Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-20

to elude his pursuers. The causes lead
ing to these fatal results merit prompt
and full investigation by the navy de-
partment.
MINOR TOPICS.
The scientiff discovery that cats can't
live at greater elevation than 13, 800 feet
induces the suggestion that back sheds be
built 13,5ol feet hign.
IT is estimated that about quarter OF
million people will leave Germany during
the present year, most Of them for the
purpose of obtaining homes in the United
States.
ATLANTIC CITY wants to make itself
famous by getting a $4,000 cottage pre-
sented to Garfield. The first aud last
$500 have been secured-likely from a
local speculator in cottage lots.
In the view of the Boston Adrerttser the
fervent and unaffected sympathy for the
president, charged as it is with personal
friendliness and tenderness, flowing from
every Southern state, and apparently
from every homo in the South, into the
hushcd chambers of the White House, has
surprised the North and bound the sec
tions together with a new pledge of con-
cord.
THE son of an ancient and philosophic c
man in Texas, became inspired with the
Darwinian theory at his boarding school,
and upon his return home in vacation in
formed his parents that lie believed all
human beings were descended from apes,
which made the old man SO mad that he
replied, angrily "That may be the case
with you, but it amt with ne l can tell
you that, now."
TINS charming incident from real life at
a recent picnic felicitousl ly illustrates how
differently even the eyes of love view the
same object: "Who is the pretty girl with
blonde hair and deep blue eyes, there in
the jaunty. blue hat?' asked Alfred.
"Who?" replied Annie, ''that tatfy-haired
girl with the tallow eyes and that night
mare of blue rags on her head? [ never
saw her before; nobody we want tc
know
| UNCOVERED.
Thou hast not gold: Why. this is gold
An clustering round thy forehead white
And were it weighed. and wereft told,
could not say its worth tonight
| Thou hast rot wit: Why what is this
Whcrcwith thou capturest many Il wight
| Who doth forget Il tongue Is his
! As l well nigh forgot tonight!
| Nor station Well, all, well Town
| Thou hast not place assured thee qnitc,
! So now raise thee to throne;
Begin thy reign, my Queen, tonight.
| -Scribner's Monthly
THE Philadelphia Erening Bulletin,
which did all ii could to prevent his elec,
ton, points to Mayor Kings administra-
tion as an example of how "easy it is tc
make popularity by being Oh the right side
of the best public sentiment. Mayor
King was elected under specially enabling
circumstances to do this. lie seems to be
carrying out the letter and spirit Of his
pledges, and to be justifyins all the ex-
pectations OF the real friends of municipal
reform who forced his nomination by the
Democrats and made his calling and elec,
ton sure. His popular exercise of his
Office proves too that the tenure OF his re-
tention is in his own control SO long as &C
continues as he has begun no power o,
party can defeat his reelection.
THE Germantown Telegraph quotes a
medical expert Oh contagious insanity "
and gives the Crusades craze as al instance
of the contagious influences Of human
impulses. In our own recent history al
the desperate battle of Pea-Ridge, in
Arkansas, a whole brigade of the Confed
crate army composed of Indian savehold
ers entirely lost possession of their senses
in consequence of the awful uprOar OF
artillery and small arms and the frightfu
carnage going on around them, and tn
able to obey orders or to tell friends from
their foes, fought each other and added
greatly to the loss Of the Confederate
forces. Another singular instance Of the
insanity OF soldiers on the battlefields was
reported by the government inspectors to
be of common occurrence in all the grea,
battles OF the civil war, which was the
finding of muskcts after the battle
crammed full of cartridges without ever
having been fired at all. The soldiers had
evidently gone through all the motions
and were apparently obeying orders very
strictly, whereas they were not firing thei;
guns at all.
PERSONAL.
DON CARLOS, the Spanish pretender
expelled from France. has arrived in Lon
don.
Prof. FRANK STOUCH, the well-knowr
dancing master, has recovered from a re-
cent severe illness in Reading.
Recently a Paris paper offered BRET
HARTE 81, 600 for story, bot as he was
Indifferent to the necessity of having his