Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-25
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Busy Reader
To take duet from carpet,
sweep 1t with fragments Of wet
paper.
1t is 60 easy to find fault with
the good things possessed by
others.
A boy hardly ever grows up to
have as little sense as he thinks
his father has.
The steamship fares paid by
Americans landing in England
last week amounted to IS, 100000.
A firm at Arkansas City, Kan,
has received an order from Am.
sterdam, Holland, for 100000
pounds Of -four.
The New York Sun announces
the firm determination of William
r. Hearst to run for the governor
ship of New York.
Telegraph and express COM
panies doing business in Virginia
are to have their rates adjusted
by the Corporation Commission.
1t is reported in Berlin that
Emperor William will send his
fourth son, Prince Augusta Will
liam, to an American university.
An Italian made an attempt 20
run away with a child on the
boardwalk at Atlantic City, last
week, and barely escaped violence
at the hands of the mob.
Timothy +. Townsend, a Della
ware legislator, was saved from
death on the horns of bull few
days ago by his little son, who
flashed the SUMS ray into the
beasts eyes with milkpail.
Nearly 100000 will be ex-
pended by the government I'M
provements to be made 10 the
Norfolk naval station under the
terms of the naval appropriation
bill which has just become a law.
The report Of the New Hamp-
shire State board of health Of an
examination of prepared food pro-
ducts, made public last week, says
that of 408 samples analysed lSo
we're found adulterated, mis- brand
ed or below the standard.
The perils of railroad, both for
TIE old hand and for the novice,
were strikingly illustrated on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad when
death claimed one man on his last
day of employment and another re-
ceived fatal injuries in his first
hour of lator.
, To solve the servant problem
and the difficulties experienced by
I bringing up children Upton SIM
> clair, the author Of "The Jungle, .
, and others interested purpose to
establish a cooperative home In
+ the vicinity of this city.
With the Secretary of State on
r trip to the Southern Hemisphere,
5 the President and the other secre-
4 taries off on their summer junkets,
who is to run the governments
a This administration is strenuou;
e by fits and Jerks and takes long
( holidays between tines.
e Hon. Carter Glass, member Of
:. Congress for the Lynchburg dis
y trict. has instituted suit against
) the j. P.Bell Publishing Company
J, for .baving, it is alleged. printed
l. few days ago a small pamphlet en-
o titled "rhe Idea" which abound
d ed in alleged abuse OF him an'
% other prominent men. The dam
h ages are put at s25, 900.
y The old stone mansion house oil
i the farm CT Morgan Van Metre, II
Il Berkeley county, W. Va, whici
d was erected in 1880, and which
u was the oldest house in that sect
10 ~ ion, was totally destroyed by hr,
!, last weeI together with a.
Il the valuable old-tine furnitur
"a and clothing, iewelry and none.
l of the family of MIR. Van Metre.
- Sixteen thousand miles aloh
80 was the travelling record of twelve
"A vear-old Samuel Kaufman, VIII
" arrived in PHILADELPHIA upon tn
20 > cams zip Westsrnland froI
- Queenstown. From Durham, o
>, the eastern coast of South Africa
ID this sturdy and self-reIiant littl
w chap started month ago to reJci
Ia his father, who at preseat is
i'd Norfolk, Va.
of NJ. E. Ingalls,, who has just r.
oy turued to Cincinnati from a trl
al abroad, where re spent sever
nd months studying municipal owne
"a. ship, discussed at great length Il
of results of his observations an
of also the political situation IN tn
nd &C untry. He has become an e
thufiastic admirer of Bryan al
firmly believes that he will be q
next President of the Unit
?" States.
st. ESQ scarce is farm labor In 10 ,