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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-12

DAkGAINs In wAIOhEs, OLOOHs
ID Chains, Rings, Spectacles, &c. Repairing
OF all kinds will receive my personal atten =,
tiOn. LOUIS WEBER, No. l59H N orth Queen
street. Remember name and number. III
teouy opposite CITY Hotel, near Pennsylyana
railroad depot. dec 2s lVd
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-12
A Rope About onr Necks.

A weak stomach or cniCCbled circulation l.
like a rope about our neCks. We are strung up
and unstrung alteTnately uil existence be-
comes unbearable. B~dock Bto0d HIEeF
will arrest All this misery. BUrdock Blood
Bitters are a boon to the sick. Let US remem.
Der this fact. For sale by II. Il. Cochran,
druggist 1877 and l39 North Queen street.
The surest preventive against Small PoX Is
Darbys ProphyactiC Fluid II destroys con-
tagion.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-12
r,REy,s uaAROoAI Iozrnurs.

u For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn,
Headache, Bad Breath from smoking, etc,
Constipation, Sour stomach and ali disorders
OF the stomach and Digestive organs. Being
purely vegetable, safe, simple ana cheap
remedy, II readily cOmnends itself to the
public suffering from the above disorders.
Try It. Price 80. per Box, sent anyw here
by mail Prepared and sold by
ANDREW q. FREY, DRUGGIST,
BE. Orange ST., Cor. Christian,
hprI'lydaw Lancaster, Pa,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-11-12

Hanover Accommodation west COnnec'iua
at Lancaster with Niagara Express at %,
will run through to Hanover daily, except
sunday.
Frederick Accommodation, A west, vu' meeting
at Lancaster with Fast Limo, west NJ ., viii
run through 70 E-edertcR
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
An Orang-Outang Accepting Fate.

The largest orang- outang ever brought
to this country was received few DAYS
ago. 1t is an adult male and reached here
within about six weeks after its capture
in an African forest, so that it was as
far from being tanned as a wild animal
could well be. When the close front
of its box was taken off, the sight of men
aroused it oparoxysms of apprehension
and rage. 1t would alternately squeal
like cornered rat and grunt like an
angry boar, varying its vigorous and
dissonant remarks upon the situation by
violently shaking its cage and assuming
the most diabolical facial expressions
In couple of days, however, it made an
exception in favor of its keeper, a sturdy
German, who supplied its frequent meals
of dates, bananas and egg-yelks beaten
uPwith sugar. Then it began to dem.
onstrate a lively curiosity about the
strange sights and sounds SURROUNDING
it. The continual chorus of. shrieks'
whistles, screams and songs from the
myriad of birds withinhearing, the chatter
of a couple of young dog7faced balloons
in the cage below it, the antics of a pair
OF Iop-eared rabbits in an opposite CAGE.
the automaton-like industry of the men
filling seed and water into the crates Of
canaries within full view, all seemed 70
have interest in the intelligent brute and
in cogitation over the enormous problem.
''What sort of place have got intop''
it appeared to forget both fear and
anger.
Already it looks with equanimity upon
most persons who stop to exchange re.
CARDS with it, and it is likely to make
any other demonstration than an osten.
tatious interest in the skylight. to avoid
meeting che too sharp and PROLONGED
gaze of a visitor. When coiored man
stopped before it a few days ago it showed
pleasure and appeared to recognize in
him the sort of human being it has been
used to in his native Jungle. Its phiIo.
sophie acceptance of the new conditions
of existence into which it has been
thrown, and its readiness to learn ali i
can of them, make it an interesting
beast M Y. Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
Patent Applied For.

Trying fire escape down the av-
enuep' he said as he slid upstairs yes
terday and sat down on the edge of a
chair.
eyes"
"They cost money and are in the
way"
Eyes"
''And nobody ever heard of an escape
by tire-escape."
''Never"
81 have some stray theories of my
own" he continued as he gathered con-
fidence enough to occupy the chair.
"Out of the Is, 900 hotels in this country,
only seventy eight are destroyed per
year. There are thus 1922 chances
that you won't be stopping at the hotel
which burns
EXACTLY"
''Out of the seventy eight hotels de-
stroyed per year there were only four
cases where life was lost. There's an
other seventy-four chances for you"
II see."
'.And, taking the average, only thir-
teen guests persisted to a hotel. Of
these, four or five were lame, and the
others were sound sleepers. Really, sir,
but we are not so bad off as the papers
try to make out"
''Seems not"
''But there is no call for any loss of
life whatever" he went on. 'Chinese
labor is very cheap. Suppose that each
hotel keeps 100 Cinnamon hanging
aroundp For thirty cents a guest can
hire one of the Mongolians to sit by his
door all night and listen for the cry of
fire, and help carry baggage down stairs
when it comes. Let an electric wire be
connected to each Chinaman, and the
night clerk down stairs sends shock
around every five minutes to keep them
awake. Only thirty cents to sleep in
absolute safety in hotel Why, sir,
I'd pay thirty-fve in minute-yes, forty
of 'em, and if the old woman was along
I'd make it seventy-fve cents and throw
in plug of tobacco. What do you think
of my theory"
Every good" A.,
"Kin get it patented"
Perhaps"
"Then I'll do it. I'm not going to
rack and wrench my head for the benefit
of hotels. I'll apply for a patent and
sell county rights for $3.50 each, and if
l don't bankrupt these fire-escape chaps
you can call me a cahooter! Egad! but
when folkspin me out for fool they
don't even know the color of the old
coon's furr'-Detro1 Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
Dangers Of Railway Travel and Railway
Service.

c.. ..-- 4--,.
oo1e very interesting ana also some
very sIaru1ng ueuuctl0ns may De MADE
t u Ir Ilie taole OF railway accidents IN
Une 0hlleu states reported by the Cen
9 1oso bureau rGi Ior the year ended June 3D.
a loS'' Inc IoIaI NUMBER OF passengers
o oad thl curing tne year was z19'oo3,34o'
a az ~ I1e NUMBER OF olncers ana employees
" an hinoS was 4I0'9o| Althougn TINS
lnciuues general olllcerS, clerks ana 9TH
els whose 9uCles are not especially dan
Selous' we nave not reduced the result
a. we hiignc nave oone by suostractlng
. t taxing the oiflclal totals we md
inc lolio"lng averages:
KILLED AND INJURED
K IrHasn causes oeyoaa tne,r own control; 40
Empioyes-s6o' or to every. 1911
ln1ured7EhasSengersn GSS or to every Sl4'g1
Through their own csrc, o o c'0i'
Kilied~Passengers-ss, or1 to every s2s7,eol
Employes-663, or to every. 632
IA OF 10
Aggregate killed and injured:
Passengers-6S7, or l to every ss24 O7
Employes4,54O or to every. 49,. %
From this it will be seen that the dan
gers of railway travel to passengers, if
they use ordinary care, are astonishing
small, only one passenger being killed
by fault of the railways to each 4, 410, 400
who travelled during the year, and only
one injured to each S14, 421. The'num-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
Great Pan Is Dead.

Unless all the people in this vast coun-
try are to be bowed down with weight
of woe, something must be done to re-
strain the gloomy granger. Each year
regularly he kills off the corn or the
wheat, the apple or peach crop, but this
year nothing less than wholesale destruc-
ton will satisfy him. Not content with
prospective lack of corn-bread or alb
sence OF the .toothsome dumping, the in
satiate monster foreshadows a famine,
where neither pone nor pie has any part.
The corn was pretty effectively disposed
of early in the season, farmers being in
formed that little of it had ripened thor
oughly enough to terminate. They were
advised to carefully select the best they
had for seed, and hope was expressed
that out of the best some might grow
when planted. This hope, however, is
now blasted. The extreme cold weather,
we are told, has frozen the germ in such
grains as were fortunate enough to pos
sess any, thus making the planting of
corn fields next spring a useless and
hopeless task. The wheat, of course, was
winter-killed some time ago. 1t is in
the sleet-storm, however, that the sad
prophet particularly delights. In a
fall of rain which turns to ice upon
the trees, he revels with u melancholy
pleasure. He rises and goes forth in
the night to gather branches of the peach,
the cherry and apple trees. He examines
the buds of these and finds they are
killed. Dead OF course they are, else
what is the use of a sleet storm? The
last storm killed all the buds Nothing
is left alive anywhere, according to this
prognosticator. Everything is dead
which had not already been destroyed.
Next year we will have no corn, no
wheat, no fruit, no nothing to eat, no
wherewithal to make corners" of. The
public has become quite accustomed to
having some one Of the cereals or of the
standard fruits and vegetables destroyed
each winter, only to have it appear in
profusion after harvest. 1t is, indeed,
quite matter of course that the owners
of immense orchards which are ruined
in January shall come up smiling in Sep
TENDER with millions of baskets of fruit.
But when everything is disposed of in
advance it becomes q different matter.
Persons who might treat the absence of
one article of food with indifference, or
carelessly. believe that the supply will
equal the demand in the end, cannot
view this complete destruction of bread
stuffs and fruits without alarm. Some
thing must really be wrong, and they
grow uneasy. Therural Jeremiah should
be reasoned with and persuaded to keep
silence. If famine is to come, let us eat,
drink and be merry while we may. We
will put ashes on our sidewalks, but
prefer not to wear it on our heads until
August or whereabouts Sufficient unto
the day is the weather thereof and its
prophets, without the fruit and corn
destroyer. Indianapolis Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

and the other Miss Gregory amt prims
either. And, of course, it is awful to
throw your best hat up-stairs!''l mo-
Then Blusie went and leaned over the
balusters, and, shouted: II feel like
being a better-behaved girl now, Miss
Gregory. May l come down nowP''
Miss Gregory looked at the other Miss
Gregory, and smiled, and then she an,
swered Eyes" and Blusie came down.
Blusie stayed with the Misses Greg
DRY for nearly three months, and everv
time she left anything thrown around
one of the Misses Gregory was sure to
discover it, and Blusie always had
to come in, mo matter how busy she
was at her play, and put il. away.
She found it was not a bit of use to
get an9ry-she had it to do.
So, like sensible girl, for the first
time in her life, she tried to be CAREFUL
And she got on so well, when once
she began to try, that she soon became
almost as orderly as the Misses Greg
DRY themselves .s+
And when, at last, she went home.
she was the most orderly person in the
house, and her father called her Little
Miss Prim''-just for fun, you know.
And so, you see, Blusie herself turned
into "a prim."
But / think it was good THING
Horot5O Caritn, IN Church Union.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
A Mothers Car Where Tired Babies
May Roll and Stretch.

OF course ba0ies and their Mothers
Heaven pity them, must sometimes 90 al
travelling. In view of this fact, some
railroad potentate might earn for him.
self blessed Immortality in the memo,
ries of those concerned by building a
car for mothers. The smokers com ortI
is provided for but who thinks of any
extra accommodation for the smokers
wife and little children? How much the,
squeaky old low chair at home is m ssed
by the weary mother on the high seats;
and when the Ii tie ones are tired Sit
ting, there's nothing for them to do but
slide down and lean against the mothers
knee; the tired knee that has so much
to bear" Seems to me it wouldn't be-
an entirely Utopian idea to fit up a car
with different heights of seats, having
say one-half the space of the coach
clear; cover the floor with inexpensive
rugs where tired babies may roll and
stretch their limbs as on their home
carpets. No man allowed in this de-
partment excepting he be accompanied
by small portion of the Kingdom of
Heaven. No doubt many women would
find objections to an arrangement of
this kind. Some people are born for no
other purpose than to OBJ ect They
would probably object to their darlings
rolling on the floor, or taking any other
means to kill time, Just as some moth
ers force their children to sit still and
everlastingly look out of the window.
though eyes and every joint be aching
for change. They muslin run about.
they might "catch something" What
pity these exclusives can't stay in their,
own peck measures. -Movg0~et Hols,sess
IN Indianapolis Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
'sEnded Life as He Began. :"

A burial difficulty of novel kind has
just arisen in the county of Dorset. The
squabble arose over the corpse of a
Waterloo hero, which was to be buried
at Bridgeport. The parties concerned
were no nearer agreementdhan were the
relatives and admirers of the late Gam
beta on the question of his interment;
in fact, they were further apart. The
soldier had shuffled off the mortal coil
before an understanding had come as to
which of his surviving children should
bury him; and so his remains were left
uncoffined for several days. But some
thing had to be done to avoid the inter-
ference of the sanitary authorities. So
at last one of the deceased's sons pro-
cured coffin and wished to put his
father into it. Here another difficulty
arose. The daughter at whose house
the old mans body was lying declined
to give it up; upon which the son tried
to obtain possession of it by force. Be-
tween them they had the making of a
good funeral, but they did their utmost
to spoil it. The supporters of the re-
spective parties fell upon one another,
and the son and his friends were elected
from the house. Thus, peaceful as he
lay, the old soldier tended life as he be-
gan"-amid the din of battle. st. James
Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
How to Act in Case Of Fire.

7 r,, -
Inc papers have lately told us of a
ru OF distressing deaths by fire.
S Ileae i negels ana warehouses have F,f|Jl
LILLY LILLY our5' fnIo sneels OF name IN. tne
negis It aI in ra tha Peopie nave eltner|
throw;na tbenaSalras f,.r,,, 100 or'l
have baep 6aSbod ~ 1,;onos n 4Ln tnuo"s'
hone that none Of nv Tonn C'o $500 9;t1,
NAV ever have To nasr {bryono,l GO nu.faS
an experiences RI1t Il ro,, sho,,i 49, hn
surprised Of niobt ~, in tho do,-t;,, oo
bv The presence of SMOKE in yo,,,. S,,no'
do not lose vonr wits if Won can beIa -
Remember Of sncb a ,3,onoent thaf aI
tbouoh Won are in great danaer IN +be .
are friends near who viii trv ;f ,,oSs;1
bile. to come 70 vorr assistance Pic 10
not omen doors or Windows yiIdIv onG
waste NO nrecions mon,ants in stsnd;no.
and scTeamino for haIn TnstaoJ thinis
if Won CON Of Tho etrofnbtost w. '-[ n,'t
mali, 49,, 49, ,I Wy TuU,
d 10y Mi"P .LioA Shaw VI pi'ihket
alounu YOU foEering your head anu
yogi lair' anu Ineh creep on your hands
NJ hH 10 10 lne uoor OF tne stairway.
a anere Is always az W preatne near tnei
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

and silverware, and whole raft of SUI
Z! pernumeries concerning whom no fellow
on earth can find out what they are apt
to do when the dinner-serving business
is in full blast. 1t is as much as man S
life is worth to get in the kitchen when
meal is under way, for the whole regi-
ment, cooks, walters, dish washers and
all go sliding around like so many peas
in an enormous pod, and the air is as full
of steam and smoke as pandemonium
itself. Everything is clean and glistens
like Furnished silver, so dainty stomachs
need have no fear of getting more than
their rightful ''peck of Dirt out of ho-
tel kitchen.
Along one side of an immense room is a
range about mile long. and near it are
score of tables with every conceivable
edible laid out handy. Every kind of
cooked meat stands under a big pewter
cover, which swings aloft on chain and
pulley when man wants to cut off
slice, and everywhere is wonderful order
in the midst of wondrous confusion. All
the dishes are kept warm on series of
steam-heated racks hung with curtains
to keep specks off, and near by are
series of watts where the dish-washers are
up to their ears in mist, sliding crockery
around in soap-suds by the barrelful.
The laundry is a repetition of this
terrible hustle-a mass of watts and
wringers, tlat-irons, white-covered iron
ing-tables and good-natured girls, who
flop off napkin as if it were no joke at
all, or turn collar over with the dex-
terity of a laundry-born and bred China
man.
An important adjunct of every hotel is
the wine-room, under the supervision of
the wine steward. In the bar-room are
two or three bar-tenders, man who
washes the glasses and sings drinks
when he is not washing, and a cashier,
all of whom have there duplicates, so that
there is a change in the hands on deck
about every six hours The billiard tables
are looked after by set of boys, who
hand out the balls, head the cues, brush
the cloths and keep things in shape gen
orally.
This much for hotels. A great deal
more might be said about milk contracts
and match contracts, meat-stackS as BIG
as ice-houses+and all that sort. of thing
from boxes of wooden tooth-picks up
to tons of coal-but enough has been
said to show that hotel is worth look
ing into, when the top is taken off, and
the reader is left to infer whether the
original premise be not true-that large
hotel in large city is village all by
itself Chicago Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
For Young Readers.
BABIES EVERYWHERE.

Here and there, here and there, 2,
Babies, babies everywhere
Copper-colored, white and brown, . 81,
In the woods and in the town.
Far towards the Northern pole
Little babies fomp and roll T...
Little baby EsquimauX- .t
In world of ice and snow. N'
In sunny island home,
Where the great ships go and come,
Babies frolic in the breeze,
Underneath the orange trees. % I
Where the starry heavens span
waving palms of HindOstan-- -.
In the land of gems and silk
Babies sip the coc0a-milk;
Play with ivory rings and balls
by the fearful ountain walls;
Ride W tn baby merriment
ON tall, tame elephant.
Little Chinese babies, too
wang Che Chang and Chi Chung Loo,
LOOK in babyish surprise
From their narrow almond-eyes;
Learn as little babies can
To hold their chop-sticks, wave their fan,
To eat their plate of snowy rice,
ana now and then a roast of mice.
English babies sweet and fair:
Germans with soft, fiaxen hair;
Dark ltal ans with mamma
Floating in a gondola.
Bab1es-diamond, pearl and opal,
FROM Norway down to OonstantinopIe;
Precious jewels every one,
The dearest things beneath the sun.
But which of all that / have told
Is sweetest, dearest, just pure gold
Made of many mingled charms?
why, OF course, the baby in my arms.
Mrs. N. +. Butts, in YOuth's Companion.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10
A Funeral on the Run.

The other day at Pittsburgh, Pa, when
a funeral cortegc was going to the ceme-
terry, one of the carriages in front stopped
to make some trivial change in the har-
ness. The driver of the vehicle imme-
diately in the rear failed to check his
horses in time and ran into the halted
carriage The result was that the horses
attached to the latter became frightened
and started to run away and soon started
every animal in the cortege in break
neckflight. Numerous carriages, wagons
and other vehicles were overturned and
the whole funeral procession reduced to
wreck of its former uniformity. Men
calculated, women shrieked and many
occupants of vehicles were thrown out
When order again came from the chaos,
it was discovered that aside from the
wrecking of few carriages and some
bruises inflicted upon their occupants,
no damage was done. ....
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

Mrs. Anna Rowney, Of Paris, KY.
has a cat and canary-bird that manifest
great friendship for each other. The
cat evidently listens with pleasure to
the bird when it sings, and the feath-
cred songster, appearing to know this,
seems to pour forth the sweetest notes
it is capable of in order to please it's
feline friend. The cage sits upon the
table, and the cat has often been seen
to jump up and lie down against the
cage and allow the bird to pick fur from
its body to line its nest NJ o. Plea
yatae. - .-'
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

Persons who have been in Washing
ton and while there. purchased tickets
admitting them to any part of the Capt.
toll Building single tickets, two dol
lars; season tickets, twelve dollars.
and who afterwards found that the tick
cts were worthless and the sellers
frauds, will be pleased to learn that the
police have at last arrested one, of the
swindlers. The practice, which has
been in vogue for months, will now, it
is thought, be broken up. m Y. Herald
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

California estimates that the red
wood lumber of Humboldt County, Cal
ifornia, sold at eighteen dollars per
thousand, would pay the National debt
Wood that it.could!-D Detroit Post
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

"A marriage notice in the Elmira IN.
Y.,) advertiser tops offin this way: mo
cards, no cake, no flowers, no presents
and nobody's business"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-03-10

"A man in Rome, Ca, who was an
noyed by creditors, hung out small
pox sign and reposed in peace.
The Portland daily press., 1883-05-11
Personal.

Mr.. E. s. Ridlon started for Moncfon. New
Brunswick, last night. on professional business
He will probably return the first of next
week.
Hon. E. W. Davis native of Cumberland
county, Maine. resident Of Fond du Lac,
Wis, since 1s47, died there on Saturday Of
Bright's disease. He was once a member of
the Iowa Legislature, and had held many Off
ces of trust in Fond du Lac. His age was IA
years.
Mr.. J McKenna of Quebec, the newly APP
pointed travelling passenger agent for the Mar
itims Provinces and Maine, for the Canadian
Pacific railway is at the Preble House.
DIR. Edwin Dow has taken the place of Mr.
c. III. Osgood, resigned, as conductor on the
Portland and ogdeusbnrg local passenger train
Mr.. Dow is very popular with the travelling
public.
Capt. A. W. DseriDg, an old resident OF
Mobile, died In that city on tbs 9th uli., aged
s. years. He was born in Portland, and won't
to Mobile esrly 10 life. Hs was a highly re
speeted citizen, having held many impor ant
offices Of trust, and was harbor master of the
port Of Mobile for many years.
1t was Postmaster Goddard who moved the
invitation to the President at the committee on
Fourth Of July meeting Wednesday evening.
Gen. Stephenson, Commander Of tho Sol-
dier's Home, Togus, and family arrived in the
city Wednesday forenoon, from Boston, by
steamers Star Of the East and Della
Collins.
A private despatch from Washington receiy-
ed in this city, from a usually well-posted
source, says that General Sewall Of Maine, is
likely to receive the appointment to the vacant
Commissionership OF Internal Revenue. The
selection would be strong one.--Boston Tray
eI1ar