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

There need be no more worry about
the salary of Hon. Matthew w. Ransom,
our ambassador to Blowing Rock, N. G.
Mr.. Cleveland has given every assurance
that it shall not be BoWlerized. Wash
ington Post.
In Norway new law has been passed
which makes girls ineligible for matri
mony until they are proficient in knit
ting, baking and spinning Certificates
of proficiency have to be earned, and
without these no girls may marry.
A company has recently been organ
lied in England for insuring all kinds of
workshops machinery The new compa
ny insures against partial and complete
break downs and against all accidents
which may occur. The company has
capital Of 81 900, 600.
In Victoria, Australia, tobacco has
been raised successfully as an experiment
1t is now proposed to grow it on a COM
mercial scale. The seed used is that of
the Virginia or Connecticut variety, as
the Havana tobacco is not hardy enough
for the climate.
Emperor Williams wardrobe is still
subject of much wonder and comment in
the foreign press It is said that he has
in all 1000 suits of clothes, twelve dozen
of every item of underclothing and fifty
dozen handkerchiefs, and, except his
uniforms, he seldom wears the same
thing twice.
Marshall Republican: Bell Boyd Ham
mond High, who calls herself the f'Rebel
Spy" and who knows less about the
Southern Confederacy than the Khediye
of Egypt, came TO Hot Springs about
three months ago with man, two women
! and boy, and left last Sunday without
paying their board bill.
The young Egyptian KhediYe is said
to possess the most costly set Of harness
in the world. 1t is ade Of black leather,
win chased god buckles, and collars
ornamented with the same costly metal
The pad cloths are also en- oroidered with
gold, aud the set Is said to have cost
S11 600. 1t is for four horses, and is
used on all State occasions.
r. f. Fenton, who says he is Repub-
lean, writes to the New York World: eff
the Republicans go to slugging the VIII
son bill the Democracy will win an easy
victory. This is the opinion of one who
has been successful in the past in pre-
dieting political events. | am not the
seventh son of gun, but / know dam
f0OlISm from sf2f4SmaUShIn ,,
Ia a sermon in Baltimore on Sunday,
Cardinal Gibbons said, speaking Of the
Pope and America The Holy Father
naturally reioices at the religious pro
gress of the United States and takes a
deep interest in cur political and social
institutions, and admirIs Cur Republic,
where We have authority without des
potism and liberty without license, and
where our strength lies in the intelli
gence and patriotism of the people"
Hon. Thos. d. Johnston, who went o
Ola 1stone's church at Haw arden, writes
to the Asheville Citizen: eve heard
sermon from his son, Stephen Gladstone,
and had good look at the Grand Old
Man, )" who occupied seat just opposite
and quite near TO US. He impressed me
as much Trailer man than expected to
see, though as he walked to his home
after service he was erect, and his car
riage and steps were firm and quick. To
sum him up in nutshell, he looked to
me very much like an enlarged edition
of our cid friend, Silas Med lowell, late of
Macon county"
Elk Congressman Thos. d Johnston,
of Asheville, is in Europe, writing to his
brother, of his arrival, he says:
As we entered the Mersey river the
passengers of course gathered on the bow
of the boat so as to get the first glimpse
of our landing place. We were passing
between the buoys, now pronounced
"boys,' and one passenger asked why |
this was the strangest country on earth. |
No one being able to answer he said be- |
cause the whales Wales were on land |
and (buoys) boys were in the water. |
asked him if he were called upon to ex-
press his feelings at that moment, in the |
lines of what hymn would he do So He |
gave it up. And ] said STREAMS of |
(Mersey) mercy never ceasing call for
songs of loudest praise" /