Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-03-28

Some Things Worth Putting in Your
Scrsp- Book.

Scrsp-Bouk.
Haste to get rich keeps many ,
iDal poor.
Massachusetts has 10000 NOR,
women than men.
A little poker now and then is ap,
to break the best of men.
If man looks at his watch while
you are telling him funny story
cut it short
A bill has been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature permitting wo-
men to carry arms. Where?
Half-developed oysters aud CLANS
which are in poor flesh, as a stock
man would say, are now kept in reg
ular pens and fattened for the mar.
ket, as if they we're pigs Of other live
stock.
A French naturalist asserts that
If the world should become birdless.
man could not inhabit it after nine
years time, in spite of all the SPRAYS
and poisons manufactured for the
destruction of insects. The insects
and slugs would simply eat all the
orchards and crops in that time.
The jewelers. of Denver inaugural
ed the movement to have the hands
OF the dummy clocks which jewelers.
use for signs to hereafter point to
800 the hour at which President
Mckinley was shot For over thirty
years the hands have pointed to S:1S3,
the hours at which President Lincoln
was shot.
Owing 10 the great improvements
10 sanitation, the average length of
human life has been increased in
cities, from 81 to 3S years in the
last decade in the United States.
There has not been so much change
IN the country, as the conditions of
life have not been so greatly i'm
proved, nor were they in such serious
need of improvement.
Senator Clark, of Montana, is said
to be the richest man in the world.
His Arizona mine, "The Great
Verde" is probably the greatest the
world has ever seen. He is reported
to have already refused $500, 100000
for it and well she may, for experts
estimate that there are 23,O00.OOO
tons of ore in sight, and that if
worked the mine will Weld
$1sO,ooo,OOo.
Flossie is six years old. "Mamma,
she asked one day. eff l get married
will | have husband like papa?"
"Yes," replied the mother with an
amused smile.
"And if don't get married will |
have to be an old maid like Aunt
Kate?,
"Yes, Flossie."
"Mamma," she said, after short
pause, ats a tough world fos us
women amt it?"-NaShvllo Banner.
Clement Studebaker, the wagon
maker who died at Sou th Bend, Ind.
the other day, leaving an estate
valued at many millions, and his
business represented by 2, 700 agencies
in the United States and Europe,
started iu business with cash capital
of $2.65, and Sos worth of tools.
But he made good wagons. Lots of
men of Studebaker's age are diving
in poor houses who were given col
lege educations and who felt above
q trade.
Notwithstanding that We are in
the twentieth century-the era of
the Hague conference and wireless
telegraphy-the world is spending
more on warlike preparations than
ever before. The Philippine affair
has already cost this Government
$500, ,000,000 or more and expense is
going on at the rate of $12, 900, 600
a month. Great Britain has spent a
billion of dollars on the Boer war.
This is the sum the wars of Napoleon
cost France In thirteen years. Great
Britain has equalled it in a war with
a small power in three years, not
counting the cost of its navy.
The man who has an income of
800 a year and spends every cent
of it on his wife and family and
friends, is good fellow and is blessed
by everybody, even after he has died
and left not cent to keep his chill
dren in school, to save his wife from
going to work for her bread and but
ter, or to pay his bills scattered
around the town. He dies royal
good fellow with the reputation of
living only for his family. The man
who takes 81 900 year off his wife's
back in clothes and 81, 900 year off |
his own back and drinks and cigars
and puts it into insurance for them
against the time when he is dead.
and another $1,000 a year out of
other things that MAKE a man gener-
ous and lovable, and puts that into
a bond every twelfth month for them,
and then dies and leaves them where
his children can stay In school and
his wife go living in comfort-well
he is curmudgeon with a mind not
above sordid things. Every time.