Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-25

their opportunities to abuse them. A
better system is required as well AZ bet
ter men than generally administer that
from which the taxpayers now suffer.
MINOR TOFICb.
TIE. Vermont NJ. +. conference has un-
animously agreed, not to marry divorced
parties, except the innocent one, where the
cause of divorce is adultery.
BOB IxGERsoLL says that Providence
originally made oysters with legs and after
wards took them of, knowing that the
people of Delaware would starve to death
before they could run to catch anything.
GIVE the new district attorney his due
he disposed Of his business last week with
commendable dispatch, and of 149 cases
on the list finished up all but 20. OF these
were fornication and bastardy cases not
yet ready for trial 5 cases returned with
in the week, and went over under the ten
day rule, and the three cases against the
Triples and the Ffnney manslaughter
cases, the importance Of which only ne.
cessitates a special torn in May.
Rev. Mr.. TALMAGE in his Easter sermon
on the text "Consider the lilies," with
characteristic exuberance of imagination
and efflorescence of language, exclaims,
s;Consider tho azaleas, consider the fuchsias,
consider the geraniums, consider the ivy,
consider the hyacinth, consider the hello
tropes, consider the Oleanders." And he
might, thinks the Washington Republic,
have said, "consider the squash, consider
the gourd, consider the cabbage-head."
| In the hope of overtaking falsehood in
its seven leagued boots, some one signing
himself "Andover" has sent letter to
the Hartford COu,dnt denying explicitly
the assertion that the twin brothers
caught in burglrry at Andover were in
any sense, present or prospective, theolog-
ical students. They were members of
Phillips academy, the celebrated prepara-
tory school for colleges, aud had not the
remOtest connection with tho theological
seminary in the same town. Furthermore,
they never prolessed piety or even re-
ligious belief. Their creed was avOwed,
blatant infidelity, and they had already
begun to excite the suspicion of their
teachers and the disapproval of their
schoOlmates.
The present season has been remarkable
for the beauty of the skies and the con
functions and evolutions of the stellar
bodies. The New York Sun, which of
course speaks in astronomy with parental
authority, wants it understood that the
parade is not yet dismissed. The planets
that have disappeared from the evening
sky will in few weeks brighten the early
morning hours, and repeat with variations
in the east the performances that proved
SO popular when they were starring it in
the west. In the meantime those whom
the astrologers have caused to tremble
with the fear that the planets are playing
may calm their minds while they wipe
their glasses against the rising of the cur.
tain for the second act. The players il
this celestial drama may be trusted not t.
FIRE any wads into the parquet.
EL1HU YALE, the early patron of tht
great college which bears his name, was
an American, but died in London and was
buried in the churchyard at Wrexham, in
North Wales. Many years ago. the origi
nal slab that covered his remains was re
placed by another stone and has remained
ever since in the possession ola Mr.. Eds
bury of Wrcxham. That gentleman la:
recently availed of visit of an American
Mr.. Hugh Hamilton, to transmit the ori
ginal stone, with its quaint inscription, to
the authorities of Yale college. It tells it!
, story thus:
Born in America, in Europe bred.
| In Africa travelled. and in Asia wed,
dead.
Much good, some ill he did $50 hope alrs even
And that his soul thro' mcrcy's gone Il
) You that survive and read this tale, take care
For this most certain exit to prepare.
Smell sweet and blossom in the silent DUST
II is time stern measures were taken
against insurance farming, by which
wicked men take heavy speculative risk.
on those about to die and even get an in
terest in the death of healthy men that is
not good for public morals or persona
safety. The recent newspaper excitement
and the bloody crime and bloodier cxpia
ton in Lebanon seem to have had no CT
feet to stop the traffic. 1t is extending
from Eastern Pennsylvania into Other
states. Recently several aged person:
died in Frederick county, Nd, on whose
lives policies for several thousand dollars
had been issued only few months preyi
Gus to death, and up to this time the
amount of insurance obtained by residents
of Frederick county on the lives of persons
ranging in age from 60 to IS years will
probably aggregate between two and three
millions of dollars. One company has
secured policies to the amount Of about
100000. A number of agents, arrived in
Reading from Harrisburg, had intended to
"work I" the Berks county almshcuse,
but when they learned that there were
ahot forty-five cases of smallpox there
they visited the Schuylkill county poor
house and took out policies at the rate OF
$50, 600 day on aged and infirm paupers.
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