The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-03-27
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
So the railroad combines are going to
try for q rehearing before the Supreme
Court. All right; there's no danger OF
Justice Shiras changing his opinion in
THIS matter.-OOlumbia State.
But why do you encourage him II you
never intend to marry him.?
mercy! l wouldn't be SO presumptu-
GUS as to tell him 1 can't marry him be-
fore he asks e."-Phladelphia North
American.
Senator Uullon, of Illinois, . RepubH-
can and protectiOnist, says: Il received
a letter from a WOODEN manufacturer this
morning, who said that if the proposed
rates were to go into effect it would be
impossible for him to operate his mill
That looks like prohibition rather than
protection, and no revenue withal."
Mr. Hessng. who is now a candidate
for mayor of Chicago, is a remarkable
man. In public speech the other day
he complained that building he owns is
assessed too low: that he has demanded
an increase i'll the assessment, but he
has not been accommodated. He said
the building is now assessed at $4,000
and the rent he receives is sd 900
year. This assessment he says is infa-
mously low and that nearly all down.
town porperty is undervalued in the
same way.
OF Matthew Arnold as a school exam
iner, the author of the Cornhill Pages
from a Private Diary" has this to say:
''Arnold's reports are very good reading,
but his methods of examination were
sometimes highly poetical. l remember
tale told by fellow inspector of a class
Of girl teachers that he asked Arnold to
examine him. Arnold gave them all the
excellent mark. But said the other in
spector, surely they are all as good
as they can be; some must be better than
others Perhaps that is So replied Ar
mold, but then, you see, they are all such
very nice girls"
The evolution of the signature of the
gentleman who is now President of the
United States is matter of interest to
some persons. When he was in Congress.
and when he was first governor of Ohio,
he signed letters and documents ''Wm.
Mckinley, Jr." When he became gov
ernor Of the state for the second time,
his father having died, he dropped the
'.Jr," and signed '.Wm. Mckinley"
Since he has been President, probably to
make his signature in eonsonance with
the dignity of his new position, he has
discarded all of his former signatures,
and now spells the name out in full, "Wil-
liam Mckinley" 1t is said this will con-
tinue to be his style of signature during
his incumbency of the presidential off
fee.
Professor Law, of Cornell University,
who is an expert on the subject of tuber-
culosis, declares that the extensive ex-
periments with that disease which are be-
ing carried "a in the agricultural de-
partment of the University, will prove to
be of great value. las one" he says,
..who took a prominent part in the ex-
tirpation Of the cattle lung plague from
Illinois and from the continent, a work
carried on in the face of much oppOsi.
ton, detraction and assertions of its i'm
possibility, l feel warranted in saying
that tuberculosis can be successfully
dealt with along the same lines. 1t may
not be accomplished in our day, it may
not even be attempted along the lines
that would warrant an expectation Of
speedy success; but as surely as humani-
ty is advancing to a higher and better
future, so surely will this white plague
tuberculosis, be eratiicated from our
herds and finally from our homes
Few people remember that Lafayette
received for his services in America
sum Of money which, whether adequate
or not, was Of very considerable proper
tions. A reminder Of this fact has just
been discovered in the treasury depart
ment at Washington. it being the war
rant issued in 1875 by William III. Craw-
ford, the Secretary of the Treasury, au-
thorizing Thomas Tudor Tucker, the
treasurer, "to pay Gen. Lafayette, or
order, 100000 being the amount allow
ed him in consideration of his services
and sacrifices in the war Of the RevOlu-
ton, pursuant to an Act Of Congress con-
corning him, approved 18th Of December,
1924, agreeably to a certificate of the
comptroller of the treasury, dated
January s. 1926, recorded by the reg
ister, copy whereof is filed in my office"
The document is badly torn and much
faded, but it is still legible, and on its
back il endorsed: Received payment.
Javusrx II 1925 LafSyette"