Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-08
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olden time in Indiana, Pa, on March 4,
Professor WM. 3. HALL kept ye time. :"
AS CHARLOTTE THOMPSON, the actress,
was about to leave Toledo, she discovered
that her jewel casl1et, containing diamonds
valued at 81, 900, was missing. The exact
time and place at which tho loss occurred
| is not known.
STANLEY MATTHEws's name will be re.
turned to the Senate for the supreme
bench. His friends appear to think that
as Senator Thurman is now out of the
committee on the judiciary, a favorable
report can be obtained.
The president will appoint three gentle
men to represent this country at the com
ing monetary conference. Ex-senator
EvARTs will he one, Senator ALLISON and
ex-senator THURMAN the other two. Mr..
Thurman is an excellent French scholar.
The Baltimore american discovers that
Baltimore girls are the prettiest because
OF the climate and Of the food they cat.
Ohio girls eat pork and sauerkraut, Mas
sachusetts girls cat Goldfish balls, Virginia
girls eat bacon and greens, the Gulf states
girs eat gumbo, New Hampshire girls cat
pie and doughnuts. and Kentucky girls
eat blue grass beef, and yet all these are
prettier than the girls of Europe. Blu:
the Baltimore girls eat oysters, terrapin,
canvasbac!S duck, bay mackerel and soft
shell crabs, all productive of beauty.
The Springfield Republican says Scar
fields cabinet is not as good as his inaug-
ural. 1t is mediocre, spotty and full of
holes. BLAINE is an unfit man to domi-
nate an administration. WINDOW, for sec
retary of the treasury, is shock to the
business interests of the country. He has
been wrong on financial questions. Under
Garfield he will do perhaps. LINCOLN is a
passenger not on the car. JAMES, post
master general, is the first happy stroke
and the best appointment. MAcVEAGH, for
attorney general, is almost equally good.
kIRKwooD, for the INTERIOR is also good
appointment. But the cabinet as a whole
does not compare with Hayes's.'
One Of the inLumerable correspondents
who moved Washingtonwad with the
GARFIELD party, has this bit Of gossip !:
Tne old lady is a type of the Northern
OHIO pioneer mother, and has not yet for
G ,tten the lessons of thrift and economy
taught her in early life by necessity. In
the hurry and hustle Of the morning the
porter forgot to extiuguish the lamps in
the car, and they burned at full head long
after daylight. At last the lighted lamps
attracted the old lady's attention, when
She said to the president elect 'James,
put out those lamps. It's no use wasting
the oil when it is doing no good" Cen
eral Garfield called the porter's attention
to the matter, and the waste of the illum-
mating fluid was stopped Immediately.
James will do we'll to carry the maternal
advice into his administration of larger
affairs.
Robert Collyer preached in New York
on Sunday to a very large audience on
GEORGE ELIOT. He spoke of the fineness
of her genius, the breadth Of her sympa-
thies, the penetration of her analysis of
human nature and the delicacy of her
humor. He made comparisons between
her characteristics and those Of Dickens,
Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte. He
gave her high praise; yet, said he, the
young, in reading "George Eliot" should
beware of her tendency to look upon this
life az limited to this earth: She has no
vision OF the compensations of heaven as
millions of smaller women have. It was
sad to see her drift from her old simple
faith in the vcrities of religion as shown
by herself in her own writings 1t was
the saddest and most cruel cOnsumma-
tiOn possible to woman of noble, delicate
and sensitive soul. That's the pity of it,
you know. Gas to her after life, it isn't
a question of casting stones, but it is
whether she did the best possible here
with that fine spirit. When the news of
her death came, l said to a well-known
editor, I'm sorry and he replied, so
am L. That was all, and I utter no con-
lcmnation beyond that. And SO rest her |
soul. believe that her soul is at rest. |
In the boundless bliss of heaven alone
could such a soul find its place. Old
Father Taylor, of Boston, said once to
Calvinist who was talking about Ralph
Waldo Emerson's going to the bad place
Ifter he should die: "Well, it Emerson
,oes to hell he will change the climate.
And SO I say Of George Eliot.' J.