Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-14
MINOR TOPICS.

HERR JoEeER, a German professor, has
discovered that the soul is located in the
olfactory organs.
A CANVAS village for the accommodation
of summer school of Christian philos-
ophers has sprung up on the edge of Green
wood lake, New York, but already the
young man with long hair, rolling eyes
and rolled up trousers is there, disturbing
the meeting with Guiteau-like questions,
which put the doctors of divinity in dread
of moral, if not mortal assassination.
BosToN is declared by Max Strakosch
the most profitable town for theatres in
this country, because the women there
come to the play in waterproofs and plain
woo!en dresses, and, as they have not put
their money into silks or carriages, can
afford to buy theatre tickets oEce a week
the year round. In LouisVille, on the con-
trary, where fashionable audiences always
appear, "in full dress paint and war
feathers" they 60 to the theatre but once
year.
REMEMBER, brethren, that when the
Democratic House cut down the money
voted fer department expenditures Re-
publican newspapers and small bore states
men set up long howl about starving the
government and crippling the public SER
vice. Now Postmaster General James is
boasting of having thus far effected re-
ductiom of s1,0GG, 77S in his departments
and the new pension commissioner can get
along with 100 less clerks and 4 reduction
! in the salaries Of 60 others.
The example of the Western states in
encouraging tree planting has been fol-
lowed by Massachusetts,, and more lately
by Connecticut, which gives to every per-
| son that will plant and care for trees
along any highway an annual bounty of
81 for each quarter of a mile SO planted.
The trees are to be elm, maple, tulip: ash,
Eastwood, black walnut and hickory, the
elms not to be more than sixty feet apart.
The farmers of Pennsylvania have been
very slow to take advantage of the law
partially exempting from road tax those
who plant trees by the wayside.
In 1870 the voting population Of the
United States was 1898, 600, of the South
crn states 9, ia, 900. The illiterate voters
in the United States were 1 $50, 900. and
the same class of voters in the Southern
states number 1,123, 900. Twenty per
cent. Of the entire voting population of
the United States, and As per cent. of the
voters of the Southern states, could not
read their ballots. The total vote cast
and counted ut the last general election in
the whole country was {, ,297, 900. Advance
sheets of census reports and careful es-
Inmates say that from 81 to % per cent. of
them were iliterate. Ten years ago one
voter in five was illiterate. The proper
ton is larger to-day. Sixteen Southern
states contain one third of the entire vote
| Of the country, and three quarters Of that
vote is iuiteratc. There are 457, 900 litter
ate Votes in the Eastern, Northern and
Western states. New York has 777,1sO
iliterate votes Pennsylvania, 67, 10S ;
Illinois, A. AT, and Ohio, As, $40. In New
York 80 per cent. of the illiterates live in
cities. The unlettered vote of the South
is largely the negro population.
DIR. FREDERICK REED, of Hartford,
committed suicide at sea, on June 4, while
on Il voyage to the Azores in sailing
vessel, by jumping overheard in 4 fit of
mental alteration, caused, it is believed,
by the excessive quantity Of bromide of
sodium he hal taken-no less than eleven
ounces. Symptoms of insanity appeared
two weeks before his tragic death, when
he had been but few days at sea, and
man was detailed to keep him under Oh
sevation, whose vigilanc, he eludcd by a
trick of insane cunning. The case has
aroused considerable interest in the prac-
tice of using bromide of sodium as pre-
ventive of seasicl,ness. DR.. George NJ.
Beard, of New York, who is about sailing
for Europe. and who will experiment with
the bromide of sodium treatment has
been the chief exponent of it; he is not
deferred by DIR. Reeds fate, and thinks
his use of it must have been excessive. 1t
is largely rcsortcd to by ca-soing passcn-
gers, and though often very decided in its
action, leading to intense stupOr and
drowsincss. DR.. Reeds is the first re-
ported case of resulting insanity.
A ,,nrrEspoSDENT of the New York
Times has been scratching the serene sur
face of Pennsylvania Republican politics
and finds some interesting features lying
beneath which are tOlerably certain to bc
disclosed when active work once begins.
Among the discoveries is the fact that the
Independent movement represents that
large. if not preponderating, element in
the party which is opposed to the control
sopowerfully exercised by Senator Gamer
on and his cutenants-Mackey, Kemble
and Quay-in the last ten years. Mr..
Mackey is dead and Mr.. Kcmblc is devoted
to his private affairs Gas we'll as disquali-
fled from holding office), but Quay and
Magee help Cameron to hold !, powerful
combination. Mr.. Cameron is too
smart, 1t seems, to follow Conklins
to the present length af tether which he is
taking the heir of Lochiel will not CON-
init the midsummer madness Of hari-kari |
10 IL.