The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


A telegram from Mexico says thatail
the Central American States Will rec
ognize the Cuban insurgents II we do.
In an editorial yesterday we wrote
that Governor Carr said got more than
.one-fifth of the Democrats would vote
for a gold candidate" The mot" was
omitted. We wrote anomalous propo-
sition,' and mel 'anonymols.'
The New York Court of Appeals de-
cideg that Russell Sage must pay Mr..
Laidlaw. his clerk. $4,000 for using him
as a lgeastwork when a crank hurled a
bomb at the millionaire. This is a
righteous ending to long litigation.
Here is the latest Gilbertian advice
to brides:
If he acts unkindlY.
Shut yoalr eyes and love him blind5g,
Should he call you names uncomeIy,
Shut yoglv mouth and love him dumb
~,
Should he rate you rightly, lefty,
Shut your ears and love him deafly.
The New York Tribune. which has
40 love for Plat. prints the reports of
New Workers travelling over the South
and West booming Morton for Presi-
dent, intimating that their useof Doodle
is not sanctioned by Morton. But in
the close of the article, referring to
certain acts OF Morton, the Tribune
says: E It is the weakness Of amiabiIity.
And It lis fatal"
He'd been Waiting with his hosts
daughter, and was in the corner repair.
ing damages, He was espied by his
would-be-pap a-in-law.
She's the flower of my family, sir, 7
said the latter.
So il seems answered the young
man. s'Pity she comes off so, amt it ~
he continued, as he essayed another
vigorous rub at the white spots on his
coat-sleeye, Waverly.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, the Home
Secretary, after careful examination
of the additional evidence submitted to
him, has decided that no alteration
should be made in the sentence imposed
on Mrs. Florence Maybriek, the Ameri-
can woman who is undergoing life i'm
prisonment on conviction Of having
poisoned her husband, Liverpool mer-
chant, some years ago.
Her Only Friends Mamma asked
the little four-year-old, how do you
spell ginger ~
Put away your book, dear. It is
time for you To go to bed"
Papa, how do you
Don't bother me, Katie.
ss&yhaf does IL mean x8tha., II ss.fse -
Didn't you hear your mother2"
Katie threw the book on the floor
II don't believe there's anybody that
loves me," she burst forth, 'cept
grandpa and God. Grandpa, he's in
Michigan, an don't know where God
isit'
A foreigner who has not been long
III this country and IL learning our Ian
guage, thus liberates his puzzled soul
in verse:
If lot Of little mouses
Are lot of little mice,
Why are not a lot of houses
Called a lot Of little hice?
fla lot Of little gooses
Are lotof little geese,
Why are not a lot of mooses
Called lot Of little .meese?
San Francisco Wave.
The most eloquent words ever writ
ten by Andrew jackson was the cpl
taph of his wife. 1t is a gem, and was !:
Here lie the remains of Mrs. Rachel
Jackson, wife Of President jackson,
who died December %, 1928, aged 81
years. Her face was fair, her person
pleasing, her temper amiable and her
heart kind; she delighted in relieving
the wants of her fellow creatures, and
cultivated that divine pleasure by the
most liberal and unpretending meth
DDS. TO the poor she was a benefactor,
10 the rich an example, and to the
wretched a comforter. Her piety went
hand in hand with her beneyolence, and
size thanked her creator fos being per.
ilitted TO do good; a being so gentle
and yet so yirtuous, SANDER might
wound, but could not dishonor. Even
death, when he tore her from the arms
of her husband, could but transport
her to the bosom of her God"