The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-16

FRIDAY. April IS, 1897.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The two most talked of things in North
Carolina now are the airShip and the
iudgeship.
The abolition of bucket shops will be
A good thing for all honest business
New York Tribune
w. Godfrey Hunter seems more likely
to land in the penitentiary than in the
United States Senate.-Knoxville Senti-
mel.
c. A. Barber. of Salem, Ohio claims
TO have a violin that was made in 1414,
and believes it to be the oldest in the
world.
OF the 293 Popes, only eleven, including
Leo XIII, have reigned more than seven
teen years. The longest reign was that
of Plus IX-thirty- years.
Col Vassos, the Greek commander in
Crete, has defed the powers What u
baseball umpire that fellow Vassos would
.make,-Kansas City Journal.
She-You have broken the promise
you made me.
He.-Never mind, my dear; don't cry:
III make you another.-COmic Cuts.
Simpson and Reed would make things
lively in the House if they were stir
e,4,.
bination this way.-Philadelphia Times.
Street railway contractors in New
York the other day dug up fifty skulls.
That has always been a great town for
adeadheads, anyway.-Chicago Herald.
How that bald Mr. Skinner does per-
spire''
Yes; he keeps his office boy doing moth
ing else but using a blotting pad ON his
head."-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Why don't that European war you've
Ybeen predicting right along come off, Mr..
SportlyT' inquired his wife.
Il suppose the kinetoscope people are
not ready" Detroit Free Press.
Duffins-''Oh, / don't believe in long
engagements! Why, l didn't know my
wife six weeks before married her.
Muffins-"Ah, ] didn't know mine I'M /
I'll a month after / had married her-Tid- :
Bits.
The fact that St Louis is threatened
with a milk famine, owing to the floods,
surely refutes an old SANDER ON dairy
men, that has heretofore never failed
to come up in some whey or udder.-St. /
Louis Republic.
King Menelek still holds 1900 Italian
soldiers as prisoners to insure the pay
ment of the indemnity agreed on. But
the savage treats his captives far better
ethan do the blue-blooded Castilians.-
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
1t seems that Ada Bird, the girl of IA
who recently eIoped with and was mar
ried TO the young son of Governor At
kinson, of Georgia, only followed the ex-
ample Of her forbears Her mother mar
ried at 13, while her maternal GRAND
another married even younger.
The Standard Oil Company, that giant
monopoly, is getting rich out of some
body They have already paid a 80 per
cent. dividend the present fiscal year,
which is not half out They expect to
pay 100 per cent. during the year The
people. the poor people who burn petro-
Ieum oil, foot the bill.
fC.-I suppose Brown and his wife at
,racted the attention that newly married
couples usually do"
R.-Oh. no! Brown married widow,
Won know. and to avoid being suspected
of being on honeymoon tr1p she took
one of her children with them.-Pearson's
Weekly.
Rav. DIR. Rainsford, Of New York, eX-
actly hits upon the cause OF the Cretan
outrage in the one phrase, the money
nowcr" 'The great powers have their
nockets crammed with Turkish bonds.
Cease to uphold the integrity of the Otto
man empire. and who will pay the bonds
held in Paris and London lhat Is
,,retty nearly the whole story. Spring
field (MaSs) Republican.
When LYMAN J. Gage decided to get
married the woman of his choice was hv-
. ing in San Francisco. Gage was Visit
=, inc in Florida at the time, and wrote her
e5a long letter, adding that thesuspense
atIvas TOO great to await a reply by mail,
and asking her to telegraph her decision.
q She promptly answered ''Yes." Iele-
Fr,rath rates were high then, and Gage
.,st,rid AZ for that one word, but he has al
wavs thought it was worth it.-Hartford