Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-06-13
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
Busy Reader

A man isn't necessarily athletic
because he jumps at conclusions.
Fortunately but few men say
what they really mean otherwise
BACKED eyes would be more com.
mon.
The Presidents yacht, Sylph, is
to be reftted al New York for the
use of the Roosevelt family during
the summer sojourn at Oyster Bay.
Considerable untasiness is felt
in government circles in Russia
about the loyalty of the army,
which, 1t is feared, has become
infected with revolutiLnary- ideas.
Five hundred British teac hers
will visit the United States and
Canada next fall to study the ed
vocational systems of those coun-
tries
A dispatch from Rio de Jeneiro,
Brazil, says that the revolution in
Matte Crosse is increasing and the
rebels are daily obtaining new
adhersnts.
Corporal Tanner says the old
Union veterans are dying at the
rate of 5000 per month" But
new and young ones are supplying
their places mn the pension rolls.
The Let at the southeast corner
of Broad and Eighteenth; streets,
Richmond, go by 1913 feet, has been
purchased by John p. Branch as
the site Of the free baths which he
has donated to the city.
The harvest in Southern Russia
promises to be the most abundant
in years. The landowners are
are alarmed at the peasants threats
to strike when the crops are ready
to gather.
A High School building to cost
half million dollars including the
grounds is soon to go up in Rich
mOnd. 1t will cover an entire block
bounded by Eighth and Ninth and
Marshall and Clay streets.
Senator Daniel has reported
from the Senate Committee On
Industrial Expositions his bill ap.
propriating 1916, 000for the James.
town Tercentennial Exposition TO
be held on the shores Of Hampton
Roads.
A move has for some time been
on in the Methodist world of Rich
moud, which means the proposed
amalgamation of Trinity and St.
James churches. Trinity is the
oldest Methodist church IN that
city, while st, James is among the
youngest. ~
The San Francico relief CON-
mittee of Richmond has sent a
telegram to Governor Pardee of
California, authorizing him to
draw on W. d. Hill, treasurer, for
SO, 500. This makes a total Of
$lS,500 contributed from Rich.
mond.
The editor of an Arkansas paper
recently apOlogized to his readers
for the lack of news, somewhat in
the following fashion: "We ex.
pected to have both a death and a
marriage to announce this week,
but q violent storm prevented the
wedding, ard the doctor himself
having been taken i'll, his patient
recovered and we were accordingly
cheated out of both"
The National Association for
the study and prevention of
tuberculosis and the Association of
American Physicians, both of which
held meetings at Washington
recently, now have joined forces to
combat the spread of the white
plague. DR.. John L. Morse of
Boston, said that consumption was
one of the probable results CT
such diseases as measles, whcoping
cough and influenza.
Rev. Jacob Kurtz, the "housstop
evangelist" has rented Hose Opera
Hagerstown, ana on June Is .
will deliver an address especially
10 lawyers and ministers. Rev. Mr..
Kur;z alleges that his valuable farm
near Chambersburg, sold
1t sheriff's sale, would still be his
t it had not been for the lawyers.
he said he hoped to convert the
of the profession.
John Thompson Brown, of Bed
ord, chairman of the board ard
lcting president of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, at Blacks
,urg, has given emphatic denial to
he rumor that DR.. j. N. McBryde
will leave the Virginia Polytechnic
institute, and that he will be sue
'eedsd by Professor Campbell. He
avs DIR. McBryde has expressed the
most emphatic determination OF
emaining as president, and that
dr. Campbell's name has not been
mentioned.
Tie owners of butterfly farm
n Massachusetts, recently sold
are specimen for 81, 900. To the
chronological this may
10 a moderate sum for a rarity; to
he average citizen 1t seems like a
in to pay so much money for an
insect; while to the cynic the fact
itself that this one butter
" is worth more in cold cash than
goodly number of men. All of