The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-27

Withal Sam Jones does good.-N. c..
Baptist.
Well done for the ladies! $345 net on
the Woman's Edition of the Observer. -
Fayetteville Baptist.
The woman suffragists got very re-
spectful hearing in the South Carolina
Constitutional Convention, and that is
about all they seem likely to get. The
South Caroliuians are nothing II not gal
liant.
Rev. James NJ. Rawlings retires from
the N. G. Presbyterian, and the veteran
John McLaurin becomes again sole owner
and editor. The three best pieces of
newspaper property in North Carolina
are the Christian Advocate, Biblical Re-
corder and n. G. Presbyterian.
There is a tiny chappy in West Virginia
who is only eighteen months old and has
travelled upward of 3,762 miles on a
bicycle-not his own wheel, but his
fathers, and that proud dad says he has
never met with mishap either, though
the baby sits in chair rugged in front of
the handle bar.
Moody and Sankey have been engaged
to hold series of meetings in Atlanta
in November during the progress of the
Cotton States Exposition. A tert sufi
Gent to accommodate 5000 persons is to
be erected near the business center of
the city. II will be remembered that
these evangelists carried on very sue
cessful series of meetings in Chicago
during the Worlds Fair.
There has been some tendency to in
troduce the dispensary in North Carroll
ma, and one or two of our smaller towns
have adopted it by special legislation.
The very fact that it produces a some
what better state of things than the or
binary room, will make it much
harder to fight than the bar-room. We
sincerely hope to see no more dispense
ries in North Carolina. Christian Ad-
vocate.
Upon being asked as to the probable
result of the Kentucky election, Senator
DidChOuLu eaAu' lAILtJ UdyS ago. Ldu
you asked me that question / would
have told you the result was very doubt
full, but now victory for Hardin and the
State ticket is assured. | am more con-
WINGED of this every day. There has
never been any doubt about the Legisla
ture and have no fears as to my e'ec-
ton"
A sad discovery has been made at
Syracuse. The man who beat Tim
Campbell for Congress last fall boldly
registered at the Yates House, "H 9.
Miner and valet, New York" One of
his constituents came along and reg
istered beneath his name: Daniel Done
gan and valise, New York" Miner re-
CARDS what Donegan did as an I'M
friendly act. The Congressman's stock
has gone down in the BoWery, which
can stand almost anything except a
valet.
European boys, at birth, are from one
half to one centImetre longer than girls,
Prof Waldeyer, of Berlin, ted the An
thropological Congress that met recently
at Cassel, but, when grown up, man is
ten centimetres taller than woman The
average weight at birth for boys is 1888
grammes; for girls, 5000 grammes. The
European man is superior to woman in
strength and height, but the muscles of
the tongue are more highly developed in
woman. Male blood contains 5000, 900
red corpuscles to the cubic millim 9tre;
female blood, only 4 800, 600, while the
average mans brain weighs 1872
grammes to 1881 grammes for that of
a woman.
A dairyman, living in Portsmouth
Ohio, had somewhat unique expert
ence the other day. He aid down to
take nap. He was walked up by a Pc
culiar touch on hand that was hang
ing down and looking downward saw a
big copparhcad snake rubbing its head
up and down the hand as if enjoying the
pastime. The mau was scared, OF
c)ulse, aud wished that he or the snake
was in Kentucky or some other sover-
eighty. He WAS afraid to move lest the
snake prove quicker than he and resent
the move by driving its fangs into
the hand. About the time he was be-
ginning to get desperate his Scotch ter
rier bounded into the room, lit on that
snake and shook it until no two joints