The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Last year four cent cotton made an eff
fective canvass for the third party. This
year s cent cotton will wipe out the
third party by making it plain that there
never was any necessity for it.-Clinton
Democrat
It doesn't concern Americans very
much, but there's to be another wedding
ia the Argyll family, which ought to stir
its ducal blood to frenzy. The dukes
daughter is soon to marry Rev. John Nc
Neill, an exrailroad porter
A few days ago Mr.. James R Randall,
author of Maryland, Ny Maryland, =" re
ceived a severe shock in Augusta, Ga.
in fall from an electric car. a false
step in getting eff the car threw him
heavily to the ground upon his face, and
his lover lip was badly cut.
As to the charge that Mayor Hopkins,
Of Chicago, advised the great Pullman
strike, Eugene " Debs writes to say
that the mayor had nothing whatever to
dc with its inception, directly Or indi
rectly, and that the person alone respon-
sible for it is Eugene " Debs. This
seems to be sufficiently explicit.
The New England birth rate is lower
than that of any of the principal coun-
tries except France and Ireland. The
death rate, however, says the New York
Nation, is lower than that of most of
these countries, while the marriage rate
is the highest known. Evidently the
day of small families has come for New
England, and in some of the States the
number of married people having only
one ckild is very large.
Marriage is not failure IN the FIJI
Islands, for an unmarried man or woman
of manageable age is something that is
rarely seen there. The natives believe
that if person dies while in an unmar
ried state his or her soul is doomed to
wander about through the endless ages of
eternity in an intermediate region be-
tween heaven and hades. At the end of
each moon they are allowed to look into
heaven, but are never permitted to en-
ter
Bryan, Of Chatham, is represented as
saying that he feels disgraced by the as
ISOLATION with Campbell and Phillips on
the Arlington committee. 1t is they
who should feel disgraced. There are
many things worse than getting drunk,
as bad as that is, and one of them is try
ing to sneak bill through the legisla-
ture for the purpose of repeating the
University appropriation and answering,
when Intercepted as to the object of the
measure, go, it is just little BILL :
Charlotte Observer.
Statistics show that Is per cent. of all
babies born in the Russian empire die
before they are year old, and AZ per
cent. before they are A years old, and yet
the population of that country is increas-
ing at the rate of more than 1900, 900 a
year. The climate is really an aid to the
preservation of that vast nation. 1t is
naturally the survival of the fttest, for
only a strong child there lives to grow
up, amid the hardships of winter and
the strange half civilized customs sur
rounding it.
It gives as pleasure to commend the
action Of our County Commissioners in
having the monument at the Alamance
Battle Ground cared for More than
fifteen years ago, May 20, 1890, the
granite shaft now upon the spot where
the Regulators fought and shed the first
blood for American Independence, was
unveiled. It's erection was chiefly, if
not entirely, due to the efforts of Rev.
d. A Long, d. D., Ii. D., President of
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio,
native Of this county, and at the time
of the erection of the monument Presi.
dent of Graham Normal College The
work was done by private donation. 1880
Alamance Cleaner.
DR.. Lapponi, the Pope's physician, has
been giving his opinion upon the health
of Leo XIII. IF nothing unexpected
happens, =" says the doctor, "his Holiness
is in such health that he may very well
live into the next century and attain his
hundredth year" The Pope eats little at
time Says gossip, writing from the
Vatican but takes nourishment rather
in accordance with the advice of his ply
stefan. Four times day he drinks a
cup of bouillou and eats a very little
meat, with which he takes a very small
glass of claret. He is always in good
spirits, and his conversation continues
as brilliant and as full of depth and Wig
or as ever. His Holiness is now in his
S7th year.