Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-14
MINOR TOPICS.

MINOR TOPICS.
GENERAL BAILY has been twice defeat
ed for the Legislature and once for Con-
gress. Next November will "settle it."
THE abolition Of the presidency occu-
pies column and quarter Of tho In
diauapolis Journals editorial page, which
is full Of arguments pointing to the neces.
sity Of such an act.
The arm chair "station that the pres
ident reached yesterday is good switch
off out of bed, and looks to an esteemed
contemporary as if he is going to conduct
his own train personally after this.
THERE is no prospect of an early end of
tho conflict between tho governor of
Maine and his council. The first, it will
he remembered, is Fusionist, whilc the
last is composed Of Republicans.
THE amount of information habitually
displayed by the Boston newspapers on
the subject Of Pennsylvania politics is
really surprising. Here We have tho
Trareller, Of that city, explaining the present
situation in a nutshell, thus Senator
Wolfe of Pennsylvania, who failed to Sc
cure the Republican nomination for state
treasurer, announces that he will run as
an Independent candidate
A CALI. is issued for national conven-
tion Of representatives Of the agricultural,
manufacturing and commercial interests
Of this country. to be held in Cooper In
stitute, New York, on November 80, for
the purpose Of considering aud recon.
mcnding such congressional action as will
best promote domestic and foreign COM
merce and afford adequate protection to
American industry.
A COMMITTEE Of the templar mission,
in concert with tho Auti-Slavery society,
has arranged to give a public breakfast on
Thursday in honor of the colored bishops
and other representatives Of the African
Methodist churches of America now at
tending the ecumenical conference. The
object of the promoters of the breakfast
is to make a demonstration in favor of the
principle Of the social equality of the
white and colOred races.
WHEN Senator Morton, after delivering
a speech that was brim-full of wit and
humor, was invited to speak at Indianapolis
he complained to friend that he was ex-
posed to tho greatest temptation in his
life. On being asked to explain himself,
he said :" people expect me to be funny ;
but if l 60 on in that strain, they will
learn to laugh at all say but they will
lose confidence in my sound judgment, and
l will lose my influence in the state of In-
DIANA
man, Editor Geist and other stalwart in
dependents are patriotically declaring for
reform "some other year," the work of
electing delegates to tho Republican con-
vention of 1882 goes bravely on "within
the party, and Quay and Cameron are
getting their pick. Next year the Inde-
pendents will march up the hill and down
again to ratify the Cameron nomination
already made Of Beaver for governor, with
remainder to Tom Cooper.
One cannot estimate the power of
laughter, even if it uot always as efficacious
as in the instance given by DR.. John
Brown of the cure Of quinsy by a joke !:
"a comely young wife, the cynosure of
her circle, was in bed, apparently dying
from swelling and inflammation of the
throat, an inaccessible abscess stopping
the way. Her friends stood round the bed
in helpless misery. (Try her wi a COM
pliment,) } said her husband in a not un-
comic despair. She had sanguine humor
as well as he, and, as Psychologists know,
there is a sort of mental tickling which
is beyond and above control, being under
the reflex system, and instructive, as we'll
as signing. She laughed with her whole
body aud soul, burst the abscess and-was