Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-04-25

OAAAlmonn W0CoT pTOOICm 10 very
different from that Of most cities. 1t has
an immense surplus. From Jones' falls
and the Gunpowder together there is de-
rived during the dry summer months a
supply Of 165, ,0O0, 600 gallons daily, During
the same months the city's consumption
does not exceed Is, ,OO0, 900 gallons. In the
fall, winter and spring months the consump-
ton falls to 20, 600, 900 gallons, while the
surplus approximates 400, ,0OO, 600 gallons.
1t is estimated that water motor could
easily be run ON tho third story of every
building in the city, and plenty of water
be left. The introduction of such motors
and their application to household and
small mechanical uses is the question of
the hour in Baltimore.
Miss ADA GRAY, while performing the
death-bed scene in East Lynne" at
Scranton the other night, rose to an up.
right position, administered public re-
buke to some one in the audience who
persisted in tittering through this most
affecting passage, and then went on with
the play. The heroic method of instruc-
tion in good manners at the theatre seems
to be in vogue just now, and the other
day a Philadelphia newspaper mentioned
by name swell party who occupied box
at the. Academy of Music during the sea-
son of grand Italian opera there, and an.
noyed half the audience by their loud
talking, laughing and other conspicuous
and in-bred actions. Parisians throw
their opera glasses and other missiles at
nsive singers and performers.
THERE 10 something in = name. Those
verses Via Solitaria /" were written by
DR.. o. NJ. Conover, Of Madison, Wis, 10
years ago, they were published in the In.
dependent over his initial, and with tho
date Madison, Wis., either in June or
very early in July of 1869, were copied into
the Wisconsin State Journal on the 18th of
July, and were republished (without date
or signature, but credited to the lnds-
psndenD in LitteWs Lising Ago for Oct. 10
for the same year. Since then they seem to
have SO entirely escaped general attention
and appreciation of their merit that when
they were printed the other day as an un.
published poem Of Longfellow, written
after the death Of his wife, there was
none to question it until country editor
in Wisconsin was struck by their familiar
sound and their author was hunted up.
Meantime they have been published in
nearly all the leading papers and highly
commended without criticism, although
their real author says,. that in
their present form Of publication
they are marred by various false
readings and faulty punctuatioas.
Possibly Longfellow sent them to friend
who jumped to the conclusion that they
were Longfellow's without warrant. Any.
how, DR.. Conover's poem has attained
much wider circulation than it would have
got over his name.
THE Northwestern " system of rail-
ways has published Handsomely printed
guide book OF tho attractive and pietures-
que points of summer resort on its various
lines, in the shape Of alleged correspond
snoe from . gushing young lady who has
been there. The route Is laid out is all
veil enough, but II any Of our young Lady
.eaders are anxious to cultivate O good
;tyle of composition We advise them to |