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

impossible to him who Wills" We
would like to see that chap build bar
rel around Eunghole.
Travelling on Mississippi steamboat
is apt to make even the humblest vain.
When the boiler explodes all the passen-
gers are uplifted. qa-.
Mrs. Enoch Reed, of Bath, Me-, was
attacked BY spotted adder while at
work in her summer kitchen. It was
killed, and found to be three feet long.
A Jersey milkman turned pale when
several Of his customers dubbed together
and made him present of scarf-pin
in the shspe of a pump. 1t was cow
herdly act.
Over in New York they are calling
Sullivan and "Tug" Wilson the light.
ming pugilists because they do not strike
twice in the same place-the police
authorities will no. allow them.
"Beecher says there is no harm in
card-playing." Just wait, Henry, until
you plank down your last chip on the
strength of bluff, and you will change
your opinion.
There are some men in politics who
ought to be set to work to revise the
Decalogue. They would have great
many more than ten commandments
when they got through.
Archbishop Whately was one day
asked if he rose early. He replied that
once he did, but he was so proud all the
morning. and so sleepy all the afternoon,
that he determined never to do it again.
A Goldfish was recently caught on
Georges, and inside him was found
wallet containing a horse-car ticket.
As the ticket had been punched it was
of course no further use to the fish. Z
The Kentucky penitentiary numbers
among its inmates ten children under
the age of fifteen. These children
associate, as do the other children,
with the abandoned and the vicious.
/. The census shows that the number of
persons in family in the United States
is q small fraction over five. In some
families we know the husband is the
small fraction over. vs.
They don't have rains out West. A
cloud just saunters up and examines a
town and then collapses right over it.
Nobody escapes but the newspaper
reporters and the book agents.
One of the Western society papers
asserts that Miss Tfoutis the reigning
local belle. Wonder il lit would be con.
sidered complimentary to speak Of Miss
Trout as "speckled beauty"
(which is the girl from St. LouisIa"
asked Coney Island visitor, gazing ct
a hole in the sand. "That wasn't made
by St. Louis GIRL" was the reply;
"that's where yawl was beached."
off it we're customary in this country
to confer titles upon individuals of rank
in literature" asked shallow but con-
csited journalist OF an old one, "what
would be?" Barren of ideas, son."
was the response.
A hygienic commission has been
appointed to visit the insalubrious
lodging houses OF Paris. All old houses
will be carefully examined, and the
proprietors compelled to undertake
such alterations as may be ordered.
The voice Of gambling is everywhere.
Young men meeting do not hesitate to
shake for drinks in saloons. Yesterday
two ague.looking chaps were in Alex.
ander Finlay's drug store shaking for
quinine ha a9m tss1 ~ ham
Veneers Of wood are now cut by
machinery, varying in thickness from
one-ninetieth to one hundred and sew
enty-fiith Of an inch, and requiring to
be backed with paper. The cutting
apparatus weighs thirty tons, and with
every revolution knife twelve feet
long comes in contact with the log.