The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-05-15
HERE And THERE.

She-"The minister is very broad in
he is broad."-Yonkers Statesman
Mrs. Trotter-I don't know What is
the matter with these slippers. Her
husband Perhaps they're large
enough."-Puck.
And so Prof. Gustavus has at last
discovered the missing link! Where
qua ne md IT, Under the bureau,
L Observation-Disclosures News.
Husband (angr1ly)-"I never saw \
woman as hard to please as you are
Wl1e Gcalmly)-"My dear, you forget
that | married you."-Chicago Daily
News. D
In view of recent happenings among
the pest people" of this state. we are
IN no position to give Kentucky the
Mortified countenance.-Greenville Re
Hector.
I thought smithers had given up his
morse IN favor of automobiles. but r
saw him buying a heavy pair of ami
mas today." "Oh, they are merely TO
bring the automobile home. when they
break down."-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
One Of the latest epigrams reads.
Every wife is the architect of her own
husband a wife may produce an ex-
cellent plan for husband construction
put IL the building material be inferior
a hrst-class edifice is out of the ques-
tion.-Greensboro Patriot.
Inc greatest organ in the world has
Just been installed in the cathedral at
seville. 1t was built by a Spaniard,
senior ASulllno Amezua. and is of truly
glgant dimensions. There are four
metal lutte StOnS annh civ+aan foo+
long, such as no other organ in Europe
possesses. 1t is also the only organ
Whlch mas brass bourdons which gave
tnlrty-tWo vibrations a second and pro-
duce a deeper tone that the organ in
Murcla, which has hitherto been the
deepeSt toned organ in the world.
There are altogether 200 independent
stops, and five bellows worked by
electricity. The cost was $50. OOO.-
Scranton Truth.
\ practical joker of New York city
tells this upOn himself and declares il
cured him of his bad habit: "On nv
ARRIVAL at San Francisco. as a Joke T
sent to q friend of mine, well known
for his aversion IN spending money q
telegram, with charges to collect, read
ing. I am perfectly healthv,' 'sThe in
formation evidently was gratifying to
him, for about a week after sending
the telegram an express package was
delivered at my room. on which I paid
$3.50 charges. Upon opening the pack
age I found a regulation New York
street paving block, on which was
pasted a card which read. This is the
weight your telegram lifted from my
heart -Philadelphia Ledger.
"In the twenty-one years ending
January /, 1908, there were 1898 lynch
ngs in this country. OF these victims
OF mob law 1,S72 were blacks and 1.2I6
were whites, the color of the remain
ing 1O5 not being stated. The average
yearly lynchings of blacks was, then,
S913. and of whites SO. Sixty-one wo-
men We're lynched, SO of them being
cOlored and q white. Not more than
IS per cent. of the blacks were lynched
for rape. and about 16 per cent. of the.
whites were lynched for the same
crime. Only about one-half, or 1854,
Of these ~lynchings occurred in the
south. most of the remainder happen
Ings in the far western states. It is,
also shown that there has beer a
steady decrease in ly%nchings in the
south during the past ten years. owing
to the formation of anti-lynching So
cieties n the spread of educational
agencles.-Pittsburg Post.