Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-17

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owing their rooms and have ordered the
spies away from Depew's chamber door.
TEE Wheeling. (West Va.) Lntelligenesr
says that there is scarcity Of farm labor,
male and female, in that section. Even
| Indifferent farm hands are being paid SIS
per month aud their board, and the farm.
ers are glad to get them at that rate.
PEDDLERs of the revised New Testa-
ment do tolerably we'll in cities and large
villages, but make hardly any sales in tho
country, where any alteration of the sacred
book is generally regarded as awful pro-
fanation. The pious women of Welden,
Iowa, chased an agent out of town.
BRAVE little Switzerland sets burly
big England an example when it officially
declares that no prohibition or compulsory
inspection of American meat is justified or
will be required in Switzerland. The Swiss
government has met this question in a
spirit of intelligence and justice which
other European states might profitably
initiate.
AT the present time the House is consti-
tuted as follows Republicans, not count
ing Brumm, Thirteenth Pennsylvania dis
trict. 145 a; Possible, but uncertain Repub-
lican, Rev. Hyatt Smith, l.; Straight-out
Democrats, 1874 Readjuster Democrats,
2; Greenback members, counting Brumm,
8; vacancies to DO filled, 3. Total, 293.
Both the New York vacancies will be filled
by Democrats, aud the Maine vacancy will
be filled by Republican. Giving the Re.
publicans the vote of Frye's successor,
they will have 147 certain. Against that
the Democrats have 134 certain !; SO that
even with tho two Readjusters, the eight
Grecnbackcrs, with Democratic tendon
cies, and the two New York districts, or
146 in All, they arc one short of a majority.
How few people really know and appre.
ciate what they look like. The chances
are ten to one that if you met your exact
resemblance you would not discern it.
The most modest people see nobody Of
tener than themselves, and yet they can
not pass fair judgment on their own like
nesses. Carlyle had his picture taken.
He said Judges consider it the perfec-
ton Of likeness Of me (; but l, who for
some forty years, more or less, daily per-
formed certain barbarous operation, al
though that same is given up now, and
looked in 4 mirror on these occasions,
would not know that had ever before
looked upon that man." Of another pho
tograph Carlyle remarked that he was Ger
tainly shaggy enough in all conscience,
without being made worse than he really
was :; but that this likeness made him lock
like an old rascally, ruffian, obfuscated
goose
SINCE inquiry into the speculatiOns in
the federal treasury department has be.
gun, local carpet dealer has turned into
the treasury s343, that sum having been
paid him twice by the custodian of the
treasury for ono bill Of goods. A retail
stationer named Bradley Adams, who
seems to have been a special favorite with
those in charge of tho contingent fund,
covered into tho treasury about 500,
which was paid him for file boxes that
were never delivered. The fact that these
two so-called discoveries ofpayments made
without any equivalent having been rem
dercd were not made by the persons inter-
ested until tho fraud was uncovered by the
investigation, is peculiarly significant.
Mr.. Pitney, the custodian of the treasury
building, who has had immediate charge
of the disbursement of the contingent
fund, declined to respond to tho summons
of the investigating committee and give
testimony touching his official transac.
tiOns.
DIR. LEWIS II. SAYRE, of New York,
makes the important announcement that
snoring is a noise made in the posteriOr
part of the mouth and nosal foss;e during
the moments of the inspiration. 1t is due
to relaxation of the lepator l,alati moNis
and tho c,rcumferus palati in sleep, by
which the eelum pendulum l,alatii is left free
to vibrate or flap in the two currents Of
the air which enter at the same time
through the nostrils and tho mouth. Be-
sides the vibration of the cslum pendulum
palat; or soft palate, there is also a vibra-
tion of the column of air itself. Thus is
produced the rasping, snorting noise SO
we'll known aud so unpleasant to every one
within earshot of the placid snorer him.
self. When manor a woman-is
fatigued se]f-control is relapsed, down goes
the lower jaw and the palate flaps like
a sheet in tho wind. Snoring is habit
and if 1t cannot be broken off any other
way let the jaw be strapped up when the
patient sleeps.
CAREFUL research for tho simplest will
ever sustained as sufficient has brought
none to light briefer than the following {:
"NEw ORLEANS, Sept. 18th, 1859.
Mrs. Sophie Loper is my heiress.
&C. EHRERBERG."
This was in real case admitted as
will. True, there were no witnesses but
the law of the state (Louisiana) allowed
will wholly in the. handwriting of the
maker to be received without witnesses,
his autograph being deemed proof that he
intended the contents. 1t is also true that
there was a lawsuit and Mrs. Loper
might perhaps have failed to receive the
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