The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-15


\ New York woman lawyer has class
of fifteen female law pupils. Their aver
age is about "a.
katzuo llatoyama. graduate of Yale
in the class of rs. has been elected Speak
err Of the Japanese Parliament.
Dissension in Il party is temporary
dra wback. but bosSism is Il permanent
disability Louis Republic.
The street ears of San Francisco are
provided with a holder on the rear plat
form On which two bicycles can be hung.
4 New York fad is for girl to present
the man she likes with little bunch of
violets tied with hair from her own
head.
Mrs. Mary A. Lvermore remembers
when Boston Common was Il COW pas
ture. and she says it didn't look as bad
then as it does now.
Applicantr'.Is this life insurance pol
icy sure thing?'
Agent-''It's dead sure thing. New
York Journal.
At the present rate Of growth the pou-
iatn. France will have only 40,OOOO00
at time when Germany will have 1W,-
DO0.G00 and Russia 200.000,OOO.
The busiest telephone exchange i'll the
world is said to be that on Washington
street Chicago. The daily average of
messages is S1S0,OOO.
These reports of mysterious flying ships
being seen in some of the Western States
show the people there are looking up,
whatever may be the ease with things
generally.
Last week "A woman in Kentucky caus-
ed the arrest of a man because he had
kissed her, and a woman in Ohio enter
ed suit for divorce because her husband
abstained from kissing her.
Richard Harding Davis Is going 10 re-
port the Queens Jubilee for New York
paper This may transform the Jubilee
aforesaid into Harding Davis festivity.
Florida Times-Unon.
Rev. DR. Edward Everett Hale of
Boston, who was 70 years old a few days
ago. was the recipient of many congrat-
ulatory letters at Pinehurst, n. c., where
he and Mrs. Hale are spending few
days.
Mrs John Sherman is exceptionally
well read and deeply interested in current
events Next year she and Secretary
Sherman will be able to celebrate their
golden wedding.
Miss Georgia Cayvan, the actress, is
an apple ''fiend." The apple is her medi-
cine and her food, her cureall and regu-
lator She eats one just before going to
bed and another when she rises in the
morning, and they always stand ready
for her refreshment during the day.
This firing Of mobbng negroes in New
Jersey must be stopped, even if it be nee
essary for Congress to enact another bill
of rights Lawlessness and mob vio-
ience ought not to prevail in the grand
old Republican State of New Jersey
st. Louis Republic.
There are some one or two newspapers
in the country so thoughtless as to neglect
to suggest that Ohio went Democratic be
cause I'LL the Republicans were i'm Wash
ington seeking offices. They should hur-
nv uu and get into line with this idea
Washington Post.
Hon Joseph Bailey. Democratic leader
of the House of Representatives, declined
10 attend a White House dinner because
he never has worn and never will wear
dress suit. Texas no doubt will be
panied to hear that the juvenile Con
gresham has permitted dress suits to
scare him away from "A good dinner. He
should have stuck his pants in his booas
aud waded in.-BaltimOre News.
Now these nervous protesters seem
afraid that the Dingley bill will make
too much Of a surplus. Well. like the
girl who was 50 scared when she was
kissed burt soon recovered sufficiently
to ask her lover to scare her again, the
first sensation of a surplus might seem
sort of strange, but the country could
stand at least one and repeat.-Counci
Bluffs Nonpareil.