Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-01-21


field as special agents he could eliminate
all pension frauds within three years
time. He thought such special agents
should receive about 81 400 per year and
expenses"
WHAT means this ribald rhyme from the
Marietta Register Does the poetic editor
know how it was himself?
Farewell, dear old Bushong.
Those three years a-gone,
Made q short purse long.
" Farewell. farewell, forever ~ lie sang
- Farewell to the festive Court House Gang ~
THE young man on York contempor
ary who started to write notice of a
funny comedy performance in the opera
house there the other evening informed
hisreaders at the outset that, "we cannot
recall it without becoming SO convulsed
with laughter that writing is out of the
question" OF course that article explain
ed itself, so to speak.
In the January number of tho Reformed
Quarterly Reuieao Supt. r. X. Buehrle has
an article on The Missing Link, but it
is not Darwinian. It's a plea for closer
organic union between popular and the
higher education. In the same number
that stalwart controverslalist, Rev. Cyrus
Cort, appears with a chip on his shoulder
as the writer of an article against ''woman
preaching, viewed in the light of Gods
word and church history"
IT is all a mistake. Forbes and Wilde
both have said it. They had no milf on
the train. Wilde did not ask $500 to 90
to Baltimore club reception. He went
on to Washington by mistake, at least by
direction Of his manager. The people
who were to have met him didn't and he
couldn't stop in Baltimore alone. He is
annoyed at the horrid newspaper scandal.
Mercy and peace. Young man you're for
given.
MAYOR LYON, Of Pittsburgh, has vetoed
an ordinance recently passed by councils
granting to the American Rapid telegraph
company the right to erect its poles and
string its wires through the streets of that
city. Underground wires, he says. are no
longer an experiment., and he does not
propose to permit the highways to be
further encumbered by unsightly poles,
when the obstruction can be so easily OBJ
waited.
THE Philadelphia Chronicle Herald, the
only Democratic daily in the city, and the
Record, Il sort of half-shell Democratic
paper, are opposed to Pattison for COVER
nor. The Ledger thinks he is "too
fresh" in being willing to quit the
post to which the people OF the city have
called him. Much Of the other opposition to
him is less reputable, but all in all, there
is too much of it for him to hope to have
united party behind him there, and that
is one of the essentials of a Democratic
candidate for state office from the City
Brotherly Strife
IT was the inflexible rule of Theophius
Parsons to give no law advice ON Sunday
"a rule which he persisted in adhering to
when client came to Salem on that day
from Boston to obtain an opinion on
matter OF first Importance in connection
with business to be transacted carly on
Monday. Angry at having had his jour
hey for nothing, the client was on his way
to his carriage, when Mr.. Parsons followed
him, and asked him whether he had made
up his mind as to what was right according
to the golden rule, and being answered in
the affirmative, told him to 20 back to
Boston, do what he believed was "just
right, and when MIR. Parsons got to his
Office later on Monday he had no doubt he
would find law enough to sustain him.
1T has been developed that among the
last requests made in writing by the late
Hendrick 3. Wright, was one that his
body be kept at least y hours and be not
inferred until decomposition begin that
he be buried between his father and wife :;
that no display nor funeral sermon be
made at his funeral nor any silver plating
adorn his coffin. Finally, "My children
may go into mourning if they
prefer it ; but do not. 1t is an empty,
idle custom, and is disgraced by its OBJ
an outside demonstration sug-
gested by fashion. I will die in the faith
Of my ancestors-the creed of the Society
Of Friends. In this faith died my great
grandfather, my grandfather and my
father, and in that faith will die also. 1t
teaches the doctrine that the apparel does
not reflect the emotions of the heart
OF the several points made by Sup't.
Shaub in his address at the conference of
school superintendents in Reading, the
adopted and affirmed his ap.
proval of the present mode of electing su-
perintendents the payment of the direc-
tors expenses to the convention uni.
Form four years term for superintendents;
the advice of the superintendent to direc-
tors in regard to school sites, plans for
building and furnishing school houses and
he selection of text books a more effi-
;ient district supervision of rural schools
he pr .sent excellent plan of examinations
md issuing certificates; each county SUI
should receive two hundred
lollars from the county treasury, to be
for the use Of either district or
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