Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-07-27
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In all countries more marriages
take place in June than in any
other month.
Polite Cinnamon consider it
breach OF etiquette to weai specta.
cles In company.
A perfectly proportional man
should weigh twenty-eight pounds
for every foot Of his height.
An effort is being made to have
Bryan and Parker appear on the
same platform in the West.
Two attempts were made to wreck
trains on Bsltim Jre and Ohio Rail-
road near Winchester last week.
The Chicago University's excav-
ating expendition to Baby.0nis
reports having found the ancient
city of Adab.
1t has been estimated that no
less than 100000 people annu-
ally attend the circuses Of America
in one season.
The advertisement for deaf and
dumb BARRIERS in Chicago is excit-
ing considerable favorable COM
ment in that city.
1t is computed that about 5000
persons daily will file claims for
homesteads in the rosebud reser-
walton, Nebraska.
The heat resulted in five deaths
and 40 prostrations in New York
one day last week. The thermom
eter registered 100 degrees.
The annual report of the Com
missioner General OF Immigration
shows that a startling number Of
aliens are in penal or charitable
institutions.
Richmond surgeons last week
performed a delicate operation on
a baby, removing safety pin from
its stomach, locating the pin by
means of the X-ray.
DR.. G. w. Kent Of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, who was offered
the presidency of the University
of Tennessee, has declined the
honor and will remain at Char
lottesville.
An insect known as the wire
worm is said to be injuring serious
ly the pickle crop in Stafford and
in King George. 1t attacks the
roots, and in short time the vine
is killed.
Mr.. J. Vincent Perley of Char
louisville, is member of afty-two
lodges, societies, etc., and is said
to be identified with more organ
izations Of this class than any
other man in the United States.
The approaching campaign
promises to be clean and decent
one in which mere invective will
play a minor part. The candid
ates are all of reputable private
character and will be exposed to
acrimonious comment only for
their official careers.
o. F. Cook, the expert in charge
of the colony of Gautamalan ants
brought into his country to fight
the cotton boil weevil, has wired
the Department of Agriculture
as follows: "Ants burrow well in
Texas soil. Nest fourteen inches
deep in one week. Flowing no OBJ
stacle."
BY vote of 1910 to 90, the
textile workers OF Fall River, Mass,
decided a strike on July 25 in all
of the so-called union cotton mills
Of that city where IL l-2 per cent
reduc ton in wages had been an
nounced to become operative Mon
day. Thirty thousand employees
are effected.
A terrific hail storm, fifteen
miles long by nine miles wide and
destroying all vegetation liz its
path, passed over southeastern
| Ajabama last Wednesday. Cotton
stalks we're torn to shre6s and even
the bark on the trees was torn off.
Subscriptions foS the destitute
sufferers were taken.
William j. Bryan says the cleo.
ton of Judge Parker, instead OF
interfering with economical ie-
forms, will open the way for suc'
cessful fight by Kidding the country
Of imperialism, by removing the
race Issue, and by substituting the
spirit of peaceful progress for the
military and warlike spirit engen'
dered by the actions and utter
snces of President Roosevelt.
The union men OF Virginia are
manifestin2 some curiosity as to
the result Of the investigation ofthe
record of Mr.. Davis, the Vice Pres
idential nominee, az An employer
Of labor. There is reason to be-
lieve, however, that the bulk OF
the labor vote will 60 for Parker
and Davis, no matter what the re-
suit may be, so exasperated are
the people of Virginia by the atti'
tude of the President toward the
negro.
A Continual Strain
Many men and women are con
stantly subjected to what they com
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