The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-01

Cant. Jonathan B. Norton. of East Lee,
Mass, enjoys the distinction Of being the
Oldest voter in the United States. When
he voted for Mckinley, November 3, he
was 100 years three months and three
days old He has lived under every Pres
ident.
The New York World says President
Clevelands private fortune is estimated
at 81. O00,ouo. He paid $4,000 for his
new house in Princeton, n. j. There is
talk that he will be dean Princeton
College at the expiration of his term.
Miss Kate Mobiles has big chewing
gum factory in Niles, Mich. She began
her business career as drummer" and
made gum at first in small quantities in
her own kitchen. As her market grew she
enlarged her quarters, and is now doing
a thriving business, managing it herself.
Disraeli's classification Of lies should
be amended so as to read ''plain lies,
damned lies and election figures" The
recent manipulations of election returns
by the political mathematicians show how
easy it is to prove anything by little
figuring.
The New York World prints on ''un-
questionable authority, of course, the
statement that w. K. Vanderbilt settled
S10,0O0000 on his daughter and S5,000,
900 on the Duke of Marlborough before
the marriage took place. If she leaves no
children, the money comes back to the
Nanderbilts.
At a banquet in Baltimore Saturday
night in tiny glasses, real Jeffersonian
wine of the vintage of 1900 was drunk
by the guests. The actual value of the
wine is So a teaspoonful 1t reposed in
Jefferson cellars at Monticello from 1900
to 1884, when it was sold with all the
effects Of the founder of the Democratic
party.
In the first estimate Of the probable
vote for Governor made by the Star
short time before the election, we gave
Guthrie 10000 votes. His actual vote,
as officially returned was 30,932. In
out last estimate, made -the day before
election, we gave Watson $4,000 votes.
hls actual vote, as officially returned,
was 145, 416-Wilmington Star.
Al German recently asked Judge Craig
Biddle, Of Philadelphia, to excuse him
from serving on the jury. "Whyg asked
the Judge. "Well, your Honor, | don't
understand good English" ooh, you
will do" replied the Judge. ''You won't
hear much good English here, anyhow"
Amid a general laugh, the juryman sat
down.
The charge that the tomato produces
cancer is no longer credited, but now DR..
W. Il. English, of the Western University
Of Pennsylvania, says that it acts as a
heart poison and in aggravated cases it
sets up an active fermentation in the en-
tire alimentary tract The heart action
is rendered irregular, the sufferer gasps
for breath and a steady use of the vegeta-
BILE as a food is likely to produce organic
as well as functional trouble. He admits
that the symptoms of poisoning are not
marked except in rare cases.
A young member of the Christian En-
deavor Society, who has just been elect
ed to the Alabama House of Representa-
tiyes. has introduced bill to prohibit wo-
men from wearing boomers, shirt waists
or any apparel that does not mark dis
tinction between the sexes. His efforts
in behalf Of the bill are said to be ''ludi-
crously earnest" Governor Oates and
family seem to stand in the way, for he
says '"rhe high hat may have to go.
but the shirt waist-not if my wife knows
it."
A female school teacher appeared in
her school room in New York in her
bike" costume, and the larger boys guy
ed her until there was a perfect uproar in
the school. She has been reported to the
principal and may be disciplined. Miss
Owens acknowledged that she had worn
her costume to school and went to the
classroom with it, but says that it was a
perfectly modest costume, with long
akirt. and should have given no cause et