The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-31

i special to the Charlotte Observer
says that as soon as Senator Ransom
learned that the Treasury Department
had held his appointment illegal, he
rendered his resignation to the Presi-
dent. He will therefore have no claim
for pay.
Brother Wanamaker must have been
thinking of his sons wide Paris spread
when he said. ''One big dinner won't
keep up the reputation of a house, but
steady good cooking does it." A great
many truths are uttered in advertising
tests. Washington Post.
There is nothing nomadic about the
French people. They are so devoted to
the home spots that it is said that out of
the 3s,000,000 population 21,0O0,000
live in the towns or villages in which
they were born, and 80, 900, 900 were
never outside of the departments in
which they were born.
That sound and conscientious Repub-
lican newspaper, the Boston Transcript,
is free to say that 1.-THE Pennsylvania
Republican organization is beyond all
hopes of reform when it accepts Mat
thew S. Quay as reformer. 1t is as
much committed to corrupt politics as is
the Tammany organization of New York
State.
The colored people living in Berlin
held festival in that city recently
which attracted many of the prominent
people of the capital. One of the best
speakers made an address, as became
good adopted citizen, in eulogy of the
German Emperor. Negroes in the
Fatherland have reason to be content
with their lot They are received on an
equality with whites, and are often
called s'brnnettes.
Comment in feminine circles is entirely
adverse to the Long Island man, who, on
his way home from his wedding, was sep
arated from his bride because the car in
which be left her was switched to another
train while he was in the smoking COM
partment. 1t was bad enough, the opin
ion is, that he should have failed to no
tice the switching of the car, but much
worse that he should have left his wife
to smoke cigar Immediately after the
ceremony.
No fewer than sixty six persons in
Great Britain are shown by the income
tax reports just published in London to
enjoy annual incomes of over $500, 900.
There are nearly two thousand more
-1nS ir11n rsoxa al fra
that figure down to $50, 900 a year, while
those possessing from $25, 900 to $50, 900
a year exceed three thousand in number.
Some FIVE thousand people are taxed on
100000 to $15, 900 per annum, and
nearly fifteen thousand citizens make
return of incomes ranging from s., 900
to $40, 1000.
A number of enterprising col 'ege girls
of Hillsdale, Mich, are earning money
during the summer to pay next winters
tnition by serving as walters in q sum-
mer hotel at Little Traverse Bay. They
all went on strike recently because
beefsteak was dropped from their bill of
fare fer breakfast In one day after
their withdrawal the landlord realized
the value of his fair hand maidens SER
vices, and, accordingly, aceeded to their
demands. 1t is said that now the best
that the house affords is at the disposal
of the independent young women. Elk
change.
A man at High Shoals, Ga, who made
himself busy ridiculing religion while q
revival was in progress was struck dumb
while the preacher was telling an expe-
riencewith al infidel. The scoffer was
seen to tremble, turn pale, cry and try
to speak. but he was dumb He wrote
on a card
II am doomed to hell There is hell.
Pray for me. VIM HAYGooD +"
The effect upon that congregation was
electrical 1t seemed as if they were
perfectly awe stricken. The services
proceeded, and the religious feeling man
ifested was very noticeable. In the
presence of such striking incident the
hardest of sinners quiyered and became