The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-01
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

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5 the deaf mute has been insulted.
has he?' Yes, and he Is speechless
with Indignation. He's got an awful
row on his hands. baltimore News.
How late do you usually sleep or
Sunday morning." Wei. it all de-
pends." Depends on what" =" On
the length of the sermon."-Philade,-
phia Press.
Snapp-He's got a scheme for max
ing mons that seems to be all right
in theory. Skrapp-Huh, all men
with theories are fools. Snapp-Tn-
deed? That's your theory, is it?-
Philadelphia Ledger.
Wife-'.I wish we had a nice large
country place. where l could give a
lawn party Husband-"Jusl for the
pleasure of inviting some Of your
friends, eh?" Wife-"Well. yes: and
the pleasure of not inviting some
Philadelphia Ledger.
Wife-'I dreamed last night that I
was in a store that was just full of
the lovelieset bonnets, and" Hus-
band (hastily)-"But that was only a
dream, my dear" Wife-"I knew that
before 1 woke up, because o bought
me one."-Philadelphia Press.
Il wish the big hoop-skirt style for
women Would come III again" "Why?"
We'll, I figure that when women had
to manage them they didn't have time
TO try to manage so many other things
in this world, and man had more Of
a chance.'-Chicago Evening Post
Il heard today thai your son was
an undertaken. 1 thought you told
me he was a physician Not at
oil - at l@~-4 81 I-,f
I'm positive you did say So" You
misunderstood me. 1 said he follow
ed the medical profession."-Phila-
delphia Press.
"Ah!' he protested, my love for
you is the greatest thing in the world.
1t is larger than the world. It is
wider han the sea. Let ME pour it
into your ears." Sir" calculated
the fair maid, do you mean to in
sinuate anything G the size or
shape of my s?"-Baltimore Sun.
81 should think you would be am
bilious for political distinction" 'NO,
answered Mr.. CumroX 4 don't care
for it. My daughter has studied
painting and her pictures Of me are
funny enough without calling in the
aid of any professional cartoonist."-
Washington Star.
agatha said her mother. 81 don't
like to hear a daughter of min tell
even a conventional lie. You know
you ant bear Aunt Becky, and yet
when she came the other dav you
said, 'Auntie. how glad [ am to see
you!'' That wasn't a lie, mamma
answered Agatha. That was an ex-
cIamation.''-Chicago Tribune.
1t is reported tina a million dollar
cathedral will be built in Cleveland,
Ohio, for the Greek church. the car
of Russia being the principle contrib
utor. 1t will at least illustrate how
much more tolerant a Protestant
country is to other faiths than Rus
STA can ever be while dominated by
the Greek OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Standard.
The new pope must be claSsed
among the younger members of the
| sacred college, although he is sixty
! eight years old. Twenty-Five u OF
the ~siXty-four cardinals who attended
the %conclave are older than Plus x
The oldes member Of the sacred col
Iege is Cardinal Celesia, of Palermo
who is eighty-nine years Old. Cardi-
| nal Rampola is more than ten years
| the Junior of the new Pope, Cardinal
Gibbons is one ear older than Pope
Plus,
Good times make good business, anG
liz 10 lo 49,
I dictate than New 1orf
city's commerce. The papers of thai
city declare the estimate of the mum.
Der of buyers going to New Yorl
this fall, from all parts of the coun
try, will exceed by % per cent the re
cord Of any previous year. This viii
probably mean that the total of good:
purchased from b wholesale house:
at this season Will approach The enor
nous sum of $1,000 900, O0.-Winstol
Journal.
Supposed white caps posted notice:
at Give, a town. on the milwaukee,
railroad six miles west of here, r
ing the colored population to leave tn
community and threatening oil whit
men who employed colored help il
any way. Isaac Anderson, a coloret
man employed by the Milwaukee rail
road, has been particularly harassed
An effort was made two nights ag'
to blow up his house with dynamite
The chimney and part Of the wal
were shattered, the family barely es
Gaping alive. Two weeks ago an eff
fort was made to burn him in hi
home. The colored population, nun
boring several hundred, is terror
stricken.-DesMoines Ga.) Dispatch.