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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

Mr.. TILDEN thinks that one thing
which is taught us by the assault on the
president is the necessity of taking away
the incentive to such 4 crime by depriy-
ing the president of his universal pat
rOnage. Every four years there is a
grand gift distribution of many thou
sand Offices, and those who don't get
the prizes are made savage, while
the whole country is demoralized by the
scramble. There is no doubt that if lot
teries are an evil this political lottery is
the chieiest of all, and needs to be sup
pressed. The only way to do it is to
make the tenure of Office independent of
the will of theexecutive but if Mr.. TIL
den can point out the way to effect this
he will do more than any civil service re-
former has yet been able to do.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
THE HEATED TERM.

Fatalities Of tho Picnic Season.
The accounts Of the poisoning by lemon
ade at Warrenburg, Missouri, were exag-
gerated. none of the victims died.
Two hundred persons were severely
sickened. near keota, Iowa, on the
Fourth, by eating ice-cream made in a
copper bottomed boiler.
Sixty or more picnickers We're made
very sick for while on the Fourth, at
Eagleville, Connecticut, by drinking cof-
fee prepared in copper boiler.
New Jersey temperatures were reported
yesterday, of 90o in the shade at Long
Branch, 9So at Red Bank and 1917 at
South Amboy. In Philadelphia it was
9S0.
The hot weather has caused Il rapid rise
in the mortality rate In New York. Two
hundred deaths, a large portion of the
victims being children, were reported yes
terday,
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lamraster fntelugenrer.
THURSDAY EVENING, JULY z, 1881.



In multitude of counsellOrs there is
said to be wisdom on this conviction
people are wont usually to act in times
q trouble, and especially do they in
cline, when they lie at the door of death,
to summon to their succor many doc
tors. But experience has often taught
the little wisdom of such a course, and
few people OF good sense and calm judg-
ment will dispute that a patients
safety lies in the quality and not the
quantity of his physicians, and that his
chance is best with one or two good doc
tors attending him. who are sole tenants
OF the responsibility of the case, and who
are not hindered from prompt action by
awaiting consultation, or embarrassed
by the danger of conflicting opinions. In
almost everything in life it is much
safer to trust to the decisive action of
a single individual of good sense for the
successful discharge of an imposed duty.
We have always found that executive
functions are very imperfectly discharg-
ed by commissions and boards, and even
where the duty is one of thought and not
action, rs in legislation, it is a question
whether it is not better performed
by few than many. A multitude
of cOunsellOrs is a questionable benefit,
the old saw to the contrary nOtwithstand-
ing, in any case but from many doctors
at least every sufferer has reason to pray
to the good Lord to deliver him. The
president has too many. Four doctors
sit on him and find it necessary to sign
their names to the bulletins which give
the public minute facts which might he
as we'll stated 10y the nurse. If they
would reserve their combined certificate
for the statement of their judgment as
to the patients state it would seem less
silly. We distruSt the sound judgment
OF doctors who so unnecessarily thrust
themselves Oh the public notice, to say
nothing Of the matter of their commu-
nicatiOn though they seem fairly SUBJ
ject to criticism in deeming it worth
while to publish the very style and
manner of the presidential evacuations.
The people are greatly interested in
the presidents condition and want to
know the varying phases of his state
but we don't believe they care to be told
when he changes his linen, or takes his
milk or like matters, though we can ab-
sOrb this information with more patience
than we read the four names iterated in
ratification of these details. DR. Rliss
appears to have established himself as
physician in chief by supplanting the
family physician, whom he charged with |
addiction to the same method of gaining |
nOtOriety of which he himself was giving
SO conspicuous an example. His con-
duct in his rencOntre with DIR. Baxter |
does not inspire confidence in his discre-
ton; and we incline to consider that |
among the dangers threatening the pres
idcnt shot bya crank, is the succor of |
another |
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

science and Rational science.
4. Give an example Of synthesis in
teaching.
D. Give the characteristics of good uues-
tions. and give examples.
q. Who are the strongest opponents to
the public schools and what are their ar
gumentS
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
PERSONAL.

Sir EDWARD THORNTON, the British
minister, transferred from Washington
to st. Petersburg, sailed from New York
yesterday for Europe on the steamship
Bothnia.
Hon. THOMAS J. EDGE, the energetic
and wide awake secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania state board of agriculture, has ac-
cepted the vicc presidency of the great
international cotton exposition, to be held
at Atlanta next fall.
As early as last October 1t has been
found that GUITTEAU wrote to Garfield as
follows: 81, Charles Guitteau, hereby
make application for the Austrian mis-
sion. Being about to marry a wealthy
and accomplished heiress of this city, we
think that together We might represent
this nation with dignity and grace. On
the principle first come first served, have
faith that you will give this application
favorable consideration.
J. c. HUEsToN, London agent Of the as
sociated press, while at Ems on his vaca-
ton, walking with his daughter across a
bridge over the river Lahn, noticed a
drowning woman in the stream. He
plunged into the water without divesting
himself Of any part Of his clothing, and
finally reached the shore in safety with his
now unconscious burden, after Il severe
struggle, in which for a time it was
doubtful whether he cOuld come of victor
and save his own lite, as the paralyzed
crowd on the river bank did not even ex-
tend a cane to assist him. The rescued
lady proved to be a patient in neighboring
hospital, from which she had wandered in
delirium.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
Pr0noSalS Asked For.

Attention is called to the advertisement
in another column, asking proposals for
the erection of boiler house and four
boilers, at the Lancaster water works :;
and of a wooden bridge over the Pequea at
uarnish's saw mill.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

THE man who was wounded Just
where the president was is now rapidly
coming to the front with claim for dis
tinction that he never before seems to
have thought of.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

AN American woman is one of three of
her sex who have received medical di-
plOmas in Paris. One of the others is an
Italian the third halls from Russia.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

Nor long ago the whole world was
watching with interest and doubt DR..
Tanners trial at starving forty days. Yes
tcrday the Chicago man, Griscom caught
and passed him without attracting much
notice. After Columbus stands the egg
on its point anybody can do it..
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

The commissioners of the public build
ings in Philadelphia ask for another mil
lion and a quarter to make them bigger
and uglicr
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07

notice. After Columbus stands the egg
on its point anybody can do it.
NEXT Saturday England's queen will
review. in the great park at Windsor, the
largest gathering of volunteer troops ever
assembled, from all parts of the country.
The force, comprising one hundred and
fourteen regiments of all arms, will num-
Der more than fifty thousand men, The
Duke of Cambridge, commander in chief
Of the army, will be in supreme command
OF the volunteers. The Prince of Wales
will march past at the head of the Honor
able artillery company of London, of
which he is captain-general, and the Duke
of COnnausht will have command of the
Second division of the Second army corps.
Prince Edward, of SAKE Weimar, will
command the First army corps, ana Gen
eral Sir Daniel Lysons, X. C. b., the
Second army corps, and the occasion will
be made holiday for all London.
AND now there turns up-in Pittsburgh,
of course-one Washington Beck who
tells that, coming home from Europe last
week in the " British King" the COM
pany assembled at the dinner table last
Friday were startled to have Capt. Leckey
say to them, "We will meet the pilot
about five o'clock ON Sunday afternoon
and the first words he will say will be,
President Garfield has been assassin
ated.'" Remember this was the day be-
fore the attempt on the presidents life
and while the vessel was in mid ocean.
1t turned out exactly SO. The pilot boat
met the steamer. shortly after five o'clock
Sunday afternoon. The sea was slightly
rough, and after some little trouble the
pilot reached the ladder and hastily
climbed on deck. When he reached the
deck he was out of breath, but started for
the bridge. One of the passengers asked,
q" What is the news ?'' The pilot turned,
and as we'll as he could, as he regained his
breath, answered, president Garfield
has been assassinated." Mr.. Handy. of
the Press. is referred TO by Beck As cor
roboration of this story.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
MINOR TOPICS.

The New Era has monopoly of the
discovery that Charles A. Dana, of the
New York Sun, was the assassin of Gen.
Garfield.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-07-07
3. Arithmetic.
s;..,;c1 1ixs So
81 loft

l Simplify \ :1or7
II. The difference in time between Buff
f;.lo and Cleveland being II minutes, what
is the difference in longitude?
iii. What is the exact interest on $40. 40
from Aug. 90, 1864, to Nov. 90, 1866 at
g. per cent
w. If 4 staff #. casts a shadow 3 it.,
how high is steeple whose shadow at the
same time is 90ft.?
V. A man walks 100 miles in two days ;
and one third of the distance walked the
first. added to One-fourth the distance
walked the second day, equals half the
distance walked the first day how far
did he walk each day?
vi. If buy salt at Z of cent Il pound,
and sell it in butter ut % cents pound,
what is my gain per cent?
VII. A man gave $1S91O for horses and
sold a certain number Of them for $1,000,
ut ssj each, and by SO doing lost $40 each
for how much must he sell the remainder
to gain $3.50 in the tranaction?
VIII. A triangular box is 6 #. on side,
and it. high. How many bushels of
wheat will it hold?
tx. What would be the cost Of 3 sticks
Of timber Sx1O inches, and SO ft. long at
sig per thousand feet?
X. The joint stock of company was
$500, which was doubled at the end Of
the year. a put in half for three fourths
of a year B two-fifths for half year,
and C the remainder for one year. How
much is each ones share of the entire
stock at the end Of the year?
6. botany.
I. Describe the different kinds of woody
tissue, and mention the plants and parts of
plants, where they are respectively
found.
II Describe the parts seen in the trans
verse section of 4 dicOtyledOnOus stem one
year old.
III. Define rhizome, creeping stem,
tuber, bulb, corn and tubercle.
w., What is the difference between in
and determinate inhOrescene
Enumerate the kinds of each respectively.
V. Describe the structure and develop
ment of the anther.
vi. Give the essential characters Of the |
following natural orders Malvace;e, ROs-
ace:e. Composite, Polygonace;e, 1ridace:e
and Melanthace:e.
:. Geography.
1. What is supposed to be the reason
Why the earth is flattened at the poles.
2. Name the two great mountain sys-
ems of the United States, the four great
.ivers, the largest four cities, and the
hrce great sea, ports.
3. Why does SO little rain fall on that
,art of South America west Of the
andes?
T. What is the length of the longest day
It the Equator, at the Arctic Circle, and at
he North Pole?
). Name 4 large city in Europe noted
or its manufacture OF cotton cloth, one
Oted for its silks, one for its linen.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10
Aa Uafr.ana : sh +.

lS the early days of Indhna. one of
the State senators was gaad.natured
giant, named George Boone When he
stood up. his height attracted attention.
for he measured nearly seven feet. IL
he made n gesture, his hands were nos
ticed as the largest ever ssen in the
State. But it was his feet That amazed
his colleagues. One day, wien joked
on his big hands and feet he told
story of an early experiante which a
brother Senator, in bis etches OF
Early Indiana, reports as lows.
When about eightoct EDg Boone
thought ho would call II neighbor.
who lived a few miles " sally. the
neighbor daughter, WAS large and
pretty, and the youthful giant thought
she would make him q suitable wife.
Il was late in the fall, though too early
90 put on shoes, so he started barefoot
His best butteruut-cOlored suit had
been made some six months before, and
was much too small for him. The pan.
falcons reached only just below his
knees, while the coat stretched as light
over his body as an eel-slin dried on a
hoop.polc.
After wading creeks and muddy bot
toms, the would-be " sparker" arrived
At the neighbours log-hut Just as the
family were sitting down 60 the supper
of mush and milk, Being invited to
'draw up he sat down along side of
Sally The old lady offered him
large bowl. which he stretched forth
his hand TO take. Not making suili-
cicnt allowance for the size of his hand.
hs4a etf ftts4E kn hi.r Y.,ftls
went the milk over the table, and out
went Sally from the room, roaring with
laughter. The old lady kindly re.
marked, at viii rub out when it dries,
but the youth knew that he was already
rubbed out. so far as Sally was con-
cerued. He saw nothing more of her.
The clock struck ten.
"Mr. Boone" asked the old lady.
wont you wash your feet and go to
bedPH
Yes, ma am"
Here's an iron pot; It is the only
thing have that'll do
The pot proved too small for his feet
20 enter, except by sliding them in
sideways. When in they swelled so
much. that he could not get them out
The pain was intense. AS tho clock
struck eleven, the old lady asked
" Mr., Boone, are you not done wash
ing your foet?'
"What did this pot cost?n he roared;
81 must break It,"
"a dollar
"Bring me the AK"
Breaking the pot in pieces, he handed
the old lady Il dollar, opened the door
and started Tor home. Several years
after he met Sally at ahHsking. As soon
rs she saw him. she burst out laughing.
- Iouh's Companion.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10
4 Little Latin.

An effort is being made TO induce
doctors to stop writing their prescrip-
tions in Latin and use United States
language. So many inodensive sick
people have been killed by druggists
putting up lobelia and other dangerous
drugs in place of some mild and gentle
purgative, which the system requires.
ON q Latin prescription of an A. ID.
ply sician. that society at the East
threaten to take law into their own
hands and put stop 10 it. As a usual
thing, the physician who graduates at
some heightened morguc, does not
know any more about the common En-
giish branches than is good for him,
and his handwriting is the merest goose
track, a sort of deIirium tremens on
paper. Now. when YOU come TO put
such writing rs that into Latin, ~ be
reah by sleepy prescription clerk who
has been routed out of bed at midnight
in his shirt sleeves there can only be
ono result The patient viii be worse
next day. A sleepy drug clerk is only
human, and when he strikes one OF
those ingredients in the prescription
where it tells him to put up three saw
teeth of p0dohhyllum, ami the word
looks more like pcnnyrOyal than II does
like podohhyllum. and more like pep
permint than either one OF them, he is
liable TO trust good deal TO luck and
put in that which is the least injurious.
No drug clerk cares to lose good po.
siiion by not being able to read stroke
of lightning; and the result IS he puts
up something. and then charges enough
more to make MP for what he doesn't
know. There are forty-eight millions
of people in this country whose lives,
to a greater or less extent. rest on pre-
scription clerks and the Eastern soci-
ETY. who have flung their banner 10 the
breeze aud sounded the death of the
dead languages viii be embalmed in
the hearts ot grateful posterity. They
are doing noble work. Dead lam
guages are well enough for dead people,
but they are emiuently ont of place in
this age OF animated things. OF course
the Topping Oh of the eXcresconce will
bring doctors down To a level with ordi-
nary mortals, and they will have to
take their chances Fech'S SlN.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10

fund, Under such circumstances. $40
to Si5 win cover the value of the house.
hold furniture" We have no form Of
Chinese life in California, except in
very rare eases, which corresponds
to that which is here portrayed.
There are only few Chinese
families in this city. Nearly all
the Chinese are male adults, without
any family ties or connections, at least
In this country, Bnt we get a glimpse
OF that peculiar state OF things In China,
also. Consul Denny further SAYS that
II the Chinaman Is "a bachelor, and
away from his family. he will either
sleep at his employers for considera.
ton, or stay with q friend; In either
rasa his whole Inventory consists Of a
box with his clothes and his bedding. =
This is complete portrait of the China
mSn in California He is gotup in light
marching order
But the common labOrer. whether IN
field or kitchen. does not get anything
like the wages OF the skilled artisan.
The farm laborer, during harvest time.
gets, besides his meals--worth about IL
cents-from 10 cents 10 II cents n day.
or from 20 cents TO SlO5 week. lie
can be hired by the month for from
$l.50 To 50. II he gets permanent en-
ployment he Is willing TO accept Sla
per annum. with board and lodging. II
he works for shorter terms, 80 cents a
month viii suffice for house rent. and
81 per annum win keep his wardrobe
in repair. But there is grade below
these free laborcrs known rs the coolies,
who are often glad to work for cents
day. san Francisco Bulletin.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10
Queries for Philosophers.

Why does a two-shilling cane and q
tve-cent cigar swell a young mans head
until his hat won't fit himg
Why Is IL that women with the best
compilations deliberately ruin them
with cosmeticsg
Why is it that wealthy and respect
able man viii sacrifice pride, money
and comfort TO get into politiesP
Why is IL that the man in the street.
car who knows the least always does
the most ialkingP
Why is il that so many people stand
ready 10 help the stranger poor and
turn a deaf ear TO their own relgtives9
Why Is II that man with i60 pounds
OF Fat considers himself au Offset for 3
man with iifty-four ounces Of brainsp
Why is 1t that musicians who are the
poorest players and singers are the
quickest TO show offtheir acquircmentsf
= Detroit Free Press,
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10
OMENs ANp oTHER TRAnITI0Ns

E.ueis In Odd Numbers -EIeItat-ope ana Ma
rIEold -Insec,s and Birds Crtrket. swat
IeNs aud Ravens.
WAX Rory O'More. the hero OF
Samnel Lover's popular ballad emphat-
ieally proclaimed that 'dhere's luck in
oGd numbers, he may not have been
aware how and where that sentiment
originated.
ltis counterpnsed by tho general
impression that II is uuiucky for thir-
teen 70 sit down IN meal together,
ibis is supposed TO have arisen out OF
the fact that the paschai supper WAS
partaken of by thirteen
The Romans had saying, which is
translated into "tiod loves an odd mum
Der This superstition is mentioned
by Virgil, in his poems about farming.
which. after q lapse OF nineteen centu-
nes' show what agriculture formerly
WIS.
Though the 'l,et in odd numbers
be proyerbiai, through many ages down
10 the present time, the number thir-
teen, as above mentioned, woald seem
TO ne an exception; and many hold, with
HEIR ioretathers, that when thirteen
persons meetln a room, one OF them will
wy Nlthlh p year.
IA country places, throughout Eu.
rope, the good women who haze charge
~ the poultry almost invariably set an
3ad number OF eggs, Medicines are
difeeied TO be taken three, seven, or
h'ne timeS. Sautes with cannon con-
sist OF an odd number; and O Royal sa-
iptr Is thrice seven. or twenty -one. ord
nance discharges.
IN England, ttp to a late period, when
science took the place Of superstition,
the life Insurance Offices operated on
me presumption that oiIt of thirteen
persons taken indiscriiniately one win
die within the year.
s ~ Over cavern close to Peel Castle. in
the Isle OF Man, Is a chapel supported
yy lhirtaen pillars Popular belief is.
that any stranger entering II out Of
curiosity and emitting to count the pill
afs, willdo something to occasion his
eonnuement in tho adjacent prison
From time immemorial il has been
the belief in country districts OF En-
gland that the seventh son OF seventh
son, no dapghter being born between,
is ~ lnfallible doctor born with IN in
tnl,iHe knowledge of the healing art,
apa often performing great cures By
touching only.
Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1881-02-10
The Brains Of the establishment.

a VERY fair story is told OF certain
man who has recently come 20 Spring
field TO superintend one of the depart
ments OF large industrial establish
ment. An ut-of town visitor happened
to ask him the other day what position
he held. "Aly friend, was the re-
ioinder, "haye you ever been in the
Grand Central Depot at New York PN
The visitor allowed that no had.
Then" remarked the foreman, ''you
have noticed 4 man sitting in little
room very high up In the building near
the tower, who governs the movements
of all the trains. He does not seem
to have anything 10 do, and often sits
with folded hands, aud while ho is still
nothing siirs below. But when he gives
the signal each train rolls out Of the
depot in accordance with q perfect sys-
TEN, which will not admit of tho least
particle OF confusion. The illustration
serves TO show you my place; but. In
f,lct, sir, l am and here he gave his
forehead significant tap-''the brains
of this establishment, And now the
story Is out and Is being circulated
among this mans colaborers, some Of
whom have served the same concern for
quarter Of century, - Springfield
(hdSs) Republican