The semi-weekly messenger., 1902-09-30

4 N~'7- WV HS put
| after Ritzelbuttel and anotheE after
| Inspector" The pupil did do and il is
| believed that the mayor has altered
ms opinion as TO the value OF commas.
Admiral Schley has never Iectured,
| and his impressions OF the fight were
| circulated only from Tie magazines of
/ the Brooklyn. No wonder Texas wants
TO see him.-Dallas News.
| Mrs. Higgley-"Wonde- what's the
/ matter with the Belcn.rs 1 met Mrs
Belcher this afternoon, and sne would
not look at me-" Mrs. Weston-"Why,
| haven't you heard? They have had ten
tons OF coal put into their cellar this
4 week. Mrs. Higgley-"Oh. that ac-
| counts for it. 1 knew something had
| lifted them up nightly. ."-Bo-tOn Tran
| script
| A non-partisan jury is perhaps as
| necessary an institution as a "non-par-
| tlsan judiciary" The jury In the case
| OF Seawall aginst the Seakoard Air
Line railway, tried at Carthage last
week, and which gave the plaintiff $4,-
| 800 damages because Of the rotten-egg-
| ing the fusion candidae for lieu
| tenant governor got at the s. a. L. de-
| pot at Shelby in the 1900 campaign, was
made up, so our Carthage correspond
| ent tells US, of seven democrats. two re-
| publicans and three Independents. 1t
was plainly a non-partiSa1 jury.-Char-
| lotte Observer.
The discovery of a new and rich gold
| field in South Africa, naar Johannes
berg, will probably have the effect of
| causing a large increase in the immi-
| grafton TO that country. The new fields
| Is said to be an extension of the ia
| nous Rand reef and TO give promise
| OF deposit of such extent thut it may
| be worked for fifty To one hundred
years. If the tales told of this new
| gold discovery are true, and there ap-
pears no good reason to doubt their au-
| thenticity, the worlds supply of basic
| metal will be largely Increased within
the next few years.-Sav2nnah News.
1t now appears that James NJ. Edge.
| the missing note teller of the First Ma
| tional Bank of Paterson N j. who
| disappeared on August 5th, was S100, 900
| short instead of S2,000-9s was announc-
| ed when il became known first that he
| had fed. 1t is now believed that he
! carried off about $4,000 in cash. Rae
| ing and Wall street are said to have
| been responsible for his downfall His
| rascality was discovered by u change
/ about of clerks in the bank, made ne
| cessary by Z. G. Morse. the paying tel
| Ter, starting on his summer vacation
| Edges betting and speculating was
| done through an agent in New York to
whom he sent money by express He
is still at large and his wherea bouts are
| unknown.-Richmond Dispatch.
While they have no idea of electing
| him of course the negroes of the Sixth
Maryland district have nominated one
of their own race for congress. Their
| standard bearer is the Rev. Henry
| Newman, and he is running on the
| following platform: "A pension for
| every eX-siave; proper treatment of the
| colored voter; division of state and
4 federal offices with nn1nrad nd
women; repeal Of the civil service; re-
form of the tariff; abolition of trusts;
| suppression of lynching, and the up
! holding of the manhood and woman
| hood of the colored race."-EXchange
After fifty years of married life, Mr..
and Mrs. Reuben Nagle. of Reading,
Pa, give this advice: Never get mar
| ried. Remain single. Marriage is a
| lottery, and there are many blanks"
Those who approach marriage as they
| would lottery deserve to draw blanks.
Happily, however, there are more
prizes in the marriage lottery than
| any other in the world, and the per
| centage of those who draw them is
very great. In every city, every COM
| munity, there are couples who have
| lived man and wife quite as long as
the Nagles, and who are willing to
affirm that they have found married
life 'one grand, sweet song. ."-Sava1-
| nah News.
| All decent Americans wall approve the
! snub administration to John w. Gates
| the millionaire plunger and Vulg9rian
| by the management of the ultra-fash-
ionable Claridge hotel in London. MI
Gates had stopped there before, and
mad made himself extensively conspic-
| uouS by his loud manners, profanity
and expectoration, and when he ap-
/ piled this time the proprietor tod him
| hatly he was not wanted. The Vul-
| garity of many American rich people
is the standing joke of polite circles
| In this country as we'll as in Europe
but their money heretofore has sue
| ceeded in carrying them where they
would not otherwise have been toll
lerated.-Houston Post.
A portion of the first iron bridge
built in England, which spans the
Severn at Ironbridge (Salop), has
| given way. The parting of the girders
| caused a report like a thunderclap The
bridge was erected in 1779, and, accord
ing to the act of Parliament under
| which it was built, the sovereign has
| to pay toll before he can cross. The
| act gives the trustees many powers
| and at the foot of the list of tolls ap-
pears the following: This bridge be-
ing private property every officer or
soldier, whether on duty or not, Is
liable to pay toll for passing over, as
coach, or the royal family.
In Paris an auction will soon be held
which may we'll be styled curious since
only locks of hair which once adorned
the heads of distinguished persons will
be sold at it, says the New York Times
According to an expert, here are the
present prices for locks Of this kind. A
lock from a pope's head is worth about
SO, and even more has been paid for
some of Leo Kills hair: Emperor Will
liam'S hair is worth about 75 cents a
lock. and a few hairs from the head of
the great Napoleon are we'll worth $40;
the hair of famous writer's, especially
| Victor Hugo, Alfred de MuSset, Byron,
Schiller. Alphonse Daudet and Tolstoi
also commands a considerable sum.
An italian collector claims TO have in
hi possession some of Dante's hair
and" says a French journalist, III
he can. prove that it is Dante's and
offers it for sale at the coming auc-
ton. he will certainly obtain large
. price for it,
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tor has to contend with: pa rootwords