Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-21

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sets, but with the popular issues now
at his command he will come nearer
than ever to achieving a result which he
has evidently set himself to accomplish
before his days of battle are over.
THE Democrats of Pittsburgh are TO
lie congratulated upon the nomination
of Mr.. Hopkins for Congress. He is not
only the strongest candidate that could
have been named, but it is eminently
fitting that, after having courageously
fought SO many hopeless battles, he should
now be given the place of honor when
the lOng-intrenched Cameron bosses,
with Russell Errett at their head, are
about to be routed and crushed by
popular uprising. In two years Mr.:
Hopkins made All enviable national
reputation in the House, and upon his
return to it he will at once take high
rank in that body.
The piano makers, having listened all
summer to the banging of piano in city
and county, are now Oh Il strike of their
own
THE blind pool in which Gov. Cornell
was interest doesn't seem to have panned
out SO much of political success as it
did in financial view,
THERE are now living in the United
States 291 persons who were born at sea
under the United States flag. Most of
them must bs pretty old.
THE refusal Of the Archbishop Of Paris
to allow the body of man killed in duel
to be taken into any Catholic church, or
to let a priest conduct the funeral rites
anywhere, is regarded in Paris as al inn
POI iaut religious blow at duelling.
A YOUNG telegraph operator at Oil City
got some points early on the recent rise
/. i'll oil, went in heavy aud cleared $40, 900
in two weeks. This reads like q ready-
made QUITO order item, but the lato terrific
! upward pace Of the crude product gives
itjust enough Of the flavor of probability
to make it piquaut.
The New York Sun observes that
among Englishmen of education aud
ability, and who carry the load of exten-
sive affairs, the tendency is toward in.
creasiDg abstemiousness, and that even
total abstainers arc growing pretty nu-
merOus. 1t is a tendency which wo COM
mend to the thoughtful attention Of our
men in public life.
STATISTICS show largo Increase in the
number of immigrants settling in Texas.
This is duo in largo part to the wiso policy
! of the southwestern roads. In order to
induce immigration into the interior of
Texas the railroads are carrying immi-
grants to any point in the state without
extra fare. That is to say, it costs no
moro to 60 to an interior settlement than
to Galveston.
The rumor that Arab ley will 10
banished to the United States to live on
the bounty of American Land Leagues is
probably tho mental outgrowth OF some
| fierce Hiberian whose zeal outruns his
discretion. Tho American Land Leagues
will have abundant opportunities for using
their money in keeping up the fight
against English opposition in Ireland.
Irishmen the world over arc famed for
having larger hearts than purses.
SINCE tho invention Of cigarettes, or
smoking made easy, the path of the small
boy anxious to ape manhood has been rcn.
dered less thorny than hitherto. 1t is
now proposed to assist the rising genera
tions in their eagerncss to become mon by
some such invention as whiskyrettes.
which will make strong drink when taken
for tho first time more palatable. The
magnitude of tho field that this thought
suggests might appal the hearts Of even
tho stOutest inventor.
BETROTHAL rings have altered noticca-
bly, in shape and setting of late years. A
purc white diamond, the only suitable
gem, is under-set in short claws SO that
the stone hides the setting completely.
Polished gold is preferred to Roman gold.
The shank is oval and tapers from tho
gem. There is neither enamel nor engrav
ing on its service, and inscriptions arc cut
inside as the purchaser may order. 1t is
but an old fashion revived, and ono
which will be liked. In the last thirty
years wedding rings have changed twice in
styles, from the narrow, double circ!et TO
tho polished oval, and lastly tho plain
wide, fat band, which is now also prefer
able in polished gold.
The London Society has the following to
say of nondescript factor in society
whose portrait will bs readily recognized
"a poor relation is the most irrelevant
thing in nature-a piece of impertinent
correspondency al oiious approxima
ton a haunting conscience a preposter-
GUS shadow, lensthening ito the ncontide
Of your prosperity an unwelcome remem
braucer !. a perpetually recurring mortifi
cation Il drain on your purse, a more in
tolerable dun on your pride; drawback
upon success a rebuke to your rising; q
stain in your blood blot on your escut
cheon rent in your garment; deaths
head at your banquet Agathaocles's pot
a Mordccai at your gate; q Lazarus at
your door; a lion in your path; a frog in