The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-02-16
HERE AID THERE.

me Combination Card Game Com
pany. OF Atlanta, Ga. has added To
society another very popular card
same-Trail." It is played with 81
cards in four colors. representing n
FOX TO be chased and caught with
teur packs OF hounds, IL hounds q
the pack The game is designed tn
grow more interesting with practioe
seven other games can be played with
cne same deck Of cards-three scien-
tlnc, two educational and two for
run only-all popular parlor games.
Exchange.
One OF the officers OF the battle
snip Missouri. which has been en-
gagged in target practice Off the
chesapeake capes, came to the navy
department with a remarkable state
ment. He said that one OF the H.
inch guns being elevated several de-
grees let fly a shell which the strong
est glasses could not follow To The
end Of its flight. Later a. pass',,g
steamer reported that the shell had
struck the sea within 800 yards Of
her. The steamer was distant from
the Missouri just fifteen niles
Washington DISPATCH.
women are supposed to be de-
nclent In business regularity and ex-
actness. but it is said by the statis-
ticfans that they are paying their
lie insurance premiums with COM
mendable promptness And il is mat
ter OF common knowledge that they
are most particular in the matter of
collecting trading stamps The wo-
man is born economist-Ex,.hang
1t is a habit of Americans 10 look
upon China as irredeemably back
ward But the old empress goes
footing round in her automobile.
Illuminating her parlors and streets
with electric light, calling up her
ministers with "Hello!" n. the
telephone, and sending her grand
children out through the sacred city
ON bicycles. What would you have ?
Durham Sun.
AT the present time there is a
keeper on a Hertfordshire estate who
has about twenty shots in his head.
Nearly thirty years ago this man was
accidentally shot by an under-keep-
er. and there were twenty-five holes
in the hat he wore, which IS pre-
served to this day. The injured man
never had the shots extracted, was
long between life and death and COM
pletely lost his hearing, says the
London Standard
Thrice armed is he who has his
quarrel just" says an old adage An
IT.shman adds. Yes and four times
armed is the feller what puts in the
firrust lick" Both Of these sayings
being true, Japan is in a fair way to
win out in the war with Russia
NJ onroe ENQUIRER.
Farmer Bartholomew, of the
Ogdensburg State Hospital, has had
great luck this winter with his ice
trap. Because of typhoid in the
neighborhood the managers Of the
hospital decided THAT ice from the
St Lawrence river must not be used
This would have involved hauling It
from a considerable distance TO fill
the big icehouse. So Farmer Bar
tholomew asked, and with some di@'
Guilty obtained. permission to con-
struct an ice-trap right near the
asylum. The trap is merely a big
shallow tank of cement, with slop-
ing sides, flooded, by pipes laid at Il
cost of $500, from the water-supoIy
main An outflow removes the sur
plus water. All Bartholomew has to
do when a cold wave from the west
is announced, with d Thermometer 81
degrees below and bitter wind. is
to set the trap toward night baited
with water. Thirty-siN hours later
he has caught fine lot of ice HANDY
for cutting and hauling in.--l(aw
Work World
1t seems strange to hear. as one
does occasionally. that Herbert
Spencer was a "socialiSt.'' Nothing
could be farther from the truth, for
Herbert Spencer not only was an in
dividualist," but an extreme one at
that. The following letter written by
himself refers to the surprising and
mistaken statement: The criticism
has greatly irritated me- may even
say caused me great indignation. NJ,
judgment could be more contrary ID
the truth" He concludes the lette.
by saying: Il have given utterancc
many times to my conviction that the
advent of socialism would be the
greatest disaster the world would
ever have known, and that It would
end only in a military despotism."-
Exchange.
You have allowed yourself to be
dazzled by money" That" said
Senator Sorghum, lis untrue. In any
matter where money YVES concerned
I have invariably been coldly prac-
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The citizen who grows tired trying
to reconcile the conflicting expert
long-distaDce war views of non-cor-
batants can vary his mental exercise
by trying to pronounce SOME of the
japanese, Korean and Russian proper
and geographical ashing-
ton Star.
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