Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-13

have been absolutely no excuse for its
creation, except the restless desire for
change SO natural to the managers of
the coinage.
| The liquor question will not down in
Jersey, and the Legislature, after ubborn
resistance, has buckled down to considera-
tior Of higher licenses and more restric
tiors around the traffic.
| NORTHwEsTERN grain shaGps think the
price of wheat will not fall, but that a
further advance is probable, the variety of
winter weather having had serious effect
and European countries being short.
TIE Massachusetts Senate will investi
gate Buffers removal of the state prison
warden. Then, perhaps, the country will
see the promised but long delayed fur.
flying in Massachusetts.
THE pension expenses are a very large
| and important part Of the annual ordinary
expenses of the government. La the wear
which ended June 80, 1892, the sum paid
for pensions-nearly SCI, 800, ,OOO- was one
third of the total ordinary expenditures of
the government, outside Of the interest on
the public debt. The commissioner s
estimate of pension expenses for the cur
rent year-sl00,O 900, OOO-was A. per cent.
of the total estimated ordinary expenses
outside of interest on the public debt.
The late Earl of Ashburnham's collec
tiOn of manuscripts is offered for sale to
the British museum. They extend from
the Saxon period to letters of Cromwell
including the refusal of Hampden and
others TO pay ship money. There are
four thousand volumes. The price will
probably be, 100000, and if Great Bri
tain hisitates to purchase the collection
America is certainly ready to do so Chi
cago holds bequest for the purchase of
library. Germany has already been treat.
ing for the purchase of the manuscripts.
TWO KINGS.
Two Kings were sitting in Orkadal
by toichllght glare in the pilared hall.
The minstrel sang the wine foamcd high;
The Kings looked on with gloomy eye.
Up spakc the one : "Give me the fair,
Blue are her eyes and golden her hair"
The other he answered with angry mien:
" My VOW Is recorded, she is my queen ~
The Kings thereafter spoke not q word,
But up they rose and each grasped his sword !;
And out they stalked from the lighted hall,
" here the snow lay deep with silent fail.
Bright flashed the blades by the castle wall
Two Kings lay dead in Orkadal.
Lillian Taylor from the Gern,un
The superintendent of the Philadelphia
mint states that he has no knowledge of
an intention "'to stop the coinage of the
new five cent pieces on account of the
omission of the word scents.'" If he
hasn' t he ought to get it very soon, for
there are gold washed copies of the coin
out already, which are calculated to dc
ceive the ignorant with the idea that they
are worth "V" dollars. We have seen
specimens prepared in this city well calcu-
lated to deceive the unwary and easily
mistaken for five dollar gold pieces when
devised thing
SWITZERLAND no longer presents tho
worst national record for drunkenness.
"Sturdy and sober" Belgium, for the ac-
commodatiOn of it's million and a quarter
male adults, has 102, 900 public houses of
various kinds, Or one drinking shop to
every twelve persons. The medical
officers at the Brussels hospital say that
of every 100 cases under their care which
terminate fatally, so are due to the effects
of alcohol. While in 1875 there were 352
suicides in Belgium, there were 5S1 in
1880. There are also three times as many
insane persons in confinement in Belgium
now as there were thirty years ago, when
the great increase in liquor drinking began
to be manifest.
Miss MARTIN, an intelligent lady of
central New York, who became reduced |
in circumstances, found that she neither |
sang we'll enough for stage purposes, nor
had she any histrionic talent. In giving
the subject serious consideration, she re-
membered that there was one thing she
could do very we'll, and that was picking
and preserving. She told her friends that
she was going to make a large quantity of
pickles and preserves of different kinds,
and that she wanted to sell them. They
bought them, her reputation extended,
the dealers sought her goods and now she
business worth from Sc, 600
to $40 900 year. Everything she makes
is the very best of it's kind. All the in
gradients she uses in her pickles and pre-.
serves are the best in the market, and
though she employs number of men and
women, she superintends everything her
elf and while her articles are all in the
hops. they have homelike taste that is
All the jars bear her in.
tials written in fac o-simile of her autograph