The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-02

THURSDAY, Jan ., 1896.
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The name Sol Haas has been Jlromi
uent in railroad circles SO long that
his retirement from the Southern Rail
way. is an event OF more than ordinary
interest. @
The Savannah News says that Sails,
bury began to give in as soon as he
read that Lenlalel Eli Qugg was 'al
member of the Foreign Relations
Committee in the House.
The heroic bronze statue OF John C..
Calhoun which is to ornament a con-
spicuous site in Charleston has been
completed by Rhind, the New York
sculptor, and is ready for shipment.
=. r. Barnum, who brought Jenny
Lind TO America. used 70 say Of the
Swedish Nightingale, that he could
make her cry at any time by telling
her about povertyland suffering. "She
always backed her tears with a purse
full of noneH." he added, for she ssif-
fered from poverty herself in chiad
hood and never forgot how it felt"
Referring to 1.-The blue-back spelling
book" the Eumberton Robesonian
drops into poetry thus;
Heavens blessings attend her,
While we live We viii cherish, protect
and defend her.
The scofTer may scoff and the willing
defame her. u
But our hearts swells with gladness
whenever we name her.
The late Rex, Dr. w Il. Robertson,
of Irvine, Scotland. was once address
ing a boys meeting. and having de
lighted them with some of his racy
anecdotes. he began TO draw to a
close" hY saving:
Now I'm going TO point out the
moral of all this.
Never mind the moral. +" shouted q
little fellow from the middle of the
hall, 'gie's. anither story. 81
Mrs. No0lbertan (iinpatientlyl
Get out Of dis house. 20, good fo' muffin
lazy niger, 10 opghfer l5e 'shamed
oh Yoself sittin' CAR ali ce day long
watchin' yo' wife make de libbin' fo' de
fambiiy Mr. Woooiberton with a
wlline4 20 didn't ulster talk to gne
dat way afo' we was dun married. Ye
lister cali me Sugar. den. Mrs Wool
berton Yes. an call 20 sugar now-l
loaf sugar OATS what 70 s-loaf
sugar, Puck.
Paul Louis Courier, a Frepchlnan,
is a true philosopher. Having been re-
Gently assaiied with great bittcrnessby
d French professor he quietly remark.
ed: "IfanpT be must be yexed. He
called 5ne Jacobin rebel plagiarist
thief. fofecr. leper. mailman. inpos-
tor, llbelier. a horrible, filthy, erimac-
ing ragpicl1er / gather what be wants
TO say. lie means that Ile and / are
not of the salne opinion. and f1is Is
his only Hay Of putting II
Wars cost money. The Criaeant
war cost $4,000, 000.Doo: italian war
OF 1860. 100000 .a0G, Prnseo Danish
var, SIS 100000; the civil war, $500,
100000. France has paid nearly $500
0o0.0Go as the cost price of her var
with Prussia III 1s7G7f; the Pfusso-
Austrian war cost $4,000 .00G; the
Russo-Turkish var. $125, 000.0 600. Eng
lands South African spat cost her
s. TT. coo. and her AFGHAN -'l,sg.a fast
SPELL s12,25o,oqo.
when Cofot Was a lad his father said
10 him: y do rot want to force vol
into business bet if you hecauie q
draper Won viii have & 1000 10 do What
you filze With. IF a painter your III
iawanee Er ali EXPENSES viii be- & ~
"A year. Nth hoafd and lodging II
home. Gorof seas transported with
ioy huggiug his father and mother.
and went dancing about the patetnai
shop. laughing. weeping and singing:
.I'd he painter. FAINTER. painter!
cine 81 his paintings was sold recently
for ~ 600 francs and another for 4G,0G0
francs
Marion Butler. who traded away
whatever OF political principles he
had when he fused with his old Radical
enemies whom he had fought, "heshed
ais maiden sword in the Senate" and
it was characteristic exhibit. He
brought "a slanderous and disgraceful
accusation against the Democratic
party In North Carolina, and no one
knew ii better than this turncoat and
siasherskite. He evidently has cheek
aud IL is "A great sorrow that our great
Vance were not living ard III the SEN
ate TO peel the rind off this young,
soastful slandefer of his betters
s'whoses tongue outyenoms all the
wsems of the Nile Wilmington Mes
sesseF.