The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
MY hens are all laying for Easter,
said the farmers wife who was visiting
ner sister, the milliner.
$50 am l." came the response II q
-chuckle-Free Press.
Mother-What is the matter, my dear
Why are you crying?
Harry (between sobs)-I left my taffy
on that chair, and the minister's asst.
tin ON it-Boston Traveller
SiSter-Why don't you marry her?
Brother-Id like to, but unfortunately
she has an impeachment in her speech.
Sister-What is it?
Brother-She, can't say Yes. Dublin
World.
One of Governor Russelrs appointees
10 the directory of the North Carolina
Railway is named Buffers. The Gov
ernor doubtless knows which side he
buffers his bread on.-'oTattler' in Ashe.
willie Citizen.
Bessie--'I did not see you all last sum-
mer. i suppose you were very much en-
gaged?'
Louise-"No, only to about five fell
lows, but | hope to do better this sea-
son."-New York Tribune.
Wallace-Wasn' it rather strange for
Ilppler to marry that snake-channer?
Brutts--yes. 1t was brought about
through circumstances. He had delir-
Ium tremens that night, and she was
the only one who could do anything with
him.-Philadelphia North American.
Brown-Jones: Do you expect an Office
under the new administration
Jones-Brown: am a Republican, amt
Il?
Brown-Jones: Yes.
Jones-Brown: Well. I'm human, too
Truth.
She hesitated and asked for little time
for consultation. "Why certainly" he
said; "there is no hurry about this mat
ter. If you desire to consult your par
ents'-"Don't you believe it for mo-
ment," she interrupted, firmly; ST want
to consult 'Bradstreet's.' And he threw
up the sponge and went out into the
night.-Chicago Tmes-Herald.
I've got something nobody else has
got" said the wealthy New Yorker, who
has been experimenting with raising fan
cy fowls over in New Jersey. "W,a, ;s
it?'' II bought $175 j. .cuhator mt sa5
worth OF esr~ in it, and hatched out
o10S tho only SOM
olue-bottle fly in this or any other coun-
try."-Texas Siftings.
The Rev. DR. Mayo declared the other
day that "the sixteen Southern States
are to-day paying as much for the public
schools as the British Parliament votes
every year for the public school system
of the British acknowledgement $20,000,
600 and S3O,OOO,OOO" And he add that
since the war the South has expended
$3.50, 100000 of its own money for ed
ucation-S75, 100000 of it for the child
rem of the colored people"
In some of the farming districts of
China pigs are harnessed to small wagons
and made to draw them. The well-known
tendency of the pig to go in a direction
10 have him go is overcome by his driv
.er's wishing him to go in a direction n
which the driver doesn't really want him
10 go. At least that is the way the mat
ter is explained by a recent traveller,
who certainly ought TO be an freshman, if
he isn't.
The Providence Or. ID Journal speaks
words of sobcrness and truth when it
saws that "the farmers are just as much
entitled to government aid as any other
c1ass-nerhaps more So" And it also
sneaks words of soberness and truth
when it adds that the farmers did not
got a cent of benefit out of the agrcul-
fnral schedules OF the Mckinley law and
they will fare no better under the heavy
duties on their products that the DlnGley
bill proposes
\ Williamsburg family was discussing
Vausic Yesterday, when one membe
etroye to recall the name OF certain
composer
~ cant remember it to save my life,
she said, ''although it is on my tongue
end As near as ! can come to it HI
name is D0orknob.'
.Doorknobw repeated one OF tn
others. There is no composer who's
'aaame sounds anything like that. T.
go over few names: Beethoven, Mer
deh,sohn, Wagner, Haydn, Handel
.af.hat's it, interrupted the forgetft
one. y "It's Handel. I knew it wa
sonething you seized with your hands.
pStfsh0rg Chronicle Telesranh.