Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-31


government Of the state would he re-
stored to its original design. Honesty
and efficiency would reign where NAL.
administration and corruption have so
long held high carnival.
SCHOOL begins tomorrow. So does the
oyster campaign.
In all tho talk about cabinet changes
there is nothing said about the naval port
folio Tho fragrant Chandler is evidently
there to stay.
OSCAR WILDE does not approve of sun
flowers as fit for personal decoration. So
tho young ladies who have religiously
worn them all summer have made tho
mistake of their lives.
TIE treasury department has learned
that one Of its incoming collectors of in
ternssl revenue objects to taking possession
Of his Office on tho 1st proximo (to-mor-
row) because tho date falls on Friday!
IT seems funny that a man with the
name of Ireland should havo to bc called
on to explain away Know-Nothing
record but that's just what they arc
doing with a candidate who bears that
Hibernian appellation in Texas.
TITO winter wheat crop Of Illinois this
year exceeds SO, 600. 900 bushels, and it is
tho largest, except that of 1880, ever har-
vested in that state. Tho spring wheat
aggregates over 81, 600, 900 bushels, little
under the average of 1879, but tho quality
is much better.
WHEN an Englishman told Wagner
what a good time he bad listening to
"Parslfal," the latter sl,rieked his con-
tempt for tho vulgar Britishcr and told
him to go to Ofenbach, or elsewhere, for
his "good times" The privileges Of
genius arc without limit.
TIE impression seems to 10 gathering
strength that after Wadsworth has dono
beating the bush Folgcr will be ON hand
to bag tho bird. And that is just what
the Herald is driving ut in its injiscrimi-
nate booming of tho New York comptrol-
ler. The Press, which has fine eye for
New York politics, takes this view of tho
situation.
THIS is the centennial year of Thomas
Benton, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass,
Martin Van Burcn, and Daniel Webster,
each having been born in 1852. OF these
Van Buren was president of the United
States; Calhoun and Van Buren, were
vice presidents; Calhoun, Cass, Van
Buren, and Webster we're secretaries of
state, while Bent N was senator for 80
years. Calhoun died in 1850, Webster in
1852, Benton in 1858, Van Burn in 1862,
and Cass in 1866.
MULlIALI., the eminent statistician, has
figured it ont that we are the richest peo-
pie in tho world. Tho aggregate wealth
of the United State no asserts foots up tho
enormous total of $40, TO, ,O0O, 900. dis
tributed as follows: Railways, $780,
O0O, 900; farms, 50, 615, 900 900; cattle, ST.
S2O, ,OOO, 600; Manufactures, S., ,655, ,OOO, 900;
houses, s13, ,36O, 00O, 900; furniture, ST.
22O, ,OOO, 600; forests, mines, canals, $2,-
793, ,0OO, 900 bullion, $40, 900, 900; ship
ping, $315, ,0O0, 900 public works. etc.,
$5, s52, 600, 900 total, $40, &c, ,OOO. 600. 1t
will be observed that the bulk Of our
wealth lies in houses and those things
that pertain to domestic comfort, such as
t lrms, cattle and furniture. The frozen
TACT indicated by these figures is that three
fifths of our capital is devoted to animal
existence, which would seem to prove
that Oscar Wilde's crusade against fleshIy
men was not untimely.
WONDERS will mover cease. 1t was but
tho other day that the steamship Alaska
made the Transatlantic passage in tho
timo of six days, twonty-
ono hours, and fifty minutes. And now it |
IS proposed to cross the briny deep in
three days and six hours. This last re-
announcement may DO better |
when it is stated that barbor |
IN the east coast of Newfoundland is to |
1e made tho starting point of steamers.
The friends of the now enterprise urge |
hat it is entirely practicable. Travellers
night 60 by rail through Maine and New
Brunswick to Halifax. in Nova Scotia
hero take the ferry for Newfoundland,
md crossing that island by rail, embark
It the point nearest Ireland on steamers
ailing on the route taken by the Atlantic
able of 1866. There are those who deny
he feasibility of the undertaking, alleging
hat the coast of Newfoundland abounds
n fogs and icebergs. But the shortened
Quincy with its briefer period of sea.sick-
less will have many attractions for those
Vho like not the sensation of being rocked
or heightened period on tho bosom of
he deep.
To We'd IN 1897.
A boy of6 anda girl Of 2, at Ballardville,
leb., are mated for marriage by their
arents, who have signed an agreement
hat t1,o vuoGI;up s1,oIl roo,,. ;,, 1OOv