Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-01-27

the OTedteSt ElIOTl Oh HIS Hic. AAS
needs to.
Hayes yesterday appointed BEVERLY
TUCKER, of Virginia, commissioner Of
the worlds fair in New York in 1888.
MINOR TOPICS.
A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment is before
Congress to elect United States senators
by the people of the respective states.
THE national debt of England is held by
about $4,000 persons that of France by
about 4, 100000.
THE Philadelphia Press in double-leaded
type, declares that the revolt at Harris
burg is too formidable to be crushed and
must be conciliatcd.
SENATORS FAIR, of Nevada Jones, of
Florida, and Sewell, of New Jersey, arc
all from the Emerald Isle. Oliver is also
an Irishman born.
GENERAL CLINGMAN, of North Caro-
lima, says living is so cheap in that state
that it is more economical to feed man
than to bury him.
SOMEBODY asked how "Endymion," :"
the name of Beaconfeld's now novel, is
pronounced, and a witty editor answered :
"It is pronounced failure"
COLONEL INGERsOLL calls can econOmi-
cal rich man curse and pest. "That
country is blest" he says, "where the ricl,
are extravagant aud the poor economical -
THE Boston Post suggests that the COM
mittee raising money to put Hayes's picture
in Harvard pass the hat to Charles Fran
els Adams, if they deem Editor Dana's
response unsatisfactory.
SUNDAY-scHooL children are no longer
taught to believe that Lots wife was
turned into pillar of salt; but in the in
ternational Bible studies for Sunday
schools, it is said she was caught in q
storm, which "suffocated her. cncrusted
her, and possibly burnt her to cinder.'
THE demand for George Eliot's books
has been so great since her death that the
London publishers have not been able to
meet it. One thousand readers inquired
for "Ada,n Bede" in one week at lead.
inG circulating library. A cheap and an
inexpensive complete edition of her
works will be issued in the spring.
"YoU dirty boy'' is the advertising
catch-phrase of soap manufacturer in
England. For permission to print the
phrase on the backs of the paper, stamps,
etc, to be used in taking the English cen
sus, the soap manufacturer will pay all
the expenses Of taking the census, which,
will be about 100000.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER says his step
mothers praying had no more effect upon
him than q snow flake on a slate roof.
This is almost as bold comparison as
one used by Rev. Josiah Dwight, of Wood
stock, Conn.,, nearly two hundred years
ago, and quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes
in his recent article in the NORTH american
Reoiem. He said if the unconverted ever
got to Heaven, they would "feel rs uneasy
as shad up the crotch of white oak
GLIMPSE of a future event An immense
ship carrying the Washington monument
from the United States, then an ancient
and abandoned country, to the grand re.
public of Africa, to be set up in the big
square in the city of Timbuctoo But we
may euchre the Vandals, after all, by
not completing the monument. Ha ha
We shall prove too much for posterity.
We are a wonderful people.-New TorI
Graphic.
The Boston Herald defines "Hop Scotch
cit is a temperance beverage invented in
Scotland and highly commended by such
eminent temperance advocates as Christ
ophcr North, the Ettrick Shepherd, and
Timothy Ticker. 1t cheers without in
ebriating if temperately used, as we should
always recommend. 1t is excellent to
clear cobwebs from the brains and to de-
velop charity and all good Christian traits
of character. Old Adam, in AS You Like
It. says he never used hot drinks in his
youth. He was feeble old man, as rep
resented on the stage, though he boasts
like a prohibitionist about his strength
and agility. If he had hot Scotch in his
youth, he would have been hale and
hearty, and able to throw the professional
wrestler who was overcome by Orlando. "
PERSONAL.