Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-11-24

laughing matter.
CLEVELAND got nearly three times rs
many votes as Fo'ger in the city of New
York, tho figures being Cleveland 124,-
914, Folger 47,7sJ, and the Democratic
candidates majority in the entire state is
1914, ,11e.
TIE oil producers seem to have tempo
rarily forsaken their occupation Of getting
more oil out of tho ground. They find
equal diversion in specializing in oil sup.
posed to be on top of the ground. When
they get tired Of exterior speculation they
will probably try the interior game again.
The days are passing away when bag
gagemen can smash travellers trunks with
impunity. A passenger on the Union
Pacific railway has recovered damages to
the amount Of s423 from the company for
injuries done to baggage aud goods. 1t is
well worth the while of travellers and rail-
way officials to ponder over this case.
How will orr sweethearts. aud wives
look in bonncts decorated with bouquets
of turnips, carrots and onions, with spill
ach thrown i'll as d garnish? Those bou-
quets are displayed in millincrs' shop
windows. and it is ouly a question of
time when we will be brought to tie
ordeal of seeing them in juxtaposition
with fair faces.
THE story that went the rounds vi the
papers last spring about tho fuss that
Emma Abbott made at Denver hotel
when her baby had the Group is pronounced
base'sss fiction, but it answered its
purpose as AL advertisement just as well.
She did not make fuss when her baby
had tho Group her baby did nc. have the
Group, and she hasn't any baby.
THE receYtopinion of Judge Advocate
General Swain, that army officers are not
subject to court martial for persistent re
tfusal to pay their debts, has not been ap-
fprovcd by tie secretary Of war. Unless
the opinion receives his approval i. will
have 20 force. BY this time Swain must
be getting used to this sort Of thing,
though it will probably never dawn upon
his inner consciousness that the most ap-
pcop:iate thing hc could do would be to
resign aud give some ono a chance who
wonld better size up to the place.
THE death Of Gcttfried KlDkel recalls
the rOnlancs Of the German rebellion iu
1S4S. Kinkci, the author OF "Otto der
Schultz" a romance of the Rhine, was al
idealistic German professor, who gave
lectures on Christian art and used t.
preach, but undertook to write anu iigh,
against feudal royalty, when he WAS sen,
to prison in Spandau, but was liberated
by 10 other man than Carl Schurz, at that
time university student. This was il
November, 1850. Schurz cano 10 TIL:
country to carve for himself fame, hui
Kinkel retire.! into literary scclusion a
Zurich.
THE New York Sun ch;dcs It's contcm
poraries, the Times and the 7rilune, fol
their detestable English in the use of the
phrases, "And IN this connection it mus
be said etc. and "a certain hard
headed scientist by tho name of Clarence
King The Suns gram marian tells the
Times and Tribune that if they had respect
lively written " And IN connection aoitt thi
Subject it must be said," and GA certain
hard headed scientist cf the name OF
Clarence King" neither of them would
have needed the rcbuke it administers
The slips to which Our luminous contcm
porary refers arc Of frequent occurrence
in newspaper writing, but are not to Es
condoued for that reason.
IN the midst Of tho frcttirs that prevail:
in reference to his successor, C0ntrolle,
Pattison, it is reported, stands unmoved
in his original belief that the vacanc,
which will be caused in the controller:
Office by his retirement should be filed h,
the governor. He will, therefore, retain
the Office until bis Inauguration. Stimuli
taneous with his exalta.ion to the highe 81
Office in the commonwealth Mr.. Pattisor
will name his own successor. AS the
person thus named will likewise bs in
trusted with the books OF tho Office, the
position Of the parties to suit to decide
the question will be the reverse of that
Set forth by Mr.. Sellers, who has declared
his opinion that the vacancy must be filled
by a joint vote Of councils.
| PERSONAL.
CHALMERS may get into Congress after
all. He intimatcs determination to hav G
either his certificate or gore.
MARK GRAY LYON, the cranky person
i who shat at Edwin Booth now nro,orec 6