The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-03-17
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE and THERE.

Clara-"What makes Alice so airy?''
Laura-"Oh. she knows a girl who
knows a girl who knows a girl who
married an English lord."-Detroit
Free Press.
Church-"What is the stuff that
heroes are made OFF," Gotham-'Well.
if we can believe the advertisements, it
is some of those new breakfast cereals"
-Yonkers Statesman.
And now Tillman chacterizes Can
mons speech as indecent h gen.
tleman from South Carolina should be
a good judge of indecency by this time.
Florida Times-Union.
observation-disclosures, why don't you
preach occasionally on heaven or help
The Rev. DR.. Lastly-"Half my congre-
cation feels sure of the one, and half
doesn't believe in the r.''-Chicago
Tribune.
You set too high a value on money"
said the friend. Maybe I do" an
swered Senator Sorghum; but so far
as I have been able to learn, money is
regarded as the most valuable thing yet
discovered Star.
Virginia has passed a law ruling
Christian Scientists out of the state as
healers. North Carolina has passed a
law which distinctly says that Chris
tan Scientists may practice healing in
that state.-Savnnah News.
7 have heard that Miss Chopchin
married young FLINDERS with the idea
of rpfnrnoipU him ssyNo11 - che c,,oooo9
ed. He says he'll never marry again
if he lives to be a thousand years old.
Chicago Tribune.
Judge: Yes, the colonel, who is run
ming for office has a fine war record.
You know he fought through h war
without a scratchm. Fudge: Well,
he'll be scratched enough when he
runs for office.-Baltimore Herald.
Hubite-"Were you not surprised to
learn that Philadelphia is a manufac-
turing center for heather idols?"
Gothamite-"Not a bit. Philadelphia
hasn't caught up with the Ten Com
mandments yet.''-Chicago Tribune.
Harris-"Walters has been looking
pretty sad since his daughter got mar
ried, hasn't he?" Correll-"Yes; you
see, he had no sooner got his daughter
off his hands than he found he would
have to put her husband on his feet"
-Town and Country.
Mr.. Bacon: 1 see they will not put
a picture of any artist in the Louvre
in Paris until he has been dead ten
years. Mrs. Bacon What's to prevent
an artist lying about it and saying he's
been dead ten a when it's or i've?
-Yonkers Statesman.
A little newsboy, who had been in an
accident. came into his Sunday school
class with one of his ears %bandaged to
his head, and said to the teacher, Tn
a good one to preach today, for it goes
in n ear n can't get out the other"
Life.
He is a wonderful student" Per
haps. But 1 must confess that 1 can
see the wisdom of this kind of knowl-
edge. He will get so worried for fear
he trusts are going to cause discomfort
that he will let the fire go out and for
get to eat his Observation-Disclosures
Star.
While the minis of the United States
will soon begin work IN the new cur
rency for the Philippines, it is a rather
curious fact that Cuba has no coinage
of its own, but that the United States
dollar is it's standard. Spanish coin
c~irculates, but is used only at it's rela-
tive value to American money.-Ashe-
vile Gazette.
The information that the bill to shut
the Christian Scientists out of the state
was so amended by the legislature as
not to have that effect is a reminder
that during the session, when the COM
mittee to which this bill had been re-
ferred. decided to report it favorably
n when the Christian Scientists pres
ent were much depressed, their coun-
sci told them to cheer up and thinE
that the committee had not SO decided;
in fact. to think that the legislature
was not in session at all. There is nc
record that his clients got overly much
enjoyment out of his witticism.-Char-
lotte Observer.