Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-02

ever name they may be called. This is
good sense and good Democracy. Any
organization which appears at the state
convention asking that the people be
not represented in the same manner il
which they are represented elsewhere in
the state and country should be shown the
door.
ALTHOUGH Canada was wrested from
France considerably more than a century
ago: the latter still retain possession Of
three small lslets at the mouth of the St.
Lawrence and near the Southern coast of
Newfoundland. OF these islets, St. Pierre
and Miquelon are the chief. St. Pierre is
a convict colony for the detention OF that
class Of convicts known as disciplinaires.
Reports from St. Johns, Newfoundland,
which wear however an air of exaggera-
ton, state that a plot had been organized
among the cOnvicts to murder the COVER
nor of the island Count de St. ShalIe, the
chief justice and the officers and men OF
the garrison, seize couple Of ves-
sells in the harEor and, after burn
ing the town, make their escape.
The authorities being warned, took i'm
mediate steps to Illustrate the intentions OF
the conspirators, about twenty of whom
have been sentenced to death. The fact
Of the existence of such convict settle
To s1,o ,s-s11 IL,
new to most of our readers, who have sup
posed that the only French penal colonies
We're those of Cayenne and New Gale
donia, the colony of St. Pierre not being
regarded as Of penal class.
IT occurs to the mind OF u scientific per.
son OH the New York Times that the alb
sence of hay fever this year, and the con
spicuous immunity from that abnormal
state of nose which he claims to observe
arc due to the absence of peaches. In
other words, hay fever is caused by eating
peaches, and has no connection whatever
with hay. He points to the undeniable facts
in the case to sustain his theory. Every
year thousands of people who have eaten
unlimited peaches have simultaneously
suffered from hay fever. This year these
same persons have no peaches to cat, and
have had no hay fever. The conclusion is
inevitable that peaches, and not hay, arc
the exciting cause of hay fever. The
Times scientist finds explanation of the
matter in the fact that the skin of the
peach is covered with a down made up OF
what arc seen under the microscope to be
extremely small feathers. Nothing is more
probable than that the person who cats
peaches breathes in large supply OF
peach feathers, and SO cxaspcrates his nose
beyond endurance. The prussic acid
contained in the heart of the peach,
our scientist finds is responsible
for the sore throat which the
hay fever victim suffers as an feature Of
his annual affiiction. The Times calls at
tention to another phenomenon which has
been noticed during the last mon tn as
remarkable as the disappearance of hay
fever. This is the increase in the volume
and force of contemporary snoring. Hither.
to only ii per cent. of the male occupants
of sleeping cars have snored, but during
the late month of August the snorers in
creased to no less than G2 per cent. How
the consumption of peaches formerly
prevented men from snoring is something
that even tho pondrous scientific brain OF
the Times writer cannot comprehend, but
of all the fact that in tho absence of
peaches the snoring plague is devastat
ing our land there can be no question to
the great grief and injury of honest and
reputable citizens.