The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

.Ef some men paid ez much 'tention
ter bein congressman, said Uncle
Eben, ''ez dey does ter bein' candidates.
dar'd be moh statesmen in dis here
country. Evening Star.
Colonel John S. Cunningham, OF
North Carolina, is said to be the owner
of the largest tobacco farm in the
United States He had nearly three
million hills to cultivate and harvest
last year.-Nesy York Tribune.
What's the matter with Boutelle? He
was so hot to fight over the Hawaiian
affair that his friends had to put him
in cold storage to cool him off. In the
Venezuelan matter. he stood alone
against the Presidents firm policy and
he was one of seventeen to vote against
the recognition of the beIligerency OF
Cuba.
Hard to Please.-St. Peter You
were very, very good little hoy on
earth. and now you enter to your re-
ward
Boy Spirit-Can ! have tin horn
and drum aud horse fiddle?
.sOh, no; bat yon can have a harp
and a crown"
II wish I'd been bad - New York
Weekly
The tribute paid the late Governor
Greenhalge by a prominent citizen OF
Boston, printed in the Herald, is the
highest tribute that any Governor or
other public officer could desire. He
said:
ssHe has broadened into his office,
and he has never played for party
popularity, or concerned himself about
his political future, as too many Of our
politicians do at present"
The New York World takes the
ground that if Congress adjourns with
out providing a means Of raising S50,-
100000 additional revenue, the Presi-
dent ought TO call them back in extra
session. The World fayors tax OF
800 a barrel on beer to raise thirty
million and small tax on tea and
coffee to raise the balance. This Con-
gress prefers to continue issuing bonds.
Every bond issued since Congress met
is chargeable to this Congress. The
President was responsible up to that
time.
A curious application OF the Ront-
gen rays has been made in France by
Professor Buguet, of Rouen, and the
chemist, If. discard. They took true
and false diamonds for the experiment,
and obtained entirely different results.
When the rays were applied TO the
false diamonds only indistinct images
appeared on the Photographic plates.
The real diamonds, however, allowed
the rays to pass, and as a result, much
darker pictures were produced on the
plates Thus a certain method OF dis
covering the quality Of diamonds Is
assured.
The Houston Post thinks that a spe-
ei;tl providence took care of the gold
standard Democrats at their Galveston
Conference. 1t says: What marrow
escapes people often make from self
destruction Last week III men met
mt Galveston at a sound money gather
ing from all over the State and took
a vote on the question of to bolt or not
TO bolt. 1T was So TO So, and Chairman
Hardy decided il by voting not TO bolt
not just now, anyway. II he had
voted the other way the whole III
would have riz up airly in the marn-
in. all dead corpuses."
Inasmuch as the manufacture Of
incandeseent gas burners has been
practically opened to the public, free
OF royalties by decisions of the Ger
man conrts,t to the effect that thoria
may be used in the preforation Of the
mantles, United States Consul-General
Mason at Frankfort, Germany, in a re-
port upon the subject to the State
Department urges that the American
shippers Of monazite sand from which
fhoria is extracted, take steps to hold
the market. which promises to be
greatly enlarged. TO this end he sug-
rests that laboratories be established
III the North and South Carolina mona
ute fields, where the thoria may be
directly separated, instead of ship
ping the sand TO European competition