The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-07-21
HERE AND THERE.

Bings-"There goes a particular
friend Of mine" Bangs-"Friend o
yours Ell? Well. he can't be overpar-
Observation-Disclosures Bulletin.
Customer-''To what do you attribute
the great cleansing " of your
soap?" Dealer-"To judicious adver-
tising.'-Chicago Daily News.
4 think I'm not hard to get along
with" Faith, nayther am 1, mum.
Whin a mistress is dom her best, t IS
meself thot overlOoks lots av things"
Puck.
rs the prisoner going to plead insan-
ity as his ~defence?' asked the our
stenographer: Judging from his selec-
ton of an attorney" replied the lawyer,
h had failed to get the case, Il
should say he was."-Cincinnati Com
mercial-Tribune.
Il don't like these references" said
the housewife. We'll num- returneC
the applicant for a position, Il didn't
write 'em. so it amt my fault. If o
don't like 'em jest you go to the people
as gave EN- to me n tell EN- So
Chicago Evening Post.
| No satisfied with two-cent fares in
Cleveland, Mayor Tom Johnson IS
liz" AIsl4IS ~ vi " : ~
which the municipal government is to
a for the daily transportation OF
the laboring people. AS a genuine,
| up-to-date reformer Tom is all right
Winston Sentinel.
The experiment station at Washing
ton is to put a number of men to US
ing tobacco in all its forms for sclen &.
tiic investigation of its effect on the
human system. That will be interest
ing to know. But the boys VIII con
tinue to smoke and chew just tht
Same.-GastOnia News.
| A Nashville drinking man one morn
ing told his family of a wonderful
dream he had the previous night, IN
which he saw three cats, one far, enc
lean and one blind. and he wondered
what it meant. Il know promptly
! responded his little son, the MAJ that
sells you the whiskey is the TAT cat.
mother is the lean cat, and You are
the blind cat.'-The Issue.
There is something pathetic in the
fact that Ira D. Sankey, in his Blind
ness. has sold his beautiful ,ountrT
home n gone to live with his son in
the city. The beauty of earth can TO
more touch his senses. But there re-
mains, after his life of usefulness, the
opening of his blinded eyes TO the
glorious vision of Observation-Disclosures
ian Standard.
Mrs. Observation-Disclosures a new baby
in the house on the other side OF you.
Mrs. Peppery-"Yes. I've heard it,
Mrs. Nexdore-"Poor little thing it
does cry So" Mrs. Peppery-"Yes. but
it's so accommodating. 1t always cries
at the right time and rowns the noise
of your daughters piano."-Phiiadel-
phia Press.
! Young Observation-Disclosures Bin says
that if I'll join in with him and a punch
of others. he will take us to a place
where there is a family of seven Fat
people who sleep with ~screen1ess win
dOWS and scanty covering Old Mos
Quito-"Look here, my daddy, you must
pay no attention to these get-rfch-
quick schemes sprung on onions iike
you by he sharpers.'-Baltimore
American.
George B. Hiss, president Of the
American Cotton Manufacturers AS.
ISOLATION. stated hat he thought il
quite probable that, by the first of Sep
TENDER, the total number of idle spin.
dies in the cotton manufacturing work.
dependent upon American cotton would
reach 80, 100000. When it is consider.
I ed that but so, 600, 900 of the $4,000, O0t
spindles in the entire world are de
pendent upon American cotton, tn:
Importance of this statement can be re.
allied. 1t means that approximately
100000 people will be thrown out Q
employment and that counting al
average of $50 to the spindle, $500, 900,
900 of capital will be temporarily idle
The suffering and financial loss tha
will result will not be confined to tn
cotton manufacturing world alone, blu
will affect many other industries an(
]avocations and hundreds of thousand,
of other people.-CharlOtte Chronicle.
This is the cheering Jews that come:
from Washington. An official bulletin
of the health department informs u:
that there is a parasite that destroy:
mosquitoes. The name of this mos
delightful creature is agamomermis
Our understanding is that it plants it
self in the abdominal cavity of the
mosquito and there does it's beneficent
work. What an infinite comfort it viii
be in seething and moist summer nights
hereafter while the mosquito sings its
busy song in the darkness, for the nu.
man victim to reflect that agamoner-
mis- is camping on the trail of the foe
and will presently be disturbing tbs
m~oSQuitorial digestive apparatus and
| doubling up with some kind Of disease
like appendicitis or cramp collie. Ger
tainly there is alienation in the bitter
| sting, u~nreQuited and unavenged, de-
spite our most energetic Slappings,
| when we reflect that the singer within
a brief time will be suffering the
agonies of the agamomermis. Most of
us would be entirely willing to be OUR
selves inoculated with agamomermis
and to go forth and permit ourselves
to be bitten by countless mosquitoes,
| knowing that our blood would mean
To tham ,in1art and Dainfn1 death
| News Leader.