The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1901-05-09
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The young man who goes on the stage
to earn his bread and butter must first
be- given n role.
Forty thousand Italian cmigrants are
booked to leave Rome for the United
States this month.
II il said the examination ofyolunteers
for appointment to the regular army
will be less severe than anticipated
President Mckinley was met at FL Pa
50, Texas, 10y General Hernandez, with
messages from President Diaz, Of Mexico.
The United States is the greatest Of
ofiee-drnking nations the per capita
consumption in 1900 having been 9.Sl
pounds.
Tourist-"Captain did You ever have
n wreck 2"-Captain, "No. have always
been 50 careful that my career has been
wreckless
oh dhe Bay is dhe borriest bonth.
Bother.
Though hab n cod today;
Yet was dhe Queed oh dhe Bay, Bother.
was dhe Quced oh dhe Bay
Two candidatesfor Mayor and nine for
trustees OF the town Of Orange, have filed
their papers with the county clerk.
Town trustees are to be chosen with
Mayor on the 23d.
Col Francis l.. Smith will be prevented
from making speech in presenting the
portrait OF Judge D. NJ Chichester. at
May court, Fairfax C. H., and the pre-
scntation speech will be made by Mr.
Lewis II. Machen, OF that county
In the mass-meeting OF the citizens OF
Onancock, Accomac county, last week f.
+. Miles was nominated for Mayor. and
+. \. West. 5. X Powell e. W Kilman
f. W Hopkins, f. A. Merrill, and +. j.
Belote were nominated as COuncilmen
The Electoral Board Of Orange has
made the following appointments J.W
Browning, registrar for Orange precinct,
in place of +. H. Grymes resigned, +. +.
Sommers. Judge of election for Bar
louisville precinct in place OF +. "
Scott, resigned.
The combined pay-rolls Of eight indus
trial concerns in Richmond, including the
ship yard and the Locomotive Works is
at the rate Of $743,750.j2 greater than
in 1900. The banking capital has in
creased 81 ,2GO,0 900 in three years The
bank deposits have increased S7,llG,
S33 in three years gain OF 80 per cent.
A hundred mothers, with their babies,
returning from the evening milking, in
England, were drowned A sudden
storm sprang up. there was a panic, the
pontoons wereswamped and only few
of those on the ferry were saved by
boat. Three persons clung to n horse
which swan to shore. Practically every
family in the village of Odessa, was rem
dered motherless by the disaster.
Mark Twain, the humorist, prescribes
abstinence from food for nearly every |
human malady. He says no cold in the |
head can survive twenty-four hours OF
starvation. Whenever he feels badly at |
all he cuts out one or two meals, or goes |
without anything at all for seyeraldays.
His theory is that nature is the best |
physician, and that most of us hamper |
nature 10y calling upon the stomach todo |
all sorts of impossible things.
There died at the Norfolk Almshouse |
last week aged i0years, a man fitted to |
take his place in the ranks o! the learned
in the land. From n parentage, known
wherever is heard strains OF music and
particularly that of the comic opera |
style this man gave up his heritage, or |
perhaps forfeited it because of his uncon-
trollable thirst for strong drink. He |
made fight, but lost, and as the guest |
of the city, without means to support |
himself. Frank Gilbert died. He is the |
son of W. S. Gilbert, who, with Sir Ar |
thur Sullivan, is the author OF Pima
fore" "Patience" and numerous other
operas.
Mr.. Alvan Dorsey James, of IryingtOn
Lancaster county, who is to paddle up the |
coast to the Great Lakes and down the |
st. Lawrence river and the coast to the
Gulf of Mexico, in seventeen-foot skiif,
left last week for Baltimore and New
York to complete his outfit. The skiif |
will be shipped to Iryington this week.
The adventurer expects to leave about |
the 20th Of this month. The cruise will
not be entirely for sport, as Mr.. James
mas TtDuldliOH vi hOiHt hOOC 10 "a II
journalist, and will write articles (of
sporting character) for several well
known magazines while making the
cruise.
BY the will of the late Franklin ii.
Bishop, OF Russell, Mass, the State OF
Massachusetts is made his residuary lega-
tee. says the New York Evening Post
The will reads: "As have no relatives on
whom care to bestow my goods and
estates. after the payment OF my just
debts and funeral expenses | give all the
residue of my estate to the Common
wealth of Massachusetts for its sole use
and behoof forever" The executor says
that when the estate shall have been set
led the Commonwealth will receive about
81, 900. Mr. Bishop was a prominent
citizen OF Russell and an ardent admirer
of his State.