Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-05-09
Quay's Tongue.

senator Quay finds tongue TO tell an
interviewing reporter that Ex-Governor
Pattison would in his opinion make the
strongest candidate the Democracy
could put up for governor. Mr.. Patti
son would doubtless make strong can
didate but Senator Quay's opinion on
the question IL not valuable, even II hon
est. He has not the capacity to compre-
hend the desires Of any portion OF the
people of Pennsylvania, save those Of his
own kind and that is not the kind that
will vote for the Democratic candidate
for governor. When Mr.. Quay selects
Mr.. Delamater as the Republican candi-
date for governor, he demonstrates his
unfitness to determine either the strength
or the quality Of the Democratic candi-
date.
Senator Quay has more abundant pro-
vocation for opening his mouth to the
people of Pennsylvania than Is furnished
by the question of the Democratic candi-
date for governor. He has been pres
singly invited to explain charges of his
own misconduct, which are very libel
ous If they are not true, and he has failed
to speak. Until he finds tongue to
deny these charges IL will become him
to be silent altogether. A man with
80 rotten record that he cannot de-
fepd IL himself needs to let II be
imagined that his tongue Is paralyzed
OGDEN, Utah, is TO have big carnival
similar to his majesty "Rex" of New
Orleans, and circulars have been issued
from the last named city announcing the
date of the coronation at Ogden as July
and the festivities to last five days with
great pomp and ceremony. The new
monarch is styled REX H." a huge
carnival palace Is being built aflor tho
style of Roman arena. In the centre will
be dancing floor giving room for a thou
sand couples, and tiers of seats around
IL will accommodate ten thousand. A fea-
ture of the celebration will be an artillery
duel over the town. Ogden lies between
two benches of land averaging seventy Ave
feet high, and the four targets will be on
one side and the cannon on the other.
THE heliograph system of signaling by
reflected rays of sunlight has been carried
to great perfection by army officers and Is
sure to prove very useful in war when wire
relied upon. Our own army officers have
been remarkably successful In perfectingi It,
| and the amazing news comes from Wash
ington that an official dispatch received
| at the signal Office on Thursday from Gene
raj Greedy, at Fort Bayard, New Mexico,
was transmitted from Fort Bayard to
Prescott, Arizona, a distance OF 600 miles,
by the heliograph system. General Miles
l s,xl l,t nd llnr
man, French and English engineers have
| experimental on a large scale, but nothing
| like the distance named has ever been
covered before. The glaring defect of the
| system 10 its dependence upon sunlight,
| but some very brilliant artificial light
| easily produced will no doubt be made
available. The beauty of tho device is the
| total absence of any connecting line, aud II
would be "a grand improvement on tele-
| graphing If the flash light idea could be
made available for all kinds of messages
| by some moro rapid plan. In these days
when waves Of sound are made to pre-
serve themselves for future use In the
| phonograph, or are flashed over miles o
wire by telephone, 1t may not be too much
| to hope that the ray of light will rival elec
tricity as the messenger of man. From
LOFTY towers rapid signals may be flashed
| In stenographic code, and from tower to
tower across the continent men may talk
| with never wire between them. Mean.
while we will endeavor to struggle along
| with the telephone and telegraph.
| ApvIcEs from Japan tell OF the murder
of Rev. II. A. Larger, Methodist mission
ary at Yokohama, by two burglars who
l.
as razors. He got awake one night to find
big Jap standing before him holding NJ
naked sword. The missionary no doub
| thou uhf nf his ~ fa and child aud ropan,