The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-10
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE and THERE.

Men were made before mirrors. Wd
men are stilI made before mirrcrs.-
Life.
StelIa-"ChoIfY hasn't any originate
ty.' Bell-"Not the slightest. Why. 1
submitted his lore letters to 5hree pub
fishers, and they all refused Them
Puck.
The Roxboro aldermen seem to be
determined the saloon men snail put
in a full days work They require the
saloons to open at 4 a. m and close at
p. m.-Rleigh Times.
The Washington Post thinks 1T
saould be rEmemberei that one reason
Why there are more ~iSnchings OF Pc
groes in the south than in the notth
is that the supply IF material Is
la ger"
My husband doesn't gamble now,
as he used to- Reformed tGs
he" Eyes, he doesn'S go 20 the
race track at all any mocs. His worst
dissipation now is swimming, 7 thiTk,,
At any rate he. says he only goes to the
pool rooms" Press.
Willie South Dakotans arg charging
the president Of their state university
with immortality because he used beer
in making a Welsh rarebit. hey might
o FOR a m at their legalized-
polygamy institution, otherwise called
a divorce law.-N0rfolk Landmark.
Mr.. Slimpurse-"But why do, you IN
sist that our daughter Should marry
a man whom she does not like? You
married for love didn't your" Mrs.
Slimpurse-"Yes: but that is nCs reason
why l should let Il daughter make the
same bl,mder."-Na1 York Weekly.
a deata and three prostrations from
heat occurred in Philadelphia today.
and at tie same time a heavy tall of
snow is living on the continental divide
IN Montana, there having been HIrries
Of the flake all over the state yesterday
with a temperature of As degrees. A
great Country-this.-Charlotte Cnron-
iCle.
Speaker d be CarDn already gives
signs of making troU bic. He has freely
intimated that he would not sanction
the AldricEafinancial gill He dec-5red
that it is only the spectators Of the
east that are suffering from a scarcity
of currency and thai, as a western
banker he Will oppose any cheme which
makes more Observation-Disclosures Sun.
The mother cat shoca.. her head sadly.
You are a disgrace 20 our family"
she said sternly to the erring SOD.
Wont you ever lead a different life,
ThomaS?' I've been thinking about it
myself" replied the misguided felire,
and you shall have our Wish. I've
got three more left, and I promise they
shall be good. quiet lives; every one of
observation-disclosures Tribune.
Charles Alger, postmaster of Hanni-
bal. Mo-, lies, at the residence of his
brother, United States Senator AIger,
in a s~emi-conScious condition, and ply
SicianS are unable to determine wheth-
err he is suffering from the effects of
excessive heat or from. aoison admir- :
iStered by enemies. 1t is, said that Mr..
Alger has been instrumental IN sup
pressing the work of green goods men
! in Missouri, and it is believed he came
into compact with. a representatives.
green goods men in CIeyeIand.-De-
troit Dispatch
Another interesting feature OF the
situation is the fact that a former
private soldier is to he head of the
army, under the President. General
Young began hs military career sS i
private in the Twelfth. Pennsylvania
Infantry in 1861. When he ret1res nexE
January he will be succeed by another
! former private soldier, General Chaffee.
in the Sixth cavalry in 1861, and Will
/ not retire until 1906. So. the first two
| chiefs of the general staff will be SCI.
diers who nave risen from the anks.
But six of the seventeen men who have
been generals-in-chief- Of he United
States army have been West Pointers
; Those six rarged from Grant TO Scho-
field. All six reached the command III
consequence of the civil war, and now
once again the generalcy-in-chief has
swung back to soldieFs who entered he
army by other doors thar the militaIy
academy.-B Ifabo Express.