The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND GOAsMEN ID.
Yyette Guilbest tells the Paris Figaro
that her net profits in America were
$4,000, and, taking the Figaro and
Yvette together, this statement must
be true.
"A member of the National Republi-
cms committee gives the relative
strength of the candidates as follows:
Mckinley, .26o; Reed, 1s2; Morton, III;
Allison. 139; Quay, St.; Cullonas As;
Bradley, rs; Alger, rs; Davis, -: Lin
colin, a.
Col. William H. Morrison says the
silyerites and sound money Democrats
must get together and effect q CONF
promise. The country would like 10
hear from Col Morrison with regard
to a feasible compromise scheme.
Alakeshifts will not do.
A report is being circulated al Wash
ino,ton. that Vice President Stevenson
is ambitious to be the Democratic can
didate for President, and that ne VIII
soon write a letter TO an Illinois friend,
for publication, announcing that ne
Is an applicant for the nomination,
and that he is in favor of the free
coinage Of silver.
While many Of our States are trying
"a suppress the cigarette business, III
Il interesting to note that so compare
lively small country as Columbia
proposes to offer Il monopoly Of the
- .N4tIIff4 Gale E0T tive
years this is the upset price: First
wear. $3.50. 600; second year, S390,000;
third years. 1920, 900; fourth year, $780,
900, and fifth year, 100000.
LET 'em go, Gallinger!' is the re-
vised version of famous slang express
sion. The revision commentaries the
remarkable speed with which Senator
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, let the
pension bills 60 through one day last
week, running the record up TO l20
bills an hour, or two minute, and
thereby earning from the pensioners
the title of the greatest living states
man.
"A MAJ killed on d railroad never
dies with his boots on, remarked
Reading railroad employee, at Wayne
Junction. to the Philadelphia Record.
SIN my experience of over twenty years
have seen perhaps over hundred
eases where people have been struck
and killed by engines. and in every IN
stance, when the body WAS picked up,
the feet were found minus shoes.
Even men wearing heavy top boots
are not exempt from the inyariable
rule. Any old engineer will tell you
the same thing. It is mystery which
nobody seems able TO solve, and IS as
inexplicable as that other strange
phenomenon of the drowning man,
who always floats on top Of the water
face downward, while the woman
floats face upward. "
Says the Chicago Chronicle: In a
divorce case a few days ago IN the
circuit court between Heinrich Groth
and Emile Groth, his wife, II appeared
that the husband was aged and feeble,
While the wife is healthy, with prop
crty i'm her own name from which the
rents are 500 month. 4 local judge,
sitting in the case, granted judg-
Inent of divorce, but embodied in the
decree an order granting the husband
alimony Of $50 a month out of his
wife's income He said that there was
as much moral obligation on
healthy and wealthy wife 10 support
Il sick and helpless husband as there
was on the husband 10 support the
wife. liz the cases were reversed. Ard
this statement of the equities in the
case il not unreasonable"
4 Washington special says: People
who knew Frances Folsom as a slight
young schoolgirl and have not en-
ioyed the privilege Of seeing her since,
are altogether not prepared for the
development which has taken place
since her marriage. Mrs. Cleveland
has acquired additional weight almost
imperceptibly but none the less sure
Is II does not detraet in the slightest
degree from her charming presence
and many Of her friends believe that,
with her carriage, the added weight
Was almost necessary. Some of Mrs.
Cleveland's most intimate friends have
been particularly curious Of late to
now how much she actually weighed
TT they were not altogether prepared
for the statement she made the other
day To one Of her friends that she now
tipped the scales AZ exactly 1876
pounds