The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-01
HERE AND THERE.

The increase IL the colored popula-
The Chicago Tribune is authority for
the statement that in the nothern part
of Illinois there is an evangelist going
labout from church to church on these
terms: Forty dollars q week and
nifty conversions guaranteed or money
refunded"
If you keep on as you have begun,
Mabel" complained the young hus-
band, running mis- eye over the ex-
lpense account. we shall never be able
to lay up anything for a rainy day"
How can you say so. Henry ex-
claimed the young wife, r~ighteously in
ldignant. when you know / have two
of the loveliest rainy-day skirts that
were ever made."-Tt-Bits.
Made Matters Worse.-Towne-"My
wife used TO get nervous every time
she heard a noise down stairs. but 1
assured her that 1t couldn't be bur-
glars, because they're always careful
mot to make any noise" Browne-"So
that Gained her. eh?" Towne-"Not
much. Now she gets W every
time she doesn't e any noise
philadelphia Press.
S~ixty-nire coIonels and one brigadier
general compose the staff Of Governor
lCandler. 1t is perhaps the largest staff
of military men in the United States.
and perhaps in the world. h ~coloneIs
have been appointed by the governor
Since he went into office. four years
ago, and it ma be that he will name
several more before the expiration of
his t~erm.-Atlanta Journal.
ton ot philadelphia within recent
years is a idct too conspicuous to es-
cape attention. While the native pop
ulation of African descent, which was
always an element of some Importance,
has probably Kept pace with the nat
ural ratio of growth, it has lately been
quite su~bordinated by the migration
of negroes from the south, and at the
present time this movement appears TO
De more pronounced than ever before.
philadelphia Times.
a st. Louis dispatch to the New York
Sun says: Miss Mamie Cert came out
today with a signed statement to the
effect that Captain Richmond Pearson
Hobson showed ner into the Mississippi.
Miss Bamie says the water was only
ABOUT two feet deep" and as she was
with a party who had OH bathing suits,
she "waded around with the rest"
THE story about my falling or jumping
into the river that Captain Hobson
might have the opportunity of rescuing
me is absurd she ADDS. Il Miss Ma
mics story is correct, Captain Hobson
a chance of reScuing her now,
from the newspaper fakir.
Speculation has begun respecting the
wealth OF the late John w. Mackay.
some of he guesseS being as high as
$50, 900, 900. 1t has not beer a great
while since Mr.. Mackay told one OF his
friends that he could not himself tell
within $40, 100000 of what he was worth,
hence there is probably little dependence
to be placed in the estimates of out
siders. They may be $40, 600, 900 too
high or as much too low. In most in
stances, however, the fortune of a very
wealthy man is overestimated. Still,
there is no doubt that Mr.. Mackay was
immensely rich. He owneed great pro-
Iperties in various parts of the word
Savannah News.
One of the most remarkable ARCHITECT
tural structures III existence is the left
handed spiral staircase in the Chateau
de Bots, TourainC, built during the six
teenth century from designs by Leo
.nardo de Vinci. In a we'll illustrated
and thoughtful article published in the
number of the Monthly Review,
Cook SHOWS that the design
of the staircase corresponds so exactly
with the spirals on the common Medi-
~terranean shell known as veluta YES
pertillia as to leave little doubt that
the artist had hat shell before him as
his model. The spiral on the central
column of the core of the staircase cor
responds exactly, for instance, with
the spiral ridges on the columella of
the volute, as seen in Section.-News
and Courier.
All previous records for big gold
nuggets in the north have been broken.
was brought from the north on
the steamer Dolphin his morning of
discovery on j. B. Brooks hillside
claim, between King Solomon's Hill and
Monte Cristo Gulch, BCnnza creek, of
the largest nugget yer found in either
the KlOndike or Alaska. According to
adviceS sent out from Dawson in a dis
patch dated May 26, the nugget was
during the previous week, the ex-
act date not given. The nugget weighed
800 ounces, and contained gold to the
amount of 81, 800. Several parties visit
the claim. and have inspected the
This is many times larger than
any nugget ever before found in the
north. The largest nugget discovered in
the Atlin country was valued at $500,
and that on Koyukuk at 81, 1850. A mug
valued at about $3.50 was discovered
N the Forty Mile distr:c-.-San Francis
co Chronicle.
A gasoline locomotive has just been
in Kansas City for use at a
mine. 1t has a it's sue
trial trips, n in a few days
will be taken apart and shipped to
he mine, which is at Batopilar, $50
miles from the Mexican General rail-
way across the Chihuahua mountains. |
None of its parts weighs more han
go pounds, as the whole engine has to
he carried from the railway to it's des-
tinatiOn on the backs of burros. 1t
Will run in a tunnel five feet wide and
six fee high. and will take the place
- sixty hurros, which now pull III
.9rs of ore from the mine. Al the tun-
mel is small and its length great, the
locomotive to be constructed so
hat no fumes escaped. To accomplish
the carOonIc-oxide gas is passed
a w~ateT-wash in the same
way gas IS passed through "scrubbers''
at a a works. II is claimed that the
process will effectively prevent fumes
from escaping into the tunnel, and that
combustion Will be perfect. J
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