Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-06-12
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expenses nearly lour times az
great.
Electric furnaces at Notodden,
Norway, are capable If producing
about 1000 tons of Chill saltpeter
annually.
Surface ears en- Manhattan
Island do daily damage to persons
and property in the average sum
OF $2,75O.
With the aid of steam heat and
electric lights vegetables and
flowers are being grown In FAIR
banks, Alaska.
Official reports from San Fran
ciFco state thar the trouble there
was not an anti japanese riot, but
wss ster ed By an ordinary fight.
A witress assrred Senator Fora
Fer that he end the Senate CON-
mi;tee could visit Brownsville
without fear Of attack from
Teyi ms.
Ire Interstate Commerce Com.
mission decides that through rates
alrly Wherever through service is
given. whether they be "joint"
ra'es or not.
TIE government has wiped out
the Honduras Lottery Company
by cfptuiing its printing plant
ird filming nun Der of prominent
Ten $4,000.
1T President RCOsevelt's ex.
pressed desire, the Richu ond
Blues will visit the jamestown
EXP csiIion en- Georgia Day aud
will L Ike their annual Today en-.
caTr rent there.
The sverage FrenchHsn, sc0rd-
ing TO the statistics. drinks almost
100 times as IL uch wire as the
average Englistu an, and France,
elthcUPh the greatest vine Pro-
d lclrg country in the world, act
u lily imports more vine than it
exports.
While an insuriectio is in pro
gress in China ard II famine pre-
vailing, a third horror has dis
Ifessed that ccurtry. Dispi tches
from the e. ltstial empire say that
IN earthquake has killed about
four thousand PERSONS and caused
lutolu destruction Of property.
EIght-year-Old sprirg chickens
nave been on tie menu in many
lCmes of Montclair, N. j., for the
'ast few days. A tag, faded and
Ilmost cbliterated, at one corner
# the crate in which the fowls
we're shipped attestec this fact.
Tie question that is agitatins the
minds of the purchasers now is:
If spring chickens are eight
ears old, what is the age Of
ens?"
TIE following is said by dairy
Ten to be an excellent method Of
bliterating the taste of garlic
wild onions) from milk and but.
err: Before straining the milk,
lace three or four tablespoons of
oiling hot water in the receptacle,
nd then strain the milk upon it.
is said that the hot water
lrows off all of the odor and
lste of the garlic, so that it can
Ot be noticed in either the milk
: butter.
1t is now believed that the man
no was partly incinerated in the
yam soap factory in Cincinnati
as Joachim Portank, y Polish
iner of Roanoke. In the com
'cupied by the suicide was iound
valise, such as is carried by i'm
igrarts. 1t was filed with peas
It clothing. Among ether things
contained receipt for money
der sent from Roanoke, Va, 10
d Constantine. Russia. by Joa.
i'm Portsnk to Luke Mils, and
rs for $6.l8. 1t was deted Al
9th.
The "jim-crow" laws OF South.
4 States and the separate accom-.
)dations furnished by csrriers, in
cordance with those laws, will
discussed at a hearing to be
Id by the Interstate Commerce
mmission, Was hingtcn. The
nplaint was filed by Georgia
wards. negro woman, Of
shville, Tenn, who alleges
1t the louisville and Nashville
Tread Ccu pany furnishes in
lor accommodations for the use
the cOlcred race in the southern
ties. This, she contends, con.
Iutes determination. urder
amended railroad late act.
Dr.. j. NJ McBryde, who has
n president of the Virginia
yteennic Institute about thir-
n years, last Wednesday part.
with the entire corps Of crdets,
1t of whom left for the James.
IN ExL csiiicn to spend ten days
,arp.> DR.. McBryde, he has
gned as president of The insti.
iOr, ret!res on account Of fail.
health. He expressed regret
lie world be unable to te at
institution longer. He is to
succeeded by DR.. Paul Il. Bar
ger of the University of Vir.
la, who has been elected by the
I'd OF trustees. Dir. McBryde
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