Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-17


SATURDAY next is the last day on which
taxes can be paid to enable a citizen to
have voice in the choice Of municipal
officers at the election, FEBRUARY 10.
THE Ohio poet who wrote that earth
is gorgeous sponge soaked with divu.
ity," must have been ont in q rain storm
without his gassamer coat before he
mounted his Pegasus.
The Legislature has made it misde
meauor to sell oleomargariue or .litation
cheese without the same being couspicu
ously branded rs such, but this is no pro.
tectioa against bad butter.
THE death notices OF Two persons Of
high social standing, printed in the Phill.
delphia newspapers to day, are accompl.
MED with the note Friends arc kindly
requested not to sepd flowers" The abuse
Of the custom, happily, promises 10 put an
end 10 IT,
HENCEFoRTH the circus bill is to be
robbed Of some Of its most thrilling fea-
lures in Pennsylvania. According to the
law of June !, lSS3, it is a misdemeauor
punishable with $500 iue or imprisonment
or both for any one to perform or exhibit
the shooting of person from . catapult,
knife throwing or pistol shooting at one !
head, trapeze performing without net or
any feat hazardous and jsopariizng
human life.
IT is gratifying to note the advance o
aestheticsm in giving names to railroad
stations. The main limo of the Pennsyl
vania railroad has sweet sounding station
= like Bryn Mawr, Berwyp, Dutfryn Mawl
:, Villa Nova and L Emwooi; and tho Phia
;. delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore road
now under p r. r. control, seems TO b
affected with similar desire to have sta
"" "" tions equally mellihuous in pronunciation
=. Plain prosy Kelleyyille Is to give way t
- Burmontaud StateLine to Sylnar. Ere Ion
Conductors will be patterned on the O,ca
;, Wilde model, aud brakemen will be re
quigGd to discourse enthusiastically on th
. beauties of tho sunhower.
II both the national and state rules f.
e holding the Republican state c0nveutio
i DO observed, the date OF holding it will b
/. Sunday, May 4. Under the ma
u tional rule governing the time
o holding the state convention for Il
election of national delegates, it sha
/ 'be held " not less than thirty nor mo,
e than sixty days before the time fixed f
u the meeting Of the national convention.
u Cnder the state rule it mus, be held " nc
II more than thirty days previous to the da
J fixed for the national convention" A
3 Sunday, May 4, is the only day that sati,
70 fies both rules, and it cannot be held thei
the bosses will fix day to suit themselve
u a result doubtless contemplated by ther
u when the rules were made.
II NIEwISG the population OF the countl
/. "a total of over fifty millions by the lSS
,e cenbus) with regard to specified ages, it
d 70 be observed that it falls into substaI
N | N''HJ N'bH bfhaoC9 lbE tdSh hl Lub Nv
}. years below % years Of age. Thus, whi
n there is steady reduction in the numb,
Or of persons Of any given age with ii
er advancing years, there is no great difIe
ry ence between the number in the ella
Of from to 3, 3 to 10, Is to 20 or 20 to 2
ne But after this tho fall off is notable al
to continues with few exceptions to Il
o. higher longevity. The largest class AFT
at 30 is Of persons between 80 ana 40,
he whom thcro are ecorded 022, $40 AGAR
on ASS Oj2 between 80 and 80, and 323,C
". between 40 and Al. The extremes of I
on age table are represented in tho fact Il
its while the number under one year
il age is l, i47,033 tho number betweeu
and 80 Is 4,7G] a1i over 90 there are 3,
reported.
- PERSONAL.