Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-07-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

uEM9 Ur MIEKESI.
June bridegrooms should not forget
that even June roses have thorns.
Some people in Virginia are trying
their best to make the coming guberna-
torial campaign mud-slinging contest
whether the people want it that way or
not Newport News Press.
Saunders Hobson, of Goochland. was
struck by lightning and possibly fatally
hurt, by stepping on grapevine which
at that moment was the medium of an
electric current. His dog was instantly
killed.
Butter may be kept solid in warm
weather If put in bowl that is COW
cred with plate and set in a pan of
cold water. Then fold towel and Law
across the plate with the corners hang
ing down into the water and put the
pan in cool, if possible drafty place.
and the evaporation will keep the but
ter firm.
Says the Chaplain of the u. s. NAVY:
More than 80 per cent of the men
who are doing service in the navy are
religious Thousands of the seamen
are preparing themselves by a course
of study for higher walks of life and
they are doing it with persistency and
a determination that their critics would
do well to emulate"
Virginia has been singularly fortu-
nate IN the administration of her finan-
ces. This has been due to the hiph
character of the men who have served
her and kept her finances straight in
spite of the system under which thew
worked.-Rich Evening Journal.
The Richmond Tmes-Dispatch has an
editorial on the 'Transience of Dema-
gogy." 1t may be that the demagogue
passes, but the trouble is that lust so
soon as he vanishes from the political
stage another bobs up to take his place.
The demagogue In some shape seems
always with US.
That soldier is the best soldier who
most implicitly obeys the commands of
his superiors, and that Democrat is the
best Democrat who most consistently
and loyalty touches elbows with his
comrades. Not that he moves at the
lash of boss, but that he appreciates
that in union there is strength. Farm
vile Herald.
The Board of Trade is adopting a
policy calculated to increase the trade
of Norfolk to larger per centage and
at the meeting of the board of directors
next Tuesday resolution will be Of
fered asking that a representative of
the organization be sent out in an eff
fort to divert the trade of the Rappa-
hammock river and Mobjack bay sections
to this port where it rightfully belongs.
Norfolk Pilot.
A mighty army of frogs at Sandusky.
o., is moving from the marshes along
Sandusky Bay to the sandy shores
OF Lake Erie, being literally driven
from their homes by giant German
carp which have invaded the marshes.
The frogs numbering thousands, are
leaving the marshes every day for the
lake, and it is thought that before
many days not one will be left. This
is the first time in the history of San
dusky that frogs have left the marshes.
The only means of subsistence in the
lake is seaweed, and there is not an
overabundance of this.
A large Silver Fish was caught by a
virginia trapper one day this week and
brought to Crisfield with other fish for
sale 1t was purchased by Messrs.
Gordon Lawson. L. Cooper Dice and
VIM. G. Bradshaw, who are selling the
scales as souvenirs of Crisfeld. The
fish was perfect silver, his scales
about twice the size of silver dollar,
being a rich pearl color on the bottom
and clean silver surface. The silver
fish frequents the waters of the ex-
treme south, and how it was caught In
the waters Of this state is a perplexine
problem to most all of our watermen.
-Crisfield Times.
1t IS a we'll established fact that
snakes will suck cows in pasture, often
times the cows lowing for them to come
and milk them, but it remains for q
Virginia mountain farmer to put I'D the
champion fish story. For a week. he
says, his cows had returned from the
pasture dry" He suspected neigh
Dor OF milking them, and hid himself
behind some bushes on the bank of the
river. About o'clock, when the sun
was hottest, the cows wandered into a
stream to drink, standing with their
udders touching the water. The farmer
says he was astounded to discover that
large fish were hanging to the udders |
of almost every cow, and when he drove
the animals out they had been MIXED
dry.
1t Is our opinion that the present oys-
ter laws are all sufficient. 1t is the en-
forcement of these laws that we look to
for relief. and that is now being done
better than ever before We confidently
believe. Up to short time ago the
means to enforce the oyster laws were
entirely inadequate, therefore the dep
relations by those who have no thought
Or care for the future of this great in
iustry, about put it out of business for
the time hasnor R,,t o1-xl:A: