The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-10-12
Among the Exchanges.


We are going to have an election
next year. and the Lenoir Topic says:
"Some. candidates for county offices are
already trimming their sails
There were "a 1859 people in India who
died from snake bites last year. AS
John Dobson would say, india is not
ajoinin' of the counties of Wilkes,
Yadkin and Surree or this great cat-as-
trophy would never have cometh to
pass" The snake antidote elixir would
have done the healing work.-Wilkes-
boro Chronicle.
There are too many folks wanting to
teach school who ought to be mauling
rails. The Albemare Enterprise gives
this example: I'm answer to the ques-
tion by your county superintendent in a
recent public examination of teachers,
Correct the following sentence and give
reasons for change: The fleet were seen
off HatteG'as,' colOred applicant wrote
out the following as his answer: Hat
teras'S fleet were seen going off, because
it had stayed as long as it could The
poor fellow is now wondering why he
failed to get first grade certificate and
was given a third instead"
The Morganton Herald leads as an in
ventor Of new phrases to describe an
individual it wishes to lambast. 1t calls
him pigeon headed, pig souled, brass
bOweled jabberwock.
Many who go to church find the Cos
pei messages sweet, and many long for
the milk and honey told OF in the scrip
lures, but Newbcrn is the only town yet
that has the literal honey in the church.
The News says: in the steeple of the
Christian church on Hancock street has
been discovered hive of bees. They are
busy at work and are evidently storing
away their delicious fruit in the top of the
steeple. And it is safe too, for no one will
ever be able to take it,.
Many men have been saved from wrong
by their wives. Here is case told of
by the Washington IN. c. Messenger:
"A gentleman from the country tells an
amusing incident in connection with the
stealing of whskey still. He says a
gentleman whose name we withhold,
bought still with the intention of going
extensively into the manufacture of corn
whiskey. A day or so before he was
ready to begin operating his still he in
formed his wife of his purchase and ac-
qua nted her with his plans for the future
His wife happened to be one of those
good women who is opposed to the sale
and manufacture of whiskey, and she re-
marked she hoped some one would steal it
before he began operations. Imagine his
surprise on going to the still the morning
he was to begin making whiskey to find
i'll had been stolen the night before. And
what is still stranger, he has been unable
to trace it, and has no suspicion as to
who could have taken it away up to this
time, although it was stolen three months
ago."
The cold weather has not been severe
enough to drive the snakes into winter
quarters. A special from Newbern says:
"Mr. j. ]. Hoover, who lives at Pine
Grove, near Wildwood, on the farm OF
Mr.. B. B. Madison a few days ago killed
two rattlesnakes that were of unusual
size and age. They were not only OF un-
usual dimensions but were veritable
patriarchs in age, as shown by the num-
Der Of buttons. The larger of the snakes
measured seven and a half feet in length
and carried forty buttons on it's rattle.
The second snake measured six ""a a
half feet in length and had thirty six
buttons. Each button represents one year
in the age of rattlesnake."
The alligators have damaged a bridge
OH the shell road from Wilmington to
Wrightsville so that the management
has had great difficulty in, keeping the
embanlzment at the bridge over Brad
leys creek in repair. They keep their
den under the approaches to the bridge.
The damages have been cauesd by the
burrowing which they do in making
themselves a cave.