Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-16

grossly cheated by it q? We trust that
councils will find out from their law ad-
viser whether the people of the town are
not entitled tC demand and able to secure
the light thev pay for.
ANOTHER day gone and Commodore
Hiestand's contest of the Democratic in
spector in the First ward shows no sign
OF life.
A LITTLE more speed, gentlemen of the
Western Union telegraph company, in the
matter of providing better accommodation
for local patrons of your line, would give
the community some assurance that you
weio in earnest when the promise of re
form was given.
"SAND planting is doing much in tho
direction of increasing the forest growth
Of California, and many thousands of
pine and other varieties of timber have
lately been set out with the result Of ma
terally changing fol the better large por-
tions of the landscape.
TIE prevailing drought in New Eng
land, dating as far back as August last,
has caused great damage to the business
OF the region. In many places mi Is
have been shut down, OWN. to low
water and farmers are obliged to melt
snow to get water for their cattle and for
household purposes. In consequence
there is more than usual suffering among
the poorer class Of laborers. who are
thrown ont Of work and thus deprived of
their customary means of subsistence.
THEY have "a queer Old fellow i'll Philadel-
phia who for many years has devoted him
self - the construction of a machine to be
called 4 " steam man. which is ~ have
human shape, anu which when complete
b. expects to set walking around the
streets of Philadelphia strong enough to
draw horse car and with heetucss to
distance the swiftest runner. In few
weeks this strange genius, who has pre-
viously made several unsuccessful ventures
in the same line, promises to have his
steam man completed and in working
order. The description Of the machine is
20 filed up with various kind of cranks
that we are inclined to believe the inveI-
10: is one himself.
POODLE dog doctors are the outgrowth
OF the latest phase of feminine idiosyucraSy.
IL the large cities they go around in their
carria seS, attend the suffering CANNES,
prescribe for them and are literally re-
warded with big fees by their grateful
mistreSses who stand around with stream
ing eyes while doctor devotes himself to
the task of alleviating poor little doggy's
ailments. While the mania OF women of
fashion for pet poodles is known to have
reached such height as to make the
tr..ffic in puppies the basis icr quite an ex
teasive trade, the spectacle OF a learned
canine physician who aspires TO coupe
and gets handsome compensation for his
daily visits is one calculated to make
common people pause and wonder what
siall be the next freak Of fashionable
folly.
FASHIONABLE ladies wear 4 dress
known as the Champagne Bottle" in
which the petticoat, bodice, overdress,
sleeves aad every portion of the costume
bear some distinctive design illus
traSive Of the novel concei'. In the samo
style is another known as Tobacco" in
which there are represented cigars, en-
broidered tobacco leaves, pipe stems and
the like. An Open Fire is quaint and
pretty, the front comprising an iliustra-
tion of u crate, with the usual accumpani.
ment of shovel, tougs and poker, while a
costume made upon classic model, loose
and flowing, and clasped at the shoulder,
like the gown of St. Cecilia. is designed
80 illustrate " Music,' with its rich en-
broldcry OF all manner of instruments,
the stave and notes, bass aud treble
clefs and other signs of musical nota-
ton.
THERE is scarcely q superstition that
has deeper root than the one which is
voiced in tie couplet,
Z" If thirteen sit at table
One OF theln's apt to die
Stories exist by the hundred going to
show circumstances under which the Old
saw has been tragically verified, but they
don't seem to have made much impress
son on the vcnturesome chaps in New
York who constitute the Thirteen
club" and who celebrated its first ami
versavy at the Kuickerbocker cottage, No.
4J4 Sixth avenue, with dinner. On
January 13, 1882, the club was organized
with thirteen members to combat the
popular superstitions attaching to that
number. 1t selected the Knickerbocker
cottage as its headqualters because tho
number 454 added together make thirteen,
and secured as club room, room 13, of
the cottage. In the same spirit the ami.
versary was observed. The menu was
coiiin-shaped card with border Of thir-
teen nails. and contained thirteen courses,
but the number Of the club has increased
during the year SO that it now reaches
thirteen times the original thirtcsn-;n all
169 members. Among them are Prcsi-
dent Arthur, Roscoe Conkling, s. S. Cox
and other well known men. At the re-
cent anniversary only small portion
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