The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-18
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The New York World says it has
made poll of all the States, and as
result predicts the nomination OF Nc
Kinley
Mr.. Nuwed-We have new woman
at our house.
Bachelor Friend What is her
name?
Mr. Nuwed- havn't named her
yet.
This inscription painted on a board
adorns a fence in Kent:
"Notis-If any mans or Woman's
cows get into these hare otes his or her
tail will be cut off as the casemay be-"
Toronto Register.
Miss Kate like a man with past
He is always interesting.
Miss Duplicate like man with
present, and the more expensive the
present the more interest take in it,
Inter-Ocean.
The will of the late Thomas G. Sloan,
which compels his widow, il she ever
again marries, to hand over his for
tune of 100000 to Yale University, is
The widow proposes to marry again III
April.
my first child,' said the professor
of mathematics, was a boy. Then
there were twins, and then triplets.
That relieved my mind
ut did?"
"Yes. / was afraid it might be a
- afyyifs sol GGi0
Puck.
Mr.. Joseph III. Choate says that,
next to godliness and cleanliness,
cheerfulness is the third great duty
of man. 1T would be mistake, how
ever, says the New York Tribune, for
everybody who is cheerful to claim
credit for being yirtuous TO that extent.
I'm many cases cheerfulness is merely
an endowment, or rather the product
of an OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, an active
liver"
Gov. Mckinley is reported to have
broken his silence on the silver ques-
ton, and to have made this statement
to a correspondent of the New York
World at Canton, o., Saturday: / have
y
coinage in Congress, and my record is
plain. Ex-Gov. Campbell once said
the people were willing to chance free
and unlimited coinage, and / re-
sponded that the people were not pre-
pared TO indulge in any such specuia-
ton
DIR. Keen, the well known surgeon of
III. L. f,al,. es{A
the other day: after the battle of Get
tysburg, a corps under the command of
young physician, who had lately been
appointed, and whose knowledge Of
medicine was very limited, was ordered
10 collect the wounded. Among the disa-
bled was very young man, who had
been shot through the leg. Our disci-
pie of Esculapius proceeded to get his
knife to work, and after cutting for a
half hour, was interrupted by the
young soldier with: Say, how much
longer are you going to cut?' Until !
get the bullet replied the doctor why.
you gosh-darned fool, if that's what you
want, I've got it in my pocket Sure
enough the bullet had lodged in the
skin of the mans leg, after passing
through, and he had kept it as a SOU
venir."
Last summer at Bonn a man in a
pleasure party said: what a fool that
Kaiser ISL He was arrested and taken
to the police station but was able to
prove that he had been speaking of a
man named Kaiser instead of the en-
peror. A common mode of concealing
their views from servants, who are per-
hapS spies, is for persons when talking
OF The Kaiser to call him Herr Muller
S,sech was freer under Louis the Great
i'm France 200 years ago than in Ger
many to-day under William.
German papers say that Roentgen
rays have been turned on the withered
arm of the Empeor by several of the
greatest surgeons, at His Majesty's re-
quest, and that the surgeons say sim
pie operation vii enable the ruler to
use his hand with comparative free
dom. The rays showed the exact posi-
tion of the bones.