Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-08-28

lStcLCc u d SItdI plIo VI ullV ia 1hO
street for three or four months. or one
month, is inexcusable SO, too, are the
plumbers hillocks !; and if anyone can
tell US why liverymen and tavers keepers
are permitted to take possession of the
streets for the habitual storage of their
wagons night and day we should like to
hear it.
THE stealing Of pensions by Fitzgerald
casts the Star Route frauds in the shade.
ANOTHER volcano is in state of crup-
tion in Europe. 1t is pity there is none
under the Pennsylvania Legislature.
ACCORDING to accounts Pittsburg has
a Jail in which the depravity Of the iu-
mates has reached its heighth.
BEING once moro able to enjoy the con-
forts of home, good many people who
hied away on summer vacations will
wonder what they went away for.
THE delay in the construction of public
buildings has always been matter of some
mystery, and many have been tho fruitless
attempts to divine the explaining cause.
The uninitiated public wero prone to be.
lieve that it was due to a desire on the
part of public contractors to milk the COW
vouchsafed them By the national treasury
for all she was worth. But this appears
to have been mistake. Acting Secretary
of the Treasury French says, it is due to
the inadequacy Of the original appropria-
ton as we'll as to the unfortunate policy
of awarding contracts to the lowest bid :
ders." Why this latter policy should be
considered "unfortunate,' there will
probably be few obtuse people who will
never bs able to comprehend.
IT was asserted whea Oscar Wilde
play Vera " was placed on the boards in
the Union Square theatre at Now York
that if it would not succeed in the metro
polls it would undoubtedly make hit on
the road. It has already proved patent
failure in the city and the company pro
senting it has been disbanded. 1t is
probable that it will now be given run
through the inferior citios and towns.
There cln bs but little to stake in its
future SUCCESS, although it is. as is
claimed, a production which is calculated
to strike responsive cord in popular SEN
timent, since it deals with the oppression
of the Russians and depicts the efforts Of
them TO achieve personal and governmental
liberty. The subject is q hackneyed one,
the people have witnessed its portrayal iu
dozens Of plays and Wildo's effort is no
better tn IN many and far worse than soma
Of like dramatic presentations.
PETROLEUM as curative agency is tho
newest discovery under the sun. 1t was
the cause of muod surprise in the infancy
of the industry in this state that the co.,
slant inhalation of petroleum gas, instead
of having an injurious effect on its sub
jects, made them moro vigorous aud in
every respect healthier. This effect Is
first noticeable in an improved digestion
logistic it is said to be especially beneficial
in couateracting the effects of the different
forms OF catarrh Il Affections The farmers
who fought the free pipe line bill may feel
thankful that their hostility proved Of no
avail, nov that the discovery has been
made of the medicinal properties of pstro-
leum. And leakage in the pipes on
which the enemies of the bill harpsd with
direful predictions will be gladly welcomed
in the new light that science has thrown
Oh this Illuminating fluid. Tae number
| of health resorts which the Imagination
pictures as arising in the vicinage of
leaks in the pipes is ,lcula;ed to make
run cold the blood of the Mineral Springs
hotel proprietor, and cause their boasted
waters to turn green with envy.
Crime and Accident.