The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-18
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The hard times are said to have at
fected the demand for celery so that naif
Of the Kalamazoo crop lies rotting in
the trenches TIE loss is said to be about
100000.
IT is the duty of The next Legislature
to see to it that the Republicans ana
Populists take charge of he institutions
Of North Carolina. Press, Re
publican.
Those people who claim no good can
come from the cigarette are cfted TO the
fact that Manufacturer Duke has en-
lowed North Carolina college to the
extent of 100000 Washington Post.
II Made no Difference-"Do you up
hold the custom of giving presents on
Christmas"
at doesn't make any difference wheth-
ar UNFOLD il or not. it holds me up every
year Just the same. indianapolis Jour
nal.
The report of the State dispensary of
South Carolina for the eleven months
ending Nov. 80 shows that the total num-
ber of drinks sold during that time is
26.SS1, $50. That would amount TO
an average Of twenty-five drinks each
for every man, woman and child in the
State: and the Christmas season is yet to
be provided for.
The account of expenses given to Con-
gress for ex-Speaker Crisp 8 funeral is the
smallest rendered in recent years, being
5000 as compared with an average or
about So 900 for the burial of a member OF
Congress. Mr.. Crisp left little or no prop
erty. and the House committee on ac-
accounts has voted to report resolution
paying the expenses Of his last sickness.
OF the 119 insurance companies that
do business in this State only six are
home institutions. That's what alls
North CaroIina--we work, slave ana
stint to send money to a foreign lnsur-
ance company instead Of supporting
home enterprise. When money leaves
the State, it is gone forever; invest 1t IN
development of native industries and IT
will return to you again, 4}f
Apropos of the large mortality by the
inhalation of illuminating gas, it is inter
esting to note that the medical societies
of Pennsylvania are giving their atten-
ton to a substitute for the gallows. They
have concluded that the most humane
method Of extinguishing the life of the
criminal sentenced to death is by the use
Of gas, and they propose to present
bill to the Legislature this winter provid-
ing for the change.
Some interesting statistics relating to
Jewish longevity were gathered some rev
years since. In Frankfort-on-th e-Ma1n It
was demonstrated that one-fourth or all
the Christians died in seven years; the
same proportion Of Jews lived about
twenty-eight years. One+half or the
Jews lived more than Sd years.
The remaining fourth Of the Christians
were dead at go years, and of the Jews
not until II years. In Prussia A per
cent of the Christians lived to be IA years
old and so per cent of the jews. In
100000 of the Christian population there
were 143 deaths, and only 80 deaths a
mong the Jews.
Did You ever hear of Grainne O'Mail-
ly, the pirate queen Of Connaught!
Grainne was the daughter of the lord Of
the isles OF Arran. When she was young
her father took her as companion on his
piratical expeditions, and when she grew
I'D into lovely womanhood, statuesque
beauty, with her olive skin and lustrous
black eyes, that are the birthrights or
Galway, she became pirate in her own
right. At 10 years Of age he was COM
mandant OF the fotilla that ruled the
Atlantic coast of Ireland. She plundered
the Spanish galleons that came that way,
and attacked big English vessels so per-
sistently that Queen Elizabeth offered
big reward for her capture. But she de-
feated all attempts to make her prisoner,
and proved herself to be one Of the most
remarkable women Ireland has produc-
ed
There are not more than three genuine
millionaires in the Senate. These are
Mr.. Cameron, Mr.. Mcmillan, of Michigan,
and Mr.. Wetmore, of Rhode Island Mr..
Boyer, Mr.. Jones, of Nevada, Mr.. Stew
art and Mr.. Elkins have great of specu-
lative wealth, and if they could realize
upon their expectations they might be
considered millionaires also, but they are
not rich men like Mr. Mcmillan, of
Michigan, who has his money invested
in what Mr.. Micawber called portable
property, and Mr.. Cameron, who owns
rolling mills, railroad stock, coal-mines
and is interested in other big profit-pay-
ing enterprises. Senator Sherman is a
wealthy man. He is probably worth
S750.000, although he has the reputation