Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-09-18
CRISP News.


$4,000 children are registered to en-
ter the public schools of New York
City this school session, with I6 600
teachers and $50 schools.
The Norfolk high school. costing s25,-
600 and accommodating more than 500
pupils, was burned the day before il
was to be opened for the fall session.
Hyman Cohen, piano tuner. who
has been totally blind for fifteen wears.
has had his sight restored by having
the cornea from rabbit grated on the
pupil of his eye.
Seven thousand seven hundred and
sixty-nine towns have recently been
discovered in Mexico of which the gov
eminent had no previous knowledge.
Wonder what Mexican town is like?
The Scientific American is authority
Tor the statement that Columbus car
ried the potato to Europe. but up to
this date Sir Walter Raleigh has the
credit for that work, he introducing
the tuber into Munster in 1884. y
A tiny fish that swarms in million
shoals in the Barbados, eats mos.
quitoes. and they are being imported
into England and other countries and
placed In the ponds in order that these
may be freed from the mosquito pest.
The paper question may be solved hy
the use of cotton stalks, as it has been
proven that these heretofore wasted
substances make excellent paper of
several varieties, from the coarse wrap-
ping paper to the finest book paper.
The prevailing winds have been east
erly now for longer period than for
long time. 1t has been weeks since
west wind has been prevalent. There
suit has been that small vessels have
been kept in harbor for a good while,
fearing to face the opposing winds.
Harry Thaw seems in q peculiar fix
He filed petition in bankruptcy, and
while still in Jail was summoned to an
pear. The jailor refuses to let him out.
as he is responsible for his safe return.
and now the court will declare him
guilty of contempt for not appearing.
For many years it has been taught
that the moon was cold-so cold that
life was impossible on that so-called
dead satellite. Late conclusions, it is
said, indicate that it is, instead of being
TOO cold to live on, too hot-boiling
water temperature in fact. Thus do we
live and learn.
Dredging of the Rappahannock, at
fredericksburg. will begin October lst.
The work will be extensive and will
take at least two years to complete.
1t is IA work greatly needed, as naviga-
ton seems not a little hindered by the
accumulated sand in the harbor at the
steamer landing.
Perhaps no greater compliment could
be paid the memory of Joel Chandler
Harris than that in the first seven
months of the life of his magazine
(Uncle Remus) no less than $4,000
worth Of advertising matter was re
jected by him as unfit for the public.
Nothing that is not clean. sweet and
wholesome must go in it" he insisted.
Harry Bemus, of Pennsylvania, has
had an extraordinary and entirely novel
surgical operation performed on him.
He had his neck broken by fall, and
the surgeons took a joint out of his
neck, spliced in joint taken from a
dog, and Bemus seems in q fair way to
do as well with his new dog-neck as if
it were his own. Great is modern
surgery.
Col. Stewart. who was exiled by
President Roosevelt some time ago, and
whose appeals for a trial have been
unlistened to by the Executive, was
ordered to take the 80 mile horseback
ride, his prosecutors hoping that he would
not be able to stand the test, and that
his failure would give apretext for for
chilly retiring him from service. But
the Colonel said he could do it, and that
it would be joyful exchange from his
present isolation, so the order was coun-
fernandez.
| A. Booth & Co., of Chicago, probably
the largest packers of fish and oysters
in the United States. with branches in
the principal cities of the country have
been placed in the hands of the receiver,
on a petition fled by Gen. Alfred E.
Booth, of Baltimore, and the Linen
Thread Company of New York. The
embarrassment of the company is attrib-
uted to the inadequacy of capital. and
is thought to be only temporary. The
liabilities of the company are placed at
SIS, 500, coo. with assets of 50, OOO, 900.
An Englishman named Ormiston
Smith, on ascending the Jungfrau, one
Of the snow-capped peaks of the Swiss
Alps, with three guides. found four
Germans, including two young women,
exhausted and half-frozen near the
summit. Restoratives having been
applied, the Germans explained that
they had lost their way in the fog, be-
ing without guides, and had passed
two days in holes dug in the ice for
warmth. The guides brought down
the Germans to the Concordia hut,
whence. after long rest, they de-
scended to the hospital at Grindel-
wald.-Daily Chronicle