Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-04-19
"XETcH-AwLs' FROM EVERYWHERE

There is report that Wu wants
to borrow $20O,OO9,0OO In America.
So do we-and we were here first
Minneapolis Journal.
May corn is up, and the price of
whiskey is to be advanced. Old rye,
however, will continue to go down, as
usual, we suppose.-Richmond Dis
patch.
Shooting English sparrows is all
right but the sportsman will never
gain the entire gratitude of the COM
munity until they begin on cats and
dogs Richmond News.
That New York man who went
into bankruptcy owing $50 for pew
rent and $2S for beer was a man of
versatility, to say the very least
Newport Me,cs Telegram.
Why should we be so hard on the
Mormons, when hardly man dies
in New York worth over a million
that there are not from two to four
widows contesting the will?-Rich-
nload Dispatch.
An Orange young man wants to
know 'if it is right to kiss young
lady sub rosa" OF course not, the
proper caper is to kiss her sub nosa.
DON'T read this sNUB uosa, because
we don't mean that.-Oranqe Obser-
ger.
In case the bill before the Illinois
Legislature, providing that voters
VINO are too drunk to mark their bal
lots may be assisted, should become
a law, it would be next in order to
provide some plan for the voting of
dead men and dogs,-SdCdnaah
.NeIoS.
Consistency may be Il jewel but it
will not win elections. Mr.. Bryan was
consistent to the point of rashuess and
was beaten out of his boots. Mr..
Mckinley has changed his mind on
almost every important public ques
ton in recent years and wins with
tremendous majority.-Crisfeld
Times.
Mr.. j. $Pierpont eMorgan sailed
from New York Thursday for the
Old World. The next thing we'll
hear will be that the nations of Eu-
rope have been consolidated with a.
capitalization of 81, 900, ,O00,000,OOO,-
600, the stock of the concern to be
marketed by the firm of J. p. Morgan
& Co., London and New York.
Norfolk Landmark.
The Warren Sentinel has settled
down to the conviction that no news.
paper can please everybody. And in
announcing that conviction it takes
occasion to say that according to its
experience, "people who are always
finding fault with newspaper for
not doing this or that are the very
last to defend it when it does do the
thing-that is, what they advised it to
do" The experience of the Sentinel
is not singular.--R,chm0nd DiSpdtch
If you wish to kill your town, just
jump on train aud go to some other
place and buy your goods; when you
want job printing done, make out
your order and send it somewhere
else; if you don't happen to like the
editor Of your home paper, don't sub.
scribe for it, just send your dollar to
some little jay away from home-it
will tell you all you care to know
Just keep the plan up long enough
and you will have a town that is too
dead to skin.-E1.
AS General Aguinaldo was fight
ing in the Philippine Islands for the
same identical principles for which
the Confederates fought in this coun-
try, the apparent qualification his
capture seems to afford some South
ern people, would be passing strange,
were it not for the fact that nothing
is tooincoasistent for human nature,
and though Southern used to be the
most stable of that sort of nature, it
is just the reverse now. 1t is well
for the old time people of the South
that most of them are dead, as they
would find themselves sadly out of
place if they were alive.-Ale1andra
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