Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-18
HERE AND THERE.

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believe and among tho bills for building the
belfry that used to surmount st. James was |
/ one of Benjamin Franklin's for printing the |
lottery tickets. Several gallons of rum were |
| also settled for Ivy tho church authorities |
| in the erection of the structure On the whole |
| reckon the world is steadily improving |
| notwithstanding the skating rinks are better
| patronizCd in some towns than the religious
| reviVals.
| Tho bids for mail routes the country over |
| seem to fall into the hands ofa few comhina-
| tiors ofspcculators who get the contracts only |
| to subet them at profit Somehow or other
| they get the run of the thing and usually
| beat the local bidder. For instance, in letting
| the route from Lancaster to Strasburg the |
| other day there were eleven bids. The
lowest was Friend waidley, the oblgug whip
who now runs the stage. He bid three tfty
| BY some omission he forgot 10 add dollars
| Somebody away up in Perry county, who
| probably never was over tho route, took |
| chance at il with S36l and the postal |
authorities doubtless thought Waidley meant |
| $50 pounds sterling they rejected his hid and |
| gave it to the Perry county speculator. Mr.. |
Cleveland will doubtless arm his new post |
master general with a sharp pair of shears to |
cut such red tape short OIL.
-.
| The anti-oleomargarineites are at 1t again
| ard will bo satisfied with nothing short
of law TO suppress bogus butter and to
punish anybody who makes it In one
breath they declare that the public must not
! be deceived, and in the next that ,''the taste
) and smell of the bogus compound alike
give it away. Why all this heat7 If
, anybody likes mixture Of tallow
; and cream let him eat it. Bogus
butter is about the least of the evils we suffer
. any serious harm from, and the last that
!, needs legislative interference.
The danger from explosion of the natural
= gas, which is coming into such general use
i in Western Pennsylvania. do not arise en-.
n tirely from its extremely volatile character,
r | nor from the odorlesSness which makes the
detection OF its escape so difficult In fact
many persons contend that it has to them q
= very decided smell There has been good
l. deal of carelessness i'll laying the cOnduits
n | for its conveyance, and the haste with which
: lines of pipe have been laid up and down
e grades, suhjecting it to leaks and sprains-
d | Is responsible for much of the trouble.
When the leak occurs the escaping gas
does not find its way TO the surface, but
travels along the pipe usually TO the first
nj branch, where it makes for the cellar and lies
in wait for the woman who comes down the
steps with a lamp or candle to look for a rat
i, or hens rest. Presently the gable end Of
i, the house is half square up street and the
~ cOroners inquest cautions housewives not to
he hunt for gas leaks with lighted tapers
q -
V out there they burn the gas in open
Iv CRATES and pile in lot of broken bricks,
J., tiles or glass to radiate the heat and give it
~ less ghastly Ono joke) look 1t makes no
us smoke nor SCOT, and the inside of tho fire
OF place can be whitcwashed in September
re- and will look clean at Easter They have no
sy meters rs vet to register the flow or consump
as ton and usually charge by the fire. \ gentle
,al man who paid 70 cents a month for each o
10 gaff1a fF.l- TOLL hat 10 h,.
ce gas bills were not much bigger thi:
Is winter than the amount he used to pay
in for carrying up coal. What is wanted i:
80, some better understanding with the subtor
'h ranean manufacturers, so that they wont pu
on teu-fold pressure all of sudden and sub
ject the pipes to an unexpected strain. Ii
for panies are now grading and ballasting the
he beds in which they lay the pipes and put
NV ting the main on as well finished bed u
that prepared for a railroad track.
lks -
ms The story that has been going the round
of President Lincoln's persistent efforts t
has get Stanton appoint one of his favortes a
nod army chaplain and of Stanton's more pei
sistent refusal, recalls an incident related b
a gentleman who was in Washington durin
the war, close to Stanton. He one day
axe man bring a distasteful order from Lincoln
in Stanton read it, and then bade the messer
ned ger observe and report the president thu
- his Great Secretary tore it to bits and threw
lch into the fire. There are people VIII
tbs. never would believe for sufficier
pli- reasons-that Lincoln really wrote the orde
NO, ! removing Mcclellan or ever intended il shOul
- be made. Stanton sometimes made higf
nat handed use of the signatures which Mr.. Lii
ted coin left with him at the foot of blank shet
itv of paper
lhe Have you noticed the bluff northeast
inc Hardwicke, just above the Big Conestoe
uld railroad bridge, overlooking beautiful ben
in the creek, and on which stands Sheri
Tonilinson's house 1t is one Of the fine
the building sites in all the county, and there ovt
oon | one hundred and fifty years ago was the re,
Indian village OF Conestoga
A Mexican nobeman, visiting this countr
ied on important business for his government
re- | asked me the other evening what we meaI
, at by barbecue, and when described how til
- | OK was roasted for the Democratic jubilee
''h McGrann's park he smiingly said that Wa
LOST what they called in his country a ''shel
eek | herds roast; - tho sheep thieves cook thei
ex- meat thus. For the real barbacoa, dee
- pit is digged in the ground and
ary hot fire built in 1t. Great stones are ca
ltu- | into it and heated red to retain the he;
I TO | The animals carcass Is dressed and spice
q or for cooking; then wrapped with a thick Goa
-, ing OF some kind of leaves 10 protect it froI
eci- the hot Goals lowered into the pit and tn
Its whole thing is covered with earth-like
of corpse was inferred before the days Of Grl
ao, mation-several feet Of ground on top. 1t
~ u.s. left there for twelve or fifteen hours an
led when taken out is we'll cooked juicy an
ure toothsome.
the -.
Americans are not popular in Mexico
many of the meanest Of our fellow citizens z
eau there. The Germans are scarcely less odiou:
The English most welcome and ar
looked on as fair traders and they relat
e" with great pride how after Lord PackenhaI
came as minister and got in his househol
goods free, when he was about 10 go home
and wished TO make sale of them, he sent fd
the government officers to have the dut
let levied on them.
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EN- The bull fight is still an Institution in Mol
ge. leo. Imagine the feelings of Western
% Pennsylvania United Presbyterian ysitn
in Mexican family, being invited-an,
an even expected-tO accompany his hosts o
ext | Sunday afternoon to tho bulI fight
ion SINDBAp
eer