The news & observer., 1897-05-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Dortor-"Au that your daughter needs
is alitthe diversion, a change-you uhoer-
stand"
Mother"Yes; I presume you mean
that she is lovesick and requires chanse
Of uame."
Desperate Case-"Mrs. Higgins is
still wildly in love with her husband:
"Does she put the buttons in his SHIRTS
for him yet"
"No: but he told her he set up all night
nlayine poker without any stakes-ano
sha believes tim"-Detroit Free Press.
Ex-Goyernor Altgeld has been COMPEL
ed to sacrifice valuable property In oruer
to meet his obligations, and he has zone
This in a manly fashion. Is it not about
fine for Altgeld's enemies to substantate
some of their insinuations s?-Washngton
Post.
The danger of the good-looking type
writer girl is again shown by the testl-
mony Of Miss Erwin, private secretary
and stenographer to defaulter Spaiding.
Of the defunct Globe Savings Bank, OF
Chicago, before the Senatorial lnvestlgal-
ing committee, to the effect that Spaldlns
had given her about 200, with the un-
derstanding that he was some time later
to secure a divorce from his wife ana
marry her.
The following are the commonest
names in New York, according TO the
New York city directory for 1891, from
which they are selected: Smith, o,loo;
Brown, 1862; Miller, 1,495; Murphy,
1,21O; Meyer. LOB; johnson, 1.Ooo'
Kelly, 1O74; Cohen, 1,OO6; Levy, 9oI;
Williams. S93: Jones, Sg2; Murray, S34;
Wilson, S73; Clark. S4S; Sullivan, 81;
Martin, S16; White, 49, DAVIS. 'oz'
O'Brien, 76O; Ryan, 7o2; Moore, 'oZ.
A Federal Court has enjoined the en-
forcement of the Scent street car fare
law in indianapolis. But the State Su-
preme Court intends to have hand In
the case too. If it decides the law to be
constitutional which is said to be very
probable. what will become of the Fed
eral Injunction? or the State court
Already the latter court, in effect, says
that Federal injunctions don't go here.
Springfield Republican.
' Prof. Henry A. Beers, Of Yale, recalls
in the Philistine how stenographer
once proposed to Henry Ward Beecher
that he be allowed extra pay TOT report
ing Mr.. Beecher's sermon, in consldera-
ton Of correcting the grammatical errors.
"And how many errors do you IND In
this discourse of minew asked the great
preacher. ""Just 216." young man,
said Mr.. Beecher, solemnly, when the
English language gets in my way 1T
doesn't stand chance"
1t was a woman, and a Chinese En-
press at that, who first took note OF the
nroduct of the silkworm and perfected
mehod for utilizing i. Her name was See
Heig, and she lived about 2,SOO years
3. 1T is to her we owe that delght1ul
fabric in all its many variations. Women
also nearly monopolize the industry OF
designing for silk fabrics. A keen sense
of color is requisite for this work. Men
have more training oftentimes, but are
less original Manufacturers say wo-
men may not be able to talk book learn
ing in regard to designing, but they are
more unconventional and original.
On the walls Of Senator Chambers
committee room hangs a little sheet Of
paper with some epigramatic sentences
in the Senator's own handwriting. They
dispense good enough advice to warrant
their transfer from the comparatively
unfrequented committee room to the col
umns of The Post Here they are:
Fulfill existing promises before making
new promises.
Pay your own debts before borrowing
money to lend to others to enable them
to pay their debts.
Bear your own burdens first; after that,
try to help carry those of other people"
Senator Chandler says that in these
three sentences is bound up pretty nearly
all the philosophy man needs in life
Washington Post.
The Washington Star quotes physl-
clan as follows: "a great majority of the
cures effected by drinking the waters OF
the fashionable and questionable medic
inal springs in various parts of the coun-
try would have resulted if the same
amount of plain, wholesome, everyday
water was drunk by the people who rush
to these springs and while there drink
from eight to twenty large glasses Of
their waters n day. Whether there are
any medicinal virtues in the waters,
this treatment does them good, on ac
count of the extra washing out they give
themselves, and it is the water instead Of
the constituency of the same that does
the work. The same people, il at their
homes, would pass many and many a day
without drinking one glass Of water.
It is. I'm my. opinion, the water that cures,
ana it is water that is needed"