The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOI Es3 AMI AOnlIEN %.
The Hickory Press would like to see
Zeb. Vance Walser made Attorney Gen
eral. So would Mr.. Walser, no doubt,
since he can't be Governor.
Boggs- i see the Weather Bureau has
put in a typewriter.
Foggs- Well, that means that we are
to have bad spell of weather. Yonk-
eTs Statesman.
The Philadelphia Ledger announces
for the benefit of the Woman Suffrage
States that Allison is the only unmar-
ried Presidential candidate in the Re
publican field.
The Office of Consul General to Ha-
vana, to which General Fitzhugh Lee
has recently been appointed, pays &c.
COO a year, but the fees make the Office
worth from $50, 900 to $4,000 a year.
1t is, therefore, one of the best paying
Offices within the gift of the President
Not since 1875 has there been such
a fine prospect for big crop OF peaches
IN Delaware, and unless something UNI
forseen happens the crop this year will
be a third larger than it was in 1893
when fine peaches were allowed to rot
on the trees, because 1t didn't pay to
ship them to market.
On Good Friday quaint old custom
was carried out at st. Bartholomew the
Great, London. TWenty-one poor Wild
ows went to the graveyard, and each
picked up a siXpenny piece from cer-
tain fiat tombstone. Then church Of
flcer gave each of them a bun and two
shiIlings. No one knows the origin
OF the custom.
4 Chip of the Old Block eadmas-
ter addressing the class How SIM
pie and yet sublime is the beautiful and
detailed description which PIiny, the
younger, gives us of the house in which
he lived.
Solomon aside To his neighbor)
Most likely he wanted to sell It. Wien
er Luft.
Campaign Lief have often
wanted to ask you, said William Tell,
If it IS a fact that you played on a
violin while Rome was burning?1
That was campaign lie" said
Nero. ''The truth is. / played on the
flames, along with other members OF
10. j, Volunteer Company, with a
hose Indianapolis journal.
The Chicago record wants Mr.. Nc
Sinley to write out a confession. The
Record suggests in a legend TO a good
cartoon that it is suspected that Mr..
Mckinley lis responsible for the mys
ferions disappearance OF many favorite
sons. a0ong them Henderson, OF Ne
braska, Davis, Of Minnesota, Bradley,
Of Kentucky, Harrison, of Indiana, and
Cullom, Of Illinois "Let Mr.. McKin-
ley says the Record, '.tell just what
he did with all his victims" He might
also give some Of the inside workings
OF his conspiracy against Allison, Reed,
Morton and Quay.
s story told By Chalneey NJ. Depew
at a recent dinner, and perhaps not
yet printed, was: The morning after
the election Of President Harrison. two
Irishmen met in the cattle yards Of the
New York Central Railroad Said
Mike, Can you tell me. Pat, what was
the cause of Cleveland Adefeat? / be-
lieve ii was on account OF that blessed
Mills bill" We'll, / don't know said
Pat, "but ii occurred to me that the
surplus had something. to do with it,"
Well" said Mike, If so, why did
Cleveland not take up the surplus, pay
of the Mills bill aud end the battle -
Lexington (Ky.1 man wrote the fol-
lowing letter to two college professors
the other day: "Gentlemen: Hearing
the wonderful success you are having
in electrical experiment, / wish to in
quire If you think It would be possible
with your improved apparatus to get
an x raise out of the boss? AS / am
now receiving only $3.50 per week, even
a raise would be very acceptable.
have thought Of trying few expert
ments in that line myself. / could
induce a current Of jealousy by fiirt-
ing with the typewriter girl and pre-
vent him from sparkling her, but she
might offer resistance to that proceed
ure. | might give the book keeper "a
'ieYden jar on the elbow when he is
costing the ledger, on. come insnIate in
the morning as to attract attention,
but I fear any Of these experiments
would result IN an electrical discharge
Hoping that you will be able to give me
some valuable assistance or advice how
10 proceed, remain, yours truly"