The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-04


on the average editor viii not only have
to dispense with his diamonds but short
en- his rations Of 7iamond-bac terrapln,
Wilmington Star.
The anti-cigarefte and anti-foot-hall
movement has reached Georgia. hep
resentatiye Cole. Of Carroll county. has
introduced a bill in the Legislature Of
that State TO prohibit the sale Of cigar
cites and another 70 make it unlawful
to play football.
Mrs. John f. Zebly, Of New York city,
has won an enyiable reputation as a
member of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty 10 Animals. Although she
always attempts to influence by argu-
ment the persons whom she detects abus-
ing animals, she has on the books OF the
society a hundred arrests to her credit.
and all of them save one were followed
by a fine.
At the Academic de Medicin, Doctor
Klein. of London, showed a four-year-
old American girl who, when a baby, was
dropped downstairs by her nurse and
sustained a concussion Of the brain. The
little one recovered in eight days, but
now, when the ear is applied to her skull,
each beat of her heart and pulse is
heard, like musical note.
Within the last twenty years the popu-
lation of the South has increased about
"a per cent. while the school enrolment
has made gain of $50 per cent. A very
large part of this gain is in the education
Of the negro race. While the latter
paid only 3 per cent of the taxes, they
received one-fourth of the Expenditures
for public school purposes.
When Paris dedicated, a short time
ago, the Ecole Etienne as a training
school for printers, naming it after the
French printers of the early sixteenth
century, Henri and Robert Etienne,
there was present at the ceremony
Henri Etienne, thirteenth in lneal de-
scent from Robert. He is a working
printer like every one of his ancestors.
That the negro has a better chance
in the South than any other section of
the country is shown by the fact that in
North and South Carolina and other
Southern States, many of them are EN-
ployed as operatives in cotton mills. Were
a negro to seek employment in a cotton
mill in New England he would be mob
bed.--New Orleans State
His publishers announce that there
are three things illustrated in Paul Law
renee Dunbar's volume of poems which
will be Of special interest to the scien-
tifc students of his race: The negro's
gift in telling a story illustrated in the
humorous and dialect pieces, the negro's
serious revelation of his passion of love,
Fa.v. M
just at present, the negro's sense of YER
bal melody"
Each living room, says the Popular Sci
ence News, should be supplied with a
thermometer. A uniform temperature Of
about 20 degrees is considered most con-
ducive to health and comfort. Suscepti-
billy to colds and similar disorders are
superinduced by overheated apartments.
One who dwells in a temperature Of 80
degrees must expect to pay the penalty
for such unhygienic conditions,
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has lived in
Honolulu since her pardon, on a moder-
ate income of her own. Contrary to gen.
eral belief, she is a woman of considera-
bic education, speaking German 1uentlv
and being talented in musical compost
ton. She lives in some state with
about twenty-five natives as servants
and personal retainers. The deposed
Queens chief, if not her only public
diversion, is driving.
"Tattler'' writes in the Ashevie Citizen;
"The skirmishes over the Senatorship are
interesting and the question of Pritch-
ards successor is an absorbing one-to
Pritchard and the boys who want to beat
him. The story is already going the
rounds that the Republicans would
spend 100000 to elect gold man. OF
course nobody can be bought in North
Carolina, but silver dollars lately have
become much larger than they usually
seem. and $1,000 or $1,000 would feel
good in q fellows pocket"
No one feels like stirring until after the
Presidents message appears next week
This is the story from Wall street, which
entertains some fear lest Mr. Cleveland
shall give a new twist to our relations
with Spain No business need halt on
that account, but, of course, stock gam
bling must needs tremble. The paragraph
on Cuba was not read to the last Cabinet
meeting when the message was under dis
cusson, and indeed it is not yet written
1t viii be delayed for developments until
the last moment Springfield Republican.