The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1898-01-27
THE EDITORS LEISURE HOURS.
Points and Paragraphs Of Things
Present, Past and Future.

| The Virginia Legislature now in ses
sion must be good body of avoirdu
pols. The Richmond Dispatch re
Gently mentioned four members whose
aggregate weight is nearly one thou
sand pounds. The heaviest man ir
the House is George G. Gelleher. He
stands six feet in his stockings
and weighs 269 ponnds. The desk
room assigned to these heavy weight
representatives is too small.
The lovers OF fashion may or may
not be glad to learn that the hustle
will be in order again the coming
season, but fashion authorities say it
will. Paris is starting the wave and it
will strike shore at New York before
long, and that will settle it with
American women. And the trouble is
the hustle is to be "much more than it
has been before"
A fashion writer says: "The hustle
of 1898 will assume proportions never
anticipated by the devotees OF 1878. It
Will be made Of every material by
which human ingenuity can mould it
to conformity with the idea of the
hustle ideal"
The total length OF the telegraph
systems of the world is said to be 4, ,9O8,-
S23 miles. Besides this there are 1S1,-
400 miles of submarine cables.
The New York Herald gives the
length of the telegraph in the various
countries, and comments as follows:
Europe, 1,764,79O miles; Asia,
31O,6S5 miles; Africa, 99,419 miles !;
Australia. 217 ,479 miles; America, g.
SIG, ,548 miles. It will therefore be
seen from the above that notwithstand-
Ing the steady increase in the building
of telegraph lines all over Europe,
America leads and has almost double
the mileage OF Europe"
Much is said In various ways about
who should be admitted to the jury
box. Certainly no man ought to be
trusted to decide the interests of other
men who can not and does not properly
guard his own. But it often happens
that the most "noddle headed" soft
Drained fellows are retained on jury
to pass upon grave questions OF crime
or important personal interests.
One thing is certain: In North |
Carolina where the races are mixed in
the jury box, no man ought to be kept
on a jury, black or white, who will be
swayed by prejudice, race prejudice Or
any other kind, so that he can not
render verdict according to the merit
of the evidence.
No people in the world ought to be
more particular about their business
than milk dealers and dairymen. One
of the hardest jobs the housewife on
any farm has to do is to "keep her
milk things Clean" It is correspon-
dinghy more difficult to one who han
dies great deal of milk. Dalrymen
and milk dealers, by little carelessness,
can set a-going some disease that will
perhaps PROSTATE whole community.
A gentleman who was handling milk
shakes in season told us that he
thought ne was as careful as possible
with his milk cans; but smelling
of them one day to his surprise
their scent was almost like that of car
rion. Let all who sell milk be care
full about it's cleanliness.
Americans are great people for in
venting but in some cases their i'm
proyements on old inventions almost
equal invention itself. The following
item about the type writer, which we
clip from general reading is case in
point. The New York Dispatch says
"The first typewriter was machine
with raised letters, invented by Henry |
Mill of England, in l714, for the use of