Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-07

~ hAShOu ltti" AoA c'te "a SAA>
county treasury, which was no more liza
BILE for them than for his butcher or his
tailor bill. Until that money is refunded
he would do well to reserve his recon-
mendations.
He is not wise man who aspireS to
ill a place for which he is not fitted. If
men could only realize their strength
and weakness this would he very
comfortable world in which every one
would 20 contentedly to his place, know
ing that it was the very best he could do
for himself. If Speaker Keifer, for in
stance, had known himself, he would
not have aspired to the speakersllip, but
have remained content to occupy the
place on the floor of Congress which he
could fill with credit. He will not be
happy as speaker, because the Lord did
not give him speakers gifts, which are
of very peculiar and unusual charar-
ter. Mr.. keifer is not as gay in heart as
he once was, but he is good deal gayer
than he will be before the winter is over.
At present he does not realize that lie is
not a model speaker. lie thinks the fel-
lows that are cursing him are all wrong !;
but there are too many to he altogether
wrong. They are numerous enough to
make public opinion.
IN fOrecasting the outcome of the
movements for and against Pattson' 3
nomination for governor in Philadelphia
the Ledger says:
1t is feared by the more conservative
Democrats that the fight in Philadelphia
will lead to All excitement sucl, rs was
witnessed at the Harrisburg convention of
1880, when the feeling became so bitter
that firearms were drawn at the doors Of
the opera house in the interest OF particu-
lar candidates and party issues.
The Philadelphia Democrats may as
we'll understand that the state De-
mOcracy want no more of that and will
have no more of it--even if il state con-
ventiOn has to he held without Pililadel-
phia.
The city of Reading, makes an annual
appropriation of $500 to the board Of
health
SOME Of these days the grounding will
come peeping out, see his shadow and the
ice man may yet be happy.
The ice men would do much better now
a-days to he saving up their stock than
hauling it around and leaving it where the
kitchen maid is apt to pick it up and put
it Oh the range to keep for warm day.
TnE LititZ REGARD is strongly and Sell
sibly urging the erection Of new rail-
road station there, and that it has hopes
for it it plainly avows i'll the expression of
editorial confidence that g steadily the
rights of humanity gain the ascen'ency of
the mandates of kings
Tue Manheim Sentinel starts ia the :;,tll
volume new series) with the new year, az
fresh and happy rs bridegroom. 1t is
one of the oldest, steadiest and best Of our
local contemporaries and "Mosey's'
shadow seems to lengthen as the .%af;nsr,
days begin to strengthen.
THE Remove Record has entered upon it,
eleventh volume, and emphasizes its assert
ed prosperity by appearing in 4 new suit
of type and adding to its iobbing depart
ment an elegant assortment Of job type. 1t
is no "organ;' is indepdenent in all things;
well edited and devotes much space to
local news.
SCRANTON, like Lancaster is cursed
with cold school houses. The RepuJlicun
says every like an ice house and adds
"The experience of teachers is that fur.
naces iu the cellar are a fraud. Everyschcol
room should have its separate stove. aud
the every day experience of teachers ara
that school boy can care for 4 stove,
while it takes the capacity Of Il Mtchinist
to care for furnace. The janitor Of the
Fourteenth ward school is I wOman."
IS one of his steady flow of contrbu
tions to our rural contemporaries the
learned DR.. {. A. Greene communicates
to its readers, among some facts OF greater
or less interest, the we'll worn statement
that Washington died nn Dec. IA told
style), 1899, Gin the last minute o: the
last hour OF the last day, of the second
week Of the last month, OF the last yeal
of the last century, Not bv 3GJ days.
1t takes 1900 full years to make eighteen
centuries, and the last century was not
completed until the end of Dec. 1870.
THE Philadelphia Times said to the
North Ameriran in plain words the other
day that it cannot command share OF
the present sheriff's advertising without
paying from forty to sixty per cent. of the
price charged thereof to Deputy Sheriff
John l. Hill, and tho same is true of the
mercantile appraisers list" "In reply
to the Times" the venerable daily INDUCED
in some glittering generalities about the
Infamous abuse" which the Times
heaps upon its contemporaries, and ad.
mits that Sin exceptional cases public
officers manage to divert portion of the
funds which are the rightful charge of the
newspapers" What the North .imsrlcun
needs to tell is whether Or not its nuhlica