The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Fill our pastors mouth full of
tongue and his belly full of pens as
ready writer" was the prayer negro
layman offered recently near Ply
mouth.
A Kansas paper says about the only
person in Wichita who does not go to
hear Mrs. Lease preach is Mr.. Lease,
her husband. This is not because OF
any lack of interest on his part, but
because Sunday is a very busy day IN
his drug store and he cannot spare
the time to go to church.
A Chicago girl got well ahead OF Q
gallant youth in Paris. She was seated
in the park when the youth approach
ed, bowling and scraping, with his hat
in hand She quickly dropped two pen
MES in his hat and went on taking III
the sights, all oblivious to his French
swearing Chicago Inter-Ocean.
This is not the only country in the
world that is afflicted with bad statu-
arv. John Bright's son writes to the
London Times that the statue of his
father in the Houses of Parliament is
u
spect that to look at it is painful to
his brothers and himself. If it were
not SO painful to see, he would call 1T
grotesque.
And now all London is in futter
over the Langtry's cham of diamonds
that she wears in her new play. The
chain is more than ten yards long, and
:
waist. twice over her shoulder and an
indefinite number of times around her
throat, like Dicks traditional hat
band, refuses to tie after all, and is
gathered up into snowy mass of loop
ing on one side Of the bodice.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps statement
that she never had story returned to
her but once shows that she is more
fortunate than most writer's. Ralph
Waldo Emerson once competed Tor a
certain prize in essay writing, and the
committee announced that none OF the
competing essayists had written we'll
enough to warrant an award. And
vet Emerson was a pretty good essay
list.
1esondents the statement of the adj
ministration' position relative to Cuba,
which President Cleveland has denied
as authentic, was prepared at the State
Department and given out without his
knowledge. Consequently it is declared
that the relations between the Presi-
dent and Secretary Olney are at present
little strained Tt is further stated
that the President is much more dis
posed to favor Cuba than the Secretary.
1t was discovered at New York on
Monday that a German mother slip
ped off the ship at Havre and left two
little children, both under two years
of age Her husband had come to the
New World three years previous, had
saved some money and sent it for his
wife to come over and join him. He
didn't know of the children, and the
mother feared to meet her husband
with the children. So she deserted
them. and Uncle Sam is playing father
to the pair OF fat and lusty youngsters.
A western judge, sitting in chambers,
seeing from the piles OF papers in the
LAWYERS hands that the first case was
likely TO be holly contested, asked
What is the amount in question:
1.-TWO dollars" said the plaintiffs
counsel. "I'll pay it" said the judge.
handing over the money; call the
next case He had not the patience OF
Sir William Grant, who, after listening
for two days to the arguments as 10
the construction of a certain act,
quietly observed when they had done:
ssThat act has been repealed"
Maj. Moses r. Handy writes 10 the
Chicago Times-HTeraId: "Henry Waiter
son mas worked very hard featuring
for the last two or three years, and the
result is. they tell me, that he has
S25, 900 in bank to the credit of his pri-
sate account. This sum he expects to
i,.crease by 5000 before the -middle Of
April. when he will sail for Europe
taking his family with him, and stay
there a year or more. While abroad
he will write biography Of Abraham
Lincoln, which win be his magnunl
opus"