The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-24
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A special train carried Chauncey NJ.
Denew from New York to Albany, a
distance of 143 miles, in 156 minutes.
The w. c.. r. u. announces that April
4th-11th, inclusive, will be observed as
a week of prayer for the observance OF
the Lords day.
my husband is a great lover of the
beautiful"
Indeed, he is. should think You
would almost feel jealous sometimes. -
Detroit Journal "'3'*
would you consider it proper to pre-
cede the father of your sweetheart down
stairs?"
1T may be proper, but it isn't always
safe"-Yale Record.
''Uncle James, what is pessimlst!
80. he's any sort of an old thing that
won't enjoy his ice cream to-day because
he is afraid he won't have any to-mor-
row."-Puck.
The New York Tribune says the Rev.
J. Courtney Jones, an Episcopal clergy
man of Virginia. intends to prepare 4
concordance of the Episcopal prayer
book. there being no such work now in
existence.
They had been talking about the Sand
witch Islands.
Are you in favor of annexation?" the
anA tho rnaidpn
piled coyly:
kles.
He-Do you remember when first we
met? The dew was on the grass, the air
was full of summer scents, and
She-Yes; and now there's no summer,
no dew, no grass, and no sense. BY the
way, have you heard of my engagement
Detroit Free Press.
In cutting down grocery bills the. city
of Boston has decided to eliminate tobac-
co from the allowance of the prisoners at
Deer Island and at the House Of Cor
rection. Hereafter is can only be had
on presentation of an order from physi-
cian.-Southern Tobacco Journal.
"You see, it was this way. They were
all three so dead in love with her and all
so eligible, that to settle the matter she
agreed to marry the one who should
guess the nearest to her age"
.And did she?'
81 don't know. / know that she mar
ried the one who guessed the lowest. =
Pearsons Weekly
A North Carolina paper declined Civ
ing the plot of Hamlet" in its theatrical
notices because it is too well known to
need any description at this late day."
Those Tar Heelers who thought the ghost
scene was a visit of the United States
revenue officers to moonshine district
were not therefore disabused Of their
impression. Post.
Ellen Terry's son appears as Imogen's
Miss Terry's) brother in the Lyceum
cast of "Cymbeline," and, where the
role demands, carries her off the stage
unite easily. 1t appears from an article
on the actress in the Deutsche Revue
that to test her sons muscular ability to
nerform this feat, Miss Terry made him
race with her in his arms twelve times
around a table.
One man gets mad and quits because
Won do not write every day to please
him and another writes and approves,
and % it goes. Such is editorial expert
ence. An editor should write the truth
aa he sees it, stand by his intelligent
convictions, and fear neither man nor
devil. He will find himself in the fire
always if he tries to please everybody
or ANYBODY. Let him faithfully hold to
the right. pursuing the even tenor of
his way without variableness OF
shadow OF turning. "'-Wilmington Mes
senger.
The following unique advertisements
recently appeared in Western paper:
"Julia, my wife, has grown quite rude,
She has left me in lonesome mood;
She has left my board,
She has took my bed,
She has given away my meat and bread
She has left me. in spite of friends and
church.
She has carried with her all my shirts
Now We who read this paper,
Since she cut this luckless caper,
Twill not pay one single fraction
OF any debts OF her contraction.
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