The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-11-24
HERE AND THERE.

| Inc CdlaWOa County News says that
MI. y. G. Nesbitt has on the vrAy
across from the British Isles two dozer
hhsIlsh partridges. costing $50. and they
VIII De turned loose on the grounds
formerly leased by the Eastern Trial
CIuo. The birds. adds The News are
| great bug destroyers and increase VERY
IdSl. If they are similar to thu snar.
row which came 10 US from the same
country it will be only a short -ina
until they Will not need any ..,osed
season season. to protect them.;-chari6tte
Chronic,G '''''
An old colored woman Jane Faux
| Iler, while on her way home towards
9outh Rocky Mount Thursday night
Sd" man lying face down in a ditch
she placed her hand on his face and
IouHd II cold. Thinking he was dead
ana terrified beyond reason she awol,a
''4e echoes Tor few minutes with her
screams. Several were attracted "a
lhe scene and in the excitement tho
corpse struggled to his feet and
staggered off. to the amusement of tba
spectators and the disgust of the old
woman who gave him a piece of h4r
tnlnd for frightening her 50 badly.
The man had INDUCED in a little too
nhuch Whlskey and was simply ENJOYING
nap when rudely disturbed by the old
Woman.-Rock Mount Motor
Mrs. oVerman, who lives near GIea-
soh, Tenn, came in town the other dav
Iof the purpose of seeing a passenger
tram. She is 80 years old and has lived
"lthln hfteen miles of the railway near
~ all her life, but had never even seen
the track up to this time. On hearing
the train approaching she became very
much excited and refused to go near
the track. thinking the train a great
monster capable of doing her harm if il
desired She returned home greatly
worked up over her aventure.-Ex-
change
Inc town of Claye, in the DEPART
ment of Seine-et-M Marine. France rs-
ports d new way TO cure the cigarette
hdplt. man there has been smOk-
ing cigarettes for thirty years. One day
he began to reckon up the number he
had consumed. He found that he had
smoked enough to reach, if placed in =
continuius line, from his house to
Paris, distance of TWENTY-FIVE miles
he computed the total number at 500
OoO. or an average of eighty u day. Ha
no longer smokes.-Exchange
The production of oranges in the Unit
ed States amounts to 1900, 600 boxes
per annum. of which 10000 900 boxes, are
produced in California and 2,OOOOOO
boxes in Florida. The consumption of
lemons in the United States amounts to
6,oOOOOO cases per annum, of which l.
oOO,OO0 cases are produced in California.
the remainder being irnnOrtaI -ECx
change.
Sir Thomas Lltton, in the telegraphic
correspondence between himself and
Emperor William, which has appeared
IL print, makes u rather odd mistake. in
addressing the Kaiser as His Imperial
Majesty, Emperor William IL" Now,
it is absolutely contrary to all rules and
regulations of etiquette in addressing a
sovereign to add the Roman numerals
which distinguish him from his prede-
cessors of tha same name. This it would
be altogether wrong to address the Bri.-
ish ruler as King Edward VII" Nor
do monarchS ever use these Roman
numerals in signing their names. and
the only case ON record where this
seemed to have occurred was due to
a printers error. 1t was in the first
proclamation of the present kaisers
father. The late Emperor had signed
his name and had added in his charac-
teristic straight UP and down writing,
the letters Il ct r. standing for ''iru-
perator" and rex" The printer mis-
took this for the Roman numeral III.
and when the proclamation appeared il
bore the signature of Frederick III
Exchange.