Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-15

tuIOuSu olSSOCAdSlC UOulCOs 4O tu0
commons I" has ever been the appeal of
advanced thought and liberal move
ments.
MINOR TOPICS.
A THREE line advertisement in a WASH
ington evening paper for lady to do
copying for s3 week, is said to have
brought 2l3 applications.
The Washington Republic needs to
look out lest the supersensitive Ne,o Era,
Philadelphia Eusnsng Telegraph and Chron-
iele- Herald get after it for its horrible at.
tack on the presidents physicians. Such
depth Of partisan malignity as it exhibits
has not been paralleled save by the INTEL
LIeENcER, and on that occasion these jour-
nails showed signs of the rabies.
DURING his recent visit to Canada Gen.
Sherman is quoted as saying to Goderich
reporter, 81 have always wanted to see
the Canadian peninsula annexed-that is,
that part of Canada from Montreal to
Georgian Bay westward to the lakes. It
would make a splendid state. 1t is the
only part of Canada would like us to
get they could keep the rest"
The ST.. James Gazette, in reviewing the
poems of Oscar Wilde, the ofacular lyrist
of the aesthetics, concludes that their
author has made up his mind to never
know the delightful repose of an own do
mestic hearth graoed with the presence
and cosy in the affection of wife and girls
and boys. For a man who has printed
such as some of his rhymes would be
ashamed to have his boys and girls know
It.
THE London literary critics think our
Mr.. Steadman holds the balance most
nearly even of those who have under.
taken moral analysis of Poe and quote
approvingly this passage from his estimate
of that strangely misunderstood and mis-
represented genius "He loved his share
Of pain, and was an instance of the fact
that man is the one being that takes de.
light in the tragedy Of its own existence,
and for whom joy is deepest when il
springs from woe. Wandering among the
graves of those he had cherished, invok'
ing the spectral midnight skies, believing
himself to be the Orestes' of his race, in
all this he was fulfilling his nature
L SI, ,Snrp Inn NF
Sun charges that Blaine was beginning te
be much worried at the discussion in the
press of the question of inability to dis.
charge the powers and duties " Of the
presidential Office that he got Garfield
through an artifice of the doctors, to sigr
a warrant Of extradition merely to give
him a pretext for declaring that this ina
bility" did not exist and that when thai
paper was returned to Mr.. Blaine with the
signature of the sick man-for it must be
borne in mind no member of the cabinet
has conferred with the president at any
time during his long illness-he was il
high spirits and exclaimed, 81 can nov
take my vacation He had succeeded il
getting a long desired holiday. and also :
certificate from his own hand that th'
president was not wholly disabled.
DIR. BLISS is catching it all around. Tht
Philadelphia Times reiterates the substan
tial truth Of the opinions which it ascribe(
to DR.. Agnew and which were vir:ua
condemnation of Bliss DR.. Hammond ha'
opened a broadside fire upon him investi
CATION shows his original diagnosis to hav'
been incorrect and he himself now admits
that Guiteau's bullet never struck thu
presidents liver /; everybody is ridiculint
his bulletin announcements that Mr.. Gar
field slept sweetly" and "took nourish
ment," aud demanding that this baby tall
cease "Young DR.. Bliss" who move
around the sick room whence cabinc
officers arc excluded, appears to be a den
tist with no more business there than 4:
chiropodist and now Ramsdell writes tina
a suspicion is afloat in Washington tha
DR.. Bliss hurries from the sick chamber t.
a broker shop and carries on his stool
dealings in accordance with his knowledge
of his patients condition.
| PERSONAL.
Rev. SAMUEL DEERBROw, Of Uppe
East Tennessee, has married 9, 154 coupler
since 1910, receiving therefor about
So, 900 in fees. The lowest fee he took il
was five cents in coppers.
Although Governor BAGLEY, of Michi
gan left an estate valued at 5000, 600, h
directed that the family monument to b.
erected on his burial lot should cost NJ
more THAI $500.
SARAH BERNHARDT has been in Londol
in Brighton, in Birmingham, in Liver
pool, in Manchester, in Glasgow, ant
in other important towns, but in no town
have her receipts equalled those in Dublin