The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

"A
Mrs. Ford, of New York, in her will
left her pastor, Rev. DR.. John Hall,
$4,000 a year for life to show her appre
citation of his faithful ministrations.
Is this true? An exchange says that
women never realize their need of prayer
until they have reached the age when
their joints are so stiff it hurts them to
kneel.
In answer to the question "Who is the
leader of the Democratic party oday 2"
the Mt Airy News says Thomas J.
Jarvis comes nearer filling the bill than
any man we know"
Harrity will support Whitney for
President. 1t is an open secret that
Harrity thinks the President has not
fully appreciated the services he rem
dered in 1891. Will Whitney be more
appreciative
Referring to the proposition to send
editors Caldwell and Daniels to Mexico
to study the silver question, the Ashe
vile Citizen says: eve do not believe
the visit to Mexico of the two North
Carolina editors named would settle any
thing. Besides it is impossible to spare
them from the State for the length of
time necessary to make the investiga-
ton"
Concerning the Horn Harvey debate
the New York Times says: 1.-THE shock
of their intellects resembled discussion
on inspiration by Col. Bob Ingersoll and
Guiteau. One is too much in fun and
the other too deadly in earnest. 1t is
not praising the Congressman, from
Michigan Horn too highly to describe
him as the cynosure of many Michigan
barnyards, man adapted by nature to
the gayety OF horse shed on wet after
noon. His quips rebound harmless from
the triple mail of conceit in which his
adversary is wrapped"
Lady Meux sent her servants with her
trunks from the country to London last
year, and at the station the porter
dumped the trunks off the platform in
front of the train, which destroyed their
contents. She sued the railroad com
pany, but lost her case on the ground
that the tickets had been sold to her ser
wants and not to her personally, and the
trunks were not the property of the SER
wants. The Court of Appeals, however,
has reversed this Judgment, on the
ground that the tickets were bought
with her money and that her servants
acted as her agents. The man who did
the destructive dumping was the agent
of the railroad.
Tom Settle is reported as saying that
the Democracy died from coquetting
with the Populists. The young Repre-
sentative is exceeding fresh, even YER
dant. What pray did his own oft re-
pudiated gang do2 They not only
'coquetted" with the Pops in North
Carolina, but they committed all manner
Of political whoredoms with them ending
in great disgrace and harm to the State.
According to Tom coquetting only brings
death to one party while the most out
rageous betrayal of principles and com
plete abandonment of party organization
Ia an unholy and disgraceful conspiracy
and alliance brought life to the other.
Tom is looking evidently Through the
green spectacles of youth. Wilmington
Messenger.
at is common practice" says the
Philadelphia Record, for the boys in
watch and jewelry factories to kill the
rats that infest the buildings, and burn
the bodies to obtain the gold. Many
oiled rags are used in Furnishing watch
cases, and in time become impregnated
with gold. The rats eagerly devour these
rags, and few months of this kind of
diet fills the interior mechanism of the
rat with a gold plating. Twice year
the boys have grand cremation. The
rats are canght by the hundred and
burned in a crucible. The intense heat
drives off all animal substances and
leaves the gold in the shape of button.
The amount of the precious metal OBJ
tanned in this way is, not large, but it
gives the ingenious youngsters consider
able pocket money"