The semi-weekly messenger., 1904-09-20
CLIPPINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
HERE AND THERE.

What conclusion did your literary
and debating society meet last. nightZ'
on answered Miss Cayenne. the
conclusion was as usual. chicken salad.
ice cream and Good night: had par
fectly lovely time e.'''--washiDgton star
what do you want to see the czar
for?'' I'm the agent for a bomb
proof baby carriage-"-Life-
The only violation OF the consiilu-
ton so far as yet discovered by the
republican party occurs when a negro
fails to get his vote into the ballot
box south OF Mason's and Dixon's line.
Durham Sun.
Because her husband went 10 a base
bali game over>her protest Mrs. Chas.
Evans, of Montgomery. Ill. committed
suicide Tuesday afternoon By taking
poison. Her body. as it fell to the floor,
accidentally struck her ten-months-o!d
daughter, crushing it and smothering
ii to death.-Exchange.
II was through no fault OF a gang OF
negroes that there was not murder in
Broad street and Jail alley last night
about 8 O'Clock. The blacks came
marching up Broad street. followed by
a motley horde OF Scale house, Jail az
ley and Lumpkin's bottom denizens.
When the crowd reached the alley.
storm of stones and bricks were aim
ed at several white men, who were COM
ing up the hill on The opposite side of
the street. So far as known. there was
absolutely no provocation for the at
tack by the negroes, and how the white
men managed to escape is not known.
One man took refuge behind the elec-
trio light pole, while a hail of rocks
came whizzing by.-Richmond News
Leader.
Changed His Opinion-'See this lively
tidy" said Mrs. Bargen: 1T was so
| cheap.''-'H'm," interrupted her hus-
band. II want to recall my remark
of this morning that you were always
wanting something you couldn't get.
| "Oh, 1 didn't want this particularly;
| you see. l bought it because it was so
t-'I was wrong this morning. 1
| should have said YOU were always get
| ting something you don't want.'-Phil-
| adefphfa Press.
| "Henpeck, what do You think Of
| man who nrarries for money!? Think
| he earns every cent he gets. detroit
| Free Press.
| ".Some dogs display wonderful inter
| ligence." Yes" answered Mr.. Cum
| rock. Il have one that howls every
| time my daughter plays the piano.
| Washington Star.
| Does Higgins move in good socie-
| typ well, he almost always rides
| downtown in the morning with tho
secretary Of the Y. NJ. c. A.'-Cinc.n-
| natl Commercial Tribune.
.Bullion's country estate is costing
| him dearly. He keeps twenty servants
and forty horses on it, But he might
| have gone in deeper-he might have
tried to raise crops on it--Judge.
/
| Squeel?" Miss Squeel-'I'm not in very
| good voice tonight, 1 fear Dubby-
Never mind. Anything would be bet
ter than sitting around this way
Chicago Daily News.
City Friend (vtsiting in Scottish rural
town)-"And tell me, Andrew. are you
WI the Wee Kirkers, or the United
Frees?" Andrew-'fMan I'm glen vi,
releegion a'th-gither, an j'inin' the
| Auld Kirk. Punch.
II notice that these new autumn
cloaks are said to reveal the figure.
Mrs. Wiggleton had on one today"
Did it reveal the fgure?" Yes. She
had left the price tag on the collar =
| Cleveland Plafn-Dealer.
| Miss Withers-"You are bIushinS.
Cora. What was that clumsy partner
Of yours saying?" Miss Knsely-"Oh,
nothing; only that before he met me,
| life seemed a desert to him. NJ 81
| Withers-"That is no reason why ne
should waltz like dromedary, is it?''
I-Town and Country.
Alderman Duffy-"I move you. Mr.
Chairman. that we get a transparency
for our parade tomorrow evening.
Alderman Iimburger-'I mofe We gets
a trompone. I don't believe dere's {
man in de hail vot knows how TO blay
Won of dose transparency Instruments.
Brooklyn Life.
How Mr.. Gazzletools expression has
| hardened" Yes answered Miss Cay
enne. 'FHe used to have a mobile coun-
tenance. Now it is an automobile coun-
tenance. e.'-Washington star.
The smoking of tea cigarettes is d
new vice that has sprung up in Eng
land to plague the doctors there. So
ciety women are the smokers. The
| cigarettes are made of a mixture o.
equal proportions Of green and blacf
| tea leaves, and the smoke is said TO bt
| pleasant to the taste. But the smok
, ing is highly harmful. and the habi
once formed is said TO be as hard t;
. break as the liquor or opium habit
Exchange.
Admiral Togo, the japanese nava
| commander, is a little man-small ever
among his countrymen. He is abou
56 years of age, with coal black hal
). standing straight up from his head, ex
. | pressionless eyes, prominent checl
bones and a powerful jaw relieved b.
| an imperial. Always unimpassioned
| he gazes as steadily at the flight OF
{ | passing bird as he did ten years ag'
| on the sinking of the Kowshing an,
the sending OF 1000 human beings t
a watery grave an event which awok
[ the world to the rising of a new sta
|, | in the far east.-Exchange