Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-19

lutoNAGilNh ~ a auA . edNiANAiNN 81 |
that body, will have to find something |
else than Methodist preaching for bis
so 900 supeInuOus Massachusetts, females |
to do
SENATOR CAHERoN's return homo will
mark the sudden conversion of q number
of Blaine delegates 10 ont aud ont Arthur
men,
RUsKIN, says he has stopped grumblug
only because it is of no use. He may oh
serve, however, that the world keeps on
going round
CHIEF JUsTICE MARsuALL's grand
daughters admit that the sculptor who
made his statue, recently set up in Wash
| iugton, vastly improved the "pug nose
OF the original
MINNIE PALMER has bought $4,000
worth of jewelIy out of her earnings 10
London, and her husband, John Rogers, is
about to start paper. The jewelry will
soon be at the pawnbroker's.
BLIND JUDGE WEST, who once ran as
the Republican candidate for governor iu
Ohio, will make the nominating speech
for Blaine in Chicago. The blind will
lead the blind into the ditch.
The Philadelphia Pres: yesterday has
faithful account of the young sculptor,
John ]. Boyle and his work. He merits
the good things said of him and will be
heard from some of these early days
METHODIST preachers wives cannot be
blamed for wanting to sec their husbands
elected to the episcopacy, for no less an
one than Paul said 4" She that desireth the
office of bishops wife, desireth a coed
thing"
| ARTnUR shows signs Il abatiGg gal
l4ntry. A woman called at the White
House tho other day, and announcing her
self as the Bride and the Queen of the
World" said she had come to be crowned.
She WAS turned over TO the police, who
sent her back to Boston. Another reason
why Massachusetts is "agin the admin.
istratioD.
EDITOR, BUILDER, RAILRoADEu AND
MAN OF ALL ENTERPRISE WM. NJ. SING
ERLY, of Philadelphia, now asks permis-
sion of the park commissioners to give
Sunday concerts, without cost to the city,
and under such regulations and rsstric-
tion AS the Fairmount park commissioners
may suggest. IL will no doubt be granted
aud popular gratitude will stick another
feather in S,ngerly's cap, II there is room
ioT 1t.
\ CARPET usod for five years N the San
Francisco mint gold room was cut up and
burned. The ashes were subjected to the
process employed With mining dust, and
they realized $1,000 Some OF the relig
oGs papers are using the incident as an
illustration OF the lives OF some Chris
tiaus. The discipline they endure in the
world euriches them aud when God tries
them they come forth as gold. Ia these
days of spring house cleaning it needs NO
reminder that great many lives like the
carpets only make the more dust the more
they are beaten.
In Japan, inc oldest empire Of the
world, where the population is dense and
, the laws Of health well understood, crema
: tion is fostered by the government. The
burning at Toxic is all done after night
: and by the rude process employed there a
body is reduced to ashes and bones iu
three hours. These are then given sepul
turo. There are three classes of cremation
at this establishment. In the first class
each body is burned separately, a charge
being made OF seven yen (s7.) In the
second class the charge is only ten shill'
ings, the difference being that two or
more, according to the briskness OF trade,
are burned at the same time, The third
GLASS pay sl.60, tho semblance of coffin
? provided by the two being dispensed with,
q Ia India, where cremation ia also prac.
{ tised, the body Ia burned ON a pile Of
q sandal wood and the ashes collected in an
urn.
THE York RHRSyLraatdR continues to
be exercised over the visit of Barnum's
circus to that town and the grant of a
holiday to the school children on the day
. of the show. Its severe structures have
. called forth some counter criticism, to
which it refers In such vigorous terms al
these
We assume that the oowardly anony
D nous communication vomited from Mack
Q erel Alley, aud which had no bearing on
5 the moral leprosy of closing the public
q schools to enable innocent juveniles TO be
contaminated with odious scenes oi
lioentiousness and depravity, following Ia
{ the wake OF circus, was indited by q
, school director.
G Nothing more animated has been seer
a IN Pennsylvania journalism this cool spring
!. than the exciting controversy of the Agt
$ aud HHnsg'gdniaH over the great cirou,
0 issue. 1t is manifest that Barnum did moi
/. put all his free tickets whore they would
| do the moat onod