Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-26
ON THE STREET.


LeisUrely LOuneinS Round the Town.
New curbs are being put in on West
King street.
Is Hazen, or Vennor, or whoever is run
ming the weather, getting up 4 corner in
corn and potatoes
A mad dog was seen on the street last
evening. Somebody trod ON the tail Of
his coat.
1t is we'll that custom inures one to
many disagreeable things, else the conven-
tion OF tobacco chewers to be seen at cer-
tain points Of al evening would be exces-
sively annoying to passing ladies.
Corn is suffering by reason Of the dry
weather. The leaves are curling up, and
unless the parchcd earth is soon reinvig-
grated farmers fear serious injury to
the crops. Oats, however, were hardly
ever better. Many late sown fields are
not sufficiently advanced 20 reap, and
such might be injured by heavy rains.
One of the employees of the INTELLI-
GENcER escaped what might have been a
serious accident last night. He had been
working in \ warm room and became
Overheated. He went to fourth story
window, leaning far out to catch the
breeze, and was seized with vertigo. 1t
was with difficulty he saved himself from
headlOng plunge to the pavement below.
1t would have been ver-ti go, in that way.
Militiamen and other embryo generals
might learn something Of the beauty Of
precision in drill, and the harmony of
mechanical accord attained by habitual
concerted action, by watching the laborers
on the street. Fifteen or twenty will
occasionally stand in line, and the rise
and fall of the picks is as regular as the
beat OF a piston, yet no man gives ap-
parent heed to his fellows.
"A Little By Play.
Stage properties banana with drunken
bipcd attachment. Theatre North Queen
street. Play low comedy. Plot : to effect
a union between principal and attachment.
Star performer laborer. Support an
awning post.
One arm embraced the post SIS 4 ship
wrecked mariner clings to spar, the other
hand waved alOfv the sheet anchor OF his
hopes, which rose and fell with every un-
dulation of the heaving pillows as grace
fully as drum major on dress parade.
Yet the horoscope was OminOus. A shade
Of care bGstr0de the noble Rum un's brow,
perplexeG thought corrugated his every
lineamcnt and melancholy marked him
for its own. while above the mournful
soughiEg Of the winds arose tho
Sybillant whisper" H-ades ~ Sud
denly tic Oscillating esculent luuged
for the open hatchway stopped !; waver-
cd, ana fell back in geometric angles and
parabOlas as to safe anchorage : almost u
wreck. Deep thought. 4 shifting of
arms and q desperate gleam in the bulbs
that did for eyes. 1t was patent the criti-
cal moment was come. Painfully pOising
the luscious fruit he eyed it distrusttully.
No sinister designs on the surface. OBJ
scrvations taken and true position ascer-
:ained. Now began series of skillinl
approach. In 4 moment of fatal over con-
iidence, the recalcitrant banana launched
fully at the adversary's half sea sOned
dead lights, that glowcrcd redly through
tho murky haze. The cargo listed a
lurch, futile freuzied struggle with
gravitations laws, the hawser part
ed, and the old hulk went over
on his beams end. stranded OH an inhospit
able shore. Just then providential con-
sort hove in sight, took the battered
schooner in tow and landed him in dry
dock-mighty dry. Reluctantly, bat firm
ly the cause Of all the trouble was put
away. Not spurningly, but gently turned
he him to depart, casting backward
glauces of mingled wonder, reproach and
doubt at the object OF his misguided affec-
tions. The match was off and-so were
the police.