Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-12-14
WAYSrnE CHANCES.

The New York Sun calls attention 10 the
chespness aud excellence OF its Sunday news
paper In comparison with the magazines
which cost ten times ss much. On the 9Th OF
December IL published ninety and two.thitd
columns, mainly of solid noupareil, with lS2,.
100 words. Its twenty-four Yages provided
not only all the news from every quarter and
nearly every corner of the globe, but n mass
of special information, comment, and general
literature, emitting II tn rank with the hest
magazines. Getting down 10 = still closer
comparison 1t contrasts the quantity OF read
ing matter provided for three cents with the
amount sold for thirty-hve cents In the pe'
Gem Ter Rdrpcr'S or the December CcGturg
AS against the SIyg'S Is 900 words, Rgrpcr'S
MOHthly contains about liz, 600 words, and
the Century close TO l2i coo words, so that
the san WAS almost halt as large again as the
largest of tbese The SllG treated 4Nc sub
jects under GS6 headings Rrrper' McHHtA
discussed q subjects under Il heads, and the
Century treated 81 subjects under 10 heads
The cheapness and merit OF the great news
papers OF to-day Is one OF the never ending
marvels Of our time.
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1t has been before adverted 10 In this
column that under the new Democratic rules
| the Second district OF Lancaster county Will
| have two delegates instead Of three at the
| next state convention, It's Demo
cratic vote falling below 800 At the
| November election. There will over the state,
| however, be an increase Of over the pres
| ent representation or 3 total Of sos delegates
| The Philadelphia Records comparison OF
| the vote in various sections OF the state shows
that this increase is SO distributed As to give
nineteen legislative districts an additional
delegate, while in ten other districts there Is
| falling of in the Democratic vote sufficient
| TO cause the loss of that number OF delegates,
thus making net gain Of nine, In Allegheny
| county there Is a gain OF five delegates while
| in the Twenty-ffth Philadelphia district
| there is also q gain OF one The other dis.
| tricts in which gains were made are Oue each
| in Bedford, Cambria, Clesrtield, Elk, the
| Second district Of Erie, the Third OF LuCsrne
| and Sixth Of Lsckswsnns, Lycoming, Pot
| ter, First district of SChuylkill, Washington
| and Westmoreland. The representation from
| Philadelphia in the next convention Will be
| four less than in the last one the gain OF one
| in the Twenty.tifth district being offset by O
| loss Of one delegate each in the Fifth, sew
enth, Tenth, Twelfth and Twentieth dis
tricts. The other losses are Cue each 10 the
Second district OF Berks, the Second district
| of Lancaster, the Seventh Of Luzerne aud in
the counties of Lackawanna, Mercer and
| Montgomery.
Young Wales the brilliant cArtoonIst
whose name in Er,t! was worth much OF it;
success, and whose mournful death occurred
| recently, did his first clever work for the
| New York WT1T Oats in lSTO. The question
| the public mind, and It being favored by
| President Grant, Wales drew 4 picture o
the president standing with his eyes lOokinl
across the sea to CUBA and holding severa
| fierce looking dogs in leash, as II about t,
uuloOse them. The sketch brought s., anC
| Wales drew It on the wood and engraved it
the process of making plates which hR
| made illustrating 50 general and prOttabl,
| not having yet been introduced. The car
toon made a big sensation. 1t was some
thing new in illustrated journalism. Vale
made other drawings Tor ITld oats, an,
soon attracted such attention that / raul
Leslie sent for him and made him the carl
| caturist of the Illustrated Newspaper Ere,
also began his career on that now forgotten
paper Wtlf oats
Or. Murdock, OF the Plttsburg Medical co.
lege, the other day restored the column {
the nose Of young woman named Mar
, | Roe, whose nasal organ had been badly dit
figured by CancerCus affection. Tn
] | woman's lip furnished the material tor th
7 | work. A nose formed by section OF To
| | feminine lip would surely have It's in4GIs
uveness increased thousand fold.
| The Montrose Democrat is Indignant bt
, cause OF the impression created that man
| county treasurers are Culpably delinquent
| making their returns TO the state. Il di
poses OF the rumor with the statement thi
{ the alleged delinquency Is not a deliuquenc
| In fact, but the moneys alleged to be due Ii
state are held, pending the final settemei
| with the tax collectors by the county commi
; sioners whereby the exact amount due th
state may be asCeGtaiusd before a remittanC
} Is made.