The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Tennessee will celebrate the centennial
of her admission into the Union June /,
1896.
Mayor Strong is said to be laying pipe
for the Republican nomination for gov
ernor of New York.
The ex-pugilist John L. Sullivan has
applied for saloon license in Boston.
Well, he will start in with at least one
good customer.
The Southern Pacific Railway will use
petroleum and discard coal for steam
producing. In that way smoke and Gin
ders will be avoided.
Some other year the Maryland Repub
licans may elect their ticket. 1t will,
however, be so far off that people in this
age will have no interest in the matter.
The New York World thinks that if
Freedom from her mountain height
could look down on New York she would
have fit. We don't believe it. Free
dom never cared for Sunday beer up
there.
a body of young men in Edmiston, n
Y, have combined to boycott all young
ladies who wear the bloomer costume.
They will probably be about as successful
as Mr.. Sovereign in his boycott of bank
notes.
CASTOR county is taking some practical
and business-li like steps in the direction
of securing good roads. Mass meetings
and discussions Of the question are good
so far as they 60, now let the resolutions
be put into execution by the Board of
County Commissioners.
4 story coming from Russia by way of
London announces that, owing to the
feeble character of the young car, the
ex-czarina, his mother, is pushing to the
front as the real ruler of the empire.
The significance of this, if it proves to
be true, is that this able woman has
never been German in her sympathies.
The United States Tobacco Journal as
sails the bicycle as an enemy to the to-
bacco trade in general and the cigar trade
in particular 1t says the decrease in our
cigar production since the bike craze has
set in has actually been seven hundred
millions per year. If the bicycle is do
ing all here claimed for it we will pray
for its continued spread.
The Franklin Press has at last declared
its position on the financial question.
Here is its platform: "We have
been asked repeatedly how we stand
on the money question. We are
in favor of gold dollars, silver dollars,
greenback dollars all being re-
ceived on subscriptions at this office at
100 cents in the dollar. We also favor
IS to /, that is our subscribers paying
us $40 to where they have been paying
as ST."
With the growth of better roads goes
the demand for wider tires on loaded
wagons. The last Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture passed an act empowering local au
thorities to encourage the use of wide
tires on country roads by rebate OF
road taxes Now the regulations of Fair
mount park in Philadelphia have been
changed to compel the use of broad tires
on all vehicles carrying more than thir-
teen persons. Thus reform comes slowly
down this way.
People who Insist on calling the deli
cious little melon now abundant in the
markets ''cantalope," should spell it
Theoretically. If they will consult Web
ster's dictionary, however, they will find
that the pronunciation for cantaloupe is
given in brackets "kan-ta loop" with
hard accent on the two "o's' in the last
syllable. The word Is also spelled ''can-
taleup," showing that it was never meant
to pronounce it as if it were ''cantalope.'
Some writers prefer to spell the word
''cantalope," but as it is word adopted
from foreign language, it should be
pronounced "kan- ta-loop" to be strictly
correct.