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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

turn affairs have taken. There seems to
be no man able, strong and bold enough
to take the helm, and hold up the magma
charta of the party, given to it by Thomas
Jefferson as the shibbOleth of our faith.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

had proceeded short distance the wire
snapped within seven feet of it. Johnston,
the elevator and the crackers all landed in
= heap on the first floor, the young man so
injured that he died.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

THE Now York Independent, with that
perspicu0us fairness for which it is emf.
nent, seems to think tho educational test
for suffrage. ought to be applied in the
North, where the uneducated class are
mostly Democrats, but in the South,
where they arc vastly Republican, il
would DO just too terrible to make reading
and writing test for the voter. Likewise,
the Independent is reconciled to the stories
of life insurance frauds and murders in
this state, because they are confined chiefly
to "immigrants.'
In addition to the views which we print.
ed yesterday from the Pittsburgh Post
regarding plan of reorganization for the
state Democracy, its editor recommends
that ''there should be declaration against
the election of delegates to the state con-
vention BY any county prior to tue issue of
the call for such convention. In some
counties the delegates are elected a wear
in advance. This is hardly live politics"
And he thinks it would also be well tn
have all delegates appointed by county or
district conventions, and not chosen by
county committees, as the custom is in
some counties.
The will of a Mr.. Tilton, of New Hamp.
shire, proved about fifteen years ago,
read thus 81 give and bequeath to the
Bible society, the Foreign Missionary So
ciety, the Home Mission society, and the
Tract society $500 each." Fourteen years
passed before the legacies were claimed.
The State Bible society, the American
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

A WEALTHY manufacturer of Maryland,
who died recently, set aside 100000 to
defend the provisions of his will. The
person who would contest tho will against
such odds would have very great faith in
tho courts.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19
MINOR TOPICS.

ONE hundred and four men own 10, 459,-
432 acres of land in the British isles. The
Duke Of Sutherland controls 1,2,2O0, SAG
acres. 2,114 of Queen Victoria's subjects
control over IS, ,OOO, 900 acres.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

uSiO"N 'A0 piVSASiVuS VI HIS Will. nc
person who would contest tho will against
such odds would have very great faith in
tho courts.
A COMPLAINING friend of the negro who
objects that professionally the structure
of society is against him" in the South,
might find the same conditions in Northern
communities which give large Republican
majorities. He could see it in the Lancas-
ter quarter sessions.
K. l.. STANTON, D. D., who presided
over tho Ohio state temperance conven-
tion, made up of clergymen and laymen
from every county, believes that it's ticket
will also be endorsed by the regular Proh:-
bition party of the state, with some G,OOO
votes, and that the detection of regular
Republicans on this issue will be 50 great
as to make Fosters defeat certain.
j. MILTON TURNER, another colOred man
who has been travelling in tho South has had
his eyes opened to the persistent and ma
ligaant Radical Misrepresentation of the
relations of the races there. He found the
blacks much moro prosperous than he ex-
pected, and the whites far more patriotic
and liberal to his race. In Nashville
twenty-five negroes are worth over $780,
600, largely owing it to white patronage.
BY all means he thinks the negro should
stay South where his realfriends arc,
CHRISTOPHER NORTH harshly re-
viewed Tennyson's first volume in Black
soood, and the future poet-laurcate replied
in copy of verses which Mr.. Jennings
cautiously qualities as curious" They
are, MS the reader can see
You did late review my LAYS.
Crusty Christopher;
You did mingle blame and praise.
Rusty Christopher.
When learnt from whom it came
fOrgave you all the blame
Musty Christopher
could not forgive the praise,
Fusty Christopher"
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19
Tho Presidents Stomach Troublesome
Ever Since the Shooting,


Ever Since the Shooting.
The better action of the presidents
stomach gives renewed hope for his ulti.
mate recovery. The people generally do
not appreciate, however, the exceeding
irritability of this organ in the president.
It has been tho worst one of the most
serious features of the case from tho first.
When he fell wounded he vomited, and
though means were taken to sustain his
stomach by administering small quantities
of brandy and other restOratives, the
nausea returned in a violent form in the
afternoon, when his pulse was rising so
rapidly that day, and fears were enter
tanned that he would not survive to see
his wife. The doctors gave him little
champagne and pulverized ice. This he
kept down with happy results but when
about q spoonful moro was given again
later in the day he rejected it, the stomach
showing great irritability. So it has
been all along, and it is because the
physicians have recognized tho extreme
sensitiveness of the organ that they
have been particular to comment on the
condition of the stomach from day to
day. Ordinarily it would not be sub
ject of congratulation that the patient
was able to retain plain food judiciously
administered from one dressing of tho
wound to another. But it has been SO in
the presidents case. To consider the re-
cent prostration of the stomach as sur
prise or as the result of needless treatment
is very wrong as we'll as unjust to the
physicians. It was largely due to nausea,
produced by administering ether at the
second operation. The physicians were
aware of the danger from this source, but,
in view of certain facts, including the pre-
ference of the patient, they decided that
an anasthetic was necessary. The trouble
from the stomach was an almost unavoid-
able consequence, and it has continued
until the present time to degree, it may
be said, that has disappointed the expec-
tatiOn IF tho n:,vaicianS
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19

The Mannheim township school board
have contracted for Victor folding school
desks for two houses, to be delivered in
September, by John Baer's Sons, agents for
the Victor desk,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-08-19
A Good Idea.

1t is said the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pay is about introducing a neat arrange
ment for notifying passengers as to what
station they are approaching. At either
end of the cars is to be placed u small case
containing piece of muslin or canvass on
rollers, upon which is painted in legible
letters the names of all the stations ON the
road. BY lever on the locomotive the
engineer on leaving station, will change
the indicator so as to show the next stop
ping place. 1t is a neat and convenient
affair.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
Two ways OF sk.nning a Cat.

A correspondent Of the New York Mining
Record says the difference between the Cali
fornia and Colorado methods is about as fol-
lows: They both will result In the same
end. The Californian will buy mine with
bis own money, thoroughly equip it with
good machinery, work 1t systematically, pay
dividends for awhile If he has the ore, and If
be has not he will buy 1t to pay dividends
with. He soon runs The stock up 10 good
figure and then unloads. He will, in order
to sell his stock sacrifice bis wife's relations
even his mother-in-law. When he wants
the stock back he will assess 1t till he freezes
his friends out, aud then play the old game
again. Now we of Colorado do little diff
ferently. We find mine or claim, and in
stead of doing like the ignorant Californian
(put orr own money in), we get our wives
relations 10 put up. We then spend from
1000 to $1,000 for fye-horss power en-
CINE to put on the claim. We employ gen.
eral or professor (by brevet) who has had
generally six months experience, and put
him In charge 10 develop the mine. In a
short time he has the mioe in . good eondi-
ton. His underground work resembles the
wanderings Of blind gopher In clover
patch. We then substitute one or two papers
TO puff The general; not the mine, SO We can
sacrifice our relations BY selling stock that is
not likely to pay dividends for the next CEN
fury. Our ways differ slightly, but end in
disgusting those who would otherwise in
vest in mines.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
Utilization OF worn-out Horses.


The utilization Of horses not it to eat and
too old TO be Of working service In France Is
said to be rs follows:
IL Is first shorn of It's hair, which serves to
stuff cushions and saddles; then 1t Is slaugh-
tered and skinned; the hoofs serve 10 make
combs. Next the carcass is placed in cyl
inder and cooked by steam at pressure Of
three atmospheres. A cock Ia opened,
which allows the steam to be run of, then
the remains are cut up, the leg-bones are sold
TO make knife-handles, ETC., and the coarser,
the ribs, the head, etc, are converted into
animal-black and glue. The first are cal
cined In cylinders, and the yapors when con:
densed form the chief source Of carbonate Of
ammonia, which constitutes the base Of
nearly all ammoniacal salts. There 10 an
animal oil yielded which makes capital in
secticide and vermifuge. To make glue
bones are dissolved in muriatic acid, which
takes away the phosphate Of lime; the soft
residue retaining the shape Of the bone 10
dissolved In boiling water, cast into squares
and dried on nets. The phosphate Of lime,
acted upon by sulphuric acid and calcined
with carbon, produces phosphorus for lucifer
matches. The remaining flesh IL Distilled
TO obtain the carbonate Of ammonia; the re-
sulting mass Is pounded up with potash, then
mixed with old nails and iron Of every de-
scrIption; the whole Is calcinsd and Yields
magnificent yellow crystals-prussiate Of
potash, with which Tissues are dyed Prus-
sian blue, and iron transferred Into steel; 4
also forms tho basis " cyanide 81 pctassium
= pra.sIc acid, ~ two nibrt terrible
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
The Editor and me Tvs mp.

Mr.. Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati
Commercial, is well known as an original
and versatile journalist, and politician Of
great independence and some eccent' icities;
but II is not generally known that he Is the
humorist par excellence of the West.
One day fellow applied to Mr.. Halstead
for either work or temporary loan OF mon
ey. His application being declined, he nm
dertook to enforce 1t BY threatening suicide.
He said he would walk out TO the center OF
the Covington bridge, jump of, and drown
himself. kA-A
"well, now, that's good thought" said
Halstead. ard go right down and do that;
1t will relieve you and me of great respon-
sbility for your future support. Go right of
and do 1t while you are in the notion"
The fellow struck out in the direction OF
the bridge. Presently Mr.. Halstead rushed
after him and called him to stop. The fel-
low evidently thought be had won his point.
"Stop stop now! Don't do that" contin-
ued Mr.. II. "It won't be safe; try some
other plan. Come 10 think Of IL, the last
two fellows who tried that were both got out
alive" aa
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The Great PonchartraIn Bridge
Ne,o Orleans Democrat.

A reportersaw r. w. Rogers, the railroad
contractor, the other day about the great
bridge across Lake Pontchartratn. MI.
Rogers said "The bridge is to be five miles
in length. The trestle-work on this side,
by which the bridge Is to be approached, Will
extend from the Peoples Canal to Point
aux Herbs, a distance of sixteen miles, and
there are four miles Of trestle-work TO Do
built on the other side," "What was your
estimate OH the work." "About S25, oOoper
miles for the twenty miles of trestle-work
and $50, 900 per mile forthe bridge, making a
sum total Of $3.50, 1000, and this included the
eubankment. understand they estimate
the cost at 81, $50 900, but how they make 1t
7 don't know" "Can they finish the Work
by December /, 1882, as they agreeP" u
don't think so. Prominent lumber men tell
me that 1t will take at least 15,OO0,oeo fee'
of lumber for the superstructure, aud about
the same amount, board measure, for piling
and that all the mills in the country can moi
saw II out in that time"
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
Where our Forests Go.
Hartford Post.

To make shoe pegs enough for American
use consumes annually 100000 cords Of tim
Der, and to make our lucifer matches SOC, 900
cubic feet OF the best pine are required every
year. Lasts and boot-trees take SOC, 900 cords
of birch, beech, and maple, and the handles
of tools 100000 more. The baking Of our
bricks consumes 1900, 900 cords Of wood, OF
what would cover with forest about 60,0OO
acres Of land. Telegraph poles already up
represent 100000 trees, and their annual re-
pair consumes about SOC, 900 more. The ties
OF our railroads consume annually thirty
years. growth of rs 600 acres, and 10 fence
all our railroads would cost sA5, 0oo, 900, with
\ yearly expenditure Of sl5,00o.0Oo for re-
pairs. These are some Of the ways In which
American forests are going. There are eth.
es; our packing boxes, for instance, cost in
1874 So, 200, 900, while the timber used each
year In making wagons and agricultural i'm
piements Is valued vt more than 500, ooo, 600
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sT "DFER LODGE MONTANA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1881
EATING BEFORE SLEEPING.
An Argument that Lase supper II Conducive
TO Good Sleep.

Man Is the only animal that can be taught
TO sleep quietly on an empty stomach, says
the New York Journal Of Commerce. The
brute creation resent all efforts to coax then
to such q violation of the laws Of nature.
The lion roars in the forest until he has
found his prey, and when he has devoured 1t
he sleeps over until he needs another meal.
The horses will paw all night in the stable,
and the pig will squeal in the pen, refusing
all rest or sleep until they are fed. The an
imals that chew the cud have their own pro-
vision for late meal just before dropping of
to their nightly slumbers. Man can train
himself to the habit of sleeping without
preceding meal, but only after long years OF
practice. As he comes into the world nature
is too strong for him, and he must be fed be-
fore he vii. sleep. A child's stomach Is
small and, when perfectly filed, If no sick
ness disturb it, sleep follows naturally and
inevitably. As digestion goes on the stom-
ach begins to empty: A single fold in 1t will
make the little sleeper restless, tive will
waken 1t, and, if it is hushed again to repose,
the nap is short, and three folds put an end
to the slumher. Paregoric or other narcotic
may close its eyes again, but, without food
or some Supplying drug, it will not sleep, no
matter how healthy 1t may be. Not even an
angel who learned the art Of minstrelsy in Z
celestial choir can sing babe to sleep on IN
empty stomach. We use the oft-quoted IL
Illustration, sleeping as sweetly rs IN in
FAINT" because this slumber Of a child fol
lows Immediately after his stomach is com
pletely filed with wholesome food. Tit
sleep which comes to adults long hours afte
partaking of food, and when the stomach i
nearly or quite empty, Is not after the typ
of infantile repose. There is all the differ
ence in the world between the sleep of re
freshment and the sleep Of exhaustion, Il
sleep well the blood that swells the veins II
the head during our busy hours must floH
back, leaving greatly diminished volum
behind The brow that lately throbbed wit
such vehemence. To digest well this bloc
is needed at the stomach, and nearer tn
L. fountains of life. 1t is fact established bt
yond the possibility of contradiction th'
sleep aids digestion, and that the process
digestion is conducive to refreshing sleep.
needs no argument to convince us Of tn
> mutual relation. The drowsiness which TO
! lows the we'll ordered meal is itself test
mony of nature to this inter-dependence.
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MARVELLOUS GRowTHs.
Springfield Republican.

tpFpuUtrfu AcP~Ns'S'''
We quote as fellows from the proceedings
of . meeting of committee ofthe Agri-Hor-
ticultural Society of Madras held last month:
"The rain tree-PithecO obimn sdndn-in
the gardens. the measurements of which were
given in the proceedings Of 7th OF August
1878, and then believed 70 be under six yeafs
from the seed, continues, in spite OF It's nav
ing been necessary TO atnputate some OF the
largest limbs, to grow enormously. Meas
ured on the 30th of July last 1t gave In grin
feet 4 inches at the ground, feet . inches
st 8 feet high, and feet 0 inches al ieet
high In spread about IS feet from north to
south, and total height of 40 feet. A rel
erence to the former measurements shows
that the girth at three feet from the ground
has increased in the last three years eject
2 inches. The age of the tree u.s. anything
overestimated; but search is being made fol
traces of the receipt of the seed, which IL II
believed came from Ceylon about 1877. a
casuarina tree, standing alongside, whict
was the specimen OF its order when part o.
the ground was laid out at the Botanical
Garden, and is therefore known to be .aoou
ten years old, now measures at five feet iron
the ground only feet 81 inches, though II
about 81 feet high"
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Japan's Political Progress.


1t was in the year 1867 that the Tycoon's
Government was overthrown 10 Japan, and
the ancient, sacred dynasty of Mikados was
restored, after displacement Of 300 years
by usurpen. The new Mikado, or spiritual
and temporal Emperor, is the 122d Of his
dynasty, which dates lis origin back $500
years. He has had good, able advisers and
has listened 10 them patiently. In 1875,
after the collapse Of the great Satsuma re-
bellion, he decreed the establishment Of
Senate to share the duties of Government.
1t was q concession like that of King John
to the barons Of England. Three years alter
that he consented 70 elective local assemblies
of classes below the rank Of great daimios,
and on October IA, 1SSl-corresponding
with the japanese date "12th day, 10th
month, 14th year Meiji"-he caused de-
cree to be published by the First Secretary
of State, promising National Parliament In
the year % Meiji, which is nine years hence
and corresponding with our year 1890. The
decree states that the Emperor has had this
act in mind from the beginning Of his reign
but it adds that asudden and unusual
changes cannot be made without great in
convenience" and that ethe tendency of oul
people is to advance Loo rapidly and with
out that thought and consideration which
alone can make progress enduring" Ant
the decree concludes with warning to "higl
and low" that s'those who advocate suddeI
and violent changes, thus disturbing thu
peace of our realm, will fall under our dis
pleasure"
The decree 10 interpreted to mean that tn
Parliament will not be put of further thai
nine years, but may be established Two o
three years sooner, IL things can be 60
ready for so great . change. The Japal
Maa infers tina, the Parliament will EN-
brace Senate composed of the old feuda
daimios, whs number 900. but II does no
indicate any further details Of the plan Q
the Emperor.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1881-11-25
A Pound of Eggs.

Shall eggs be sold by number Or ~ the
pound I? Is the momentous question that h
said to be agi.aiing several Partisan scien-
lists. It has been learned that the average
weight Of 20 eggs laid BY fowls Of different
breeds ID two and one-eighth pounds. The
breeds that lay the largest eggs, averaging
seven to pound, are Black Spanish, Hou-
dams, La Fleches and Crevs-Ceurs- Egg q
medium sixs and weight, average eight Or
nine 70 the pound, and are laid By Leghcms,
Cochins, Brahmas, Polands, Dorkincl, Games
and Sultsns. Hamburgs lay about fen ~
70 ths pound. Thus them y dinSrsDcs ~
shsss 60 il one pound wai6bt. Hence =
= claimed that n justiee y - consumer
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SENSIBLE 70 THE LAST.
Brother Gardner View. on Political Economy.
Detroit Free Press.

Detroit Free Press.
"Las' mite as L war gwine pas McDnffys
grocery" solemnIy began Brother Gardner
as Samuel Shin finally got through pound
ing the s.ove, "as war grine pas McGuhys
grocery, dar sat de ole man Lee. reckon
YOU all know de ole man. He sat dar on
box, hat on de back of his head an feet OBJ
structin' de sidewalk, aud he was saying TO
de crowd dat de present great need OF dis
Le,try was an increase Of currency. Las
winter all he got to eat cum from the poo
master, an all de clothes his family wore
cum from charitable people. dean reckon
be has dun one squar' days work dis hull
season, an I'm quite sartin dat his wife am
bar'fut and his chil'en hungry, an ylt he
sat dar spoutin' bout de needs of de kentiy
same as If he war carryin' half lie States in
his west pocket. Let me say to you all rle
we're dat none of you need shoulder your
selves wild any responsibility in regard 70 dis
kentry. Jist let Ter slide. II she runs OIL
de track, OATS none of your lookout. /
know a dozen GUILD men in dis city who am
continually worried about de expansion Or
contract m Of de currency, free trade orpur-
tecshun, an odder queshuns, an cherry one
of 'em am ragged an hungry. Doan' you
lose any sleep fur fear America went git
| up right eand fust in de mavnln'. All yeu
have TO do an to begin work at seben an
| leave of at six, an II de kentry busts heI
biler you'll have sunthin' laidby TO enigrate
On. doan' keer two cents fur de political
I fucher. Let 'em contract or expand, swell
or shrink, nail down de kiver or leave debo1
open-Pm counted out. When have done
my days work an got my pay havc nc
furder claims on de kentry. While Pay
ny debts an obey de laws she has no furdei
claim. on me. We will now enter upon d.
usual reckless programme of buziness."