The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Dallas News says coffee is a
noun that will never be declined by the
average politician. !"
President Cleveland is a good sleeper,
spending from twelve to fourteen hours
out Of every twenty four hours asleep.
Rev. g. NJ. Tolson has quit the Bap-
fists and joined the Episcopal church.
The Biblical Recorder intimates that it is
because Mr.. Tolson couldn't get a call
to Baptist church.
Henry B. Blackwell, who advocates
woman suffrage, thinks the franchise
should be extended only TO women who
can read and write tie English lam
guage. This would be making dis
tinctien between the sexes.
Russian Official--You can't stay in
this country, sir.
Traveller I'll leave it.
Official Have you permit to leave Z
Traveller No, sir.
Official-Then you cannot go. | leave
you tWenty-four hours to make up your
mind as to what you shall do.-House-
hold Words.
The millionaire St. Louis murderer,
Duestrow, who, while drunk, murdered
his wife and then held his boy against
the wall and shot him dead, escapes with
a divided jury on his first trial, held long
of tho arsn Ia hos on " YarNp
of the State and other eminent lawyers
hard at work to secure his acquittal and
they seem likely to succeed. If they do,
their regulations as great lawyers and
good citizens will of course be vastly in
creased.
A twenty year old boy secretly mar
ried 10 year-oid girl in Brooklyn few
weeks ago. Upon hearing it, the girls
mo her spanked them both, sent her
daughter off to boarding school, keeps
the young man with her, and has put a
stop to his smoking cigarett s. She says
that if he behaves himself, he may have
her daughter and part of her property
when they get old enough to marry.
Otherwise, she will prosecute him. She
is sensible mother-in law.
A census of sheol has been taken by
London clergyman; not personally, Of
course, but inductiyely, and he has
reached the conclusion that the popula-
ton there Is III the neighborhood of 49,
900, 900, 600. On what principle he ar
rived at these results has not been made
known, and it is difficult to take any in
terest in the matter in the absence of a
similar census of the other and better
place, by aid of which comparisons more
or less soothing may be made.
Judge Undertake ordered the sheriff
of Union county to require people at
tending court now in session there to
wear coats while in the courthouse.
Judge Undertake is a Populist Judge.
and we suppose this is what he calls
reform" He says this is done to up
hold the dignity of the court. We would
like to have it distinctly understood that
the time was in North Carolina that
the courts didn't have to uphold their
dignity by compelling attendants to
wear coats Charlotte News.
The first funeral service ever con-
Quoted ~ which monograph took the
place of minister, occurred last Satur-
day afternoon at the home of Abraham
Stillywell. a Gravesend undertaken. The
services were over the body of Gus@ie
Burr fifteen months-old child, who up
to a short time before her death had
been on exhibition at Coney Island
museums as q "fat baby" The entire
service of prayer, sermon and hymns
was performed by the phonograph. The
undertaken is a strict Methodist, and dis
likes to bury body without religious
service. He had trouble in always Sc
curing preacher A few weeks ago he
heard a phonograph for the first Tina,
and conceived the idea Of purchasing
one and having it loaded" for a funeral.
He secured a preacher who prayed into
the machine, and also preached a funa-
raj sermon into it Later several funeral
hymns were sung into the monograph.