The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-01

doA1TuOF 1gDMBuES. VI Mill lunds IL
being warmly praised because he APP
pointed a woman State Librarian.
1t costs money for the Liberty Bell
TO travel about the country. At re-
cent meeting of the City Council of
Philadelphia q bill of $1,000 was
brought in. This is what it cost to take
the old bell down to Atlanta, Ca, and
back.
Because Mrs. Lease says she will con-
clude her lecture engagements in about
a year, and viii then go abroad for
two years the Galveston News rises
to remark that something generally
happens to keep alive the prejudice of
the other nations Of the world against
this country.
The Boston Advertiser wants to
know what met cash" is, and the
Brooklyn Eagle volunteers the infor-
nation that Senator Chandler, of New
Hampshire, would say that it was the
cash with which Mark Hanna was try
ing to entrap delegates to the sup
port of Mckinley.
Reed and Allison were talking Of
whom had better be put forward in.
case Of deadlock-so the story runs
and Allison suggested ex-President
Harrison. ssTo Hades with Harrison"
said Reed; Il would rather see the Cam
ton major nominated than the frigid
pharisee from indianapolis.
Mizzle How did you happen to join
the Independent Rifles?
Fizzle-To avoid jury duty.
Mizzle They tell me you resigned
just as soon as there was prospect of
war.
Fizzle-That was because I felt con-
WINGED no good citizen should shirk the
demands of the jurybox.- Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Royal paupers come high but some
people must have them. Tt costs the
English people $1,925,00o year to sup
port the old lady they call Queen,
J $4,000 to enable the Prince of Wales
to play swell, $4,000 for the Princess
to foot the bill for household expenses,
and s1s0,000 to provide for the wants
of their children, making SO, 900 to
enable this squad of royal paupers to
live at ease and put on styles--Wil-
mington Star.
His Curiosity have no objection,
said Mabel's father, ito your being an
advanced woman. None whatever. In
fact, / am rather interested in seeing
the result"
How do you mean@
II want to see whether the advanced
woman is going to have sense enough
to appreciate the young man who inn
proves his mind and saves his money,
or whether she'll just go ahead as
usual, and fall in love with the one
who has curly hair and plays the
guitar. Washington Star.
The Mrs. Tucker, of Kansas, who
tied her husband by the thumbs to a
bedpost and 1ogged him with a cow
hide. is the woman who first sang
"Goodby, Old Party, Goodby," on the
political stump when the Populists
sent PETER to the Senate to succeed
Ingalls, She is a politician and
stump speaker, like Mrs. Lease. I'm his
speech during the campaign PETER
used to compliment Mrs. Tucker on
her excellent qualities, and commend
her to other women as an example
Suppose Mrs. PETER were to take pat
tern after herl
A friend of the Morning News at
Jennings, Fla, has been good enough
to send TO this Office gold bug. 1T is
said that there are a good many gold
bugs in Florida. as well as in Wall
street The specimen at hand, which
belongs to the family Chrysomelidae,
is beautiful creature, with body,
wings, bcak and legs Of the color Of
the precious yellow metal variously
shaded. The gold bug looks perfectly
HAIRLESS and is indeed so retiring in
it, disposition that ft will feign death
at the slightest disturbance. But as
innocent and harmless as it appears,
the gold bug is said TO be the most
terrible creature on the face OF the
earth Savannah Morning News.