Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-21

national convention, it will be neXtin order
to find ball large enough TO give the
delegates elbow-room.
FRANCE seems bent on knocking the
chip of China's shoulder in the present
imbroglio, and If such event should hap
pen China seems in perfect readiness to do
some severe striking back.
WHEN it is considered that the two
giants who were married in Pittsburg on
Tuesday aggregated in height fifteen and
one quarter feet, it is no exaggeration 20
call the bride and groom high contracting
parties
KEIFER and cipher rhyme too well for
the ex.spcaker's comfort. Tho poor boon
Of Republican nomination for the speak
ership apparently is too good ior him in
the e,timation of his political friends
A WESTERN philosopher who preterds
to know the fair sex asserts that brunettes
are dangerous through impulse, while
blondes become so through cold bloOded
calculation. After this weighty statemcn,
no one hereafter can have an excuse in
selecting an uucongenial partner. It is
somewhat peculiar, however, that the
world lived four thousand years without
making this very important discovery.
THE telegraph brought the sad news
yesterday of the death of Gov. Pattison'S
only sou, an interesting child offive years.
From all quarters of the state and beyond
its borders universal sympathy will 90
out 20 the family of the chief executive IN
their sad atiiiction. In the presence Of the
angel Of death in tho executive mansion,
party bitterness will be forgotten and
party strife for the time stilled and po
litcal friend and foe will honor their man.
hood by stepping aside from the strife and
| turmoil of life to offer coincidence to the
parents who stand in need Of the tenderest
sympathy 10 their great bereavement.
THE United States has long been the
Mecca to which the penniIess noble of the
bluest kind Of blood expsc;antly turns his
footsteps. He has been taught on the
other side of the water to regard Ameri
cans as a uft.hunting class, among whom
the cloak of royalty will cover a multitude
of sins ; and his conclusion, viewed in the
| light of the treatment We accord our for
eign visitors, seems eminently Just. Thi
uudemocrat homage paid 10 royalty cal
receive no better illustration than in tn
consuming desire of the average younl
American girl TO throw herself into tn,
arms of the first titled fool who presents
himself as suitor for her affections. Hi
lordship may be an impostor, or au outcas
from his home but this thought never
enters the confding breast Of the dlmsel
intoxicated with the idea of his prIucely
rank. MatTimony comes in due time, the
wedding is heraded with the blare of the
society trumpet, the couple HE thsmselye:
to the old world-and sink into for
getiulnesE. This is very charm
ing picture, but it is distance alone
that lends enchantmeIt TO the view
and the tar maids still in the market, en-
v.OUs of their sisters good fortune, ma,
derive some very sweet crumbs of comfor
from recent statistics, which the American
consul at Crcfeld, Germany, furnishes
relative to the marriage of Americas
girls to German mobiles or thirty thre
marriages cited, not one turned out happi
ly. Moreover, divorce or abandonment
have followed in nearly every case
Transplanted from the soil where 1t ha
. obtained its beauty and development, it !
! little to be wondered at that the American
Hover soon loses its freshness and charm
Different language, social customs aut
too often tho brutality of husband ex
pecting his wifo to perform menial ser
? vices, all contribute to tho embarrassment
, of the stranger bride and misunderstood
3 ings and general domestic unhappiuGs
, close the mournful chapter. Ia the inter
4 ests of the foolish girls. whose dlscretio
s is blinded by the glare OF title, it Nigh
@ bs we'll to have some of the victims
i these unfortunate UNIONS write their Q,
: perienoes of foreign venture on the ma
{ rimoGial sea.