Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-10-31
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10 race IOl tue cup again.
Sometimes a man cusses just to
keep from forgetting how.
Generally you can tell what
woman means by guessing the OPP
posite of what she says.
By his will Edward w. James Of
Norfc TX, leaves fortune estimated
at 100000 to the University of
Virginia.
Truck growers in convention at
Norfolk urged that the idlers in
cities be put to work on farms,
where labor is badly needed.
Virginia railroad companies pro-
tested against the freight rate
schedule formulated by the State
Corporation Commission.
The American Antiquarian Soci-
ETY. at Worcester has elected Rev.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale as presi-
dent.
A German paper is authority for
the statement that 1900 dogs and
81, 900 horses were eaten in Ger
many last year.
A home for actors and actresses
who have been unfortunate enough
to contract pulmonary troubles is
to be founded and maintained in
Colorado.
A coal palace built of all the
the various kinds of coal found in
the United States will be striking
architectural feature of the James
town Exposition.
Charles F. Murphy, the Tam
many leader, predicts that Hearst
will carry New York city by $4,000
plurality, while Chairman Conner
places it at $4,000.
The county campaign of Butte
county, South Dakota, is enlivened
by two young women who are run
ming for the Office of county super
intendent of public instruction as
independents.
New Orleans now claims to be
the largest banana and cccoanut
port in the world. Her estimated
imports this year are 10000. 900
punches of bananas and $4,000, 900
cocoanuts.
By official ukase Russian peas
ants are now free to choose their
own places of residence. The per-
mission does not extend, however,
to those Of them who are thought
to have designs on the royal palace.
President Roosevelt has promised
President Harry st. George Tucker
to be present and deliver an adj
dress at the opening of the James
town Exposition, April 20, 1907.
He will be accompanied on the &C.
casion by Mrs. Roosevelt and their
daughter Etnel'
The recent food in the Shenan-
doah river reached twenty-five feet
above low water, the highest in
seventeen yeare. Whole fields Of
corn were swept away ana much
valuable fencing and many small
buildings carried down stream. The
loss will run into the thousands of
dollars.
His imagination inhamed by ex.
cesslve reading of cheap novels,
Ebert Roberts II years old. the
son of an officia, of the Treasury
Department at Washington, ran
away from his home at Vienna, on
Sunday last and VAS caught Mon
day evening on the road near Ber-
ryville. The boy said that he
wanted to see the world.
A noteworthy parsonage at the
cbsequies of Mrs. jefferson Davis
in Richmond was James Jones, coll
ored, who drove the Davis family
carriage during the war, and who
now lives in Charlotte, N. c. He
attended the funerals of President
Davis and Mics Winnie Davis, and
though now beut with age and
much enfeebled, insisted on being
present.
AS the result of having been
honor graduates of the Virginia
Military Institute in the class Of
1905, Philip w. Booker and Kenny
S. Perkins, both of Virginia, have
been designated by the Secretary
Of War to stand a competitive ex-
animation for a second lieutenant's
commission in the army. Archi-
bald II. Bell and Arthur G. Camp
bell have also been named.
King Edward is said to have
given clever advice to his niece,
Queen Victoria of Spain, when she
complained to him of the restric-
tions of the punctilious etiquette
of the Court of Spain. ''Be a
sensible GIRL" the King advised
her. 500 not make enemies; re-
spect peoples stupidities, when
necessary. In time, if you are
wise, you will have everything
your own way"
Major G. F. Close and Captain
Firth, of the typographical division
of the British ordnance survey,
are expected in Washington this
week on a mission that is with
out precedent in the history of the
friendly relations between the
United States and Great Britain.
The purpose of the British officers
in coming here is to study the map