Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-07
MINOR TOPICS.

CLERKS IOS ClokKB IN t00 O0OC0 OF C08FleS
W. Matthews. metal broker.
MINOR TOPICS.
WHEN the types are made to say that
On honest man is tho nobfiest work of
God, it is time to throw glass bombs into
the composing room, in tho Nihilistio opin.
ion of tho Boston Ggobe.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, anent our
comment upon Speaker Hewit's red hair
and "cusssdness, I" suggests as q remedy
that he try black Wig, while the Pitts
burgh Telegraph thinks he might find =
suitable field for his talent in editing a
newspaper.
The Rev. Mr.. Vandeburg, of Spring.
field, ILL.,, has bad. d.tempered wife. Be-
coming enraged at him, she cut his Sum-
day coat, vest and shirt into shreds, and
then tried to further use tho knife on his
body. He concluded that forbearance
would no longer be virtue. and had her
arrested.
The clerk of parish, whose business
was to read the i" first lessOn'' came
across tho chapter in David in which the
names Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego
occur twelve times, and finding it extreme.
ly difficult to pronounce these names he
went through the chapter referring to
them as " the Aforesaid gentlemen"
| The movement in Boston in favor of q
Worlds fair in that city in 1885 is growins
and strengthening. It's proposed to use
as nucleus the grounds and buildings
now prepared for minor expositions this
fall thus saving an important item of ex.
peuse. Arough estimate has been made
showing that tho total cost of the enterpris.
would not exceed 81, 600, 600, and business
men are confident that such an invest
ment would be repaid, dollar for dollar.
AMONG tho worshippers at a church il
London, Ontario, was man who groaned
This was for awhile taken as an evidenc,
of devoutness, but eventually it became ;
nuisance, and he was requested to be les
noisy or stay away from tho meetings
He would take neither course, and wa.
therefore arrested ON a charge of disturb
ing the peace. He regards himself as
Christian martyr, and will not give bail
preferring to hnguish in Jail until hi
trial.
/ WHILE Bob Ingersoll has been DRAWN,
crowds to Booths theatre in New York
in striking contrast Canon Siddon ha
been drawing vast gatherings in Londol
to st. Paurs, which holds II, 900 people
The doors were besieged and street
around swarmed with people seeking ad
mittance. In his sermon he attribute
the suppressed wall of agony" and tn
general tone Of despair which pervade
} Carlylc's "reminiscences to his renuncia
tion of Christianity, to which he wa
probably goaded by the narrow doctrine
, of his early northern home.
LORD Beaconsfield had strange swift
, ness in utilizing the best ideas of othe
, people. The saying to which he gave nj
terance during the speech on Candaha
that the "key of India was London"
claimed by Prince Lobanoff as one of hi
own, uttered in a conversation he had ha
with Lord BeaconsGeld about fortnigh
before. Some of the memorable phrase!
of his early speeches. such as "sublim
commonplaces and others applied to 81
Robert Peel, may be found in the firs
volume of Frazer, anil some others of hi
phrases are taken from Rufus Choate
whom he greatly admired.
THERE is trouble in Montreal Canada
over the proposition of the ceme etery com
, pany there to erase from the Inscription
on the tombstone erected over the grav
of Hackett, the Young Briton who wa
killed on July 18th, 1877, tho statemen
that he was barbarously murdered b.
an Irish Roman Catholic mob" The Gem
etery authorities claim that other nation
alities had been proved to have been en-
gagged in the murder that the words are
therefore, contrary to the bylaws and to
clause in the deed of sale of the lot. The,
declare that they will erase the words un
less the Orangemen do SO. Th'
Orangemen claim proprietorship of tn,
monument and grave lot, and threate1
legal proceedings if the company inter
fere.
For the last 1000 years it is said, Their
has stood in the immediate neighborhoot
of Sparta gignatic cypress, the very sam
tree which of old found mention in tn,
pages of Pausanias and other antique
Greek historians. 1t reared it's etatel,
head to height of 100 feet above the
ground, and its dark foliage overshadowet
a space nearly 800 feet in circumference
1t was source Of profit, as we'll as O
pride, to the inhabitants of Sparta, for it,
worldwide fame annually attracted hun
dreds of curious tourists from all parts ol
Europe, whose temporary sojourn in it.
vicinity brought no small amount Of grist
to the Spartan mill. Only the other day
this venerable sylvan patriarch was ignited