Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-14
SANCTUM GOSSIP.


 Under the head of Articles He Wrote" the Mobile Register of Sunday has the following about Brer Rabbit:
 The Birmingham State explains Col onel Hodgson's lack of responsibility for certain sound money articles which appeared in the Register in July and August, 1893, by saying that while the colonel was off duty or absent articles appeared in the Register against his judgment or wishes" The State is mis- taken. The colonel was the political editor of the paper No one else wrote on politics; nothing he did not himself write on this topic appeared in the paper. It is probable that the colonels well known propensity to invade the non-political departments of the Reg ister has misled him into thinking there were reprisals taken. There ought to have been, but there were not any Such There was a Pinafore like courtesy Tn vogue in this office at that time as be- tween the heads of the several depart ments; yet, despite this, the colonel ragged about with his pen, setting all journalistic laws at defiance. It was he who wrote the article upon the mechan- ical COW cud, which gave great of fence to the distinguished agricul- tural editor the late Professor Stelle, who had sole charge of the COW de- partment. This article explained how when COW has lost her cud and has de- preciated in value worse than silver since 1873, she might be remonetized, so to speak, with a plug of rosin wrapped in small bundle of hay. Another article that the colonel thrust into the paper in violation of departmental rules was that which advised Nebraska farmers to come to Alabama to cultivate bananas; and still another of the same sort was learned diSquiSition upon the merits of enSilage as a fertilizer. Further, the col onel invaded the business department when he contributed his celebrated write up" of his favorite steam boat, which involved the whole establishment in trouble. We protest that the only de- partures from the rule of every man minding his own business are to be at tributed to the colonel himself, and that he ought to so inform the paper of which he is now popularly believed to be the ed- itor
 That's all right about the COW, but the question is, who got the cud?
 Has the king of Umsquog ever in- suited us?" asked the king of Great Britain.
 Never" replied the warrior.
 Well, go out and irritate him bit. Hes got some ground that I'd like to own."-Washngton Star.
 This is a diplomatic trick peculiar to John Bull, and he knows how to work it beautifully.
 It was only when Eve expected to be invited out that she discovered she had nothing to wear. It has been the same with the sex ever since.-Boston Tran script.
 And yet some people do not believe in heredity.
 We believe that we understand why the Birmingham State does not want the brigade encampment to come to Mobile. 1t thinks that it needs the Birmingham battalion to protect it from the "gold bugs." who, under General Rhodes and Colonel OBrien,- are taking one after an other all the positions that the State has occupied.-Mobile Herald.
 Fiel Brer Ledyard. Why, are you so recklessly candid, but so unl1ind, to the Mobile Register and Montgomery Ad- vertiser Mobile News.
 They can take care of themselves.
 According to the Mobile Register fifty six of the newspapers of Alabama are against free silver and only twenty-one are for it. Some of the worst fooled people in the world are those who be- lieve that the south is solid for free sill Ver.-Courier-JouTnai.
 There are some who will clamor for free coinage of cotton before long-but that is not getting it.
 ''Trilby soda water is sold by the glass and not by the foot.-Seneca Coun- ty Journal
 A man in Kentucky once tried to sell whisky by the jag. As the sheriff pasted up the closing notice on the door the proprietor is said to have made some rather forcible. if inelegant, remarks about tanks"
 Governor Morrell of Kansas is called "Old Man Ashamed of His State." His latest official utterance is, Raise more corn and less hell"
 Clouds are bursting in Kentucky, and whisky is going up Even in the Gar den of Eden there was a .snake.-Florida Times-U Union.
 But Adam never saw it until he fooled with apple-jack in the rough
 The Worlds Fair Tests
 showed no baking powder
 so pure or so great in ieav-
 ening power as fhe Royal
 All wool ingrain carpets, made, laid and lined at soc per yard, Monday and Tues daV. Alice Garnet Go.