The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The total of Andrew Carnegie's
gifts to Pittsburg is S1,200,000.
Mr.. Ednonds, editor Of the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record, believes that
before the end of this century the South
ern cotton mills will be humming along
with 5,sso, 600 spindles.
Kate (who has just returned from
college) But papa, some day l. may
be q duchess.
Ceary (indignantly)-No fear of
that. Ssrrah the day fer viz if viz ivir
bring 4 dootchman into the Cleary
family.
Missionary carnage is fearful.
At your last battle you killed several
hundred Of the enemy. Why don't
you settle pour differences by arbitra-
ton?
Cannibal King-And go hungry Pho,
thanks.
Z ne church of st. John the Blessed
Disciple at Hansbrouch Heights, n. j.,
has forced it's rector, Rev. William Il.
Dickinson, to resign because he dis
approved of pancake sociable" as
means of raising money. The parish
is wealthy, but in four months time
it finds the minister lacking in socia-
bility.'
SatolIi's successor as the Pope's re-
preventative in this country is said to
be Mgr. Laurenzelii, internuncio at the
Haetle.-a man of broad and genial
diplomacy, like Satolli's own. He will
come over soon, SO as to get hold OF his
work before Satolli returns to Rome TO
.year the biretta as cardinal.
Spureeos. who detested organs,
would have enjoyed a story which
comes from western State. The bel
lows in the church organ gave out, and
the pastor arose and said: Brethren,
the bellows has broken and the organ
ist can't play; let us, therefore, rise
and sing, Praise God from whom all
blessings flow" -Western Recorder.
Gen. Bon jamin Harrison is expected
to preside at a mass-meeting OF New
York Presbyterians at Carnegie Music
hall Friday evening. The object is to
arouse an interest in the foreign
missions, and this is one of a series of
meetings to take place in various parts
of Tue city. On this occasion Rev. DIR.
Francis E. Clark and ex-Secretary OF
State John W. Foster will make adj
dresses.
Before Peabody's time estates were
almost invariably handed from faith
er to sea: but since then men of wealth
who ase their money for the common
good have appeared more frequently.
There are plenty of close-fisted mil
lionaires yet living, but the proportion
of those who give largely has very per-
aceptiily increased in the last half cen
Jury, and there is reason to hope that
whe. the wealthy come to know the
posr better, and are themselves bet
Ter known, there viii be more rapid in
creasc.-Biblical Recorder.
Trinity College is not on the road
viii a football team this year, and will
not be again. Athletics, though, are
salued for athletics, but a Christian
college cannot go before the world to
feed the spirit of brutalism. If Trim
ity cannot give community higher
entertainment than that, it will stay
at home. 1t is a great source of salts
faction TO parents to know that their
boys at Trinity are safe against the
ealamities OF football. President Kill
go says that he will not commit the
success of the College to the fortunes of
football characterization Advocate.
Fanny Davenport is going to build
and endow near New York city Da-
venport home for retired actors, on a
larger plan than that of the Forrest
nome in Philadelphia, -which cannot
nearly accommodate those who seek
. is harborage, Her home will include
also a school Of acting for the children
of members of the profession, in which
she residents of the home shall be the
teachers; there will be a miniature
theater in which the pupils shall pre-
sent plays; and outside pupils will be
admitted on payment of a suitable fee.
Also manuscript plays may be submit
ted by their authors and passed upon
by 8 committee of the retired actors.