Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-25
SHOOT the big opera hat !!

DILL and Curtin are having close race
for the nomination in tho Twentieth con-
erssslonal district.
THE custom of having groomsmen at
weddings has died out of English society.
The bridegroom is attended by one best
man.
FANS were hissed in the opera house at
Bayreuth, on the nights of Wagner's
Parsifal." Not even a cooling rustic
was allowed to temper the heat and inter-
rupt the leit-motifs. If only the largo hat
at the theatre tho coming season could
be greeted in the same way as those Ger
man fans 1t is equally as abominable to
interfere with the sight as the hearing of
an audience. Girls, make note of this.
to night and here and now is voiced the
solemn protest Of long suffering COM
munity against the two-story hats some
women persist in wearing at public
entertainments, and which arc source Of
annoyance and positive discomfort to more
sensible people in the audience. Let the
reform begin at the beginning and then
perha ps it will be lasting. Down with the
big hats
IT is in a religious contemporary We
note the suggestion that it might be ap-
propriato for some congregations, instead
of having the prayer after the sermon, TO
put it before the sermon. For, after all,
as our contemporary puts it. it is good
custom our mothers taught us to observe,
namely, never to 20 to sleep before we
had said our
"Now 1 lay me down to Sleep" &C.
or some other appropriate prayer
The irrepressible Blaine will not down.
1t is now authoritatively stated that he
gave the original impulse to the Conkling-
Cornell scandal, the facts having been
furnished him by Cornell himself, and by
him communicated 70 the editor of the
Albany Euening Journal. If half that is
written of the "plumed knight be true,
he must be the most omnisciont and ubi-
quitous human being that ever inhabited
our planet.
IL it is true as reported that Mr.. Blaine
proposes to fight Malone and the unholy
alliance in Virginia the freebooter will
more than have his hands full in the ap-
preaching campaign. Tho ex secretary,
it is said, will support t!,': straightout Re-
publican movement ; and color is given
to the assertion by the fact that he vigor-
ously opposed the coalition while mem-
Der of Garfield's cabinet, and did all in his
power to dissuade tho president from Civ
ing it tho moral support of the admins
tration's favor.
P4l.1TIcs truly present some singular
Eases and make strange bedfellows. The
story goes that of the entire membership
of a politico-social coterie in Philadel.
phia, to which Wayne MacVeash belong
ed, the latter was the only one, who prior
to the Chicago convention expressed
himself persistently against tho nomiua.
tion of Garfield. After he went into the
cabinet, he posed as the especial friend
and confidante of the president, and a
great jealousy quickly arose between him
and Mr.. Blaine on this very point. To
such height had this feeling between the
two men arisen that the story goes about
the time of the assassination Blaine had
prepared an ultimatum to be submitted to
Garfield, and the substance Of which was
that either he (Blainc) or MacVeagh
would have to get out of the cabinet.
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