The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-03
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Springfield Republican can't UNI
Serstand how the Republicans can es-
cape responsibility for legislation
having purchased the power of re-or-
eanizat ton of the Senate
Dan. Russell favors Reed for Presi-
dent, so it is said Then he can't get
Pritchard's support for Governor. 1t
is quite probable that the Mckinley
nea will support Moody for Governor
and the Reed men will support Rus
sell.
The public school teachers of Gin
cinnati also want to be taken under
the pQternal care Of goyernmet, and
have drafted a bill for the next Legis-
lature providing for teachers pensions
from a fund accumulated by the State
from their current salaries.
Detroit's new municipal electric
lighting plant is said to be proving a
fine investment After making all al
lowances for depreciation of plant,
loss of taxes from the private company
which was displaced. etc. the city is
gamer by some SIS per lamp per year.
An exchange gets this off: a man
named Moon was presented with a
daughter by his wife. This was new
moon The old man was SO overcome
that he got drunk This was a full
moon. When he got sober he had only
twenty-five cents. This was the last
quarter"
New Haven church-goers we're
little discomposed Sunday to have a
tall young man on the sidewalk thrust
into their hands as they passed cards
bearing these printed words:
Fill this out and put over your bed:
IF DIE TONIGHT SHALL
6O IL
signed. .........,..-....
Date. ....................
1t is understood that President
Cleveland has written to an acquaint-
ance in this city to the effect that he
is sorry to discover that many of his
friends in the East are more solicitous
concerning the prices of their stocks
and bonds than they are for the well
fare of the country, ard that, in his
opinion, if the Monroe doctrine is
worth anything, it is worth being en-
forced Springfield Republican.
DR. W. II. FELTON, is the Republican
contestant for the seat from the 7th
Georgia district, but is too much of an
invalid to go to Washington and look
after his interests himself. Mrs. Fell
ton is therefore going in his place,
and expects TO make all the necessary
arguments before the committee and
conduct the case as attorney for her
husband They will thus keep the fees
that Congress allows to contestants
in the family.
Under the Mckinley law says the
New York World, 1.-THE customs reve-
nues fell from $219.000,0 900 in the fiscal
year of 1891 to $13i .000.000 in the fiscal
year 1894, a loss of about SIS, 900, 900.
Under the Wilson bill they amounted
for the first eleven months Of 1895 to
more than $l52, 900. 900, or $21, 100000
more for eleven months under the new
tariff than for twelve months under
that of Mckinley. All these figures
are taken from the official reports"
Mr.. Walter y. Allen, of Meridian,
Kansas, has issued a call to all silver
men to get together for "A great fight
in 1896. He urges the Populists not to
call National convention of their
party. but TO await the action of the
National convention of the old parties,
and be prepared to join all silver forces
If they straddle the silver question.
Mr. Allen writes us that he lis a ma
tive of the Old North State, was edu-
Gated at Chapel Hill, and a lifelong
Democrat"
Why is it called leap year? Ii is be-
cause the Julian calendar.in which the
custom of adding a day to February
every fourth year was introduced, pro-
vided that the additional day should
he inserted not at the end of the
month. but six days earlier, forming
word bissextile. which is still retained
as the name of the year in which the
additional day is inserted. though now
IL is added at the end of the month.
The name leap year refers 10 the fact
that FOR year after the Insertion Of
lie additional day, each date comes
Two days later in the week than 1T
came the previous year. instead OF on
the following day Of the week, as IN
ordinary years The dates may be
said to leap over a day, and hence the