The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-02
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AID THERE.

about the marriage OF seven couple.
at a sunday school picnic in Elizabeth
CITY mentions the interesting circum,
stance that a marriage license Is no
required in the town. This viii be new,
to most people in North Carolina VIII.
have supposed hat the statutes IL
such cases made an provided contain nc
clause exempting Old Betsy from the
marriage license as an indispensable
prerequisite to trying the connubia
knot-Raieigh Times.
Many a girl rids herself OF an un.
welcome lover by throwing cold waite,
on his suit; but a girl in Bluefeld, w
Va. has improved on this process BY
throwing boiling hot coffee on a mar
whose attentions were over jealous
The proceeding was so ~effectual tina,
1t is said that the man is likely TO die
from his injury.-Richmond News
Leader.
lit Is amusing to note that the OLD
trick OF taking a horse to water and
trying to make him drink, is still re-
sorted TO. now and then. A Jim crow
street car law has become valid in
Richmond. Va, but the colored people
persistently refuse TO ride in the cars
set apart for their use.-Exchange.
The Columbia State adverts to the
way things are going UP here, with
some casual reference to the threaten
ed LANCER of an enforced suspension
OF the usual courtesies between the
governor of North Carolina and the
governor of South Carolina. That's
not what's Fostering us. What We are
bothered about is what Judge PEBBLES
is to do, If this thing keeps IN in case
he should have another attack Of the
shingles.-Charlotte Observer.
The Tribune. The Mail and The Press
are the only three papers in New York
aligned on the republican side. Twelve
out Of the fourteen dailies published In
Greater New York supported Mckinley
in both campaigns.-Columbia State.
Don't you think fiction is deteriorat-
ing??' Il guess You haven't read the
two platforms."-Life.
Book Agent-"Now. sir, can I sell you
an encyclopedia Old John-'Noa, ]
don't hin so. I'm tew old to ride
now."-Punch.
Mean.-Husband-"My, but 1 wish ]
had your tongue" Wife-'So that you
could express yourself intelligently? p
Husband-"No; so that 1 could stop II
iC i WdlitCo W. 0OclIOll rec 1EcSS.
Between Friends-Miss Elderleigh-']
see by the papers that d craze for the
antique is dying out" Miss Young
eyes. dear; but I hope for your a K
that it will last through leap ear, al
feast."-Chicago Daily News.
Punctilious.-"Don't YOU know you
could get at least a dollar for a days
work?" Mister" answered Meander-
IT, Rf.I-- aT xl-,x
De work I'd do in a day wouldn't be
invite no p~erceedin's fur false pretenc-
es."-Washington Star.
There's the Rub.-"wer, there's one
thing about our boarding house," said
the optimist; you can eat as much as
you like there 'Of course; same as
ours, replied the pessimist. You can
eat as much as you like, but there's
never anything you could possibly like
Philadelphia Press.
May not be new, out I just heard
it," said the man at the head of the
table. ''Give it to u.s." Man from Cal
ifornia said hat they raised cabbages
put there as big as a wash tub. Man
from Missouri said that they didn't
brag much on cabbage, but he had
been in Kansas City and had seen three
pOflSCiiiCh ooiCSP oh oiS 49, ~
troit Free Press.
Mr.. tBub' Crowson has a job at the
depot.'-Statesvilie Landmark. Bub
has doubtless striven long and earnest
ly for this job and to say outright that
he has landed it is a great deal better
than to ave said that he has accepted
u situation" at the depot, thus imply
ing hat it was forced upon him and
that he had to be persuaded into TAX
ing t.-Charlotte Observer.
Women who belong to the Christian
Science church are sending in then
resignation as club members, in accord
ance with the recommendation Of the
founder of the church. The motto of
these women is: Church ard home"
and it is conten6ed that through these
agencies they can find opportunity to
do all the work required Of them.-Dur-
ham Sun.
In the yeag 1903 no less than 7,Gf
persons died from consumption in Ish-
nois. Most Of these were between the
ages of twenty and fifty years.-Ex-
change.