Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-14
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
IS IsT kalt.
ATHENS, Greece, has thirty -four news
papers, and in the provinces there are
twenty-five.
An enterprising cigar dealer has got out
a "Franklin and Marshall" :" brand. They
are :" "two-fors, - but are guaranteed to
smoke we'll.
WHEN Denver man shouted that he
wanted the Utes so that the crowd might
lynch them, blue-coated soldier, who was
on guard, said, "Why don't you go up
into the mountains and get them, as We
did?'
SENATOR INGALLS,, of Kansas, is all in
nocent man. The kilograms by which it
was expected to prove his guilt have been
kindly burned up by employees of the
Western Union. Nobody ever doubted
that Senator ingalls, would compare well
with the generality of Kansas politicians.
THE New York Herald finally g tum-
bles to it, that Grant seeks the Republi-
can nomination, and hopes and wishes to
get into the White House again. But in
all this the Herald sees nothing to make
people lose their hcads-though it nearly
lost its own over Casarism," a few
years ago.
THE term of collectors of internal rev.
enue, unlike that of most federal offices, is
indefinite. 1t is now proposed at Wash
ington to change this. Commissioner
Raum has already suggested that it would
be good plan to fix the tenure of inter-
nal revenue collectors, and the matter was
discussed in cabinet meeting Oh Friday.
The New York Times thinks the proposed
change would be step backward, and de-
clares it's true inwardness to be the motive
of the politicians, who regard with jeal-
ousy any position that is not open to Their
assaults at least once in four years.
THE late Bishop Gil Haven was once Of
fered the editorship of the New York Lnde'
pendent, and though he declined it, he was
pleased with the offer and so warm a friend
of the paper that ''after his death, he
wanted it sent to him in the other world
if there were any mails that would reach
there" The Independent, with all idea
of coming as near to the boundary as pos
sible, promises to send a copy to the Ha-
ven normal school, Waynesborough, Ga,
for the use of colored Students" A reli
gious contemporary suggests that if the
independent ever gets across the line, its
able, genial, but perhaps too liberel editor
might omit the advertisements, and cspe
cially the prominent insurance department
as it is believed no provisions against deatl
and fire are needed in the land to which
Bishop Haven has gone.
TIE Senate of the United States con
sists of &c members, and of this number
50 are practicing lawyers, busi
ness men or merchants, doctor,
editor. 9 planters, 2 farmers, banker,
mine owner and operator and of no pro
fessiOn or business. Senator 1lamlin il
the oldest member of that body in years
and the oldest in point of service, count
ing from the time of his first election
Senator Anthony has been longer i'll con
tinuous service than any other senator
Besides the 219 lawyers in the House ther'
are 2j merchants, bankers, 3 capitalists,
inventors, manufacturers, 2 teachers, 1:
farmers, 6 physicians, 1 architect ant
builder, editors, 2 ministers, 1 stone
cutter, insurance agent, 2 millcrs and
owners and operators Of transportation
lines. The oldest member of the House il
Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, who is sixty-nint
years of age, and the youngest member il
Mr.. Frost, o: st. Louis, who is twenty
eight years of age. Fernando Wood ha:
been longer member of the House thar
any of his associates, and next in point O
long service is Judge Kelley, of Pennsyl
vania. Mr.. Stephens, Of Georgia, il
generally spoken Of as being older thar
any member of the present House, but Mr.
Wait has about one year the advantage O.
him in that respect.