The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-04-28
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE And THERE.

Does your baseball club play OF Sun
lay No, nor on any other day
Washington Star.
A bill which the Missouri legls!at lie
seemed to find it impossible to pass was
the $1,000 denomination.-Louisvilie
Courier Journal.
Higgelty-"Poor chap, he's walking
on his uppers.' Piggelty-"Dear. deari
Can't even call his sole his own."--
Harvard Lampoon.
I hear she has become to
a rich man from st. Louis What Il
risk to run, with Missouri grand juries
IN session.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The labor organizations of Columbus
ohio parade and make speeches IN
honor of Senator Hanna for his att.
tude towards organized labor.-Ex-
change.
The Equestrienne-'I wonder what
the equestrienne of the future will b.
expected to do" The Clown-"Oh, 1
suppose she'll have to manage four
fiery, untamed automobiles. Puck.
Perhaps the anti-saloon league peo-
pie are attempting to get even with
the democratic party for not giving
them what they wanted when the mot
ter was before the legislature.-Dur-
ham Herald.
L hear You done got married. Br'er
NlIllams?' Il she did," We'll, whar
70 wife," She war I live at. She
didn't mon have money huff ter pay
Ter de license en- SEN me on my honey
moon!"-Atlanta Constitution.
Yes, Tomlinson has lost his job. He
kissed the pretty typewriter girl be-
lore his employer" All, yes. He
should have waited to let the employer
kiss her first. Tom always was i'm
pulsive. Plain Dealer.
Churchman-'"That was an eloquent
sermon you preached to us last Sunday
on The Poor We Have Always With
Us" The ~Pastor-"Yes. 1 was inspir-
ed. I had observed how small the col
lection was that day."-Philadelphia
Press.
Mrs. Wages (readingC"A we'll
known physician says that one should
never go into the water after a hearty
meal Waggs-"That's right. It's
better to go into a f1rst-class restau-
rant after it if n happens to have
the price."-Chicago Daily News.
Dr.. Christian, the famous beauty
scientist. of Paris, France. delivered y
lecture in Richmond last week. We
didn't know before that such a man
was needed in that city, for we thought
that the Richmond girls were prettier
than any beauty doctor could make
them. Why not send him to Boston?
durham Sun.
i am very sorry that we can't hav.
harmony IN our party" said the states
nan "Harmony is Indispensable
Yes; but you Won agree with the
| other na0nla COZ cn11rSa ,r-D-'t
And it is exceedingly stupid of them
not to see that the only way to have
harmony is to come around and agree
with me-"-Washington Star.
Here is the best argument for good
roads we have seen: "A citizen Of
Yancey tells the huntsville Eagle that
there are something like 1900 bushels
of apples still in the hands of the farm
ers of the Pensacola community. anG
that they cannot get them to market
on account of bad roads. The chances
are they will lose most of their Fruit
News and Observer.
Mayor Harrison, with a committee Of
fifty leading citizens of Chicago, it i
reported, is in Springfield to push thu
municipal ownership bill through tn.
Legislature. ''The prospect of a bill
permitting the municipal ownership @
street railway lines" it is added, IVA:
never so bright, and 1t seems certain
l that the Enabling Act demanded %,
5 the people of Chicago, will be passed
; before the Legislature adjourns. 1t vii
be the most important move ever madt
in this country on the great question
OF municipal ownership."-News an,
: Courier.
= Sunday, the 10Th of April, was tn,
: forty-second anniversary of the he'd
ding of the first blood in one of IN,
bloOdiest wars of modern times. l
was on the 10Th of April, 1861, that til
Z Sixth Massachusetts regiment, passin:
l through Baltimore, was attacked Of
Pratt street by q great mob Of person
and Il number of soldiers and citizen
= were killed. Fort Sumter had alread,
+ been attacked and captured by tn
cOnfederates, but in that attack not on
: life had been lost. April 18th was ais
the date Of the beginning of the reVOlu
( tiOnary war, Sunday being the on
= hundred and twenty-eighth anniver
5 sary of the battle of LeXington.-Ra
= leigh Times.
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