The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-11-25
PPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

Were you ever in love Edwin "Ns
but 1 have a brother who has had the
measles and mumps and most every
thinG"-Harper's Bazaar.
Lady-eoh. that big Jog isn't the one
/ advertised fo-. My dog was a little
fox terrier" Boy-Yes'm. Your dogs
inside Of dis one."-Puck-
Giles-tSo you've got a place In that
\ banking house? I suppose II was De-
cause You knew the president?" Harris
I-"Partly that. and partly because ne
didn't know me"-Boston Transcript
Amateur vioionceiist-"Uhats the
next piece on the programme Neign-
bor-"Sousin's orchestral fantasia
Night among the Pyramids A. V.
(much taken back)-"why. sir. I've
just played that."-Punch.
The Boston Herald reports a positive
famine" of culinary domesticss Too
bad, Of course: but Boston Shouts think
how much worse it would be IL she
were short OF cooks.-The R~obeso1ian.
Secretary Shaw says h money ex-
I, pended on battleships goes to labor.
That's so in great part, but labor would
still get il if it was devoted to public
road Observation-Disclosures Sun.
1t is proposed TO pass a $40.O 600 500
river and harbor bill at the coming
short session of congress. Such a gea
erous poultice will heal a good many
sore heads and broken hearts-Durhara
Sun.
"Wha dye want?' asked the coach
man at the kitchen door. DE boss o.
de house sent me round here" replied
1.-the tramp IAN said you was ter gimme
anything I needed "All roight.
Come out to the stable an OfFl turn
the hose on ye.',-Philadelphia. Ledger.
q alIus knew Reub would turn out
a k~indhearted boy" said the old lady.
wiping ava a tear with the corner of
her apron. I'm this mere letter he seq:
Please send me another twenty-five
dollars. The other all went to feedin'
the kftty.'"-Cincinnati Commercial
! Tribune.
Don't you Think asked Mrs. Oldcas-
tie, that our minister is becoming
somewhat recondite?" "Oh, / don
know replied her hostess. Josiah
thinks so but it dont seem to me that
he ought to for a man as tall as him.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The old Long Bridge" spanning the
Potomac river at Washington, and over
which nearly all the traffic of the
4 South a. ~ pass 1IOiiL ~ lCOp Ia
order to reach Washington, soon will
be demolished, and nothing will be left
but the Of the celebrated and
historic MISUNDERSTANDING.
In Chicago a new church has been
built with a tower instead Of a steeple,
n IN the tower, occupying five stories,
there are wins apartments for n pas
tor and his family. h is peculiarly
IL Chicago idea, and, IN a large, crowd
ed city, not a bad one.-Charlotte
! Chronicle.
Eighty-three peasants of all ages and
sexes have been tried in Russia for be-
longing to the S~koptSitsect, the main
tenet of which is the extinction of the
human race. The result of the trial,
which took place behind closed doors.
was that the jury acquitted eighteen
minors, and the remainder of the &C
, cused were sentenced To the loss of civil.
rights and to be exiled-
In the village of R~eersville, state Of
:, Pennsylvania, a few days ago, a wOm-
an busy with her bread making was
interrupted by a tramp who asked tor
money. She slapped a couple of hands
full of dough into his eyes and hammer
ed him over the head with a rolling pin
until he ho0led for mercy and ran
away at top speed. Wouldn't it be in
teresting to know how that woman
asks her husband for money?-Ex-
change.
The United states cruiser Dixie has
been ordered to remain at Colon indef-
nitelv for the purpose of watching the
movements of the n revolution
lists. HuertaS is al the head of the ar
my OF Panama, which number soEle
200 men. He is alleged to be jealous
of President Amado and DESTROYS of
succeeding him as the President of the
, government. But Amador is the friend
of the Washington authorities, and the
Big Stick will doubtless be employed
to keep him in his job-Savannah
News
"Kleptomania'' is becoming a source
of great at the social func-
lions of the women's clubs in New York
city. For the last two winters women
who frequent these gatherings have
suffered losses and now scarcely am ca
tertainment of UGH a character take
place that some article of value IS not
! missing. Jeweled hat-pins. purses and
c%hatelane bags ave been purloined. Al
the recent breakfast Of the Womsn's
Republican Association at Delmonisos
a sable muff was lost and at the feaer-
alton meeting at the Hotel 'Astor ar
expensive feather boa was taken. Ih<
women are thinking of having a 6atec-
/ tive to protect them from these annoy
ing thefts.