The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1893-02-22
General News Itanla.

European market, realized ever
$4,000.
/ With all due respect to Mr..
Bissell, we doubt if he has bet.
ter qualifications for the office
of Postmaster-lieneral than
Julian s. Carr. Winston Senti-
incl.
| Rubinstein, the pianist, it is
declared, would become an
American citizen if it were not
for the objections of his wife.
He is quoted as saying: Il am
q Russian Of Russians; but | am
also a republican, and America
is the land for these that love
liberty"
The Queen of the Sandwich
Islands has something of a
name herself, but it is short and
sweet in comparison with that
of her daughter, the Princess
Victoria Kawekiu Kaiulani
Lunalilo Observation-Disclosures
Think of annexing that!
Mrs Nancy Phillips of North
Carolina, nearly 50 years of age.
put in the loom and woye fifteen
yards of cloth from the 18th to
the goth Of January, which en-
braced the very coolest days.
Her loom was in an old house
with only one fireplace.
North Carolina cannot afford
to 90 backward and our legis-
lators should be careful that her
public institutions are not Grip
pied. The needs of each should
be carefully enquired into, and
whatever money is necessary
should be voted. The State can
stand it, and the taxpayers will
endorse it.-Charlotte News.
4 little item in = newspaper
may sometimes make a man an
enemy to the paper for lite, but
it won't stop him frem reading
it. 1t merely changes him from
a subscriber TO q borrower.
Every publisher can recall the
names of citizens that come I'm
der this head. Concord Stan
dard.
American Bear and Eagle
Elk, two Sioux Indians, who
were taken to Sydney, n. S. W.,
as part of o sort of Wild West
show, are in the hands of the
police at that place. They
brske their contract, then went
and broke themselves, and soon
joined the profession of tramps.
The old walnut beistead on
which Lincoln was laid after
Booth shot him together with
the m mattresses of the bed, have
come into the possession of q
Chicago rslie-huntsr. Even the
gas jet that protrudsd from the
wall above the bed has been
secured by this same collector.
Mr.. John B. Roden, of Birm-
inRham, after listening to a ser.
mon on card-playing made q
bonfire on the sidewalk of all
the cards in his store, amount
ing in value to about 5000.
Those Who saw the bonfire claim
10 have seen the devil disappear.
ing in the flames. For once his
satanic majesty didn't enjoy a
lire. But the card factories are
in full blast just the same.
Cavalry soldiers often sleep
in the saddle after a fatiguing
march; and although it would
seem to be impossible TO march
on foot and sleep at the same
time, there are authentic instan.
cos of the performance Of such
q feat. Artillerymsn in battle
have been known to sleep from
exhaustion under their own
guns which were constantly
firing.
When the Vesuvius can drop
two dynamite shells out of three
within twenty yards of u target
at Q distance Of u mile and an
eighth, the efficiency Of neither
gun nor vessel can be question
ed. The Rapieff fuse is still the
only uncertain feature of the
experiments, but this is a mere
matter Of detail, which can Ger.
tainly be perfected. columbia
State.
Financial interests concerned
In the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company are said TO be moving
for the completion Of the Pana.
ma Canal with American capital
as the Colombian Government
10 understood to be friendly to
the scheme, and ready to refuse
q renewal Of the French conces.
sions. 1t remains to be seen
with what degree Of equanimity
France, which has $3.50, 0OO, OOO
lrsady inv ested In the ditch,
would view such an arrange
msnt. -Philadelphis Record.