Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-06
MINOR TOPICS.
ONLY short time ago the president in
sured his life for A25, 900.

LARGELY owing to dirty streets the death
rate in New York is nearly so per cent.
higher than in London.
MISSIONARY RIDGE, near Chattanooga.
Tenn, was the site of one of the most
decisive battles of the civil war. It was
wild, rugged place, worth dollar Or SO an
acre. Now it is covered with orchards.
AMONG the first associations in the
country to dispatch resolutions of condo
lence to Washington were Tammany, the
meeting of Democratic legislators at AL
bany and the Young Mems Democratic
association, of Philadelphia.
The kings of Italy and of Hayti have
telegraphed their solicitude to Washing
ton. Alfred Tennyson, the poet laure-
ate, has telegraphed to United States
Minister Lowell expressing deep regret at
the attempt on the presidents life, and
asking for the latest news regarding his
condition.
DURING the residence OF bitter South
ern woman in Washington, she formed an
intimate acquaintance with President Lin
coin, and a friendly correspondence was
kept up between the two during great
| portion Of the war. On one occasion her
letter paper was adorned with the Confed-
crate motto, a snake entwined around
Confederate flag, and the inscription :
"Don't tread on us, or we will bite.
When Lincoln replied to the missive, he
sent back tho motto with bite" erased
and the word "burst'' substituted.
OUR esteemed radical contemporary, the
Philadelphia Bulletin, piously suggests
that should Arthur become presi'
don't and then tho succession be open to the
president of the Senate-to be elected by
the Democratic majority-"I would be
most praiseworthy and patriotic act 70,
the Democrats to cast aside the little ad'
vantage they have gained by accident and
help to elect some eminent member of the
Republican party" Just so, the Republi
cans are always doing that sort of praise
worthy and patriotic acts. You remember
that when Johnson became president they
straightway hunted for the most violent
copperhead they could find in the person
of that arch Democrat, old Ben. Wade;
and made him president Of the Senate, tt
show how generous they could be.
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR,
the nursery rhyme SO familiar to every
body, has been revised by committee o
eminent scholars, with the following
result:
Shine with Irregular, intermitted light,
sparkle at intervals diminutive, luminous
How conjecture, with surprise, not unmiNee
with uncertainity,S what you ale,
tanceT from, and at q height so vastly super
ior to. this earth. the planet We inhaDit,
Similar in general appearance and refractOr!
crystal of pure carbon, ~ set In the aeri:,
region surrounding the earth.
*Or, swad out with the antro gilespians.
tSee Hesio. Pro mea benevOlente. Act
Mediay. Pp. 9s2; 09isque numjam ,,,ti salts
Didhui & % TSecat % anthsf i Hidui, III. r.. g.. ib
SNot found in the MSS. Of the e9th century
Hume. Dune. v. Hugo D9senbIry sim
by the English committee. M
| GThis may also be rendered, "a Ions
ways" ,,
lin0ton Hawkeyc.
PROF. LOOMS has been for some month.
experimenting in the West Virginia noun
tains on his aerial telegraphy and has sue
ceeded by running up wires to certain
altitude in reaching the current of cleo
tricity which he claims can be found al
that height, and by means of which com
munication can be had at any distance. Ht
has telegraphed to parties eleven miles
distant by merely sending up kite a
each end of the distance to certain height
attached to which, in place of an ordinary
string, was fine copper wire. Wher
both kites touched the same current com
munication was had between them, ant
messages were sent from one end to tht
other by means of the ordinary Morse in
strument in connection with the instru
ment invented by Prof. Loomis. He now
has a project for i series of experiment:
from point ON one of the highest peaks
on the Alps, in Switzerland, to a similarly
situated place in the Rocky mountains OF
this side of the world. If this succeeds o
course his invention will rank in import
ance with that of the electric telegraph
itself, and vastly reduce the cost of tele
graphing.
| PERSONAL.
Mr.. NJ. P. HANDY, managing editor o1
the Press, has returned from his European
voyage very much improved in health.
H. P. McGRATH, the well-knOwn race
horse owner, has died at the Central hotel
Long Branch. The remains will be taker
to Kentucky for interment.
When Mrs. GARFIELD read to her hus-
band a suggestion in newspaper to the
| effect that there was conspiracy, he said