The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Ten per cent of the voters in Rhode
Island were DISTINGUISHED because they
marked their ballots wrong.
The Democrats who bolted this year
are now engaged in making a speciality
of trust busting. 1t is an innocent amuse-
ment and will not give the trusts any
considerable inconyenience.-Wa Washing
ton Post.
A Boston man declares that surgeons
are over-anxious to operate on people for
appendicitis, and to protect himself in
case he falls in fit or faints and is dis
abled mentally he wears sewed to his
undershirt a card with this inscription:
My appendix has been cut out"
Col Odds writes his papers: Richmond
Pearson truly expressed the inner feel
ings of the Republicans when he told
me they had cast over $4,000 votes for
Populist Congressman, while the Popu-
lists actually did not put in 1000 votes
for the Republican nominees and actual
" did not give Linney quite 300"
Goyernor-elect Bob Taylor, of Ten
lACSSGGs hCllA ltAE AII 11tuI VI AAttuA III LIS
State, in a letter to the New York World,
adds: II think / viii make good gov
ernor, because | have been governor
twice and acknowledgements in my own
family for Is years"
Dipsomaniacs in Sweden, when put I'M
der restraint, are fed almost entirely on
bread STEPPED in wine. In less than a
s..1,t To- 4Bo 4hn 4
smell of liquor and when liberated gen
orally become total abstainers. In
Russia a similar treatment is followed
with good results.
The Raleigh News and Observer says
that 1.-THE Charlotte Observer favors Col
Windy Billy Henderson for the United
States Senate" Beg pardon. We object
TO this characterization of our friend. tie
is the Honorable William Fentress Hen
derson whose gifts and graces have
commanded for him our support for a seat
in the Senate-Charlotte Observer.
Christian Charity. -CleIk-Lady out
there with a fashy paste necklace wants
TO know whether it's pure diamond or
not.
Jeweler like married woman?
YES"
"Ten her it is. No use maxim trouble
for poor husbands these hard times, -
New York Weekly.
According to the gold Philadelphia
Times in the last election in that city in
some of the precincts more than one
half Of all the voters had their ballots
marked by an assistant and it was done
solely because the vote of the voter had
been corruptly procured and he could
not receive his pay unless his ballot was
marked for him in the booth" And
yet some people claim that the people
voted for Mckinley through choice
J. NJ. Dwyer, a San Francisco man,
has invented and put in practical opera
ton a new method of utilizing the power
of ocean waves. His scheme is to anchor
at some distance from the shore a big
buoy supporting a strong mast. From
the top of the mast a wire rope runs
to the motor proper, erected on land, and
consisting of simple arrangement
whereby the intermittent pull Of the
swaying mast raises weight which gives
continuous motion to heavy fyWheel,
Nothing pleased William Morris so
much as to be mistaken for sailor.
Once, while rolling through one of the
riverside streets Of old London, he was
overhauled by seafaring man: "Avast
therer' cried the stranger. Don't know
you? Weren't you once the mate of the
brig Sea Swallow" TO be mistaken
for the mate of a ship bearing so poetic
a name as the Sea Swallow was simply
glorious. eyes, I'm he" said Morris, and
he locked arms with the stranger, pilot
ed him into an alehouse, and filed him
full Of liquors and substantials
Dr. CYRUS Teed, of Chicago, the ORR
ginator Of a queer new religion called
Koresh. has evolved a theory Of the
earth that is just as queer. lie says that
the earth is an enormous hollow globe,
with q crust about 100 miles thick. Thus
far his theory does not differ greatly
from that Of the late Captain Symmes
but he parts company with the Captain
in saying that the human race and al
the visible heavenly bodies are inside OF
the earth. Consequently nobody knows
anything about the outer convex surface
Of the earth.
The Democratic Senatorial caucus vii
bar those Senators who bolted the Demo
cratic ticket at the late election. The,