The news & observer., 1897-05-21

gown. appears, uOlUluS III LIS iiSAe A".'"
a sign on which are inscribed the words.
"Good night.
The dying miser who ordered his
shroud made with pockets has now the
agreeable company of another curmud-
geon who, finding his end approaching,
converted all his possessions into green
backs, and then burned the greenbacks,
that no one might inherit his. wealth. s
The Washington correspondent of the
Charlotte Observer says that III. A. Gud-
ger is now booked for the consul general
ship at Shanghai. Mr.. Gudger told the
Citizen that so far as he had been in
formed there was no foundation for the
story. This is the place Mr.. Jernlsan
holds.
People at the Navy Yard at Ports
mouth. n. H., claim that the $4,000 al
lowed by Congress will not even make the
old frigate Constitution watertight, and
that $4,000 would not fit her for sea.
People at the Portsmouth Navy Yard do
not wish her to leave it, either for Boston
or Washington.
American manufacturers, encouraged
by the fact that paper railroad rails have
been successfully introduced in Germany
and Russia, are experimenting along Inc
same lines. Paper car wheels have given
satisfaction for many years, and resuits
so far attained indicate that rails made
from the same material will be equally
desirable.
The following are the commOnest names
in New York, according to the New
York city directory for 1897, from which
they are selected: Smith, 3,1S3; Brown,
1852; Miller, 1,495; Murphy, 1,21O; Mey-
er, 1,1O3; Johnson, 1850; Kelly, 1,O74;
Cohen, 1905; Levy, 961; Williams, $40;
Jones, 802; Murray, S34; Wilson, BID;
Clark, 846: Sullivan, $40: Martin. BIG;
White, 782; Davis, 762; O'Brien, $50;
Bryan, 752; Moore, s52.
Mr.. G. B. Frazelle, OF Swansboro 10
q eenuine hustler. always on the alert
for new enterprises that give promise
OF substantial returns. He has adopted
q new method OF raising chickens Tor
market which promises weli-he feeds
them on nut grass and hard crabs. Mr.
r. makes a specially OF the crab busl-
ness. and in addition to buying and hatch
ing hard crabs he has an apparatus for
scalping the same and converting them
into the delicious ',soft SHELF that are
prized so highly by all epicures. The
result OF Mr. rFrazelle's experiments is
being noted by the citizens along the
coast who see millions in it.'-JacksOn-
vile Times.
The contuma cious witness who defied
the whole power of the Senate of the
United States is in Jail. He has two
cells 1.-THE Senate. having been sold, could
contribute another and be none the poor
err, both the floors of which are soften
ed with fine rugs, while the other FUR
nishings include "a brass bed-stead, Il
chiffoner and plenty of chairs for recep-
ton days. Nothing in fact seems to be
lacking but front door key, but as
Chapman's friends can call on him at VIII
and has plenty of reading matter, TIME
is not like to rest heavily on his hands.
He is restrained as to nothing necessary
to his comfort except his liberty. Now
is this an Imprisonment in the meaning
of the law? Certainly it is not the i'm
prisOnment that the unfortunate wlth a
plain druk'' gets-a hard bed, no chlf-
fOnier, no friends, no rugs, no BOOKS.
And yet the prisoner who is run In" 1n-
toxicated is, Of the two more entitled
to sympathy, for his weakness mas be-
come stronger than he is.-Asheville Cltl-
zen.