Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-30

MINOR TOFIOb.
The Suez canal takes in about CSC, 900
a day,

MINOR TOPIOb.
The Suez canal takes in about CSC, 600
a day.
One applicant for the position Of United
States consul had the personal indorse-
ments of Longfellow and Holmes, Aldrich
and Whittier. He must have been a SUPER
literary feller.
THE United Brethren general conference
earnestly protests against Legislative, ju-
dicial or clerical allowance of divorce for
any other than the single and scriptural
cause. In view of the heavy grists brought
to our local divorce mill tho united breth
rem who dispense justice in our county
court will please take notice.
Rev. PROFESSOR SWING in his last Sun
days sermon embraced the theory that
when We die here We are in some way
transferred to some other planet, and 20
right on living. The professor does nos
take any stock in the conventional angel
of the old masters. "There is little prob.
ability" he told the astonished grain
operators, ''that there are intelligent beings
having wings"
We have been reading the Legislative
Record of the proceedings on the night
Hewitt, Hazlett, Rice & Co. were abus-
ing Mcclure. 1t would be interesting, if
it wasn't SO old. After two weeks is
almost the earliest that one can get an
official report of legislative proceedings.
It is blunder-a crime. And since some-
body has discovered that the Record con.
tractor is bound to furnish it the next day
after the proceedings it reports have hap
pened, and that SO far in the 1, 700 or 1, 800
pages published, he has failed to meet
his obligations, let the money be forthwith
stopped on him for his fatal breach of con-
tract.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT HIaBEE, being
present at Sunday school convention up
in the Cumberland valley, where the re.
lation of the Sunday schools and public
schools was under discussion. made ring
ing speech declaring there was no antag-
onism whatever. A local paper reports
that he said "Many teachers in our
public schools were unfit to teach children.
They were lacking in character. The di-
rectors should see to it that such
persons are not employed. The teacher
should 10 good, honest, upright, and
should possess brains sufficient to teach
what he knows. As betweon characters
and brains, he would prefer character.
The remarks Of Superintendent Higbee
were listened to with attention, and when
lie closed he was greeted with hearty
round of applause. The audience felt that
he had the courage and firmness to meet
and battle with every difficulty in tho way
and that the youth of our state would be
we'll cared for by him.
WHAT more senseless law was ever en-
acted than tho bill which has passed the
House at Harrisburg, that hotels, restau-
rants and boarding houses using oleomar-
garine must make conspicuous announce
ment of the fact by placards Oh their din
ing room walls 1t is not intended that
they shall do this, but it is expected that
such legislation by great commonwealth
will blackmail them into not using oleo-
margarine. II people like it, let them eat
it. II people cat it and don't know it they
are not hurt and at any rate clean oleo-
margarine is better than the nasty, stale
and dirty butter that is served at some of
the hotels and restaurants where members
of the Legislature take their meals. But
il such placards are to be posted in dining
rooms, why not mako the protection of
guests complete by compelling the dining
room walls to be plastered all over with
guarantees of "No Hair in tho Hash -
"No Bootlegs Served as Beefsteak :"
eggs Warranted Laid Within Month -
None but Clean Cooks Employed ~
There might as well-better-be a law
against frying steaks as using oleomarga-
rine, If people like the bogus butter.
VIZ are in receipt from Representatives
Lands and Snyder of the report of COM
mittee of the Legislature, appointed by
the governor, to inquire into the cxpe-
diency of establishing state industrial
reformatory; and more especially of di.
verting the proposed Huntingdon peniten-
tiary to that end. 1t is generally admitted
now that the middle penitentiary scheme
and the beginning made of that job were
only intended to make capital for H. G.
Fishers election to Congress. It served it's
end and, not being needed as q penitentiary,
probably it will be as we'll to establish the
proposed reformatory there. 1t unanimous
ly strikes this committee so, at any rate :;
and Governor Hoyt who has made close
study of the New York institution at e.
mira, is much interested in such an expert
ment for Pennsylvania. The idea is that
many incipient criminals, between say 16
and 30 years old, the primary object
Of whose punishment should be their re-
form, might be placed in position to bo-
come useful citizens instead of permanent
dangers and charges to the state, and the
idea Of vengeance is entirely discarded in
the reformation plan. Judges are to have
discretion in sending criminals to these
institutions, their managers being en-
powered to release prisoner when it ap.
pears that there il strong or reasonable
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