Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-12-17

GuITEAU be hanged The country's
sick and tired of him aud his trial.
LIQUOR licenses in Nebraska are to
cost 800, 900, and there is considerable
fuss about it.
WHAT is :: Stalwart,' Who is a
"dead beat" Guiteau's definitions are
quaint and curious.
WOMEN rs bank officers are looming up.
One is director of bank in Indiana, an
other is president Of Raleigh: n. G.,
three are cashiers in largo banks, and an
other has bank of her own in Califor-
MIA.
FoETy years ago the consumption Of
spirits in the province of Ontario was five
gallons per head cow it is only one aud 4
hall gallons. For all that, Canada still
spends s1S, 600, 0G0 year for whisky, aud
!ig;on.
WHEN the Philadelphia Press speaks Of
"John Sherman and his gang,' it refers
TO heavy sentences imposed upon some con-
victed counterfeiters aud not to the laws
judgment upon the petty larcepics in the
treasury department under Hayes lemon
adc administration.
Miss EDGEwoRTn put into the mouth Of
one Of her characters a whole volume on
the modern fashion of education. Instead cf
instructing her pupil that her education
was finished,' II hope you will
say that your education has just
begun" said the virtuous gov
erncss. The beginning of know'-
edge is to know how little you know. The
aim of many teachers aud the pretensions
of too many schools nowadays is to know
it all and teach little more.
IT is comforting to know that the bomb
which Robinson, Of New York, tried to
fire in the House yesterday and the fuse of
which was dampened for the time was a
series of resolutions aimed at the state de-
partment's usurpation in ordering tho
Yorktown salute of the British flag when
"the English government was trampling
on the last vestiges of free government by
suspendiug the right Of habeas corpus,
suppressips public meetings and crowdihg
their jaiis with honorable gentlemen un.
accused of crime, some Of them American
citizens and others the choicest and most
honored representatives in Parliament of
their own people," Robinson and his
resolution will keep over the holidays
without spelling.
In the half sheet supplement issued
with to-day's INTELLIGENCER our readers
will find an interesting letter from our
popular townsman, Maj. B. F. Breneman,
who narrates his experience and sight.
seeing iu Italy in piquant manner an
old soldier writes to his comrades an &C.
count of the Dayton, Ohio, home and
there is some timely Christmas literature.
An original " Holiday Story" will be
followed with interest through its several
chapters, and our advertisers and their
patrons will draw their own moral from it.
Owing to tho amount and variety of read
ing matter in our supplement and to the
pressure on our advertising columns our
usual form of makeup is so far modified
that the daily complete resume Of current
news and various matters of local and
general interest will DO found on tho
fourth page of the INTELI.IGENCER.
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER, the new
attorney general is an able lawyer, a warm
personal friend of Simon Cameron, but a
political dependent upon nobody. Though
he holds front rank in his profession he |
has seen good deal Of public service not |
with it. Away back in 1916,
in his Democratic days, he was appointed
by President Polk as commissioner to ad-
Indicate the claims of the Cherokee Indians
yainst the United States government.