Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-08-18


performance confirms.
WHY should bangs remain, IL Mother
Hubbards must go?
WHILE the president aud n good portion
OF bis cabinet are off recreatiDg, the clerks
at Washington are holding up the country.
Ir is said that 81. John, the Prohibition
candidate, got his first start in life by
being driven from Independence, Missouri,
at the pistols point by noted desperado
1t appears then that st. John is afraid of
other things besides liquor.
MAHoNE's Shiny track is clearly visible
in the proposition made in the Virginia
Senate on Saturday looking to the total
reputation Of the state debt. How have
the political morals of the Old Dominion
fallen since this unscrupulous advepturer
came into power.
IN THs gLES.
The fairy folk had frosted DER tn glen.
Ana set with Jewels every blalc ot grass
The snow lay dritiod In the bitches, when
glory rarefed the crystal pass.
Two reeds that clung together by pool,
Ice bound were held apart estran scd ant
How weak together - said l. and my heart
Thought its own thought aud sighed, "llow
Prom the Good Words.
THE Irish party in Parliament is stronger
by tour member now than it was when
the session opened. The exposure of the
| Cornwall Bolton crimes in Dublin has
done much toward solidifying English
| sentiment in Ireland favor. It is Crea,
| pity that there should be bitter disagree
meut between Messrs Parnell and Davitt
when the political sky of the Emerald Isle
never seemed brighter.
| The Democratic party is pledged 70 the
! forfeiture of the immense land grants {
railroad companies, the conditions of whiol
have not been performed by the grantees
| The Democratic House at the recent session
passed bills of forfeiture for so 2l2 304
acres Of land grants. Tho Republican
Seuato acted on only one Of these bills, tha
forfeiting $4,000, 900 acres granted th,
Atlantic Il Paciti, road. They amended
| the bill in a manner that will involve tn,
| government in Law suit. The Democratic
party is truo TO it's word, while the Re,
publican party keeps the promise to th,
ead, breaking it to the hope.
FIFTY years ago Mrs. Trollopo wrote 1
| book on the United States and its caUstit
| Crtt al Of md
methods excited our forefatAers very
much. Later Charles Dickens gained
money and fame by grossly and falsely
cWicaturiug life in the United States
arousing much indignation. Now SI
L3pel Griffin comes along and writes il
similar vein, but his work instead OF ex
citing the old.time CONSERVATION
greeted with deristou. The United State
, have parted with their swaddling cother
aud the Gaping criticism of the small
minded foreigner have about the sam
, effect as the tiy on lions mano.
lT has long bJeu admitted that French
mau living on cereals eau lIXuriOusl,
snbsist in much cheaper fashion than hi
English brother. With what it costs fU
ths latter to buy his pound of coveted
roast beef, the Freuchman will purchas
eigh, pounds of cereals. Much as thi
illustrates the superior adaptability of th
Freuohmau in the contest of life, i: is sur
passed by his cuteness in buying American
oottonseed oil az three cents a pound
purifying 1t and selling it back to Americ
as olive oil at S3 gallon. Ii to thD
French disposition were added the doggcd
ness Of the Euglishmau the combination
would DO hard to beat.
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