The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The good done by the Legislature could
be printed in a small pamphlet. The bad
done and the good omitted would I'LL
several large volumes.-Progressive
Farmer
I've cured our next door neighbor of
borrowing our lawn mower"
How did you arrange it?"
Every time he did it I sent over and
borrowed his bicycle"
Many New York woman" said one
Of that sex to ME, writes Gath, "haunts
the big stores all day without money and
hopes that she can attract some man to
buy her dinner. trusting to her wit to save
ker character"
Galton-"The Rev Thomas Dixon, OF
New York, says the most beautiful sight
in the world is a beautiful woman upon
beautiful horse"
Jastrow-"He has probably never he'd
a royal flush."-Cleveland World.
Isabel says she has never been in
love-
lis that so?"
Yes; she was threa tened with it once,
but bottle of spring bitters brought her
out all right
There We're several bad errors in Col.
w. J. Green's excellent article on Cleve-
lands retirement. Plaster" appeared
instead of platter" trait" instead OF
faint; ''parvered" instead of ''parve
nue.; and ''Imlminations' instead of
EXAMINATIONS" The article was widely
read and warmly praised.
Gen. Longstreet expects to he made
commissioner of railroads. That useless
office has usually been given to some aged
and disabled veteran. Gen. Joseph u.
Johnston had it during Cleveland's first
administration until he died, and Gen.
Wade Hampton, the famous Confederate
cavalry leader, has it now, with good
salary and nothing to do.
What is probably the lowest rate made
by any railroad in the world is credited
to the Boston and Maine system. Between
Boston and SherbroOke, Quebec, a dis
lance of 300 miles, commuters get non
transferable tickets for 500 for 15S rides,
or 81 cents a single ride. That is a rate
of 10 mill per mile. The regular fare be-
tween these points is 1.53.
Vice is in spite of Parkhurst, Shapman
and ComstOck, greater economical in
terest in large city. Its wide dispersion
is a cause of high rents in the small
respectable portion of the town. A New
York-bred dame would almost desert her
family rather than move to Brooklyn.
This tyranny of domesticity is also
cause of desperate exertions among the
men and makes them plungers and specu
lators. Behind many a man who starts
a trust is a hard breasted wife saying:
''DevOur somebody; l mean to live WELL"
Goth in Philadelphia Times.
VIM. T.. Curtis writes to the Chicago
Record of the new Secretary of the Treas
ury: "Mr. Gage has not opened his mouth
since he took a seat at the cabinet table.
They do say, however, that when an Of
fce-Seeker came into the Treasury yester
day morning and asked Mr.. Gage if he
should file his papers there or over at the
White House the Secretary told him that
if he could get two good endorsers and
furnish satisfactory collateral he would
lay the matter before the board Of direc-
tors at the next meeting. He has referred
to the cabinet several times as the board
of directors, but people take that for
slip Of the tongue"
A letter from Norfolk TO the Trades
man: "Our friends across the water are
beginning to use quite q quantity Of North
Carolina pine, hence nearly every month
an order goes over on some one of the
various ships leaving Norfolk. Norfolk
now having four lines Of ships to Europe
gives the mills on the harbor much greater
facilities for handling foreign orders.
There were nineteen ships loading last
week at Newport News for foreign ports
The Tunis Lumber Co.. which is one Of
the largest manufacturers Of North Caro-
lima pine have recently filled several Of
these orders for Europe. No doubt this
business could be very much enlarged if
it were looked after more Closely
In view Of Mr.. Gary's decision to ad-
here TO the four years term rule in the