The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-13

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TUESDAY. April 13, 1897.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Postmaster General Gary has eight
daughters, all of manageable age.
The remark that Boston is not a city,
but a State Of mind, is credited to Gen.
Horace Porter.
Mr.. Bryan's latest performance IN
st. Augustine seems to have literally
brought down the house.
Mr.. Hanna, it is said, never re-
ceaves letter that is not answered cour-
teously, concisely and completely.
Western spectators are organizing
great fish trust 1t is on a large scale,
She-"Are you sure 1T was year to-
day that we became engaged, dear?
He-"Yes, looked it up in my check
book this morning "-Tit-Bits.
Two Americans, w. Il. Dannat, the
painter, and Rodman Wanamaker, son
Of John Wanamaker, are among the new
chevalers of the Legion of Honor.
1t has been estimated that in 1912
the number of Jews in the United States
did not exceed more than 5000. Now
it is claimed that there are in this coun-
try 100000 and New York city has 14O,-
600 of these.
Mr.. Mark Hanna has snatched time
enough from his senatorial duties to
organize an iron ore trust, thus giving
emphasis to his answering confidence
i'm and devotion to business interests. =
Evansville Courier.
Princes Marie Won Hohenlohe, wife of
the imperial chancellor Of Germany, shot
and killed bear while hunting ON her
estates in Russia not long ago. The
princess is 6S years old. and her exploit
is much talked of in Berlin.
First Chappie-"Aw, 1 say, old Teller,
how dyer get that, aw, big lump on
your forehead?'
Second Chappie-"Aw, / wun against
one of those bwutal toy balloons on
18th street."-New York World.
Several people have told us that dur
ing the big storm Thursday evening,
they saw a ball of fire about the size
of foot ball pass directly over this
city. Could this have been the search
light Of the air ship?-Fayetteville OBJ
server.
Electricity for lighting bicycles and
wagons is produced by a small generator
attached to the frame of the vehicle, near
the rim of one wheel, against which it is
pressed when light is wanted, a spring
guard preventing the generator from
turning too fast.
A Newark, N. J., dispatch says: can
nouncement is made by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company that bicycles
will be checked by all of it's baggage
agents free when the wheel is accom-
panied by it's owner This will be OBJ
served ON all the Pennsylvania lines east
of and including Pittsburg and Erie
Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the negro
poet, will read and recite from his own
poems in England this season, under
the mana cement of Miss Pond. This is
the first time that Miss Pond has ven
tured in the lecture-managing business
by herself, though she has been associat-
ed with her father, Maj. Pond, for some
time.
''The South" says the Milwaukee Sen
tinel, needs no protection. Two-thirds
Of it's cotton crop is exported, and its
furnaces sell pig iron at profit in Eng
land. Southern mills, under the pres
emit tariff, are fast outdoing those Of New
England, and need open markets rather
than the pent-up protection policy that
would confne them to a narrow home
market. The south's interests largely
predominate in favor OF low tariffs, and
it's voice should be earnestly and per-
sistently lifted up in the interest of
that policy"
Frank d. Nillet whose painting, "a
Love Letter." has been so much admired
and brought him commission to decor
ate the Boston public library, began his
career as American war correspondent
for an English paper. He was also spe-
cial correspondent for the London Daily
News during the Russo-Turkish war of
1877. and for his fine work received the
Rollmanian iron cross and several other
decorations from the Russian govern
ment. Millet, who is now one of the
foremost Of American painters, spends
much time in England and has he use
nesr Abbey, in Gloucestershire.