The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-06

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
She-..I can sympfthize With you. ]
was married once myself
He-"But you weren't married to a
woman.'-Tit-Bits.
Teacher-"What is the knight of the
order Of the Bath
Small Boy Saturday is at our house"
New York Journal
Il wonder if Adam could have had
any poetic talents?
"Of course not Poets are born; not
made. "-Indianapolis Journal.
Come, now. do you really believe he
married her for loveT' ITO be sure.
The kind of love that the Bible says is
the root of all evil."-Boston Transcript
Mother ,reprovingly)-''Yo shouldn't
make light of marriage, my daughter"
Daughter INDIGNANTLY think it's
all right to make light of a match."-
Yale Record.
Dearest Delia-How did you come to
make your mind up to marry old Money
bags?
Sweetest Susan-Well. l remembered
how well I look in black.
Becker-'I see by the posters that
Footlights, the tragedian, travels under
his wife's management"
Decker-''So do most men, only they
don't advertise it."-Tit-Bits.
Cholie-"What is your idea of a
fool?'
Dollie-.:.A man who neglects to kiss
a girl who has asked him to tuck her
sleeves in her at."-Yonkers States
man.
Maud Altgir avows she never means
to marry"
Il presume, then, that all that work
she does on her complexion is nothing
but art for arts sake. "-Cincinnati En-
quirer.
rs it true that Goldy's son eloped
with the old gentleman's typewriter
Yes; they skipped ont two weeks ago"
Il presume Goldy is just paving the
air.
Naturally. He was engaged to tn
girl himself "-Detriot Free Press.
The outlook for railway construction
in the South is better than in any other
section. According to the Railway Age
there are 1851 miles of railroad in
construction, or projected for 1897. and
of this more than $1,000 miles are in the
South.
Daughter, what time. did your COM
pany leave last night?''
"Why, papa, he started home at
half
Never mind when he started; I want
to know when he eft."-Ohio State
journal.
The ''colored brother" is not farins
very well at the hands of the administra-
ton. The President, following the ex-
ample of some of his Republican prede-
cessors, says that the colored brother
face is familiar, but he finds it very hard
to place him.-Frank Stanton.
Every man calling himself a Demo
crat who voted for Mckinley knew the
man, the politician, his antecedents, his
absolute slavery to the money power,
his plastic character and his subser-
viency to the manufacturers. They have
no right to blame him when he goes for
robbery on huge scale. They can only
blame themselves-Wi Wilmington Messan-
ger.
Ouester: Jobbins and / were talking
about the weather this morning, and he
said that the March of 'SS was a record
breaker. Now, you are something of a
weather recorder; what, in your exper-
fence, is the coolest March you ever re-
member?
Jester: BY all odds, the march up the
church aisle the day / was married.
Richmond Dispatch.
"Religions perish when they have nc
longer followers who will die for them
I expect to be shot. Well, it may helI
the cause Other considerations are not
important" These words from the
wounded and, captive Cuban general
Ruis Rivera, are worthy of any hero Of
any country. Yes, it may help the
cause for ''the blood Of the martyrs is
the seed of the church," and though a
cowardly diplomacy now binds govern
ments to witness tamely the butchery Of
prisoners of war, the execution of Rivers
will thrill civilization to q keener sense oil
its duty toward the patriots who battle
for Free Cuba.-Columbia State.