The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1891-01-21
ODDS AND ENDS.

George FRANCIS IRAN says ne
would rather feed New York
sparrows than be made Mayor
of Tacoma.
l, Gen. Longstreet is still hard
at work on his history Of the
war and hopes to hayeit finish
ed this year.
Senator Hoar has never smiled
| since the election bill was knock
ed over the ropes. In fact he
has studiously avoided the Sem
ate restaurant.
i The female clerks in Wash
ington are going to put a mon
ument over General Spinner's
Igrave. They loved thegood old
man, even if they could notread
his writing.
1 There is no country like
France for starting journals.
| During 1889 no less than $50
new newspapers were brought
out, of which not one remains
| in life.
| Chicago has annexed and abb
sorbed until one can go out and
shoot wild turkeys inside her
city limits, and she has suffici.
ent pasture range to feed TO-
900 Texas steers all summer.
A Newburyport woman has
stabbed her husband to death
because he refused to split kind
lings. This is a woman's S rights
age and when husbands try to
ignore the fact they are likely
to hear something drop.
Emperor William Of Germany
is avery rapid speaker and when
he is rafting off an address at
the rate Of 275 syllables a min
ute the reporters 60 out to see a
man and come back when the
storm is over to write out what
they think he said.
Rhode Island was 255 years
old the other day, but she hasn's
grown enough to disguise the
fact that Senator Aldrich has TO
have an extra size map to en-
able him to point out to his
| friends what part of New Eng
land he halls from.
The Prince of Wales is said
to have a correspondence of i'm
mense amount, but as ne never
reads letters and is too much
lpreoccupied to answer them
leven if he did, he isn't worry
ling himself about how much
per ton they realize as waste
lpapcr.
/ Athletic young ladies are
coming to the front again, and
muscular development is quite
the rage among fashionable
girls. This has a very threat
ening aspect. A future gener-
alton Of powerful mothers-in-
law is a something which can
not be sneered at.
The Emperor of Germay has
ordered that the baptism of his
Infant son shall take place JAM
uary 25. The child's sponsors
Twill be the King and Queen of
Italy, and it will have names
enough to provide it with men,
ory lesson which will last it for
lever.
| Miss Emily Rowland Il "a
ldirector Of the First National
Bank, Auburn, N. Y, and when
| a man has a reputation for ILL.,
treating his wife or refusing TO
buy her neat bonnets he knows
that he has no chance Of getting
his paper discounted in that es-
tablishment.
The widow of President Bar
rios, of Venezuela, is now in
Washington, and though she is
| the mother Of six children, she
is as fresh and pretty as a school
lgirl, and has a neat little for
tune figuring up into the MILL
ions. There is no fear of her
being lonely during her stay in
this country.
| Benjamin III. Currier, OF Bos-
ton, "a years Of age, adminis-
tered the obligation oath 10 the
| directors Of the Massachusetts
National Bank on Tuesday. This
| was the sixtieth annual occa-
sion upon which he had officiat-
ed in a similar legal capacity.
i There isn't much left OF Gov
ernor Nichols, Of Louisiana,
seeing that he had lost an arm,
a leg and an eye in the war; but
he can get around as spry as O
boy, and promises tomake the
Lottery rascals feel as if they
had been famed by a tornado.
David Moss, 65-year-old Mis-
souri, farmer, has left a happy
home in which o faithful wife
had blessed him with twenty
two children and eloped with q
15-year-old girl who il cross
eyed and has red hair. David
will have no difficulty in plead
ing insanity as a defense.