The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-08-26
HERE AND THERE.

Attorney General Knox might be
more successful in knocking the beef
trust magnates out if ne could run into
them in a ruStaurant.-The R~obeSonlan.
First English Lord-pid you propose
to Miss Porkpacker? Second English
Lord-No; to her father. l hate to
have any business dealings with a
wOman--Life.
Tess-How could you ever pose be-
fore a man for you picture in your
bathing suit? JesS-Oh, [ didn't mind
it a bit. You see he had his head under
that black cloth all the time, so I didn't
nave to look him in the face.-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Two women are starting a racing
stable, while a third has taken the
management of a threatre. At this
rate mere man" will soon have to open
a nursery or Il cooking school If he
wishes a monopoly.-New York World.
West ViriginIl is about to enact an
up-tO-date reVenue law prepared by a
n~on-partisan commission and designed
to tax all people fairly. The state n
local revenues will be divorced, corpor-
ations paying al of the states ex-
penditureS.-WinSton Journal.
Just One Question-'There is nothing
the matter with you," persisted the
Christian Scientist, absolutely nothing.
Can 1 not convince you?" Let me ask
you a question:" replied the sick
man. "A thousand, if you like"
Well, sppose a man has nothing the
matter with him and he dies OF it, what
didn't he have the matter with him?'-
Philadelphia Press.
Letter-brokers there are in large cit
les who buy letters from medical COM
No Sn np1 oIynrficinT 1not0rS Most
of these are supposed to be confidential
and are even so guaranteed. In this
way is confidence abused. One broker
has T00,O 900 medical letters and 275,OO0
matrimonial letters. People who are
wise will beware of falling into traps
set for the unwary.-WinSton Sentinel.
A report in a Missouri paper is quoted
by the Chicago Chronicle as an exam
pie of what queer tricks the English
language will play on n who does
not master it. AT a recent church en-
tertainment the master of ceremonies
announced: Miss Bates will sing, Oh!
That l had wings like a dove, for the.
would 1 fly away and be at rest &C.
companied by the minister
The Terror of the Sea.-''Save us.
Save us,'' shrek the bathers, rushing
TO shore. Thinking that the sea ser
pen has appeared, the hotel prOprie-
tors and newspaper men rush to the
beach,, armed with cameras and pen
ellis. But the citation turns to alarm
when it is seen that the object of ter
| ror is Mr.. NJ. Jeerpoint Porgan, who
has arrived in MS cruiser, and ordered
the bathers out of his cean.-Baltl
more American.
Word was received at Sheridan, 20,
Saturday, hat the Cabin gold mine
lost since 1869, when its discoveries, two
p~rospectors named Gorham and Arbach,
were murdered by Indians, has been
found on Otter creek, about sixty miles
| from Buffalo, Wyo. News OF the dis
covery at NICE caused a ush Of more
than 1000 miners from Buffalo to the
| place which has been the object of
| search on the part of the hundreds of
| prospectors for more than thirty years.
New York Evening Post.
Aguinaldo has been remarkably quiet
| since his release from custody as a pris-
| oner of war. A cable says he has been
| spending most Of his time studying
| text books OF the English language, in
| p~reparation for a visit to the United
| States. Some time ago a letter was re-
ceived art the war department from q
member of Observation-Disclosures League
: in Boston asking If there was any ofh-