The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Married women, as teachers, have been
excluded from the st. Paul (Minn.) pub
lie schools by unanimous vote of the
school board.
It is given out that ex President Har-
rlson has made $50, 900 in fees in the last
eighteen months, and that he'd rather
be rich than be President.
Bishop Coke, of Western New York,
in a sermon at the Minneapolis conven-
ton, hit our good women pretty hard
when he said: shameless nudity in
bathing and semi-nudity in evening at
tire, with lascivious dances, long ban
ished by Christian decorum from social
life, are fsgrantly characteristic OF
American manners.
The wood pulp paper trust is having
the finishing touches put to it, meeting
of the promoters of the scheme having
been held in New York for this purpose.
OF course the intention is to secure the
larger profit by means of economies in
production" and the abolition of trade
abuses" but prices meantime will be adj
yanced as an extra precautlon.
A man who sets out to be a general
-reformer should be sure that his own
record is clean. Reforms should always
begin where charity does, at home. The
public will not listen patiently to the
rebukes of a man, however correct he
may be on some lines, who is persistently
and stubbornly set in his purpose to go
wrong on others.-Christia Advocate
1t is common occurrence nowadays
for women to marry their juniors: A
one time Bishop of Maryland, married a
woman who had been one of his mothers
bridesmaids, and who had made his own
christening robe. He was so devotedly
attached TO her that, when she died
from extreme old age, he mourned her
memory with no thought of filling her
place all the rest Of his life.
The late Hialmar Hiorth Boyesen was
once asked why he didn't simplify the
spelling Of his name, so as to make it
less perplexing for the average Ameri-
can. The inquirer was informed that it
was a fine Norwegian name in the first
place, and, secondly, that it was worth
a good many dollars TO its possessor as
distinctive trade mark for his literary
wares,
1t is important that we should have q
strong spirit Of reverence for the church
and her institutions The man who
gees about the country and cries out
against the church and destroys the con
fder ce Of the public in her leaders, is an
enemy to mankind, = an emissary OF the
devil. Even if those who are in author
ity should sometimes make mistakes, no
good man will blow trumpet to pub
fish it to the world. The eagerness
with which men in authority, both in
church and State, are subjected to criti-
cism bodies no good for our country -
Christian Advocate.
s1Big TOM Wilson, the famous hunter,
was in Asheyille to see the circus this
week. He told the Citizen that despite
protests that have been made, desecra-
ton of the monument to Prof. Elisha
Mitchell goes on unrestrained. The work
of the yandals is done mostly, he says,
by those going up on the north side
O. the mountain The Citizen add
"The movement started some tim G
ago for the collection of funds for
the preservation of the monument
from the hands of shameless decorators
has not yet attained the object, and the
work should at once be taken up and
carried out. 1t is duty that the people
owe the memory Of the great man whose
monument is thus being desecrated. ;"
Bride lin railway train)-Now, my
dear, you must remember not to act as
if we were just married. 1t would be
perfectly horrible to have all these
strange people know it. Sit up little
closer; want to fix your necktie. It's all
crooked. There's some dust on your
coat. I'll brush it off. How white the
stuff is 1t must be from that rice. One
corner of your mustache points down
and the other up 1t looks too funny tol
anything. Wait I'll fix it. I'm tired
to death, dear. sit up closer, so / car
rest my head Oh No, that won't
do; must pretend to read q novel, and
II don't know; perhaps you'd better
go into the smoking car. All the old
married men do.
Groom Well, I'll go, my darling, il
you think best.
Bride-Yes, you must 90. Help me
off with this glove, dear. You must &C
and stay real long fen or fifteen min.