Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-12-07


that from all appearances are likely to be
fully realized.
ASDnow Venus has had her transit give
tue poor old lady rest for awhile.
THE Press exposure Of the grav. yard
ghouls in Philadelphia is another feather
in the cap Of that enterpvising journal.
THE cabinet-makers are becoming dere-
lict. For several days they haven't pro-
vided Governor Pattison with any advis'
ers. This must provoke Pattison.
TIE Baltimore Day since it passed into
tic hands that at present control it has
taken several departures, the latest OF
which is the reduction of its price to one
cent. The Day is good newspaper and
there ought to be no doubt Of its liberal
patronage.
TWENTY FIVE majority is 4 pretty CON-
Portable margin for the Democrats to as
sumo control of the lower House of the
Assembly. Let them net become pulled
up with power, but remember that tie
people have a jealous eye upon them and
that they have been sent to Harrisburg in
the interest of reform and honest govci n.
ment.
TIE Garfield fair was not as successful
as anticipated. All sorts Of things still
block up the capitol and some of the con
gressmen, particularly tho older members
who have been unused to the spectacle o.
gaudi ". colored carpets aud tapestries il
the capitol building, are inclined to bt
cross about it. Senator Anthony drew
up a bill yesterday to prohibit such thing.
in future.
BOsLER has begun contest for th,
senatorial scat to which Captain Wagner
was chosen last month in the Adams
Cumberland district. Bosler says he wa
cheated out Of the place. Before Boslel
gets through he will find out he has beel
fOoling With boomerang. Foresight il
always better than hindsight. but if Bos
ler prefers the latter, why it's merely /:
matter Of taste.
MEN complain of tho big hats worn a
tho theatre by tho other sex. But tn
girls can double discount them with re-
cital Of the Inconvenience they arc put t,
by the masculine nuisances who alway
come late, 60 out after every act, and in
variably make their preparations for de
parture before the last scene is over. Oh
the whole, We think the men are rathe
worse that the women. Let us hav
reform Oh both sides.
Those astronomers who were only par
TALLY satisfied with tho result Of the ir OBJ
servations Wednesday, on account of tn
capriciousness of the planet causing her t,
hide herself occasionally behind clou,
rift, ought to thank their lucky star (wht
was Venus in this case) that she didn'
select to-day for her filtration with Oh
Sol. Big-eyed scientists wouldn't hav
been able to see the festive goddess at al
if she had postponed her transit twenty
four hours.
CHEAPER postage seems to he indicate.
by the drift of affairs at Washington
Yesterday the House passed a resolution
directing the committee on appropriation
to insert clause looking to the reductio,
of letter postage to two cents, and tn
House postal committee, which meet
Friday, will report favorably a bill re
ducing tho postage on first class matte
from three to two cents per half ounce
The sentiment of tho House, as shown b.
the adoption of the resolution of instruc
tions to the appropriations committee
seems to be in favor of such measure.
ONE aud inseparable is what Secretar
Folger declares husband and wife to be, il
the decision of question arising unde
the Chiuese act. The collector of custom
at Portland, Oregon, had telegraphed tina
Chinaman, resident at that port, had
wife and child at Victoria, British Colum
bia, whom he wanted to bring to his hom
in Portland. The collector wished to b
instructed in the premises. The secretar
notified the collector to grant the desired
permission on the ground that the wifi
partook Of the status of her husband, an,
was entitled to the same privileges on tn
theory that wedlock is the tie that bind
them beyond the power Of legislation t.
tear them asunder.
PERSONAL.