The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-07-31
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

coming northeriy.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The trustees of college in one of the
Western States want a president and the
conditions are that he must be Demo
crat and not Presbyterian.
Lizzie Borden was delegate to the
Christian Endeavor Convention in Bos-
ton. Two years ago she was on trial for
the murder of her father, and was ac-
quilted.
In the American colony at Paris: She
is Miss Bond engaged to Prince San
son? He-Not exactly. He has an option
for ninety days, | Observation-Disclosures
Bulletin.
Mature" said Uncle Eben, 'doan'
nebber bestow all her gifts on one indi-
Willie De lightnin' bug aim got no
singer, an de skeeter ain got no lamp.
Washington Star.
Mile. Pauline, of Holland, is probably
the tiniest woman on the planet. She
is eighteen years old, weighs less than
nine pounds, and lacks four inches of
being as high as two-foot rule.
a leading London publisher, blase OF
the ilIiterature of the day, now puts a
leading question to all rising authors
seeking his assistance: "Want to publish
novel, eh2 Which school erotic or idi-
otic2"
The free silver men carried twenty
seven of the twenty eight wards of st.
Louis in the election Saturday for dele
gates to the Missouri State Democratic
Convention to meet August 9th. And
yet they say that the free silver sentl-
ment is dying out"
A Detroit woman, who is suing for di-
vorce, declares that on one occasion,
when her husband had promised to
bring her some silk stockings to wear
with her tan shoes and white duck suit,
he tried to put her off with lisle-thread
ones. Could there be better cause for
divorce
In Louisiana it is proposd to insert
a clause in the new Constitution which
will disfranchise the majority Of the
negroes of the State by requiring that
all voters must pay taxes upon at least
5000 AS majority of the colored citizens
of Louisiana do not pay taxes, it is evident
that they would not have much to say in
the government of the State if such
amendment should prevail.
They say that John R. Mclean knows
and speaks Familiarity to every reporter
on the New York Morning Journal; that
Whitelaw Reid doesn't know anybody on
the Tribune staff except the cashier,
managing editor and the business man
ager, and won't allow any of his en-
ployees to speak to him on the street;
and that it is different with Pulitzer
his employees won't speak to him on the
street.
At Atlanta last Sunday the Rev. j. B.
Hawthorne, widely know Baptist,
preached red hot sermon against femi-
nine bicycling and the result is that cy-
clists are up in arms against him. He de-
clared that a personal devil is responsible
for the desire on the part of the women
to disport themselves on bicycles. He
thinks this personal devil was at work
at Baltimore when the Baptists had big
bicycle parade.
O'Brien Moore says all the New Eng
land Senators are against Reed for Presi
dent except Henry Cabot Lodge. Ever
the Maine Senators are opposed to him.
Hale and Frye would not be apt to fight
Reed in Maine, but their influence viii
be constantly and earnestly opposed tc
Reeds nomination. The relations Of
Reed with the Senators from Maine have
never been pleasant. Reed and Blaine
had not spoken to each other for ter
years before Blaine's death. Hale and
Frye, although they are as different al
chalk and cheese, are still as one in theil
hatred of Reed Reed has not exchanged
word with either of the Senators from
his State for several years. He has ar
intense contempt for Hale, and dislikes
Frye.