The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-08-11
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE And THERE.

Mrs. kampus-"But how came you to
decide to send your son to Yale?' Mrs. |
Green-"Oh! 1 thought ale would be
more appropriate than Harvard because
of Reginald's lue bIood."-Puck.
Mr.. Citiman-"Never beer 20 New
York, Ell? Well, it would surprise you
to see the business that's lone there"
Farmer Bankruptcies; and it sur
| prises me to see some Of the folks that |
| helps to do it."-Puck. |
First Workman-"Wot's it say, Bill, |
| or that old sundiaI?" Second workman |
(reading deliberatelV-'It says, Do
to-days-work-to-day.'" First work |
man" Do two days work today.'
Wot O: Not me!-Punch.
Information Wanted.-Dollie-"Oh,
Granny. do the heather savages wear
trousers?" ~Granny-"No. dear. Why?"
Dollie-"WelI, then, why did pa put a
trousers button in the collecting bag at
church today?"-Pick-Me-Up.
Toni had my fortune told the 9TH
er day and my fiancee broke off the en-
gagement.' Jock-"Why, is she a be-
lever in such n~onsense?" Tom-"Non-
sense ~nothingi 1t was told her by a
mercantile agency."-Chicago Daily
News,
Mrs. Tidey-"Every hOusekeeper must
realize tina cleanliness is next to god
illness. " Mrs. Famley-"Unless she has
several growing boys to track mud all
over everything, then she realizes that
it's next to impossible. "-Philadelphta
Press
AscUm-"I see there's some talk Of
having the people vote at the next
state election upon the question of abol-
ishing capital punishment. Would you
vote to bolis ito" Fogie-'No, sir;
capital punishment was good enough
for MY ancestors, ana it's good enough
for me."-Washington Star.
1t is just as we'll to remember in ].
Spearpoint Morgan'S favor that ne
rave fair warning to the lambs Of Wal
street in first mentioning the undi-
gested securities. But the lambs just
kept on eating indigestible things and
were taken after a while with financia
Ole. The poor dears!-Charlotte News
A motor car on the London anO
Brighton road passed over a dog, but
ulO not apparently hui I. III
however, stopped the car, jumped out
!, and gave the man with the dog a SOW
ereign. Il hope you will accept that as
a peace Offering he said. The mar
I pocketed the coin, and, as the car ex'
ploded off on its course, he muttered
= Il wonder whose dog it is!"-Glasgov
Evening Times.
Our sultan Of Sulu may leave us
He has gone to Singapore on a visit an(
is having such a royal time IN tn
Straits Settlements that he is said t
be considering the establishment OF
d permanent residence in that British col
d ony and letting his subjects in Min
t danao look after themselves or b
= looked after by the United States. May
: be we shall fare better without him.
= Charleston Post.
e Behold how good and how pleasant
u is for brethren to dwell together l
:, unity. The two leading papers of AL
= gusta are vying with each other /
IF their fight against the corruption OF tn
= city. The two leading dailies Of Char
d lotte are both advocating the bond Is
l. sue. We are expecting a prophecy {
IS the millennium from Elder Banks.
=. Charlotte News.
d The New York Press remarks editc
d rally that the discovery that the ora
=" ton by which a student at Brown I'm
. versity won a gold medal recently wa
:. the same as one delivered by a gradl
"a ate of a New York college two veal
It before, lis chiefly of Importance in cal
j. ing attention to the fact that a certal
g firm IN a certain city does a flourish
OIL ing business in supplying essays an
- orations to college Students
Is During the fiscal year ending June 3
m 1903, the United States imported MOI
ie iron n steel than in any other yea
:. since 1891 and the figures among tt
"a largest in the country's history. TT
:. total im~portations of these commoditie
II amounted to $51, 617 ,312, against S27, $50
" 274 III 1902, ST. 74, 7S9 in 1901, and s12
IS 100, 440 in 1899. From 1850 to 1903 the on
e, years in which the value or iron an
u stee! imports exceeded those OF l9O3, al
a 1872. when the total was $55, $40, 18S; 1877
=. $50, 1903, ASP; 1880, s53, ia, 0OS; 1881, $50
~ 604, All; 1882. $67, 76,S79; 1883, s5S, 495, "a
and 1891, $50, 544, 272.-Atlanta Journal
~ A sentimental Kansas girl, addicte
to writing alleged poetry, grew indie
nant because her father opened a LEI
ter containing a poem which a maya
IF zine editor had rejected and sent bac
to her. She didn't go out to the bar
and hang herself, as the romantic ez
D. igencies would seem to require, bl
- dressed herself as a man. ran ava
II from home hired out as a farl
a hand. This was a decided improvement
d on the old style, and it is hoped ne
IL experiences may cure her of the poetr
le habit. Poetry, especially of the gI
= kind is a drug in the market. viii
brick masons are in strong demand l
" Durham.-Durham sur
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