The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-02-04
ODDS AND ENDS.

President Moffatt, Of the lRis
Grande and Denver Line, travels
around in a $45, 900 private car
upon which, as yet, the porter
hasn't got a first mortgage.
Sarasate, the violinist, netted
$25, 900 by a two-months' con
cert tour in England. There il
something more substantial
than mere honor in being first
fiddle.
Rose Terry Cook warns girls
of a literary turn to place no de-
pendence on literature as a
bread-winner. And Rose is quite
right. A good healthy hus-
band is far more reliable.
Cardinal Manning is SO years
old and Gladstone is 81, and
when the two cronies get to-
gether and talk about theirboy-
hoods days they are as happy
asold soldiers on pension day.
Lord Randolph Churchill
holds the opinion that a man
has learned a whole encyclop8-
dia of political information
when he is able to discriminate
between a statesman and a poll
tician.
An English guardian of the
poor has been protesting against
American pork and claiming
that it was not fit to feed paup-
ers upon. .'I would not fatten
a fool upon it, He neglected
to say what he had been fatten-
ed upon.
The Earl Of Lonsdale uses a
splendid silver inkstand, pres
ented to him by the sluggers
Slavin and McAuliffe as a testi-
monial of gratitude for the
trouble he took in saving them
from being sent to Jail for pound
ing each other.
Saving dimes is the strong
weakness of Mrs. d. H. Nc
Dowell, of 0skaloosa, Ia, and
during a year and a half she
managed to drop $l1s.70 into
her little bank. It is more than
likely that her husband is q
sound sleeper.
The local physician who says
that the people are unwise In
being afraid of sending for the
doctor when they are sick,
should be reminded that a man
is not afraid of a doctor. Il is
only the doctors bill that knocks
him over the ropes.
King Oscar of Sweden is q
cruel man. He inflicted a lot OF
speeches upon the people before
he ascended the throne and he
is now getting them together
for the purpose of publication.
And yet the world wonder when
a nation breaks out IN revolt
against its rulers.
When a prominent Bostonian
find himself in failing health he
goes out upon the common and
takes a look at the public stat
ues. The fear of being served
up in the same way always acts
as a tonic and makes him re-
solve to live in spite Of the doc
tors.
Emin Pasha is still dragging
his coat tail across the Dark
Continent and wanting some
body 10 fight with. And the
probabilities are that hebwill
get all the fighting he wants
around Lake Victoria and be
brought back to civilization on
q shutter.
Chauncey NJ. Depew may not
be popular enough to become a
President, but so long as he can
console himself with the thought
that six hundred babies are
named after him every year he
need not imagine that he is in
any danger Of being overlooked
in the race for public favor.
The King of Italy is bound to
become popular. IL there is q
house on fire, o child run over
or an intellectual dog-fght go.
ing on anywhere around his
palace or where he may be stay.
ing, he scoots off TO the place
and makes himself as busy az
If the success of the affair de.
pended entirely upon the parl
he took in il. Is
The monument over the lat
President Arthur's grave Ii
finished and paid for, and there
Is O surplus of $4,000 In the
hands Of the memorial com.
mittee. It is TO be hoped thai
they will not hear of this II
New York. Il might tempt the
Grant monument COMMITTEES e
say that they were quite will
ing 10 attend TO the disbursinr
Of the little balance.
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