Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-03

in this that was nearly so discreditable
and indecent as the conduct of the Har-
ward students in going to his lecture to
publicly ridicule and insult him. That
was inhospitable, ungentlemanly and
asinine. 1t occurred in Boston.
GALUsHA A. GROW is "not in politics
and won't talk politics. He probably
can't spell his name with "B-r.''
To those that have shall be given. 1t is,
rumorcd that Harvard university has re-
ceived gift of 100000 from a wealthy
gentleman of Boston.
The American national agricultural as
sociation urges upon the government the
stocking with fish OF the waters in the
Territory Of Wyoming.
Ii must have been the luckless defend
ant in breach of promise case who hit
upon the happy idea that there is u Ger.
tain kind Of love which begins with letters
and ends with figures.
ONE of the legends upon the wall of the
room in which the Wisconsin Dairymen's
association held its recent annual meeting
was, "Talk to your COW as you would tt
lady" But it is important to know how
Wisconsin dairymcn would talk to lady
CHIEF CLERK Howe says that every
possible vacancy in the clerical force Of the
postoffice department has been filled, and
that no further appointments will be made
for some time. Howe, who is the son o
his father, got in before the places were
| all filled.
The manager of the Kellogg concert
took between $500 and slOO out of this city
| as his share of the proceeds Of the concert
He did very well aud neither he nor hi.
friends have any Occa sion to reflect on the
comparatively few Of our citizens who ex
ercised their indisputable right to reclaim
the money which they paid to hear Kel-
logg whom they did not hear.
THE question of the extra 500 salary
to legislators was ably argued before tho
supreme court in Philadelphia yesterday
| by J. MacDowcll Sharpe for the members
and by Hons. II. w. Palmer and G.. II
Buckalew for the state. All three of these
gentlemen helped to make the constitution
the meaning of which is in dispute, and
| they left nothing unsaid that was relevant
to the issue. There is {: suspicion that tho
| supreme court will affirm the lower court
and deny tine extra salary to the members
Farmer Buffers friends are hoping that
such an opinion will come in time to help
his boom for governor.
In Western Massachusetts there ART
plenty Of schools, churches, and the aver.
age Of educational requirement is prob
ably not surpassed in the Union. Yet de
spite all these advantages, the criminal
court records of Western Massachusctt.
do not encourage the belief that the people
of that section are not any better thai
than they were in the days when Jonathan
Edwards held spiritual sway at Stock
bridge, and a solid article of Calvinism
was preached from WiIliamstown down tc
the Connecticut line, and beyond too
! The Boston Herald ''skould not want som,
sharp Southern editor to mass in one paper
the criminal record of Western Massachu
setts for a single month";
THAT staunch Republican and anti
administration organ, the Philadclphi;
Ecening Telegraph, pronOunccs Blaine
invitation of the South American power
to a congress in Washington "as cxtraor
dinary and as improper document as wa:
ever issued from the state department.
and that is sayiug great dea! for it's i'm
propriety." Disclaiming in so man,
words the idea of the United States cocrc
ing the other powers, the circular letter i
throughout an arrogant assertion of til,
dominance of this country and of tho in
significance of the other states, and tn
citizens of those states would have yer,
little self respect or patriotism did they
not take offense at it, especially if they
had reason to believe that it reflected pub
lie sentiment in the United States.''