Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-06-05
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Brief Items of Interest for the
busy Reader

V worth OF cereals each yesr.
: From sil directioos reports at
{ reaching tie Dersttment cf Ayr
r culture that the tcrrapjn scale
= irju-ing The peach crop.
The Garden of Allah, that Won
, derful beauty spot created b,
Count Landt n on the edge OF tn,
Desert Of Sahara, is offered 70
ssle IRA may he bought By veal
Thy American.
The Virginia Supreme Court r.
fueed to grf TT u new trial to tn,
negro John Hardy, who murdered
a Roanoke policeman, and hi
death sentence stands.
Artificial flowers for the FRS
time had to be used May 30th al
a number Of places to decorate the
soldiers graves, irosts having
kept back the natural blossoms.
ReopeEing an old local copper
ore shaft. at Pottstown, Pa, last
Wednesday, filed up s3 years ago,
workmen found lot of perfectly
preserved potatoes 80 feet down.
The fumor that the brother OF
McKiEley's assassin was in
Canton, Ohio, last week, caused
9 strict guard to be kept over the
President at the funeral of Mrs.
Mckinley.
One Charles Anthony, aged II,
ran up against q real Teddy bear
returning home from the store In
MontivideO, Rockingham county, re-
Gently and might made good sau-
sage meat bad not his faithful dog
saved him.
As the result of a discovery
made by German inventor, it Is
said We may soon be wearing paper
clothes. Judging from present
tendencies to the thinness of their
garments, the tissue paper variety
will prove popular with the ladies.
President Roosevelt has ordered
the height require ent for admis-
sion to West Point to be raised one
inch more. Under the cid rules SO
inches WIS the required height;
now a youth of II must be "a
inches tall, or, it between Is and
20 years, 65 inch ,e.
According to statistics, there
sre IL 900 more women than men
In the District OF Columbia. As
most of them are capable of sup
porting rot only themselves but a
husband as well, this condition
would be soon remedied if it were
more widely advertised.
TIE mayor of New York has We
oed a bill to give the governor
PRACTICAL control of corporations
Il that State, on the ground that
lie feared u corrupt governor
night abuse the power. The real
ear appears rather to be that an
lpright governor will use it.
A dispatch from Carscus says
hat President Castro is preparing
or a visit to the United States to
orfer with President Roosevelt
bout affairs eifectiDg the two ma
Ions. From Washington he will
o to Europe TO complete his
purse at some health resort.
The Chicago Tribune prints the
LEGATION that the United States
teel Corporation is said TO be
selling rails IT, the japanese
overnment at its expert price,
hicb is $40 ton less than ITS
omestic price, and lie making
lem in strict accordance with the
,paLese specifications"
Senator Daniel has secured the
opointn ent Ct Jubal A. Early by
10 secretary CT war as second
sutenant in the my upon his
Issing tie examination. He IS
e stn'fJ j. e. Early Ct Bedford,
I'd grandson of Cartain Sam
.rly, who W 9 on the strff Of
IN. Jubal A. Early, his broth'r.
Ii is figured that for the 90
ar p ricd from 1877 to 1905 the
filed for divorce
roug out the country reached
e total IF | 10000 end proba-
7 OF these applications about H.
Q, O0) divorces were granted. La
e 20 ear period from 1857 TO
80 the number of divorces Sc
red was 33S,000
What is succ0tash?" is the
esti0n over which the board of
I'd and drug inspection OF the
ricultural Department has been
estliDg. So far 1t has oaly been
9 to decide what it is not. An
clal statement has been Pre- null
led to the effect that succOtssh
lot soaked beans or soaked corn
Sed together, and anufsc-
ers are tolG TO govern them
yes accordingly if :hey desire, to
ply with the pure food laws.
vote 5 to 3 the State
'rd of Education after u spirit
controversy in Richmord Let
IL, elected Mr. Edmund Pen
ION, of tina. city, to succeed
}. Charles V. Meredith rs IA
Der of the State Library
rd. and this result clearly fore
dOws the passing of Lii, rrrian
n P. Kennedy at the first