The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-09-05
HERE AND THERE.

| Clerk would like to get of early,
sir, rs my wife wants me II do some
odd jobs around the mousse While 1t is
| light enough. Manager-Can't possibly
do it. Clerk-Thank you . sill. You are
very kind.
Diamonds are said TO have peen found
, at the bottom OF a louisiana oil well
and, as they are said 10 be equal TO
the South African ,gems. Uncle Sam
may expect trouble with England al
once.-Houston Post
knippe-They say n If you ould
extract the pure carbon from a piece OF
coal you would have d perfect diamond.
Tucque-Yes. but who wants TO spoil d
piece of coal just for that?'-Boston
Post.
You can't get whiskey here without
a prescription" said the druggist
naughty. "All right" replied the
stupid person IN take EN- both,
but o o go and mix EN- ,ogeth-
er!'-Chicago Post.
Mr.. Morgan says ne is not concerned
about the coal strike. OF course not.
| He will not have to go to bed this win
ter to keep warm. If it comes to the
worst he will simply import a family
coal supply in 4 OF his steamships
Richmond Dispatch.
Sherlock Holmes in New Ycrk-'Will
o marry me?" he said, suddenly
! looking up from the paper which he had
been studying. "Wh-why, "slie replied.
how you startle me. What has caused
! you to ask me such an important Ques-
ton so suddenly?" I've been looking
over the tax list" Il CAM SEE what the
stax list has to do with our love?'
Your fathers name isn't o it. He
must be very rich.''-Chicago Record
Z Herald.
Speaking of the new citizenship that
is coming to New England said Mr..
F. c. Abbott yesterday, heres Il copy
for al application for u marriage Ii
! cense hat my brother has sent me
from Waterbury,, Conn: Thomas
| Peterkaitits, son of Thomas and Annie
M~icziuliute. age &c: lives in Union coun-
ty. Bride Petronela Geleziuiute, daugh-
ter of John Geleziunas and Eve Bur-
revyzuite, age %: lives in Waterbury
% Spruce avenue. Both are born il
Luthuania: both are for the first mar
riage.' "-Charlotte Observer.
The treasurer of a loan and building
| association in a neighboring state, who
stole tens of thousands of dollars, the
property of men and women of moder-
ate means, which had been committed
to his care, was generally trusted and
looked upon as d model of integrity
because his manners were bad. He
was SO brusque and curt and ill-tem-
| pered that no n thought he could
possibly be a thief. The simple and
u~nsuspecting people who had faith in
| him were deluded by the notion that
only smooth, i~nsinuating, and plausible
beings of an ingratiating temperament
and address should be objects of suspi-
| cion.-HartfOrd Post.
Captain Uriah 3. Dodge, an elderly
! son of the sea who has been taking
sailing and fishing parties out from
Block Island ever since that place has
been a summer resort, had With one OF
his parties last week q lovely old lady
who hates liquor worse than Carrie
| Nation ever did; but tile captain did
not know that. He was gazing alb
stractedly at the bellying sail of his
big Cape Cod catboat wher the old
lady, waking from Il rev.r1e. said:
| Captain have you any life preservers
on board?" Yes, Marm," replied the
captain, suddenly brought back from
his day dreaming, "wniskey and Med
| ford rum. Which Will o have?' 1t
took the good captain five minutes to
convince hat dear old prohibitionist
that he had not insultcd her, but had
simply put a sailors Interpretation on
ner Qustion.-New York Times
In view Of the growing Importance
Of the application of light as a healing
principle in medical science The medi-
cal congress which recently convened
at Wiesbaden invited FIof. Bic Of Co
penhagen to read a paper OF h sub
ject. The lecturer explained the prin-
ciple Of employing light for healing
purposes after excluding its chemical
effects. The results attained by this
method in cases of smallpox, accord
ing to the lecturer, are such that the
question is raised whether the light
treatment shall not be made compul-
sorry. Prof. Bic approves the apparatus
invented by DR.. Finsen, of Copenhagen,
with which the latter has achieved
such remarkable success III cases of
lupus, but urges that no one but quail
flied doctors should be allowed to APP
ply the light treatment, as disturb
ances are apt to occur which render it
necessary to break it eff suddenly
Savannah News.
Richard Croker and LIS friends are
still fighting David b. Hill. Having
been ousted from party control at home
by Mr.. Hill, whose aim is to secure for
New York the next democratic nomi
nation for the presidency, the Croker
game now is to boom a southern man
for the nomination. This is the way
that State Senator Tom" Grady-al-
most as unsavory a Tammanyite as
Devery himself-puts it: Settlement Of
the race question in the south by con-
stitutional amendments mas made that
part of the country debatabic ground
politically, and ii will &c such in the
next presidential campaign. For that
reason Tammany Hall wants a south
erner nominated by the democratic ma
tional convention for presidea. and will
support a good southern man" The
idea hat the south Is new debatable
ground politically will strike most peo-
pie with amusement. The man the
observation-disclosures crowd will play