The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-14
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
North Carolina will make crops this
year that will convert the most rampant
calamity howlers into good citizens -
Henderson Gold Leaf.
Justice Field has been on the Supreme
Court bench 80 years-two years short
of Chief Justice Marshall's term, and it
is said he is ambitious to remain as long
as the great Chief Justice.
A Kansas Democrat has brought suit
against the Democratic Central Commit
tee for money claimed to have been paid
for the appointment of postmaster. In
Kansas, it is hard to tell which party is
the meanest.
Writing of negro revival, the San
ford Express reporter closes with Next
day / heard one of the brethren say,
"Boss, DIES tell you we had a splendid
meetin. Nineteen got ligion and as
many more would er got it If dar had er
been room on de floor"
President Diaz, of Mexico, is described
by recent eye witness as purely Aztec
in appearance. Ellis color is almost
that Of an Indian. His hair is black and
straight, and falls little over his tenn
piles. His strength lies in his chin as
clearly as samson's strength lay in his
bair,
In Greene county, Missouri, Mrs. He
len u. Stewart has been appointed sher-
if to succeed her husband, who died a
few weeks ago. She is said to be the
first woman sheriff in the United States,
or in the world, and it is thought that
when her term expires she will be n0mi-
n@ted by the Republicans for that Office.
II We hadn't thought Armfeld is a
sound money man we would not have
nominated him" says the Marion Record.
''0f course he is for sound money; every
honest man is. Armfield is a sound man,
with sound sense, and he wants every
thing else sound. There is nothing
sounder than a good hard silver dollar.
1t is even sounder than gold dollar"
Nominations are not yet in order"
SAYS the Charlotte News. 1.-THE matter
of platform has not yet been settled.
II viii be time enough to trot the candi-
dates out when this is done. The Wilson
Mirror is therefore little previous when
it dominates Hon. @. M. Cooke, of Frank
lin county, for Governor. But its can
didate is splendid man in the best sense
of the word. :"
The Cherokee form of marriage is, per-
haps, the simplest and most expressive
to be found among modern people. Man
and maiden, their courtship happily
ended, simply join hands over running
stream. emblematic of the wish that
their future lives shall flow on in the
same channel, and the thing is done.
Among our other Indian tribes the mar
riage ceremony is equally simple and
effective.
At Asbury Park on Sunday, Mayor
Strong SAID the saloons should be closed
as long AS ha was Mayor. Senator Ban
Tillman, of South Carolina, raised a
hearty laugh when he pointed to Mayor
Strong aud said "If you eau come
back here in one year and truthfu9y say
no saloon is open in Sodom on Sunday,
you'll have TO scratch your old bead
many a time; but I'll pray for you :" The
Mayor almost fell off his chair laug ming.
The typesetting machine invented by
Father Calendoli, Sicilian monk, is an
advance on all other similar machines in
speed and ease of manipulation. II is
said to SET so, 900 letters an hour, an
amount representing the work for an
equal period of twenty compositOrs, or of
seven of the machines in common use.
It's cardinal principles of difference from
other machines is in the use of the oc
tave and chord system of the piano,
whereby by a single movement of the
haud al entire word may be put in type
in the time formerly used for setting a
letter.