Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-07-31
HERE AND THERE.

stranger to that sort OF life, the most interest |
ing are the mules. They are taken down
and never brought up; and you may see as
many rs hundred stabbed, led and cared
for in one of these mines, but never brought
to the surface They are long lived, despite
their unnatural existence, aud you are often
shown a long-eared veteran who has not seen
a ray Of sunlight for twenty years | have
often wondered that some iteratteur has not |
made hit with the Autobiography OF a
Mine Mule"
You may travel through n good many |
Pennsylvania cities of even larger size than
ours and you will not ind rs good stores rs |
IIancaster's but what makes the best I'M |
| preston upon the stranger within our gates |
| is the Belgian block pavement Not year |
should pass without adding at least square
| to this su bstantial, Ceau aud durable form of
street paving
The people of this town never took any
thing like the general recreation they have
been having this summer. The picnic sea-
son began early and will end late. The six
| o'clock closing movement WAS good thing.
| The salesmeu's day WAS too long.
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| An "AuxIous Reader" writes To- ask IL
| view of the late location OF another new man.
| at NlleHipNHi w ny IL
| it that our city is so lar behind Allentown in
the way of manufacturing industries. Why
| in the world is it that our otherwise good town
| is almost entirely isolated in this respect. 1t
| makes one feel bad to pass along our streets
| and see many of our worthy working
| men standing on our street corners unlm-
| ployed. Reading too is far ahead ofus.' You
will probably find as many unemployed men
| in any other town as here. For variety ana
| number of small manufactures Lancaster Is
| surpassed by few places in the state and IN
| view of its cheap living, abundant markets,
| competitive railroad supplies and general
| healthfulness, there is no reason why heavy
| manufactures could not be located here ad-
| vantageously A better water supply and
| greater reservoir storage capacity are essen
tials to manufacturing future Tor the city.
| But 1t will require a quickening OF pubhc
| spirit here to procure manufactures in com
| petition with places that are more vide awake,
As a rule our people are too prosperous to be
alert for these schemes. our magnificent
| agricultural prosperity keeps trade up to
| good average, and the mercantile community
| does not feel the keen spur of necessity that
| impels some other communities 10 greater
| efforts. Lie in Lancaster is pCObably more
| comfortable and easier than in any other
| town of its size in the state, If not in the
| country.
In one of the counties toward the New
| York line, where there are large land hold
| ings in the possession of Philadelphia and
| New York capitalists, the county commits
| sioners were moved out OF the goodness of
their hearts to take s., 900 OFF the valuation of
| a fellow. citizen 5 tract OF timber land Find
| ing themselves a little short in their assess
ment they put this amount on to the prop
| erty of a Phiadelphiau, who hadn't expected
| his valuation to be increased, seeing he had
| cut off 5000 worth of lumber during the
year. But he let the day Of appeal go by ;
and arrived at the county seat on the last
1 I,N,t Of fhnl laaf a 70 10 taN n nr
posed to give his check but the county treas
urer did not know him. And when he
| counted out the cash and laid down a $500
note among it, and the treasurer coolly got a
| counterfeiter detector and preceded to eX-
| anime it, the city strangers indignant on was
unbounded at the insult added to injury.
: | When he inquired OF a local friend why and
: wherefore, he got for reply, Wei, they
i suspect id strongly that you vote the
8 | Republican ticket"
uncovered my head and stood in silent
9 | wonder before the marvellous volume, the
: other day, when my learned friend DR.. c.
s 's X. Early, of Ridgway, Elk county, showed
a me an illuminated manuscript copy of the
| Holy Scriptures, which he picked up in q
New York book stall, and the like of which
could not be had again, / suspect for ten
al thousand dollars There is probably only
l. one other OF its value in the coun-
| try. 1t Is supposed from some
intrinsic evidence, to have been the
| work of an Italian monk of the Eth
| or 18th century. The 500 leaves of the vol
70 ume are of abortive vellum, fine and soft as
) | silk, so that the whole of ii makes no great
bulk. The letters are as even as the type in
this column ; all the initials are beautiful
| specimens of miniature painting In gold and
> | colors. | hastily calculated that if the pious
g monk worked out on an average chapter q
n day he would have been employed four
o years on the plain text but 1t Is beyond our
Enn aIfr of 10 yNnu nj n1n. oh Ixytti
: | the pen to conceive of such evenness, regu.
y iarity and legibility being continued through
u more than eleven hundred pages of minute
| careful and artistic work.
:, You have read that Temperance women
II in the prohibition village of Marshalltowp
;, Ia, watched the drug store sales of liquor fol
= a month, and sscertained that the six drug
IS gists sold ll2I! gallons of whisky, 2,l97 bot
n ties of beer, 81 gallons of alcohol, q gallons Of
o brandy, gallons OF gin, barrel of ale and {
o | gallons of wine 1t wasn't yery siCkly
o | month either" From those who have trav.
IT eled in Iowa learn that it is criminal OF
l. | tense to even carry bottle of whisky into
d | the state with you, or for a stranger who hap
pens to get there all the same to ask friend
q | up to his hotel room and give him a sip
if The pantries on the parlor and dining room
cars that carry it. are locked and sealed when
they enter the state and only loosed from
| bonds when they depart from the borders
| For all that the law is violated with impu
> nifty ; in most OF the leading towns low grog
If | cries flourish and magistrates and iuries re-
3 | fuse to prosecute or punish.
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Some of the Eastern journals are pokinl
fun at the list of wedding presents prin ted in
g | a local Western newspaper "From father and
3 mother of the bride, one Jersey calf; from
Is bride to groom, hair wreath made from hail
o OF entire family, and also six fine shirts from
n brother Elias, one book of poems, one dream
"a | book, one Polite Letter Writer and dog
from Aunt Harriet, six hens and rooster
also one jar tomato catsup; from Cousin
y Sarah, one poem made up by herself on bride
3 | and groom, fifteen verses in ALL" But it ha
d | not been long ago that was shown a cordia
v | invitation to a silver wedding anniversary
n in this county, issued in entire good faith, tc
:, | which the hostess appended postscript that
" | II the guests could not conveniently bring
D. sliyerware as presents canned fruit would bt
is 'exceptsble."
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it About the most useless and easily Dic K ed
o to pieces things you can indulge in is to pre
" pare "list OF books" Tor somebody's els
70 reading.
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+ Going though an old file of the INTELLI
- GENcER the other day, in search of yer,
II different things l ran over some Interestn
H. local matters, chrOnicled with more nearl
completeness than was the wont of that day
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