Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-03
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
OSCAR WILDE, aesthetic, is no new dis
covery. Patent medicine venders can give
points on wild doggerel.
AYooB KHAN Khant submit to Ameer
British puppet, and the Viceroy, it is
said, is just Ripon. He will get Ayoob's
head Afghan. If he can't have that per-
haps he Candahar. We advise that he
Quitta trying and have Dunn with it.
IT appears that Guiteau will not get of
so easily as was expected, for the law fix
ing the penalty for murderous assault, in
the District of Columbia, at eight years,
was repealed in 1875, and the law as it
now stands. admits of a penalty Of not less
than seven, nor more than twenty years.
THE genealogical tree of tho Smith fam
lily must ante date the foundation of the
house of David. Even in the days Of
Samuel it was considered worthy Of men,
ton that there was no Smith found
throughout all Israel. 1 Sam. xiii, 10.
This would also imply that the Smiths
were not of Gods chosen people.
MIR. GROVE says lie manufactured tho
"infernal engines" aud now comes the
British government and brands his state
ment rs a fabrication. Here is a square
issue, plain case for arbitrament but
this is Republican administration, and
having witnessed the fondness of that party
for boiled crow VIC arc filled with grave
apprchcnsions.
THE military is becoming altogether too
prominent in the administration of civil
affairs. That the power of the civil au-
thorities is not adequate to cope with law
less elements in state like Wisconsin will
not DO readily believed. Arkansas follows
with proclamation of martial law for
Perry county. There is perhaps, some
little excuse in this instance brit it is a
bad precedent and should not have been
resOrted to until ali other means had failed.
THE national board Of health are taking
steps to prevent the Importation Of small
pox cases into tho United States and rs i,
means to that end have adopted certain
revisiOns of the rules under the act of 1879
with regard to the reception of emigrants
here. The principle change, it is under
stood, is 4 requirement that all persons
coming to the United States from abroad
shall be vaccinated upon sailing. What 4
sensitive lot of emigrants will arrive on
our shores.
DIR. PAUL JACoBY, a learned Frenchman,
has gained the prize offered by the Madrid
Royal academy of medicine for Il; work on
the hereditary influence of selection upon
the human race. His conclusions are that
whenever any member of (human) family
becomes illustrious that family pays by
rapid degcneracy and ultimate extinction
for the comparatively momentary eclat
acquired. Humanity hereafter will not
be the posterity of the powerful, the rich,
the intelligent, the learned, the'enersetic,
but of labOring peasants, neccssitlOus
bourgeois, humble and little people. The
future belongs to physical mediocrity ;
every conquest of intelligence hastcns the
extinction of the race and the school
board is the precursor of depopulated
world.
OUR esteemed but somewhat unamiable
contemporary of the New Era, is moved to
ill-humor at our efforts to second his
movements to have order reign on East
King street as we'll as Middle. In the
course of Il single issue he finds occasion
to declare that the power " behind the
THRONE" embarrassing the mayor in his
efforts to maintain police discipline is $500,
levied by party managers to buy the 800
votes at a dollar apiece, which made up
Mayor MacGonisle's majority at his last
election, levied without his knowledge
and against his consent, and that the con-
stables do not do their duty for fear of
Offending those to whose votes they owe
their election. The writer Of these lucid
and logical remarks seem to be i'm some
apprehension lest the fool-killcr may find
proper game in him, but the Wise Man
has given ample reason why he merits no
answer.
The National fair trade league" of
England has issued it's programme.
Among its main features are provisions
that the imports of raw materials for
home industries shall bc FREQ from every
quarter in order that Great Britain may
compete successfully in tho sale of her
manufactures that adequate import
duties be levied ON the manufactures of
foreign states refusing to receive British
manufactures in fair exchange, and that
the same be removed in case any nation
agrees to take British manufactures free
of duty. Tho first stated object i, to
develop the resources of the British en-
pire and to determine the flow of British
capital, skill and industry henceforth into
our own dominions instead of into foreign
protective states, where it becomes force
commercially hostile to u.s." The league,
which describes itself as formed to pro-
mote trade with the colonies and depend
encies on a principle of reasonably free
interchange and to agitate for such fiscal
readjustments as shall prevent the pro-
ducts of foreign states, which refuses to
deal with Great Britain on basis of fair
trade, from unduly competing with the
products of hona lahor:, ,, annaarS to