Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1902-07-04
OF the boat. The Egyptians have
used them for eighty centuries.


Gatling, the gun man, has invented
a plow that does the work of sixty
horses. But what can the ordinary
farmer do with contriyance of that
kind?
The Standard Oil Company seems
to have n soul after all, having in
creased the wages of Its employees
ten per cent. Wonder if the price of
OIL will be advanced?
The biggest beggars in this country
are the big universities. The more
they get the more they seem to need.
A gift of million only satisfies the
craving momentarily.
1t has been ascertained by experi-
ment that turkeys that get charcoal
mixed with their food get heavier
than Others, and their meat is more
tender and better favored.
The richest Chinaman in America,
Chin Tan Sun, came across the Pa
clhc In the steerage as a boy. He
married a white woman, and started
lottery business in San Francisco.
Now he is multimillionaire.
Lieut.. B. Van Schaick, who re-
Gently returned from the Philippines,
says that General Zano of Cavite, a
multi-millionaire, has offered to give
S50O,000 to each army officer who
will marry one of his daughters.
An account has been published in
the European papers telling of the
number of letters received daily by
European sovereigns. The Pope has
35 people employed to assist him and
he receives over $4,000 letters each
day.
Chinese Minister WI Ting Fang
says women criminals should be tried
by juries of women. This would
start lively scramble on the part
of both the prosecution and the de-
fense to secure the haudsomest at
torneys.
A farmer figures that one dog
costs as much for keeping as 60 hens;
90 hens will lay in a year GOO dozen
eggs, worth say 500. Now will some
one figure out what the profit would
be in transforming all of the dogs in
this vicinity into hens.
At countryside not many miles
distant, the proud parents Of a new
set of twins were having them
christened in the church, when
choir of old maids and bachelors
were mean enough to start up the old
tune "Still There's More to Follow"
If you expect to succeed in life
you should initiate the postage stamp
by sticking to one thing until you
get there. Happy is he who has
learned this one thing-to do the
plain duty on the moment quickly
and cheerfully, whatever it may be.
A mathematician has calculated
that the streets of heaven occupy
124, 4,19S,272, 900, 900, ,OOO,0 900 Gu bic
feet. This may be comforting to
persons who live in mortal fear that
they may be jammad up against dis
agreeable neighbors in that better
land.
A country school teacher boxed
the ears of pupil few days ago.
The boy told his mother and the
next day the teacher received the
following note: Mature has pro-
vlded a proper place for the punish
ment of the boy, and it Is not on his
ear. l thank You to use it hereafter"
A remarkable discovery has been
made IN County Mayo, Ireland, where
u wooden boat believed to be nearly
1000 years old, has been dug up by
some laborers. The boat is beauti. |
fully carved from the trunk of an |
oak tree. 1t is forty-six feet long
and shows absolutely no sign of |
decay.
A Colorado minister who was an
noyed by having his congregation
coming late to church services, or
ganized a club called the "On-timers,"
the members of which pledged them
selves to I'll all engagements prompt
ly. 1t has proven SO popular that it |
is gaining a national scope, and there |
are now thousands enlisted in the
ranks.
A well-to-do-farmer in Russell
county, Kansas, has traded his ten
year-old son and wagon load of
corn for the thirteen-year- r-old daugh-
ter of neighboring farmer, equally
well-to-do, and the transaction was
made matter of record in the county
clerks office. The reason for the
trade was that in the family Of which
the boy was member there were no
girls, while the father of the trans
ferred girl had no boys.
Some one raps the candidates as
follow: "He kissed the babe and
combed the head of Sam and sister
Sue; and swore the twins were beau
tiful, and wished he had-but that
doesn't count. He asked about the
corn bread which he vainly tried to
chaw, and forthwith asked for the
receipt. and of course that pleased
ma-but that doesn't count. But
just before he left he stopped and
winked, closed up his jaw and slip
ping out behind the barn he took
drink with pa-and that's what
count.
An lows philosopher who is in the
editorial harness and has knowledge
whereof he speaks has uttered the
following bit of sarcasm in regard to
habitual newspaper borrowers: "Be
kind to your neighbor and lend him
your paper to read if he does not
take one, and do not humiliate him
by compelling HIM to ask for it, but
lay it out in plain sight where he can
find il when he comes on the noorn-