Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-31


cause is furnished for federal attention
to this benighted and demoralzad com.
munity. That eminent Pharisec, Sena.
tor HOar, may not be expected TO see the
beam in New England's eye, so busily
engaged as he is in telescoping the mote
on the Utah horizon; but will not some
fraternal colleague bring to his notice
the melancholy condition of the polyga.
mis,s in Rhode Island
NmGINGA's John Brown met with con.
siderable misfortune in his cheokercd
career, but he never had q seuile queen
write book about him while moulder.
ing in the grave, rs is tho case vi.h his
English namesakc.
Il answer to Robt. Portcr's ascription
OF rauperism in England to the influence
Of free trade, J. s. Moore produces the
figures to show that in 1883 there was
p1upor to every SO Il Of the population Of
England and Wales in ls40, hen the
protection system was in vogue, the aver
ago Of pauperism was one to ls.26 of the
population.
The Philadelphia Record, with all it's
pretensions on economic questions, makes
o mess of it when it says Pennsylvania
leaf IS used only on ordinary cigars, that
Connecticut suffers mainly from oompeti.
tion With foreign tobaccos, and tha; the
Connecticut seed leaf long ago displaced
the Pennsylvania leaf. % the contrary.
quito the reverse.
a WEALTHY Maryland father, angry at
his nineteen year old sons marriage TO q
/ poor damsel of the samo age, has placed his
/ son in the state house of correction as
! 'H,orrigiblc. 1t is very much to be feared
tEa, the plternal remedy here i3 worse
/ than the juvenile disease. II all those
"@o made foolish marriages were to be
Imprisoned therefor, houses Of correction
would need considerable enlargement.
! Gov. rATTIsON, made \ sudden descent
aYan the state luuatIo asylum near Harris
burg yesterday and discovered, to his
oulro dissatisfaction, that the siokeuing
"''T Of cooking vegetables pcrme2tod
every part Of the building, that the ven,i.
la'jon IS very imperfect, and that the build
iuG is in constant danger Of cJuhagration
from the wooden nues n Tho collar. Tao
governor may conclude that sono new
trustees are needed.
y CORRESPONDENT from Martins Sta.
On, Va, complains in letter 10 the Er-
a miner, of which he sends rs i copy, thai
~ newspaper prints gross libels upon
t'e people of Virginia in tho matter Of the
Danvilto riots. No doubt It does but the
Examiner draws its inspiration from Sher
man and Malone, and our esteemed cor
respondent had better fire his ammunition
at those reckless pgevarica'ors. The E-.
amiasr is small game
HAZING as an annual college event
appears - be on tho wlno. Hero and
there sporadic cases of tho Oil disease arc
reported, and even these are rare. Down
in Annapolis az tho naval academy, an
attempt to revive this foolish custom
recoiIed on the heads of the projectors
The upper class moa clught a Tartar ia a
fourth class man, who proved abuadautlv
aoo TO take care Of himself, ~ well as his
would be tormaHtors The hazing Drac.
tico is boyish and cowardly one, and in
becomes tEoso who arc getting their cdu
cationat 'ho expense of tue government,
THE sources of tho best humoross
writing are found in actual occurrences
The immortal humor of tho grave diggers'
Sceno In Hamlet is derived from Plow
den's report of the crown Gaze of Hales y.
Petit, which was tried about lJO2-G3 The
argument pro and con Of tho learned
counsel in tho case Is rs fairly para.
phrased in Hamlet" rs travesty will
allow Whether man WHO commits
suicide dies during his own lilo, or only
begins to do whether no browns him
self, or only goes into tee wator whethor
going into the water is felony, or only
part of felony; and whether u subject
can be attainted and his lands cscheatod
for only part o! felony"
-4 90 s.
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