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Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
She PLAYED II in Lancaster.

John T. Raymond, on his summer vacation,
tells New York World reporter, that last
year he had a lady from Washington, a
young married lady, come to him for help in
getting position upon the stage lie found
her smart, full of talent and already full of
promise. He gave her the part of Amelia IN
ain Paradise" She played it during his
engagement in Lancaster, Pa She appeared
in the role with only two slight preliminary
rehearsals, and played the part much better
than the leading lady of the company, who
was trained professional. Mr. Raymond
believes that all of our leading public speak
ers arefine actors. Conkling, Blaine, Evarts,
Ingersoll might now make great hits i'm al
most any part they might undertake upon
the stage. BIains, individuality and a knowl-
edge OF the world and OF human nature are
the prime requisites to success on the stage
The man or woman who has these is certain to
succeed upon the stage without tany so-called
professional training. No great actor was
graduated from any school except that of real
life, and no elocutionist was ever able to give
any one the faintest semblance of eloquence.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
GRANT's fame will increase with the
shadows Of the lengthening years TO come.

THERE is perhaps more wholesale roguery
In the oil business than in any other, and the
tricks Of the oil sharps, If properly explained
to the heather Cbinee, would make him mad
with jealousy. The oil sharp who knows his
business can locate oil at any point Of the
globe on an instants notice, and as he is
voluble, insinuating chap, he finds 1t not
difficult to persuade goodly number Of the
gullible to believe all that he tells them. He
will even go SO far as to drill hole and pour
into 1t crude oil transported thither from a
distance. With these evidences ofa ''gusher,"
subscriptions to his scheme pour in like
water; and when he gets all the ready money
that Is floating he decamps for another field
of labor. His victims usually desire to keep
their foolishness secret and thus the
scoundrel escapes punishment 1t would be
good thing for the oil country IL the heavy
hand of the law could be laid on the oil sharI
to his determination.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

THE New York Herald, which pays con-
siderable attention to the weather from year
to year, notes that the area ofexcessive heat for
the last ten days extends from the Gulf coast
and Eastern Texas in northeasterly sweep,
somewhat MISUNDERSTANDING that the vast
"warm wave" stretching from Texas to
Massachusetts,, is due to the movement of
tropical air into the higher latitudes. This
cannot be otherwise clearly accounted for
than by assuming that the air pressure in
British America has been for some time
abnormally low and consequently a strong
movement of the hot currents from the Gulf
of Mexico has been induced. To know that
the lack of proper air pressure in British
America is causing the extreme and long
continued torridness is very little satisfaction
to the man who finds life burden even in a
linen duster. The present torridity in New
York bids fair to eclipse the famous heated
July of 1876 in which on ten days the
mercury rose to or above 80, going on one
day as his high as 90. What jolly thing il
would be for the denizens of the
metropolis If an iceberg of good
proportions should gaily float into New York
harbor at the time when the heat way getting
! In its warmest work !
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
PERSONAL.

JOHN Z. FREMONT, who is ~ years Old
says that he camped where Chicago is,
where Minneapolis is, and whore Salt Lake
City is before there was a house at either
place.
GLADSTONE has from the estate of Hay
warden an income of S25, 900 year, and he is
patron of four church livings, one of which,
held by his son, is worth ST., 500.
HERBERT SPENCER, oyerburdened with
the demands of correspondents, has adopted
the plan of mailing Autographed circulars
explaining why he does not answer the let
tiers received by him.
DIR, GATLINd, tI9s1nventof' Of We W. famous
machine gun, saFs that the best thiTg1.<
governmeht>can do for our navy, is to build
a ectiorr0f Ead's ship railway and run tn,
slilpSSnp on dry land, out of the reach of for
eign gunboats.
DIR. TRoITsKI, as result of a number o
observations, states that In every case, vary
ing according to the condition of the indi
vidual, there is an exhilaration of the pulse
rate and slight elevating of temperatur,
from smoking. If the average temperature
of non-smokers were represented by 1000
that OF moderate smokers would be l,00S
while the heart in the former case was max
ing 1000 pulsations, in the latter it woulC
beat l,lS0 times-hence tho harm of tobacco
smoking.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

IT has doubtless occurred to many hotel
boarders, particularly at the summer resort
hotels, that there is vast deal of waste en-
tailed on the lengthy bill of fare commonly
furnished. And as the hotel proprietor does
not work for glory, the conclusion is inevi-
table that the boarder Is made to pay for the
waste that Is apparent. 1t is, therefore, graf
flying to see that reform is being inaugu-
rated in this respect. A writer in the August
Century, George lies, says: "rhe best hotels,
it gives me pleasure to state are fast moving
in the direction Of simplicity in the bill of
fare In New York, the leading house on
the American plan, does not provide its table
with much more than one-half the variety OF
dishes one may have offered at second-rate,
pretentious concerns throughout the coun.
try The dietary, too, in America, is un.
questionably improving" The average hotel
guest cares not so much for great variety Of
edibles as for good quality in the few placed
before HIM.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
The salisbury government Defeated.

The government was defeated in the House
Of Commons Thursday evening by vote of
$50 to 1870 on a clause of tho medical relief
bill. The Parnellites opposed the govern
ment. On the announcement of tho result
of the division the ministers held a hurried
consultation and Sir Michael Hicks Beach
announced that the govern ment Ielinquished
responsibility for the bill Sir William
bility on behalf of the opposition. The dis
cussion of the bill was then continued, Mr.
Ceilings moving the amendments put down
In the name of Mr. Balfour, who had charge
of the bill.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

In Maine, according to the Boston Globe,
to give the sign of distress to any member in
good standing, pound three times on the
outer gate, give two hard kicks and one soft
one on the inner door, give the password,
" Rutherford b. Hayes" turn to the left,
through a dark passage, turn the thumb
screw of mysterious gas fixture ninety de-
grees to the right, holding the goblet of the
encampment under the gas fixture then re-
verse the thumbscrew, shut your eyes, insult
your digester, leave twenty-five cents near
the gas fixture and hunt up the nearest ceme-
terry, 50 that you will not have to be carried
very far
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
A Child Accidentally Poisoned.

Word has been received in Chambersburg,
Pa, concerning the accidental and fatal poi
soning of Belle, the fourteen-year-old daugh-
ter of George w. Rough, at East Waterford,
Juniata county on Tuesday last. The child
was suffering with malaria and her father ad-
ministered a dose strychnine in mistake for
tor quinine. The daughter died in terrible
agony before medical assistance arrived. The
father had purchased the strychnine for the
purpose OF poisoning crows some time ago
and had forgotten about its presence in the
house. He has become almost crazed with
the grief occasioneI by the death of his
child. The bottle had not been labeled as
poison.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
0bc fautaster 1ntclliacnter.
LANCASTER, JULY a, 1885.
The Stock Boom.

If there was any improvement apparent
In business the advance of the Wall street
prices for railroad securities would be
reasonable and might be expected to be
permanent. But as there is no indication
of revival in trade there can be no fair
ground upon which to expect a revival of
railroad earnings. The rise in stocks seems
to be based upon the belief that there will
be cessation of railroad rivalries. Certain
agreements are reported between the New
York Central and Pennsylvania railroad
interest by which each is to lie down in its
pasture, and accept only its fair share of
business. Whereupon it appears to be sup
posed that the other railroads of the coun-
try, charmed by this noble exhibition
Of unsellish wisdom, have determined to
do likewise; so that from henceforth
no company will carry goods that are in
the territory of another company, and
none will charge less than the others for
the like service. Upon this belief railroad
stocks go up flying as they ought to if the
idea was well founded; for a company
may carry small amount of freight and
yet do profitable business if it can charge
what it pleases. The only sufferers by this
railroad loveliness are tie public, who may
be considered to be heartily damned by the
agreeing companies.
But if this expected thing, that balloons
the prices Of railroad stocks, comes really to
pass, we may deem the millennium to be
upon us in which day railroad directors
will be so good that they will not take ad.
vantage of the people any more than they
will of each other and SO even the public
viii not suffer if it be really true that the
railroad companies have reached the sens
bic conclusion to steal no more Of eacl
others business.
We declare that we are delighted to SCI
- confidence entests;ned by investors il
81 4 M ssibility ofythls goodness in the rail
1 Jnageyss y sasnever been suspected
!, s&.yS tesSsisPAsIym md it is surprising
1jeSs ind that the stock buyer have bloome'
so fully into flower out of this ffe-n ffess bud
confidence.
But possibly they have not. 1t would b
so amazing, if they had las to make the fac
doubtful. 1t may be that they are onl
pretending each one conc living that if h
seems to believe, some greater simpleto
will think him sincere and act accordingl,
There isno other reasonable explanation {
the rise in stocks, save that it was COZ
cOcted upon theory of impossible cess
tion of railroad rivalry, to bleed tn
believers in such millennial happening.
When the business of the countr
50 revives that it will give enough trad
to the railroads to go arount
dividends may be looked for and TIL
wise man may invest. 1t goes withou
saying that increased prices of rail carriag
will not tend to revive business and raj
road agreement to fleece the public wi
not help the wool to grow.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
An Enlerprlslng noteI-Keener.

from tne lllfllofu GoAt,
Summer resort hotels are putting on big
adjectives and otherwise keeping apace with
the season. Mosenbaum, who keeps the
"Boudoir," was taken to task for stretching
his advertisement too much.
Hi there, Nose" said friend, 81 see YOU
advertise that your rooms have been en-
larged.n
$50 dey haf"
( "But there have been no carpenters at work
on your placevi
"No. Wait till tole you. haf scraped
der paper OIL dose walls. Sec y
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
More Queer Partners.

Mr.. Sayre, the president of the South
Pennsylvania railroad, says, that the ne
gotiations for the sale of his railroad have
not been carried on by its officers, and that
in fact he has learned as much about the
matter from the newspapers as from any
other source. 1t seems that Mr.. Wander
bilt has been selling out the roads officers,
as well as his associate owners, without
saying as much as by your leave. Mr.. Van
derbilt feels his oats. He is hardly a COM
Portable person to have as partner. But
he will be blessed, indeed, if he does not
tlnd something uncomfortable, too, about
his partners before they part with him. If
he shakes them off as readily as he seems
to think that he can, they are a very amia-
Bile set of gentlemen, indeed. President
Sayre seems to be of the accommodating
Kind himself. When he regrets the aban-
dpnment Of his road he expresses himself
Submissive to it, if other more important
interests can thereby be subserved. He is
confident that new road through South
Pennsylvania will be some day built and
It will be paying investment. This may
be deemed fair notice to the PENNSYLVANIA,
That by slaughteringthispr present project they
do not preserve themselves from future
schemes of like character. They may
De called upon to buy up a parallel road
s"N"'' wear or two, now that they bava
SHOWN Their appetite for this sort of bnag
,,eSS' We have free railroad law-Tn
enillSylvania, and nothing could be more
inviting to capitalists than the E,iIdino
% railroad line betweeY pitts,
pwg and Philadelphia, wKicb tbey
gould sell at profit to Xe Pennsyi
Ssnia and which would pay RIM even -
ania did not buy$ YanderbiIt
tue rsnilSs nnS % ony up rival fines when he
thought wv re'Apg, AUD when the
West Shore struck him \ he Thought
20 get rid of it moI>, cheanlv
9y starving it with low frei rbt cbarges
But that hurt him as mucl as If The
ruth is that railroads cannoY hone 70 Got
id of rivalry and must .relY ON ECONOMY
md good management I'd du Xeir prosperity
Taking on great log h by bpying ont |
iyals is sure way to des ,ction
THE thrifty Englishman8
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
Nervous Prostration Defeated.

Nothing can successfully meet the require
meuts OF exhausted powers and shattered
nerves but Il replacement of those clements
which have been depleted This must be done
or complete prostration ensues. The only avail
able resource that fills every essential is DUFFY's
PURE MALT WiIsKEY, Used with prudent care
IT will inevitably defeat the most threatening
possibilities of utter prostTttion. II Is bcneh-
cal alike to either sex and all occupations, and
j. patronized by the best in every community.
Sold by all rcliable druggists and grocers.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

Is wonderful book, setting forth in great de-
tail Just how miserable human beings can be.
But the whole horrible mess of misery may he
summed mp in one word-dyspepsia. Anybody
who is afflicted with that disease knows the
H ir, niftcrS ;, dSnc,i" itnnns Row
complete and happy is the cure. Mr. Chas. A.
Wilson, of ST. Louis, writes, " Browns Iron Bit
tiers has greatly relieved me of weak stomach,
Indigestion and dizziness
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
THE MNsIERIEs

Once, ON my mothers breast "a child crept
Holding my breath
There safe and sad, lay shuddering aud wept
At the dark mystery of Death.
Weary and weak and worn with all unrest,
spent with the strife.
oh mother let me weep upon thy breast,
AT the sad mystery of Life.
w d. HowettS
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

If John Roach is worth two dollars to
every one that he owes, why did he fail?
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

NONE will regret that the suffering hero
was finally released from his martyrdom of
pam.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
Out Door sports.

With the opening of the season of outdoor
sports comes the time of trouble tor the poor
victims of Hay Fever and Rose Cold. For them
flowers have no odor. and the summer little or
no beauty. 10 snuff, sneeze and wipe their
weeping eyes for three or four successive
months,-this Is their pitiable portion. There Is
no help in sea voyages there is no help in high
mountain air But there is positive cure In
Ely's Cream Balm. Try IL. IL you continue to
suffer ii is because you neglect remedy us sure
AS It is cheap and pleasant. jy2j2wdeod&w
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

THE thrifty Englishman shaLas ha,as
with himself as he reflects III M ,hara a.a ~
more children Of Queen Wy etoria 10 na ,,rn,
Nided for by parliamentary Erant.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24

have taken one bottle of DIR. GRAVES
HEART REGULATOR for Heart Disease and
and II all could desire. A. A. Holbrook, Wor
cester, Mass. Free pamphlet of +. Il. ingalls,,
Cambridge, Mass. sl,OO per bottle at druggists
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-07-24
SPECIAL NOTICES.

Persons Who Past Fifty viii find DR., Ken
nody's Favorite Remedy just about the medi-
cine they need when they need medicine at all.
Tho ten years which follow that age are full of
dangers which do not threaten younger men
ana women. This preparation gives tone to the
system, greatly eNpels impurities and prevents
the outcropping OF diseases the seeds of which
may have been sown in earlier life. Why not
live out all your days in health and strength
jlyl0Imd&w
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23

daisies bloom-it's rather late in the season
for daisies, but they bloom just the same
where the earth and sky are tinted
with the dyes of the rainbow
one can list to natures teachings; and
where the population is so scarce that
there's no chance to dispute census returns
to get out there and stay there is one of
the ambitions that should meet responsive
chord in every mans and womans breast
during dog days. One of the healthiest
things on earth is vacation appetite. The
dyspeptic who has worked himself into
such condition that every thing he eats
seems to go to his stomach. until he prefers
starvation to the misery that eating brings,
revelS in the luxurieS of country fall.
Young ladies whose city breakfast consists
OF toast and chocolate and other trifes,
startle the good man and wife with whom
they put in their visit to the country by
the reckless manner in which they get away
with ordinary edibleS, while the old gentle
man just lets his appetite loose and bids it
reyel in the midst of his landlady's handi-
work. A four dollar a = week boarding
house in row of brick buildings never is
put in position to suffer by comparison as
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
IuM GoLfNDEEcK

faith preached in its chapel, and marrying
wife and opposing his strength as a tenn
pOral prince and electOr TO the strength of
Rome. This was in the latter part of the
sixteenth century, and the siege bravely
maintained within the walls of GOdeSberg
might have held out had not the
strength Of the church been supplemented
by the use of gunpowder, the discovery of
which was simultaneous with printing, and
the employment of which was not disdained
by ecclesiastical authority to undermine and
blow up its enemies. The tower was
spared by the explosion, and the unfortun
ate Archbishop Ago, whose life was spared
through the interceSSiOn of an abbot, who
mao once been his prisoner and whom he
mao kindly treated. Konigswinter Roland
seek and the ''Castled Crags of Drachenfels"
dragons Rock are all passed in rapid
succession, and constitute the beginning of
the most famous legendary portion of
the Rhlne The arch is all that is left of
tllat castle OF Rolandseck. said to have
been Dullt by the great Roland. the nephew
and paladln of ChaTlemagne. who fall of
the battle OF Rouceval, and was betrotbed
to Ndegoude, the faT daughter of fine 7 ord
Of Drachentels. But Roland was snm-
moned 10 Ile wars, whence news came of
his death, whereupOn Hdegoude. in daCnai,.
retired TO neighbOring nunnery and foot
the vows of the siSterhood. Her lover
however, though desperately wounded "a.
turned to find his bride lost to him forever
and in his grief he built his castle of Roi,
andseck. of which only an arch remains
from which he could see the convent of the
sisterhOOd in which Ildegoude was drag
ging out her wretched life. From it he saw
the mOurnful procession which convened
her to the grave, and then himself died
with his face turned towards the chapel in
which she was buried. But the Drachenfels
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-23
nm G01Ey7Eaz.

DID rock a castle?" ''rm so hungry. Don't
you feel hungry? Wonder what time
they have table d'hote." And these young
enthusiasts, who have excited the envy
of their friends by talking OF the Rhine
they Were going to see, and viii for years
III the future eXpatiate ON the glOrieS of the
Rhine they have seen, yawn at the first
stage of it, lose the best and most chaTac-
teriStic part of it at the table dhote. and
bury the rest in a seaside" by the ''Duch-
eSS." Still, travel abroad and trip up
up the Rhine. is Of some use even to vanity
and ignorance. 1t sometimes excites in
them desire TO know something in regard
to what they see, and they end where they
should have begun, i'll acquiring the lore
and something Of the spirit of the region or
the country through which they pass. In
truth. the practical disposition of the age is
so strong, and has so invaded even the
Rhine, that it requires an effort to detach
oneself from the prosaic present, with its
noise, buStle vulgar ObtruSiveneSS and dis
play, and carry ones thoughts and feelings
back to those remote times when the knight
and the lady, the retainer and the peasant,
the pilgrim and the trOubadour, peOpled the
valleys and the heights, and the shrieking
locomotive, the tall chimneys of the manu-
factory and the big, vulgar, barnlike Struc-
lures called hotels which overshadow the
picturesque Rhine villages, were unknown.
Beginning with Bonn, where | left off
rather hastily in my previous letter, it may
be remarked that no other city better repre-
sents the modern epoch. for it was here the
great fight forinteliectual liberty, as against
the despOtiSm of the church, took place
something more than sixty years ago. at the
very moment when throughout the world
the genius of modern mechanism, of the
steamboat, the telegraph, the locomotive,
was walking into life. Here in the shadow
of the Old Munster Kirch the battle was
fought and won, and the Lutheran spirit
which had triumphed at Worms nearly two
hundred years before triumphed again. and
founded the university of Bonn, IAN in
stitution of German science, a seat of mod
ern culture upon the ground of state
entirely devoted to church of the Middle
age"
What there was that was good of that
church is still left-its poverty, its spirit of
devotion, its kindness and its accessibility
TO the poor, its stones. which have witnessed
the prayers and felt the tears of the ages.
and the worship it receives, irrespective of
creed, in return for its unquestionmg charity
and protection.
The FIRST object of interest after leaving
Bonn (upOn Rhine boat at 7:45 a. M is
the ruin of G0deSberg, where the Arch
bishop Gerhard brought down upon himself
the force of the whole ecclesiastical estab-
lishment OF Germany by resigning his church
state and dignity, having the Protestant