Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-06

IL "do dilVl hOhA DSoh 'oetAASy S'e>S
a chance attendant at Westminster abbey
made the oft-quoted remark '' | went to
hear about Heaven and only heard about
the way to Palestine. -
SOMEBODY around Washington gets
little time to attend to some dirty politics,
and Republican federal postal officials in
Virginia who denounce and oppose the
Malone coalition are being rapidly dis
placed.
THE work of the New Jersey fish COM
missoncrs this year has been very extern
sive. About 100, 900 young shad were
placed in the Raritan river, and 1000. 600
in the Delaware. 100000 young Cali
fornia salmon were placed in the Della
ware, and 100000 brook trou: in the
northern portion of the state. Young
black bass were also distributed liberally
in the rivers and lakes.
In Mississippi are the Alcorn, Toupalo
and Shaw universities for cOlorcd peop.e'
DtSIttcS LtlC SJstJC AAoly
There are G,O0O free schools in the state,
one hllf of which are for colorcd people.
The blacks have better educational facili-
ties there than perhaps in any state. There
were ss30,0O0 appropriated last year for
public schools. The blacks get perhaps
half of this. The whites pay the greater
part for the education of the blacks, al
though the latter are arrayed against them
in politics.
CITIZENS of Rome, who maintain that
what is now said of the unhealthfulness
of the city is a calunny, point to the fact
that within the past winter Of some GO, 900
foreigners who stopped ut the hotels only
died. The Roman streets are as clean,
they say, as those of Paris, and are
watered several times 4 day. Narrow
courts and streets are being pulled down
to make room for larger ones, where air
c,n have space enough to circulate and
even in the Ghetto filth soon will compa,a a.
lively have ceased to exist.
Or the "New South's' eminent men of
letters, Sidney Lanier is lecturer on liter
ature in Johns Hopkins university; he is
of exceedingly slight figure, face very
| pale and delicate, with finely chisclcd fea-
tures dark, clustering hair, parted in the
middle, and beard after the manner of the
| Italian school of art. Paul Hague, an
ideal poet in physique with dark hair and
eyes, and kindly features cast in heroic
mould, is the only man in the South who
relies on the labor Of his pen in poetry for
a living. He is devoted to his art, work
ing, doubtless, far beyond his strength
fol his health is very delicate, and recent
| ly great fears We're entertained Cor his life.
| He lives in almost absolute seclusion at
Bcrzelia, near Augusta, Ga, ministercd to
by his devoted wife and only child, boy,
who does not share his fathers genius.
Joel Chandler Harris, whose g Uncle Re.
| mis-" was n veritablc character, the favor
itc companion and friend of his bryhood,
is only b years of ago, a printer by trade,
hOmely OF body and shy of strangers.
James II. Randall, author of Maryland,
My Maryland, :" is a large, fine looking
man, with full, dark eyes, ample forehead
and delightful manners. lie is, perhaps,
the most graceful and scholarly writer of
the Southern press edits the Chronicle
and Constitatioaalist, of Augusta, Ga, and
gives to his editorials all the advantage of
pure literary style and a rich and flow
ing diction.