Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1905-08-16
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J. Yellow fever carried of = most
T. distinguished victim in the person
O of Archbishop ChapeIle at New
Orleans.
China has apOlogized to Japan
for the inconvenience caused by
her note asking for representation
at the conference.
Mr.. Witte, the Eueeian pIenipo-
tentiary, is reported as saying that
the present war has scarcely heen
felt in Russia owning to her great
resources.
Los Angeles, California, wants
pure mountain water. She pro-
poses to bring 1t 240 miles, at q
cost Of s28, O00,O 900.
Frederick w. Vanderbilt has
given TO the Sheffield Scientific
School Of Yale University 81, 900
600 for new dormitory.
| A Connecticut woman 100 years
old rode in an autmobile q few
days ago and afterward declared
she would like to experience the
sensation Of taking a trip in an
airship.
IL is stated that while the Gear
has instructed III. Witte 10 do all
within his power to bring about
peace. he also made ell prepare
lions for an active continuance Of
the war with Japan.
The pickle crop in the Fred
ericksburg section is such a
failure, owing to the excessive
rains, that many pickles will have
to be brought from the West to fll
orders which the factories there
have on hand.
Perhaps those newspapers that
are trying to ridicule Lawson have
an idea that In that way they may
prevail upon Mr.. Rockefeller to
beat Mr.. Carnegie's educational
pension scheme with one for SUBJ
servient newspaper writer's.
The London transport COM
mission reports that the busiest
spot in London is at the Marble
Arch, which lie paced, In twenty.
four hours, by 2s,320 vehicles.
The next busiest spot is Hyde
Park corner, 29,2S6 vehicles.
An estate valued at So. 100000
is left by Colonel Daniel s. Lamont,
Secretary of War under Presidents
Cleveland, according to Mr..
will, fled for probate In
New York. Mrs. Lamont and her
three daughters are the bene-
ficiaries.
WI Ting Fang, former Chinese
Munster to the United States and
pOw viee-pFesident Of the board Of
affairs at Peking, in an interviews
Iaid that the Americans are too
harsh in their treatment of Chiaese
tourists and students, He says
lis government does not object TO-
'ur exclueiOR 0f coolies.
All records were broken last
week in the number of patents
ssued by the United States Patent
)ftiee, the total being 844. The
ext highest ssue for any one week
Vas S28, in May 1908. The iH-
upon which patents were
ranted last week were of ell sorts,
RON tia whistles to steam engines.
1t is reported that upon the
etirement Of Secretary Of tha y
treasury Shaw the first Of next
ebruary the President will APP
Oint as his successor Charles G..
lawes of Chicago. ioTmer comp
'oller Of the currency, and al
resent president OF large trust
'mpany in the western RssrO-
Dlis.
"There are a good Many clowns
the pulpits,n was the startling
atemeut made at Chautauqua,N.
:, By DIR. james M. Buckley.
lalrman of the Episcopacy Com
ittee of the Methodist Episcopal
hurch, in an address in which he
id that clergyman has no right
make his congregation laugh,
ID that to DO so is irreveranoe.
Dispatches from Roanoke 10 ~
rtherh papers stated that the
ate Republican convention was
ne most representative gather
z of white Republicans ever
Id in Virginia and perhaps In
3 South. and was practically
void Of negro delegates, there
Ing not dozen representatives.
the rage in the whole eonven~
n"
Kpling receives official
action az Q hymn-writsr by the
,lusion Of his we'll known IRE
istoRal~ in the church hYmnal Of
, Methodist Episcopal Church,
other well known poet of the
? who receives the game tElhnte
Richard Watson Glider, editor
the Century Magazine. Despite
addition OF this and othea
TX By living vsrse-makers, the
Y hymns contains only Ut
ms, as against LII in the
vious one. Over 400 old hymna
10 been omitted.
Healthy Mothera
otheFa should always keep In
!. bodily health. They owe it IA,