Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-17

it any more than we expect to see them
join the saints.
MINOR ToPICs..
A BEAuTrBUL maid I'm Carlisle
On the back Of her neck had bile.
And her lover forgot,
And Rugged the sore spot,
And her screams could be heard for mile.
SEVEN hundred dollars per letter is
what Uncle Sans mail costs ON one of the
star routes in New Mexico. That is what
the contractors call building up the
country"
The Ancient Order of Hibernians in
this country reports membership of 50,
600 and treasury fund Of $500, 900. This
is the order of which the famous Molly
Mcguire society was branch, but an un-
worthy one, for the order, as general
thing, is quiet and law abiding.
THERE is river of ink in Algiers. It
is formed by the union of two tributaries,
ono from ferruginous tract of soil, the
other from peat country, bringing gallic
acid. Now if there were only few paste
ponds and scissors factory in that neigh
borhood what grand place it would be
for newspaper Office, thinks the practical
young man of the Philadelphia News.
THEY have 4 "truant school" in Hamp-
den county, Massachusetts,, with an annex
Of land and shops, and every scape-g grace
of boy under fourteen who plays
hockey" and persists in making him.
self obnoxious on tho streets is sent there
for q year Of schooling and thorough,
training at hard work. The authorities Of
that county don't propose to raise any
tramps if they can help it.
ANOTHER Ohio man is reported to be
"on the slate" for an Office James Mon
roe, Of that state, being named as Mr..
Marsh's successor in the ministry to Rome.
Mr.. Monroe, however, has one thing in
his favor which offsets to some extent the
unfortunate circumstance of his place OF
residence /; he is An ex-professor in Ober-
lin college and one of the literary fel-
lows" whom it has become the fashion to
send out in our diplomatic service, and
who seldom fail to do it credit.
IT is. perhaps, subject for mild regret
that tie newspapers all over the country
are in the habit of alludirg to stage rob.
bers who operate upon the plains as
"road agents." This may be regarded as
an unnecessary attempt to soften things.
A writer in the Philadelphia Bulletin
thinks that when man is thief it is
better to allude to him as thief. The
language used with respect to rascals gen.
orally needs to be made palmer and more
severe Instead Of more gentle.
A COMMITTEE of the Pennsylvania Equal
Rights league appointed at its sixth annual
meeting in Altoona last summer, to secure
. repeal of the act of the Legislature of
1854, creating separate schools in this
state for colored children, has issued a
circular to members of the Legislature
asking for it's repeal, especially on the
ground of the inferior Accommodations fol-
colored children in Philadelphia. Mean
time Judge Church, of Crawford county, a
Democratic judge, has pronounced this
law unconstitutional, and the Philadelphia
courts may do likewise.
THE state department has been engaged
in directing au investigation of the charges
that were brought against American pork,
and the conclusions reached were that
American pork, as rule. is a good deal
more wholesome than almost any other
kind Of pork, first, because it is granted
and not swill-fed, and, second, because
the most careful inspection is made of it in
order to maintain the quality at a high
level. There is, of course, really no doubt
at all that the French objections to the
healthfuluess of American pork, like the
British protests to American cattle, were
made in the interests of the farmers at
home, rather than in the interests of con
sumers.