Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1908-08-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dead folks are the only ones VIII
make no mistakes.
A cargo of Egyptian peanuts has ar
rived in Norfolk. The tariff on tn,
cargo Of 407 bags is $529.
English bankers step to the front
and offer that Empire $500. 600, 900 to
wards increasing the navy.
Jim Big Thunder and Molly ClouC
were married in Oklahoma the other
day. Look out for squalls.
A contemporary has an article on the
future Of Turkey. Well, in New En-
gland, about Thanksgiving time. in
Virginia towards Christmas
Henry Clews, the great banker, look
ing ahead, advises all people to get out
of debt, in view of the hard times COM
ing. II MIR. C. will only show us how
The Washington Herald thinks that
to row is fine way to develop manli-
ness. Pronounce it as if spelled "roe''
please. To row may result disas-
trously.
A scientist claims to have q fossil
fish that is 10000. 900 years old. But
there are fossil men, to Judge from
their lack of progressiveness, that beat
that record all hollow.
Our legal forms were not designed
for skilled lawyers to play with, but
were meant for the protection of the
innocent and the swift punishment oi
Of the guilty. Washington Herald.
A law holds good until it is repealed,
and Maryland lawyer has discovered
that there is one in that State making
bigamy death penalty crime. The
law in question is only 800 years old,
but may be enforced still.
An inch of water on an acre is 6,272,
$40 cubic inches. That amount at 227
cubic inches to the gallon, equals p,
600 gallons. or 100 tons.
An inch of rain is, in other words,
rain falling at the rate of 100 tons to
the acre.
Postmaster General Meyer is con-
vinced that if the system were in oper-
alton in this country $500, 600. 900 would
be deposited in postal banks in a few
years. and this money would be placed
in the channels of trade through the
instrumentality of the national banks.
Norfolk has 26 steamship lines, regu-
larly scheduled, and railroad lines,
centering at that great port of entry
and export. Newport News has the
two largest dry docks and the largest
grain elevator in the world, and the
largest tidewater railway terminal in
the United States.
A most unique inscription has been
placed upon the tombstone of an old
man who recently died in the West
and it was put there at the reques,
of the deceased. Up to the time OF
his death the old man was an ardent
supporter Of Bryan for the presidency,
and when he realized that his time had
come he dictated the following inscrip-
tion for his tomb:
Kind friends Eve left behind,
Cast your votes for Jennings Bryan
Sacred to the memory Of II. B.
Martin. Died July 5,,1908. 4"
He was reading the New Testamen
to his little boy, the lesson being abou
Politicians and Sinners. Papa" muse,
the little fellow, ''are publicans tn
same as republicans?" The fathe
meditated for some time and spake
"My son, it ia difficult to make clea
some things in the Bible as well as i
politics, but if were to try distinc
ton ] should say that the princips
difference between the publicans of tn
Bible and the average republican O
the present day Is that the publican
of those days sometimes repented @
their sins and became good men. Re
publicans never do so far am aware.