The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

In the pictures of Queer National
Figures" the New York Times in
cludes Romulus Zig-zag Linney, of
North Carolina.
VIM. +. Curtis figures out the
strength of the Republican candi-
dates for the presidential nomination
thus: Mckinley $50 delegates; Reed
200; Allison 100; Morton 100; Cullom
80; and Davis 40.
a scientific friend of the Washing
ton Post can't quite understand why
women should have such strong preju-
dices against yivisection, when, ac-
cording to Genesis, had it not been for
an experiment in yiyisection there
would have been no woman
The Charlotte Observer is Of the
opinion that fusion viii continue and
says:
''Whatever further Inconsistencies
are necessary viii be committed; what
ever amount of dirt is necessary viii
be eaten, in order TO maintain the Re
publican-Populist fusion"
raphy has already been put to praeti-
cal use, so the report comes from Mon
treal, where it has been successfully
applied TO the finding of bullet in d
patients leg. The wound bad closed
up, and the bullet could not be found
till the new process was applied, when
it was discovered in forty-fye min-
utes.
Extract from novel in 19O0.-
Does he love me, / wonder, for my
self alone Does his heart beat for
me? @, ! would give so much to
know" wildly exclaims the lovely
young heiress as she looks upon the
photograph of the young and penni-
less artist who has told her be loves
her more than life.
Il have it, have it, she finally ex-
claims with confidence, as she fastens
on her riding habit to 60 to town"
viii buy me cathode photograph APP
paratus, and when he next calls / will
press the button and know for the truth
whether my image is reflected on his
heart as ne says it is"
Returning from Washington, d. G.,
by the Salisbury World. When asked
about the Butler Pritchard break Mr.
Moody denied that there was any rup-
ture between them. ''There will q fu-
sion electoral ticket" he said When
it was suggested that DR.. Motifs ae-
cession to the true blue Silgerites
would work harm to the Republican
party an amused smile played around
the corners OF his mouth as ne said,
Mott knows how To work around the
Democrats. He is great schemer
and when the campaign is on he will
be found just as much a Republican as
ever
General Bradley +. johnson, of Bal
timore, is writing the Confederate his
tory of Maryland for the Confederate
Publishing Company Of Atlanta, which
is about to publish a Confederate his
tory of each of the States The work
will be in fifteen volumes, and includes
a history of the Confederate States
navy General Fitzhugh Lee will fur
nish the history Of Virginia, General
Bishop Capers, Of South Carolina, the
one of that State; Hon. Walter Clark.
Judge Of the Supreme Court of North
Carolina, that of the Old North State,
and well known authors Of the other
Confederate States. The series will
be edited by General Clement A. Evans,
Of Georgia, says the Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
Mayor Strong made another OF those
unique speeches Of his at the Balling-
ton Booth meeting in New York the
other night II went down to HelPs
Kitchen, where the churches don't get
in their work, one night said he,
"and / saw the Salvation Army girls
there praying for the wicked One of
them even tackled me. She said Mr.
Strong, I'm told You sometimes use
the word damn lido, but not just in
that FORM said !. 'Well,' said she,
that's what comes Of a high church
Episcopal training / told that to my
wife, who is an ardent Episcopal, ard
said She: Mr.. Mayor, You never learn
ed to say damn in the Episcopal
church Wen, perhaps / didn't, but 1
believe in the Salvation Army, just
the same"