The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-08
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND There.

uIIlI HND III
Your father did not object to our
oh, poor papa has given UP the idea
of being too particular brooklyn
Life.
With the president doing all in his
power to placate the Wal street
spectators it was Si~ngularly bad
judgment for Secretary Wilson to call
attention to the dire effects of their
cotton corner.-Tarboro Southerner.
Mamma" said little Ethel, papa
must be just awfully rich" Why do
you think that, my child?" Il heard
him tell grandma that he was going
to buy Boston and Albany today
Town and Country.
All here?" asked the host. 7 be-
WELL" he said. Then, turning to the
entertainer he had engaged for the
evening": Hurry up and be funny,
now. We're waiting to laugh.'-Chi-
cago Evening Post.
Our air mattresses said the deal
er, ARE all filled in the months of
April, May and June. That accounts
for their remarkably resilient quail
ties rs the air of those months
I DOIlCl lIldl olIlClS liz L Tx
spring months, you know."-Life.
Edyth-"When I refused Charlie
night before last he threatened to
he didn't He proposed to me last
night Edyth Indeed! Then he
must have got rid of them in some
other way."-Chicago Daily News.
1t used to be a favorite trick of
the binding Irvine trust to advance
the price of Irvine so per cent just at
harvest time, when the farmers had
to lave it and were compelled to sub
nit to the gouge. Kansas got tired
Of being held up and established a
mandatory of binding Irvine at her
state penltentiary, since which time
she has been able to obtain her Irvine
at cost.-Durham Sun.
The crown prince and princess Of
Greece were the other day the central
figures in a singular incident at the
theater of Phaleron, where they We're
making a short stay. Their royal
highneSSeS were occupying q box in
the house during the performance of
a French operetta when suddenly a
quietly dressed man entered and be-
gan a furious trade against the prin-
cess, whom he threatened to strike.
The crown prince sprang to his feet,
and first flung the intruder violently
against the partition, and then liter
all kicked him out of the box. When
removed to the police station the man
proved to be mad drunk, and on
sleeping himself sober was evidently
amazed to learn of the scene he had
created. At the lntercession of the
princess he was not prosecuted.-Ex-
change.
Don Carlos the pretender to the
Spanish throne who, it is reported, is
prepared to relinQuiSh his claims In
that direction, is fi~fty-three years ole
and the father of one son and three
daughters. According to the ST
James Gazette he has friends in Eng
land, and is delighted to show them
over his wonderful private armory at
the Plazzo, Loredan, Venice. 1t is az
~unequaled collection. One of his Eng
lish visitors. an all-round athlete, was
recently by Don Carlos on q
swimming expedition at Lido They
did q good evenings exercise in the
water, and the Englishman was be-
ginning to feel fatlgued and very colo
when the wiry Spaniard called: Nov
let US swim in earnest" and struck
out as if about to swim the whole
Adriatic. He turned home with ar
apology when the Briton confessed
himself observation-disclosures.
That the Canadian railroads are be-
coming powerful rivals to our own ir
SOiIlpSlllloi W LII ShlpIilSiI vi SlolI
is true, and it is equally true that they
will be more and more formidable as
time goes on. The conference of mer-
chants interested in the export OF
grain from this city, Philadelphia and
Baltimore will la a definite ano
concrete problem to deal with, and
one that is sure to be more import
ant as the Canadian system Of trans
continental railways develop. The
dominion government has always beer
extremely e~nterprlsing in this direc-
ton. Its achievements in the past
have been marked by courage and de-
termination, and have been accom-
plished with a good deal Of sagacity
and quite as much freedom from job
berry as anything of the sort on this
side of the border, though there has
not been absolute exemption on either
side. The people of the dominion are
satisfied with the results. and have
reason to be.-New York Times.
There is a popular notion that mos.
QuitOeS live only a few days, and that
their persistence into the autumn is
caused by a constant augmentation o.
their numbers, which does not cease
until the ponds are frozen over. This
idea is not borne out by scientific in
v~estigation. William L. Underwood
writing IN the Popular Science Month.
~, is authority for the statement thai
thousands of mosquitoes live through
winter, alternating or asleep in darl
places in barns or house cellars. "Ir
sparsely settled localities, where they
cannot I'M such places for shelter
they live through the winter in hol'
low trees, in caves and holes under
upturned trees; and, wen though thu
temperature may fall far below
freezing, they are not winter killed
but on the approach of warm weather
become active again. Mosquitoes ar
frequently seer flying about in tht
woods before the snow has wholly
left the ground" AS for ourselves
we are not surprised at these state
ments. We had long begun tt
suspect that mosquitoes never DIED Il
all: for we have recognized beyond
doubt the voice of one particular mos
QuIta every season for three success
Sive Years. We venture TO say tina,
we are not alone in this theOrv.-At'
lanta Journal.