The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-28
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

{ The Berks county pa Republicans
elect the first delegate to the national
convention, and he is for Tom Reed.
Out in Missouri, Orville D. Shelby, son
of General 10. Shelby, is organizing an
expedition to help the Cuban insurgents.
Shelby is brave fellow, and has quite
a large following among the young men.
The joint councilmanic committee of
Philadelphia, in response to request
from Senator Butler, have decided to let
the Liberty bell stop in Charlotte and
Greensboro on its return from the Atlanta
Exposition.
In recent syndicate article Mr.. Wash
ington Davis brings forward proof to
establish the relationship of General
Grant and Jefferson Davis. 1t seems
that William Simpson, of Pennsylvania,
was the great grandfather of these two
famous men who tried so hard to destroy
each other in our civil war.
We observe that Mr.. Walter r. Henry,
the North Carolina statesman who failed
to connect with the Cleveland pie coun-
ter, has again renounced Democracy and
embraced Populism. Mr.. Henry is dis
posed to throw in several fiops with
every disappointment Washington Post.
Apropos of the negroes of royal blood
who are carried to Paris to be civilized,
it is in order to relate that they all re-
b - o1I Oft
uating as doctors of law or of medicine,
as soon as they are sent back to their
African tribes. Cincholle, the journalist,
who is genuine negro, says that he has
had notion occasionally to catch fat
baby for breakfast. He was brought to
Paris with a party of forty young ne
groes, not one of them having been heard
Of since they went back to Africa.
A statistician has learned that the an
nual aggregate circulation of the papers
of the world is calculated to be 12,000,-
100000 copies, which would cover 10, $50
square miles of surface; that it is printed
on 7S1, $50 tons of paper; and, further,
that if the number IL, 900, 900, 900 repre-
sented, instead of copies, seconds, it
WOUid ldhC ofCk ooo yC0io Aol tACI4 W
elapse The pile would reach the mag
nifcent altitude of 400 miles. Calcula-
ting that the average man spends five
minutes reading his paper in the day,
this is a very low estimate,) he finds
that the people of the world altogether
annually occupy time equivalent to
100000 years reading the papers.
Within short time there will arrive
in New York the Rev. Maskazoo Tai, one
of the most eminent scholars of Japan,
who has come to this country to study
the social, political and religious princi-
pies of American civilization. He has
planned to spend several months in New
York, familiarizing himself with the la
Dor question and life in the slums. Mr..
Tai is an Episcopal clergyman and be-
longs to what was known in Japan
twenty-five years ago as the soldier
caste. He was educated for and in
tended to enter the army. He was con-
verted and baptized by the Rev. DR..
Cooper, a missionary, with whom he
studied theology for year. Then he
became the pupil of Bishop Williams,
and was with him three years.
A department of newspaper work that
is too little appreciated by outsiders gets
the following appreciative notice from
Maj Moses P. Handy. A man whose
proprietorship of newspaper was &C
quired through the foreclosure of mort
gage began his new career by looking
around the newspaper Office to find out
where he could save few dollars in the
running expenses. Said he to the man
ager ''Do you know that fellow in the
little room upstairs-the fellow works
with pair of shears and a paste
pot?'
''Why, yes; that is the exchange edi-
tor" said the manager.
''Well, you want to keep your eyes on
him. In fact, if you take my advice
you'll give him the bounce next pay
day"
''why9 He is one of the best men on
the force.
Don't you believe it. I have been
watchin' him, and he does nothing but
sit there with his feet cooked up and
read newspapers. Fire him He is sol
diering, an you can bet on it."
1t was with difficulty the manager
made the proprietor understand that it
was the business of the exchange editor
TO read newspapers, and that the more
he read the better his work was likely
10 be.