The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-08-11
Virginia Comment
Whence ti,As Mosquitoes.

Il Virginia comment
Whence tie Mosquitoes.
Can anyone OF many mos
4uitoes the few weeks? 1t Is something unusual
cor mosquitoes to be present here in sufficient num-
bers remind one, for instance, OF Richmond ~
must be due to unusual amount Of water stand
ing about the premises of people giving the nttie
brues fine opportunity to breed This 10 stranger
too than would ordinarily be. for the reason tnat
We supposed to be paying more attention 70 sam.
before, and have an exceiient
sanitary CODE far ahead in some respects on .ne
great majority OF the cities and towns oil the
People In Staunton have never known what IL IL
to have nets. bars, as they call them down SCUM
this unnatural condition continues we shan nave ~
make their acquaintance There are hundreds OF PEG,
PIE IN stanton VINO never saw q ioSau t .ns hreares
up and swung over bed keeping out vne pt :,
almost thoroughly the mosquitoes Wouio u no.
be wise for to enter campaign so that "
may not become necessary to make their aeauA'
| ance?
Speaking of mosquitoes, wonder If the young
in stanton Virginia Midland. now the Ches
| apeake and Ohio road was built They were mrs.
brought here In the cars about 1886. and we have
| never been free from them since-staunton Leader
Business Man.
The popular and efficient business manager OF this
paper win leave for visit to his former
home at Charlotte Courthouse Va Dame Rumor
whispers his errand Is not OF business ou&
ladies in the Virginia, whom. some OF his
friends he has been writing regularly seven Gays
In time to get out the next Issue
of this paper. We told that his reception VIII
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that young lady question has not single strand
of red hair In her head Those of our readers VINO
have to be told this hair is of that shade OF red
naturally in cold weather 10 put
his hands near II IN order TO get tneii WAL
renceville Times.
The Triumphant South.
The Richmond virginian, in very able editorial
calls attention to fact that the growth of the
during the last ten years has proportionateiy
| outsripped he rest OF the country.
The lure of the Golden West has lost much OF It's
potency, and 1t is now the South winch Is the Lana
of Promise the Land of Plenty.
This progress a splendid tribute to the capacity
of the Southern people. The South was bled first by
the war, which took her hundreds OF thousanos
OF her most rigorous manhood then reconstruc-
slant drain Of the emigration of her men at
tracted the North and West by greater oppor-
All OF these things the least OF which would have
crushed a viriie the South has overcome
until is richer and happier to-day IMAM
ever In her Observation-Disclosures Star
Tunneiing the River.
/ When 1t will nobody with any as
suranoe. OF these days there will be tunnel
Portsmouth. II will take good deal more none.
than have disposal now to finance It, and
| lens first; but If they put tunnels under other
rivers with rock the tunnels on Tor to
through, the engineers tunnel the river from
Norfolk Portsmouth. tunnel of greater length
than the width of the Elizabeth has been built under
the Detroit for the of railroad trains run
ming from New York to Chicago, and the first train
has already gone through, This work cost $1,000
dredged and the tunnel tubes were laid In the
submarine "ditch"-Norfolk Landmark
| An Interesting Record.
Norfolk is TO have police station in place
antiquated and disereditabe affair II the
movement inaugurate by Alderman Romkam main
tans the rate of progress 1t has shown thus far.
Before down the existing structure, we
should take the htgh-water mark
which Is recorded the wall to show where the tide
came on the terrible night In April. 1889; when the
elements displayed their fury in combination equaied
at other time in the life OF this city.
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ago there q gale amounting almost, II not quite
to hurricane and blowing straight into the harbor
This caused thrush OF the resembling tidal
wave in ultimate depth. though more gradual in Its
accumulation.
in addition there frt raging when the wind
and food at their height and for long time
Thereafter. which threw the whole lurid
horror that the imagination Of Dante could
not have surpassed. caused by tho con-
tact OF the tide with unslacked lime stored alons
the front supposedly at height sufficient to
protect 1t from such dangers The difficulties of the
fremen in contending with conhagraton which owed
its being and continuance to the very element with
which is usually extinguished may be conjectured
The same memorable gale and flood swamped dry
dock No / at the yard and sank the United
States Pensacola which then In the dock
for repairs This phase of the incident gave inland
critics fine opportunity. OF which they advan
tage exhibit their ignorance of maritime affairs
Norfolk Landmark.
Collective Noun IN Plural Number.
The Richmond Vrgnian wastes it's cleverness In
the effort to prove to us that the use OF exent in APP
plicstion Mr.. Bryan is correct We said II
h d sse n ap beA
yesterdays issue. OF course, Bryan s collective
noun in the plural number In relation to the Demo
though little singular In the recent Nebraska con
vention The virginan quotes u.s. but we shrewdl,
castle little Orthers Of the Norfolk Landmark Ou
Latin may sometimes slip cog In such matters a.
Bryan Observation-Disclosures Index-Appeal.
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