The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Charles Francis Adams has just said
in formal interview: 81 don't like
men who talk for two hours on one sub
ject, and don't like men who are elc-
quent."
An Illinois farmer walked out into his
pumpkin patch the other day, stepped
off 1873 foot vine, counted 81 punks on
it, and felt so proud that he pulled up
the whole outfit and packed it off to the
Atlanta Exposition.
The Boston Journal of Commerce.
discussing the situation and prospects of
the South, says 1.-THE trouble with the
South at the present time is the people
there are land poor. The ownership con
sists of too large tracts.
The latest railroad'rumor is that either
Maj. John @. Winder or Mr.. Sol. Haas
will be appointed Commissioner of the
Southern Passenger and Freight Asso-
citation, to succeed Maj. Stahlman. The
salary is $15, 900 Wilmington Star.
aAOtHLl 1CtO10 0lCdhCI was LuddC JuC
other day on the New York Central road,
when train made the run from Albany
to Syracuse, distance of 148 miles, in
1872 minutes. That knocks the fast time
recently made on the Great Western, in
England, out again.
One of the Rothschilds is quoted as
saying that there will be more chances
to make money in America during the
next five years than in any other section
of the globe. Good for Rothschilds-
unless he's looking Tor another syndicate
Boston Herald
Tie Baltimore Sun announces that two
additional scholarships have been given
to North Carolina at Johns Hopkins
University. The successful applicants
were Guy Carleton Lee, of Chapel Hill,
who was graduated in law at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina last year, and last
June won the degrees of A. B. and
Ii. NJ from Dickinson College, and
James W. Reid, of Plneville, who grad
uated from Erskine College in 1891.
President Cleveland has put himself
on record against the concealed weapon
evil by refusing pardon to a man who
had been sentenced to serve year in
Jail in Washington for carrying a revol-
yer. The president said in refusing the
pardon: Carrying pistols and using
them on every possible pretext and as
sault such as this convict committed,
growing out OF the pistol carrying habit,
ought in my opinion to be severely end
firmly treated"
The Chicago Tribune says "Spain
rushed in precipitously and with indecent
haste when our civil war broke out, and
within forty days after Bull Run recog-
nized the belligerent rights of the Con-
federates We have waited several
months and are still waiting, for some
inscrutable reason, before recognizing
the insurgents, though they are Pro-
visional Government, seaport, an army,
a long record of battles and captured
towns, and are now press ing on even
into the vicinity of Havana it's If"
Speaking OF the visit OF Lafayette to
this country in the winter of 1924 '25,
1.-The American Monthly Mag azine, of
Washington, says: ut was during these
days that George Ticknor, of Boston, pre-
sented foreign gentleman to ex-Presi-
dent Adams. Politics was a tabooed
subject, but just as they were to take
their leave Mr.. Adams asked Mr. Ticknor
how the election was proceeding in the
House. Mr., Ticknor replied that he un-
derstood it depended upon the vote of
New York. Mr.. Adams arose and ex-
claimed Then God help us AS boy
and man have known New York poll
tics for several years, sn1 her politics
have always been among the devils in
comprehensibilities'
DR.. Forbes Winslow, OF London, well
known specialist on suicide and insanity,
says that Jack the Ripper" who by his
crimes terrolized London few years
ego, is incarcerated In county lunatic
asylum in England Dr. WInslow says
this fact is known to the authorities, but
they have hushed up the case. DR..
Winslow also asserts that the ripper was
MEDICAL student suffering from homi
C dial mania "'Jack the Ripper was a
med cal student of good family. He
studied very hard, and his mind, being
naturally weak, gave way. He became
religious enthusiast and attended early
service every morning at st Paups.
His religious fervor resulted in homicidal
mania toward the women OF the street
and impelled him to murder them"