The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-10-23
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation TO go fox hunting in Penn
s~ylVania. The secret service men who
follow him will have a hard ride
Durham Sun.
"A New England scientist has dis
covered that there are 200 kinds of
mosquitoes" But they all sing alike.
and bite alike; SO what's the differ
ence?-Exchange.
A has been sentenced by an
Ohio court to fifteen years in the pen
ltentiarv for stealing 40 cents. The
temptation to appropriate this sum
must have been peculiarly aggravat-
ing.-Exchange.
In sixty years the annual per capita
consumption Of Whiskey in the United
States has gradually decreased from
two to one and a fourth gallons. In
forty years the consumption of beer
has increased from less than two to
more than gallons per cap
ita--News and Observer
The court Of appeals Of New York
has handed down a decision declaring
dependence upon faith-healing in the
case of sickness to be crimina negli-
gence. 1t takes a North Carolina
legislature to license the practice of
that kind of healing.-GreenVille Re
fiecto:
Senator Plat must have been feel
ing young and giddy, indeed, when
he got married in such haSty fashion.
Miss Mae Wood would not have al
rived ever in time for the reception,
had there been one, to say nothing
Of the celebrity that would have been
necessary to enable her to eXclaim 1t
cannot be!'-SaVannah News
A young Spaniard was sent as am
bassador to the pope. The supreme
pontiff frowned on him. and asked:
Does the king Of Spain lack men.
that he sends a beard!ess bOy?'
Sire" replied the ambassador. If
the king had supposed his ambassador
would be received for his beard he
would have sent a goat."-Exchange.
Senator Hanna. in a speech last
night before u large gathering. paid a
tribute to Grover Cleveland. He said
that Jefferson was u true democrat.
who. if he were living today would not
! permit himself to sanction the so-call-
! ed democratic teachings of Tom John
son, and he added, Grover CleVe-
! land is another great democrat, great
er than his time or his party, who
! looks with almost diguSt upon MANI
of his fellows who have Strayed af-
! Let IdISS SOuS ana IscNc TAKEN w With
! ~faTlaciOuS doctrines. jefferson, Jack
son. Tilden and Cleveland are demo-
! Gratis whom all good men admire and
resoect-"-CleVeland (Ohio) Dispatch
Montana herdsmen have lately taken
very kindly to the Angora goat There
are vast areas of land in that state
! which will support the goats a good
part Of the year, but are all but use
less for sheep. A goat will flOuris
where d sheep will starve. The weight
! of the fleece runs from three to four
pounds for the females and from six
to eight for the wethers. The price
! paid at points of shipment last season
! ranged from 3 to AZ tents a pound.
The loss of animals during the winter
was very small, ranging from ) to +
| per cent. The greatest amount Of hay
fed to any flock was at the rate OF
thirty TONS to 1000 heads-abOut one
third of VIVA is fed to sheep. The
! rate of Increase in the fiocks this year
showing over 100 per cent. in kids. In
one flock Of 1O1 does 1872 healthy kids
have been raised.-EXchange.
Bishop Scarborough, of the diocese
of New Jersey, has refused to approve
the call to a church within his juris-
; diction OF an Episcopal clergyman who
! was married to the divorced wife or
another Episcopal clergyman. The
ruling of the bishop has made some
! thing of a sensation. and in speaking
Of the reported admissions of Bishon
Paret that it vas not against the law
of the church to marry the innocent
! party of a divorce suit. the bishop
| said: q fail to see how there can be
any innocent TO a divorce. The
! divorce question is the "0et grieVous
that the church has ia deal with. It
is too lad when it reaches even int
; the ranks OF the clergy. The law
! against divorce IS the law Of God, and
| there can be no getting away from
that. | would not take a man who haG
married a divorced woman into the
| diocese under any consideration I
| am emphatically opposed to divorces.
! no matter what the preteXt for Such
| nctinn -TimeS-DiSnAtch.