The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-09-11
HERE AND THERE.

The southerners who stood by 300
er Washington until the Hamlet cpl
sode no doubt feel very much like the
farmer who bought a gold brick from
a man of brass.-Greenville Reflector. |
AS we haven't heard from Prof. Lang |
ley's air ship recently We suppose il |
has used up the available supply of |
air and is waiting for a fresh consign- |
ment from Lincoln, Neb.-Greenvilla |
Reflector. |
Wednesday week the negro Baptists |
Of the south will take Philadelphia by |
storm. A large delegation will go from
| August and vicinity. From Virginia TO
Texas thev will go a thousand strong. |
Augusta Chronicle.
The West Baltimore Street man was
indignant. He was fairly Tuning with
rage. whats the Natter asked his
friend. Matter, Matter enough! That
Ban BiggurnS tOl7 me | was a cheat,
a liar. and a horse-thief, That's what's
the matter" "Oh, WELL" said his friend.
cOnSOlingly. you mustn't believe every
thing you hear, old chap!'-Baltimore
News.
Any mail for me?" asked the young
woman in the tailor-made gown and
broadbrimmed straw haC. No,
ma'am," said the mistress of the little
p~ostoftice a quarter of a mile from the
summer hotel. It's all for the other
boarders today. Don't you remember
that the postal card you got yesterday
said there wasn't anything doing at
home md they wouldn't write you
again till tomorrow ?"-Chicago Trib-
une.
The News York Sun has information
W~arranting the statement that the
king of England and the emperor of
German nay all their expenses when
they travel: that Mr.. Cleveland did so
when he was president. and that Mr..
Roosevelt takes all the free transnor-
tation that he can get from railway
companies. besides havin~ three naval
vessels as pleasure yachts for the use
5 of himself. his family and his friends.
l News n Courier.
. In the Near Furure.-Domestic-
! Don't you want TO go out this after
l noon. Mrs. M%anning?" M~istress-"Yes
Mary. / should like to 90 out: but I'm
[ afraid it will incOmmode YOU Do
5 mestic-"Oh, never MIND me. marm'
it's so long since you've had an after
noon off I must insist that you take
. one today. But be sure and come nome
= early. may have callers, you know
u and l shall want somebody to tend the
dOor."-Boston Transcript.
= Carrie Nation following the exam
- pie of John L. Sullivan, James j. Cor
:, bett. and others of her predecessors II
II the strenuous life. is golr" on tn
/ stage. According to The Herald. tn
d play she has chosen is Ten Nights IL
= "A Bar Room" With all due respec
q we submit that this is no fitting We
h hicle for her destructive powers. MI
Robert Ellsworth. who is to reWrlte tn
PLAY for her, will be guilty Of an oh
II vious dereliction of duty if he makes
N ANYTHING less than Ten Bar Rooms i
l. One night."-New York Times.
The grain trade Of the north seem
= to be passing into Canadian hands. III
d Wall Street Journal notes that the re
{, ceipts of rain at Montreal durln
VII July were very nearly equ TO Tn
y total amount received for shlpmen
abroad at all Atlantic ports OF tn
United States for the same month.
lie is further shown that while the re
u ceipts Of grain at Montreal from Jal
es 'uarv 1st to August 1st increased Il pc
n cent. the decrease " = BOSTON was
in per cent. and at New York 1t was
lis per cent. COMPARED with the CORE
spending period Of f9O2.-NeW an
in Courier.
u The present condition of affairs
.ct Turkey uggest the following fro
st the pen of an eminent writer. -
70 ~onstantinop the Mohammedal
he have ooked with growing dread of la
years upon the face OF u Savior r
o appearing through the paint which &c
turtles ago was nut upon the dome
lsI st. Sophia to conceal it. This w;
~. when it was changed from a Christie
ne temple to a mosque There is a col
ass mon belief that the edifice is u
he safe. will soon fall, and traditl'
is states that with its fall. The 81
Of. Mans rule will pass forever out
,le Europe."-EXchange.
an A good deal of the worlds tobac
til crop is neither smoked. snuffed, n
he chewed. At one time tobacco W
Id largely prescribed in medicine, al
even today considerable quantities a
in so made use of. AS an external re
in edy for wounds and bruises n SPIRAL
of a wet tobacco Doultice is common
list used in all countries where tobacco
as grown On sore threats, erysipel;
~ sciatica and swellings of various kin
tobacco. externally anDlied. has a VIC
derfully good effect. Moist tobacco
: q one of the best cures imaginable
the bite of a poisonous insect. Bel
-hO so good as it is tobacco is SOmetln
my applied by soldiers to raw wounds.
lck IS said that no case of lOckjaW or me-
the LITIGATION has ever occurred where Il
, n ~precautiOn has been taken.-Health.
" Miss Blanche Patti. a society girl
{ q atlanta, is in Mysteries over the Il
of her hair. which was said to be
the most magnificent in the state. WI
O'S in a somnambuliStic trance Miss Pa
In sheared away her beautl1ul tresSes. t
the hair reached to her feet. and was
ON fine color and silky teXture. Saturd
oht night she retired in perfect health. :
Ste is not somnambulistic. and she kno
- no reason why she should have arl:
in the night. but she did. and WI
IN asleep she walked to a table on WI
and her scissors laid and nicking them
his cut off her hair close to the SCI
ak leaving the coil on the table. The 81
ans sors she took back to the bed and p
use ed them on the floor by the bed 81
les. She was Mortified Sunday morn
ale when she found her hair gone--Atla
the DISpdtCl " News A