The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-11
WEDNESDAY, November IL, 1896,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


NOTES AND COMMENTS.
An Idea.-"An' phwat are yez a-doin
wild that pig in the seay' Sure. an m
making salt pork av him afore / Kill
him. Truth.
In PHILADELPHIA Friend-"And
when are You to be marrieds" She-'ln
three years Charles, yen know, is so
impatient" Puck.
McKinley's majority on unofficial re.
turns from every county in Ohio, is 32,24t
votes. The official vote viii not be can
vassed for week yet.
The new legislature OF Washington IS
composed of 81 Democrats and Popuhsts
who were elected on a fusion ticket, AMI
2S Republicans. This insures free
silver Senator from that State.
The voters Of California decided by
$4,000 majority that the women should
not be admitted TO equal suffrage. The
women voted in Utah, Colorado, and
Wyoming, and every one of these States
voted for Bryan. Is there any signifi-
canoe in that?
The Frenchman who described his sur
prise at being born a boy, when he ex-
pected to be born girl, was not more
astonished than is the good major who ex-
Dected to be elected as an apostle of pro-
lection and who has been elected as an
evangel of the goldbugs.-B Brooklyn
Eagle.
General Lee says that ut present the
total forces under the Cuban insurgents
do not exceed 5000 men. Opposed are
100000 soldiers of the Spanish army, u
force, General Lee says, superior III
number to that commanded by General
Grant or General Lee at any time dur
ing the war.
The papers report that Mr. Bryan is
having serious time of it with his voice.
He ended the campaign with his flute
like properties seemingly unimpaired, but
since he suddenly ceased speech-making,
it has steadily grown hoarser and hoarser
His physicians say that his vocal chords
have suffered from his recent work, and
that it will take extreme care and some
weeks to reduce the Inflammation.
A good cricket story is told of the late
Bishop of Rochester. He was batting in
a local cricket match when the bowler
sent a ball very wide of the wicket
Keep the ball in the parish1' cried the
irascible Bishop. The next ball knocked
his Lordship's middle stump out The
yokel shouted: Il think that's some
where about the diocese, My Lordv'-Tit-
Bits.
Within the past few days railroad
project of considerable Importance to the
South has been announced. 1t is for
new through line from Baltimore to New
Orleans. The Baltimore & Ohio, Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, and the
Illinois Central are the roads interested
and the route will take in Washington,
Cincinnati, Louisville, jackson, in Ten
nessee, and jackson, in Mississippi The
line will be 1900 miles long,
The Mexicans are glad that free coin
age failed in this country. The Mexican
Herald says: For Mexico the decIara-
ton of the American people in favor
of the gold standard means continued
prosperity here. 1t signifies large divi-
dends for our mills and banks thus Carry
ing into effect many large and important
undertakings, for which capital would not
have been obtained in the United States
had Bryan been elected The result is
for the general good Of Mexico"
The Bookman states that Oscar Wilde
is reduced to a state of utmost weak
ness. He is subjected to the most rigid
prison discipline, being governed by the
silent system. For merely turning his
head to see the person next to him in
the chapel, he has several times been
deprived of his mattress, and been made
to sleep on the bare floor. His sentence
has only six months more to run. Mrs.
Wilde is to rejoin her husband at the
expiration of his Imprisonment. They
will probably retire to some obscure con-
tinental town.
a special from Seattle, Wash, says.
"a boom has started here for William j.
Bryan for United States Senator from
this State. The silver fusionists win
control the Senatorship. The Constitu-
ton of Washington provides that to he
eligible TO the Office the candidate shall
be merely an 'inhabitant' of the State
at the time of his election. so that the
fusion majority could elect Mr.. Bryan
without any trouble. Richard Windsor,
ST., the Popnlist leader in Washington,
and James Hamilton Lewis, Democratic
fusionist and member-elect Of Congress.
are rival candidates for the Senatorship
and MIR. Bryan has been suggested as q
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