Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1882-09-02
VARIETIES.

Archery isn't popular-beaux are
scarce.
1t is not until after seal is dead that
its skin is dyed.
Learn to take life as it comes, but be
sure to make the best of it before it
goes.
One dollar in gold now buys $240 Of
Peruvian money, and $240 CT Peruvian
money buys an every day straw hat.
Pleasure is the mere accident of our
being, and work its natural and most
holy necessity.
According to q Denver (Col.) paper
digger in that city has found whale
tooth and part of Jaw. in a stratum Of
sand eight feet under the surface.
George Lessard, born 1777, appeared
lately in the court of records, Montreal,
accompanying his wife, cited as a wit
ness. He married only in 1878.
1t is an admitted fact that men who
use their brains live longer, other
things being equal, than those who do
not.
Professor Gorini of Lodi has discover.
ed chemical solution by which human
body can be annihilated in twenty
minutes at few shillings' expense.
Light unbleached silk cloth, tussare
grenadine and yelling are worked in
raised patterns, and ribbon for bows to
trim dresses of these fabrics are bro.
caded in designs to match.
Arizona covers an area of 72,000,000
acres of land, four-tenths of which is
mineral bearing. 1t is larger than New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Delaware combined.
Since tie spring of 1880 Memphis
has paved eight and half miles Of
streets and put down forty miles Of
sewers and forty miles of subsoil pipes.
The cost was $500,000.
New Bedford, Mass. claims that in
one years time, when the mills now
being built are in operation, that city
will be the third in the Union in the
manufacture of cotton goods.
Be independent; don't / tang around,
and wait for somebody else to go
ahead. Break your own path. Don't
put off to.day's work until tomorrow
in hopes that it will be done for
you. is-
Bear in mind the solemn and stu
pendous truth that you are preparing
for eternity, and act in such q way that
you may not fear to have the sunlight
of eternity stream full upon all your
finished deeds.
She was Cleveland lady, and she
stood watching boat loaded with ice.
"What is that boat loaded with?" "Ice,"
was the reply. sOh, myl" she exclaim-
ed, in surprise, s'if the horrid stuff
should melt, the water would sink the
boat I"
This is what reporter says to his
girl: "Meet me on the corner, Where
they sell ice cream, Life shall be for
you, love, Like o blissful dream. Cling
10 me. my darling, As vine hugs the
oak, And when you're done eating, 1
shall be dead broke"
A convict says he was sent to prison
for being dishonest and yet he is COM
PEELED every day to cut out pieces of
pasteboard, which are put between the
soles of the cheap shoes made there
and palmed of on the innocent public as
Gather.
According to the last census report
the State OF Kentncky produces over
one.third, or thirty-six per cent. Of the
entire tobacco crop OF our country. The
entire product of tobacco in the country
In 1880 was 473, l07, ,57S pounds, or nine
and one-half pounds for every inhabi-
tant. t
The sewer inspector Of Cleveland re.
Gently opened q clogged sewer and
found that the roots of tree had grown
and forced their way into q socket
joint, aud. penetrating the sewer, COM
pletely filled it up. The roots had
clasped themselves 90 firmly about the
pipe that it took the united strength Of
two OF three men to remove them.