The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-09
xyEnNESDAY. December 8, 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
hill has been introduced in the Geor-
gia Legislature requiring ministers and
other authorized to perform the marriage
ceremony, to return the marriage license
within 80 days or pay a fine Of SO.
Thomas Jefferson, the actors son, has
an autograph album that is unique III
containing the thumb-prints of celebrities,
Among them are those of President and
Mrs. Cleveland, Secretary Lamont and
Francis Wilson.
The hundredth anniversary OF Schnberts
death is to be celebrated in Vienna with
considerable splendor. A search for
relics of the composer brings to light the
fact that at his death his entire effects
were officially valued at less than S15.
Vengeance Returned Traveller
have often thought of that young Mr..
Tease. and how he used to torment Miss
Auburn about her red hair. Did she
ever get even with him?
Old Friend-Long ago. She married
him.-New York Weekly.
Recently 1000 mules were bought in
this country and shipped to General
Weyier in Cuba. A special from Havana
says that General Weyler paid $50 per
head, but charged the Spanish govern
ment $75 per head. Ii he can't whip
Maceo, the Cuban General can make
fortune out of the war il he has to buy
many mules.
he Caucasian prints a letter from Sen
ator Maxwell. of Duplin, and Representa-
tive Price, of Union, declaring that they
viii not support Pritchard or any other
gold man for Senator. Maxwell is the
colleague of Maj. Grant, who said few
days after the ~lection that all the Popu-
lists would rapport Pritchard. 1t seems
he couldn't carry his own colleague.
The big revival now going on in Phila-
deiphia eliminated the other day in q
street parade of 1900 chureh-workers.
IN a way this suggests the religious pro-
cessions of the Middle Ages in Europe.
The houses along the route of the
parade were decorated with flags and
Chinese Lanterns; red fire was burned,
and sky-rockcts were set off, while the
paraders sang various Gospel hymns as
they marched.
After a priest had performed the last
rites over the body of a workman in the
cemetery at Arras, in France, a friend
of the dead man appeared with two great
bottles of gin in his hands Opening one
of these, he spilled its contents into the
grave, thus complying, as he said in
short speech, with the wishes of his dead
comrade. The other bottle was opened
for the refreshment of the mourners.
The boys of Yale in the old days used
to bride the printers devil to get proofs
of the examination papers for. them.
When the college authorities put a stop
to this practice a bright idea seized one
fellow and he saved the whole suffering
party. He hired one Of the printers ut
was summer) to wear a pair of white
trousers to the office, and at noon to sit
down on the form" in which were lock-
ed the precious questions. The inky seat
of that pair of trousers sold for deal
more than the clothes were worth in their
original spotlessness.
The following story is told in the me-
moirs of Lord Blachford, recently pub
Iished in England: Mrs. IS relations
with her maid are rich. She was de-
scribing one who was a breaker of china.
''At last she broke three things in one
day. So / said to her: You are i'll,
Jane, you want some castor OIL The
maid stared and was astonished. Your
hand shakes, you want some castor oil,
Jane The maid took it as joke and
grinned. But, when bedtime came, the
upper maid was duly summoned. Jane
is i'll and wants some castor OIL" Mrs.
appeared at the bedside with
quiet inflexible determination, explained
that Jane was i'll and did want castor
oil and must take it. She did take it, and
no further breakage occurred.
A special from Atlanta says that Mr..
Bryan will deliver the first of his series
of lectures N Atlanta, January 9th. He
will then go to Nashville, Memphis, into
Texas, and on North. Mr. Comstock de-
clines to give the remuneration that Mr..
Brayn is to receive. The Atlanta Consti-
tuition, says the report that he was to
receive $4,000 for fifty lectures is below
the mark He win get more than that
THE figure is such handsome one that
Mr. Bryans many disappointed admirers
may take some consolation in the fact
that before the dawn of the coming in
augural day their defeated but not van
ouished champion viii have earned an
amount almost equal to the yearly salary
Of the President Of the United States.
This amount win place Mr.. Bryan, who
is now a poor man, in sufficiently inde-
pendent circumstances to enable him to
devote his time and labor to the cherished
cause OF bi-metallism.