"They Say," The Boston Advocate, Jan 22, 1887

In this edition of "They Say," Bert Islew informs her readers, among others,

• "That the great tower which is to be erected at the entrance to the grounds of the Paris Exposition this year will be 984 feet high -- more than three times the height of the statue of Liberty."
• "That Gen. Smalls, of South Carolina, was permitted to eat in a hotel in Virginia because he was a Congressman."
• "That Gen. Smalls declined to eat in the hotel saying that if he could not take his meals there as a man and a negro, he would see the proprietor hanged before he would do so as a Congressman."
• "That a colored juryman was recently served in a restaurant of one of the leading hotels in Little Rock."

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