The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-01-10
HERE AND THERE.

AiIuEEH carnegie mas onered TO give
s2s3,oo0 TOWARD rebuilding the Mary
land Institute OF Baltimore. which
was destroyed by the great fire. IL the
city will give the site. AS the city
donate the site for the original
building. it will doubtless renew the
gift.-Exchange.
Cotton has been found in China FIVE
thousand years old just as good as
when 1t was first grown. Cotton mills
nave kept cotton on hand for years
without any deterioration. When spec
ulation sent cotton to seventeen cents
last year cotton came from hiding
that a been storing for
tWenty years It was as good as ever.
cotton II stored in a good place will
De as good ten years hence as today.
1t Is about the only crop that suffers
no injury by holding for better prices.
OF course it greatly depreciates in
value II exposed to the weather or
poorly protected. No farmer ought TO
hold Il bale of cotton tina he does
not protect-News and Observer.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad
company advertiseS an intention to
furnish On its dining cars running
from New York to Washington the
best dollar dinner to be had i'm the
United States. The walters are TO be
heard from though before one can
foot up the bill.-Tarboro Southerner.
Out of two thousand visitors accom-
modated at Medland Hall, London,
with free bed and board, 1000 were
Americans. The United States is get
ting oven on har at-no~ y, r-o
observation-disclosures.
1t is a little singular that Port AR
thur should really fall on the first day
of the New Year. Old things are
passing away and it is we'll that the
heat of var should cool off with the
dying year. It is t be hoped that
the white-winged love of peace is re-
turning to brood over the land
Durham Sun.
United States Consul Halstead gets
hold of an interesting bit OF informa-
ton about Japanese reading and sends
it to the department Of and
labor for publication in the daily Com
sular Bulletin. The records Of the
Imperial Library of Japan, at Toxic,
show that during the past year AGO, 900
of the books demanded by readers
that is, so per cent. of the total num-
Der of books called for-related to
mathematics, science, medicine. liter
allure, language, history, or geography.
Only n and half per cent. of the de-
mandS were for books on theology and
religion; while the requests for works
of fiction were so few that there was
no classification under this heading in
the records. Over here. as well as m
England, the demand for fiction is
enormously in excess Of the demand
for all other classes of literature out
together. The contrast is not partfcu-
larIy to our credit, desirable as it is
to cultivate fiction in moderation and
with careful selection. The trouble
With the majority OF American readers
is that they seem to be willing to read
anything. provided that it is not So
Norfolk Landmark.
The fountain of youth" that Ponce
de Leon three centuries ago searched
FLORIDA to find was all the time in
New Jersey So thought Dr.. Charles
Smith, who had a sanatorium and
made his patients wade III the waters
Of Lawrence brook, near New Rruns-
wick city, until the health authorities
Of New Brunswick objected, and fined
him. Now the brook has been sold
to two Hebrews, who are starting a
summer colony in the neighborhood.
Unless they can make agreement with
the city they also must be fined. The
waters had mad Smith live 125 years
he averred.-Charleston Post.
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