Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-08-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST,

cohipidineu or the drouth, now
ns the saloon-keepers. - Norfolk
Dispatch.
Howard Ii. Tunis, a young Bal III
more engineer, has constructed a
monorail system which he believes
Will rival trolley and even steam
roads.
The President has appointed Oliver
wendell Holmes, of Massachusetts,.
associate justice of the Supreme
Court, vice Justice Horace GRAY,
resigned.
Twelve thousand anarchists are
banded into society in Russia
sworn to uproot government by muir.
der or otherwise at the cost of their
own lives.
The Boer generals Botha, DeWet
and Delarey are to be received and
entertained in England by Lord
Kitchener, Secretary Chamberlain
and King Edward in highest style.
A Miss Plgg was recently fined
five dollars for sitting upon a cat.
Had she been Hogg we presume
the Judge would have doubled the
tine.--West Point Plain Dealer.
1t requires nerve to DO it, yet it is
good common sense to surrender a
prospective throne for a good kmeri-
can wife. That is what the Grown
Prince of Germany is threatening to
do.-Richmoad Times.
Mrs. Carrie Nation says she would
rather kiss a wet dog than man
who smokes. Up to the hour of
going to press no male smoker has
entered any protest against Mrs.
Nations choice.-Richnlond Times.
What is the matter with getting
gay with a hornets nest when one
wants to forget the pangs of rheuma-
tism or any other malady that tends
to impede locomotion? If that remedy
has ever failed to make age forget its
lnfirmities and the invalid his ills we
have never heard of it.-Norfolk
PIryinian-P Pilot.
Tie frontier guards of Abyssinia
have orders to shoot anyone trying
to bring strong drink into the |
country. There is balance even for
this radicalism, and it is to be found |
in Oklahoma aud Arizona, where to
decline to drink with some of the |
natives is to court a cunning
Boston Journal.
A farmer near Abilene, Kan, gave
the following pedigree of calf to |
prospective buyer:
"His father gored book agent to
death, tossed squire on top of the |
barn, and stood a lightning-rod man
ON his head, and his mother chased a
female lecturer two miles one day.
If that pedigree isn't worth 81, YOU
needn't take the calf"
The "Holiness" people in order to
kill the tobacco crop held a meeting
during the dry weather at Danyille
and prayed that the drought would
continue and Kill the tobacco plants.
They look upon the use of tobacco
as sinful and they persuaded one
man to burn up his crop, valued at
several hundred dollars. Their
prayers for the drought to continue
were answered with a refreshing
shower.
1t seems little trite to say, as
does the Savannah Ncacs, quoted by
the Richmond Times, that all girls
should be taught to cook, sew, mend,
sweep, dust and so on. Nobody, we
suppose, disputes this. but in these
times when the servant girl problem
is so pressing, the vital question is
whether boys too (and husbands)
ought not to be taught to ''cook, sew,
mend, sweep, dust and so on" Pass
this on to the Savannah Nescs, please,
neighbor.-.Saunton Nescs.
According to the mortuary reports,
soldiers of the Civil War are diving
at the rate of thirty or forty thous-
and year and yet our war pension
ers-thirty-seven years after the close
of the WARFARE yearly increasing by
the thousands. Today they number
nearly million. This constant in
crease, in face of the long death-roll,
is believed to be in payment for votes
promised or expected by Congression-
al candidates. .-Harford Democrat
We know two husbands, who,
because of their ability to do first
class cooking, are entirely indepen-
dent of the striking or unhealthy
cook. One is a well. known Virginia
doctor of divinity and the other is
business man. They have often been
called home by their wives to get
dinner or supper when cook would
get SICK or 60 on strike. Both of
these gentlemen are proud of this ac-
complishment, whicn often comes ia
so very handy.--Richmond Times.
The leading Democrats are making
an effort to harmonic and unite their
party. They may have an elephant
on their hands, but it is far from
being an impossibility. The leaders
are men of great mental power and
influence, and if they are once gotten
together it will not be a hard matter
to unite the people. The great body
of Democrats all over the country
are anxious to have a Democratic
president and they begin to realize
that to do this they will have to Law
aside all factlonal strife and conten-
ton and become united on solid
and conservative platform. We trust
that this may be done and that a
Democratic president may be elected
at the next national election Vest
Point Plain Dealer.
Pale People Have Pale Hlood