uses, and the variety of forms under which
it appears. This subject was presented
in satisfactory manner by Mr.. H. w.
Stein, who illustrated his remarks, during
the half hour assigned him, by numerous
carefully-drawn illustrations.
The Remainder of the evening was oc-
cupied in the analysis, by the tables, of
the spring crocus, crocus rernus, of the
Iris family. This had been previously
written on the blackboard by Mr.. Bur-
rowes, leader of the class, who made each
step through the tables SO clear that any
one following him should now be able to
analyze the crocus without other aid than
that of the text book.
The next meeting of the club will he
held ON Monday evening, 21st inst, when
the special subject presented will be the
calyx and corolla, the protecting organs Of
the flower.
It was announced before adjournment
that the next meeting of the Star club
would not be held until Friday evening,
priI ID
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

The Washington Sunday Herald says
in an article republished in the Philadel-
phia Record, that the criticisms upon
Senator Wallace's course lately publish
ed in the INTELL1GENCER and many
other Democratic papers in the state,
come from journals known to be in
interested in the candidacy of Mr.. Til
den." Any well informed Pennsylvania
politician knows that this is false, so far
as the INTELLIGENCER is concerned,
which has freely and repeatedly declared
- it does not favor Mr.. Tilden's can
-"" alliance on the pres
namOcrat
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

Sales of seed leaf tobacco reported by J.
s. Gans's Son & Co., tobacco brokers,
Nos. "a and sc Wall street, New York,
for the week ending March Is: 200 cases
1878 Pennsylvania, filters, 81 to 1Oac., as
sorted, III to TIC. ; $50 cases 1877 Penn
sylvania, Wrappers, 25 to 3Oc. 12O cases
1878 New England, seconds, 10 to 12c.,
wrappers, IA to 2Oc. $50 cases 1878 Ohio,
81 to 134c. ; 100 cases 1878 Wisconsin, Z to
121c. Total, 72O cases.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16
Funeral.

The funeral of Yeates Conyngham took
place to-day. Services were held at the
late residence of the deceased, and about
noon the funeral cortege started for Para
disc where the interment was made at All
Saints church,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

The Penn iron company of this city,
have just received a large lot of pig iron
from England, also a cargo of old rails
from Belgium, and another of scrap iron
from Cuba. They are now working on a
large contract for railroad fastenings for a
road in Japan.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

The Junior of the INTELLIGENCER has
returned from his visit to Washington and
Speaker Randall, and now will no doubt
"tell us all about t."-Erdminer.
The junior editor of the 1NTELLIGEN-
GER has not been in Washington for
three years and does not expect to visit
the national capital until he shall have
the pleasure of seeing Democratic pres
ident inaugurated there next fourth of
March.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16
Contract Awarded.

Last night the street committee met and
awarded to Charles Schwebel the contract
for building the sewer in West Chestnut
street, from Pine to Nevin street, tho con-
tract price being $40.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

THE legislative committee does not
want Kemble, Salter & Co. pardoned. So
Mr.. Wolfe authOritatively declares. Who
does? We should like to publish the
names of the men who ask pardon for
fellows who have plead guilty of offenses
the law Furnishes. Is the law a mockery !?
Let us know who thinks so.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16
For District AttOrney-of Philadelphia

Rufus E. Shapley, esq, IS prominently
mentioned for the Republican nomina
ton for district attorney in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Shapley is the philadelphia lawyer"
who argued the contempt case of Steinman
and Hensel before Judge Patterson. He
would make a"rattling"! prosecutin. At
tOrney.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

John Welch, on trial at Fremont, Ohio,
= -"nrder of q man named Cater
"-o was found guilty of
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

THE Williamsport Banner, which was
recently taken by J. Sallade & Son, comes
to hand in an enlarged and improved form.
1t is one of our live exchanges and We are
glad to see this evidence of it's prosperity.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

ord, ;" and it was SO ordered.
The sullen Bull Ringers, feeling that
they were defeated in advance, declined to
vote. Hiestand was against doing work
over that had been done and wouldn't vote
either way. F. U. Gantz thought if the
delegates already elected wouldn't carry
out instructions new ones wouldn't. j. A.
Stober would not vote for the resolution
because it reflected on his honorable
friend, w. X. Seltzer. J. 8. Wilmer ha d
".quit voting" Fred Smith said he had
voted once and that was enough for him.
Charley Boring said he was no repeater;
and 80 none of them, save one, voted at
all, and the result was SO yeas, nay, and
the others, as Hiestand said, "no votus.'
1t was very apparent that though they
were defeated they were not going to be
put on the record.
Blaine Boom.
Then the irrepressible John Fl. Landis
hauled out resolution declaring that the
committee was for Blaine for president.
The boom doomed for about thirty
seconds.
And then Chris. Kaufman, Ed. Martin
and some of the others saw that this was
mistake, and that to pass such resolution
would be an attempt by the committee to
usurp the very right of the people
which it had championed against the Har-
risburg usurpatiOn.
Johnny Lands acceded to the sacrifice
of his pet lamb.
The United States Senator.
Then John NJ. Stehman-who, by the
way, both sides are coddling now-came
out with resolution directing the chair
man to put on the primary election tickets
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-16

THEATRE -GOERs will learn with pleasure
that "bonnets are to come in both large
and small sizes this year, for there is a
possibility that some of the small ones
may find their way into the auditorium.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
The Humor of Washington Irving.

The .humor of Irving has made itself
familiar to most educated people, even
to those who may never have happened
to read his books. Some of it has
entered into the language, and IN gener-
al its validity has reached that state
where it is as secure from question, in its
own degree. as that of Servantes or of
Fielding. Yet at the best lis little more
than an easy and genial sort OF playful
ness, slyly smiling at things which pomp
Gus conventionality delighted to honor.
All humor mainly depends upon a pre-
slstent tendency IN the human race to-
ward emptiness, purblindness, and sill
ness-qualities not peculiar to any spe-
cial elias of persons, but common, at certain
times, and In certain relations, to all.
The humor consists in subjecting the
fantasia and Pigments of our vanity to
the sane light of simple good sense; and
the quality of the bumor IS deter,
mined by the manner in which this is
done. In Irvings case it IS a gentle and
amiable process; we hear subdued
chuckle, and the swollen balloon of our
self-importance imperceptibly collapses.
Swift, on the other hand, employed far
more stringent and violent method, which
it has become the custom to distinguish
under the name of ''satlre;' it is humo1
in q bad humor, but the essential princi-
pal is the same Between these two ex.
IRENE opponents the whole world Of hu.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
The Hudson in Winter.

Some bright, breezy day you casually
glance down the river and behold sail
a sail like that of pleasure yacht In
summer. Is the river open again below
there2 is your half-de6ned INQUIRY, But
with what unwonted speed the sail is
moving across the view. Before you have
fairly drawn another breath it has turned
unperceived, and is shooting with equal
swiftness in the opposite direction. Who
ever saw such a lively sail2 1t does not
bend before the breeze, but darts to and
fro as If it moved in vacuum, or like a
shadow over scene. Then you femem-
Der the ice boats, and you open your ewes
to the fact. Another and another come
into view round the elbow. turning and
flashing in the sun, and hurting across
each others paths like white winged sea-
gulls. They turn so quickly, and dash
off again with such speed that they pro-
duce the illusion of something singularlv
ligat and tangible. In short, an ice boat
is a sort of disembodled yacht; it is a sail
on skates. The only semblance to a boat
is the sail and rudder. The platform
under which the skates, or runners
three in number-are rugged, is broad
and low; upon this the pleasure seekers,
wrapped in their furs or blankets, lie at
full length, and looking up under the
sail, skim the frozen surface with their
eyes. The speed attained is sometimes
very great-more than mile per min
ute, and sufficient to carry them ahead
OF the fastest express train. When 90
ing at this rate the boat will leap like
greyhound, and thrilling stories are told
OF the fearful crevasses or open places in
the ice that are cleared at a bound. And
yet, withal, she can be brought up to the
wind SD suddenly as to shoot the unwary
occupants of, and send them skating on
their noses some wards.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
THANKSGIVING.

4 :.
Many of our readers-and they need
not be very old-can recollect when
Thanksgiving day was exclusively New
England holiday, and in which the 9TH
ers OF the older States did not participate.
AS New Englanders migrated westward,
and helped to found new States, they
carried with them their usage Of annual
~ observing a day of thanksgiving, it is
thus that the custom has spread to other
States, until now, having been confirmed
by the action of recent Presidents, Thanks
giving has become no longer partial
but a national holiday. 1t is we'll that
this, originally farmers holiday, has q
general observance. It is most fitting
that the farmers Of this land should, on
one day in the year, gath er in their scat
tered children, and in one of the hottest
OF telnples-home-give thanks for that
upon which the prosperity Of the nation
rests-the abundant harvest. It is pleas
ant to think upon Thanksgiving dav in
its higher aspects. but not the less so in
its associations and its minor influences.
Being emphatically home holiday, it
more than all others affects the homes of
the land, not less the homes in towns
and cities than homes upon farms, and
long before the day is at hand the
thought that thanksgiving is coming"
controls the movements in households
everywhere. The home that is not upon
the farm is none the less to observe the
day; it, too, is to have its 'steast Of fat
things and the city housekeeper looks
to her sister in the country tor fatted
turkey, ''wherewith to make merry" a
large share of the demand for the turkey,
the bird that has bee me so e>sential to
the thanksgiving feast, is supplied by
those farmers whose flOcks number hun
dreds; but aside from these, the turkey
plays an important part on many small
farms, and the bird, besides diminishing
fortn,' the material for many home
feast, is in self a cause for grateful
thanks Many a mother to help the fam
lily purse; many daughter, in pride at
being independent of her fathers hard
earnings, to meet her pc sonal wants,
LOOKS to her flock Of turkeys; and as
Thanksgiving draws nigh, she counts
and feeds her flock with pleasant dreams
of the day in which the hopes of many
days will be consummated. Blessed be
the observance which touches so nearly so
many human hearts. Blessed be the day
which brings Joy to so manv homes
which, to the wanderer, wherever he may
be, turns his thoughts toward home
| And when has the American farmer had
greater occasion on Thanksgiving day
than now to say: ooh! give thanks un-
to the Lord, for He is good and his mer-
cy endurcth forever. "-American Agri-
I cultnr1st
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

9 s0as; for had only gone mile when
| discovered my pocket book behind, and
full of anger against myself for my care
lessness, fastened back. AS I neared
the cottage heard loud notes.-the
voices Of Mrs. Burdock, my prospective
mother-in-law and could it be9 Yes. it
was-my sweet, wild rose"
Well, it's regular mess, and / dom
know what to say to Bill Tryon when he
comes back from sea- the elder LADY, was
saying. He'll raise the ruff off the house. )
LET him, replied Alice; sI'll build
you better house-nearer to folks; for
I'm sure | never wart to come back to
TINS lonely hole again after once leave
it, 800 No'''e
"'But 'spose the man shouldn't he az
rich, after all, persisted the prudent
mamma.
He's as rich as schreechus,' answer
ed the daughter, in anything but a sweet
voice. And OIL how dreadful the gram
mar and pronunciation sounded in e
DO you think I'd give up Bill if I warn i
sure of it9 He writ long r1emarole to
some friend of his one day, and he lost a
piece, and found it.
'The page almost ending with the
Clauson mine, and nearly beginning with
the sweet, wild rose, )" interrupted Ches-
ter.
"Just so,'' assented his friend. aBut
ogo on with the conversation. to which
! confess deliberately listened. Il found
It, nc never missed it and I read it, said
the simple country maid. Some fash'n-
able girl wanted him for his fortune, and
he got mad and cleared out, and walked
around till he found me. A sweet, wild
rose, he called me, and he amt so far
out. neither
YOU'D better let your pa inquire about
him some before you promise to marry
him. advised Mrs. Burdock.
Rubbish! exclaimed the rose. PA
going snoopin' round might spoil every-
thing. know he's got lots Of money.
and I bet he's gone off to buy me some,
thing elegant now: Calico gowns, in
deed! III wear silk every day of my
life. But come along, ma, let's 90 up
stairs. Pe-'aps he's left his satchel un-
locked, and we can rummage all through
it, .
"'No, he HASN'T said /, coming for
ward; but don't let that prevent your
enjoying yourselves, ladies'; here is the
key, at your service
with a sh1lll scream, the sweet wild
rose fled. reached my room under the
caves in three bounds, gathered together
my belongings, left some bank bills OH
the table, and fled too"
"And l am to marry Eudora Brookteld
a month from to-day.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

THERE is no more doubt that drinking
ice water arrests digestion than there is
that refrigerator would arrest perspi-
ration. 1t drives from the stomach it's
natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric
juice, and shocks aud weakens the deli
cate organs with which it comes IN con-
tact. An able writer on human diseases
says: Habitual ice water drinkers are
usually very f1abby about the region of
the stomach. They complain that their
food lies heavys on that patient organ.
They taste their dinner fer hours after
it has been bolted. They cultivate the
use Of stimnlants to aid digestion. If
they are Intelligent they read up on
food and what the psychologists say
about it-how long it takes cabbage ana
beef and pork and potatoes, and other
meats and the esculents, to go through
the process OF assimilation They roar
at new bread, hot cakes, fried meats, i'm.
aginlng these to have been the cause of
their maladies. But the ice water goes
down all the same, and finally friends
are called in to take farewell look at
one whom mysterious Providence has
called to a cline, where, as far as Is
known, ice water is not used. The num-
Der of immortal beings who go hence to
return no more, on account of an iniu-
dicious use Of ice water, can hardly be
estimated.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
THE BATTLE OF LIFE.

Go forth to the battle of life, my boy,
Go while it is called to-day,
For the years go out and the years come in
Regardless of those who may loose or win,
Ofthose who may work or play.
Aud the troops march steadily on, my boy,
To the army gone before;
You may hear the sound Of their falling feet
Going down to the river, where two worlds
meet;
They go to return no more.
There is place for you in the ranks, my boy
And duty, too, assigned;
Step into the front with cheerful face,
Be quick or another may take your place
And you may be left behind.
There is work to be done by the way,.my boy
That you never can tread again;
Work Tor the Hottest, lowliest men
Work for the pillow, plane, spindle and pen
Work for the hands and the brain.
The serpent will follow your steps, my boy,
To lay for your feet snare;
And pleasure sits in her fairy bowers,
With garlands of peoples and lotus flowers
Enwreathing her golden hair.
Temptations will walk by the way, my boy,
Temptations without and within;
And spirits with evil, with robes as fair
As those Which the angels in heaven might
wear
Will lure you to deadly sin.
Then put on the armor of God, my boy
In the beautiful days of youth;
Put on the helmet and breast-plate and shield
And the sword that the fullest arm may WELD
In the cause of right and truth.
And go to the battle of life, my boy,
With the peace OF the gospel sh0d,
And before high heaven 10 the best YOU can
For the great reward and the good of man,
For the kingdom and crown of God.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

countries, curious coincidence. But
Northampton does not seem to have
boosted of a bellfounder till the end of
the sixteenth century, being thus about
one hundred years later than Leicester.
Moreover, many of the Northampton
shire 9 bells were made by Newcombe, Of
Leicester, the two which hang beside
Maria at. Cold Ashby being BY him.
Wlch the inscription, 'tNewcombe of Lei
cester made NEE 1f,O6,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
A New Anecd0te Of Lincoln.

Rev. Stephen 3. Tying, of New York,
tells a story of Abraham Lincoln as fol.
lows: At the close Of a scientific con-
Vent1on III Washington, the members
called lll,a body at the White House to
see Nj. Lincoln. As they were waiting
IN the East Room the President entered.
A member addressed him, and, after
making some rather fulsome remarks,
said MI. President, we trust during
this time of trial in which the nation is
engaged God is on our side, and will give
us victory. To this Mr.. Lincoln re-
piled !: ST., my concern is not whether
God is on our side. My great concern
is to be on Gods side, for God is always
right. .
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

The first Englishman known to have
been a bell founder by trade lived in
1884, when he made four bells for the
cathedral church Of Exeter, none of
which remain; and one which is datea
1896 is the most ancient identified in
England. The oldest bell mentioned by
Mr.. North, is still hanging In North
amptonshire steeple is that Of Cold . sh-
by, which bears tke date of 1877; but
there are many undated,examplcs, which,
from the style of inscription, must be
considerably older. One hundred and
th1rty-seve in all may be said with Ger
tainty 10 have been cast before the COM
mencement of the seventeenth century,
and Of these twenry-three are dated. In
Leicestershire Mr.. North found 40 of
the early period;so that there is only q
difference OF three old bells in the two
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
A Water TelescODe.

According to Land and Water, the
Norwegian fisherman always carry with
them on their expeditions a kind of
telescope. This IS tube three or four
feet long, with an eye piece at one end.
The other end, which is open, is placed
in the wa er over the edge of the boat,
and little practice easily enables the
observer to distinguish objects at a
depth OF from ten to fifteen fathoms.
The fishermen are thus enabled to discoy-
er shoals which would otherwise 20 I'M
noticed. They then give the signal, their
companions surround them with sem. S,
and they frequently make wonderful
hauls in places and under circum stances
that would never have been suspected bu,
for the use of the telescope. Mr.. Frank
Buck.and recommends the instrument to
the English and Scotch fishers.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
Home Rule.

Dapper little Jerome Stevens was
walking on Twelfth street the other even.
ing.
The balmy breeze blew over him,
He snufed the lilies blooming,
The tulips whispered in his ear;
"Old man, the spring is booming!n
he was feeling grateful that he lived
in this fair land of Michigan when the
vail of child was heard in the land. fol-
lowed by the blows of a peach tree limb.
The sounds came from a cottage and as
the blows grew faster and the walls
louder, Jerome entered the yard and
walked around to the kitchen door.
The motive power of the CAD was a
stocky, red faced mother; the motive
power of the walls was boy of 10 who
had just returned from a fishing excurs-
ion in which he didn't get nibble.
With swish! swash! swish!
In q good old motherly way
The CAD went up and the CAD came down
As it did in our grandmother's day.
Till the boy did wish
That bait and fish
Were tossed in heap together
At the bottom of Biscay Bay,
+" 'Sposen you was boyv' said Mr.
Stevens as he doomed up before the pair
in the darkness.
sYou go way!" the woman called.
"Madam, I cannot witness such brutal
ity unmoved. I have children of nv
own, and I punish by moral restraint.
If you
That's as far as he got on that speech.
She jumped over bed of pansies and
tackled him to win. She jammed him
through rose-bush. banged him over
pie plant, and rolled him over the young
tlger-lilies and an officer arrested him as
he broke dowu the fence and fell in
heap on the walk
What have you got to say to all this9"
asked his honor as the story was finished.
"Your honor, If live to be a million
years old, and I see a million mothers
tanning the jackets Of million boys, I
shall never, never, have word to say
about it,
"Dld you get that scratch on your
nose and that torn coat in the fracas?'
II did"
"Well, think I'll let you 90. Iguess
you had been dri1 king, and guess your
experience will be essen to you. Mind
your own business and perhaps you'll
flesh up and grow taller. "-Detroit Free
Press ...s ,.-,- .5.,5E. .E #s
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

morous treatment lies. Most humor has
the same general object the abatement
of folly; and it is here that the main diff
ference is to be found between humor
and wit, the latter having no constant
object in view, but only an anomalous
one Of epigrammatically exposing real or
fanciful incongruities. This distinction
does not, of course, stand in the way Of
hEmor,s being witty upon occasions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

TIE New Zealanders are destroying
their forests in q manner so reckless that
there is q fear not only Of scarcity Of
timber, but that the climate will soon be
changed for the worse.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02

The sscode is still fashionable in
Cuba. "A duel was fought at Havana,
recently, between an officer Of the staff
and q Government employee. The officer
was dangerously wounded.