Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-09-04
CONDENsED NEWS
Brief Item - iserest tor the
Kusy Reader

For 50 steam will do the work
which it would cost $500 il done
by hand.
A tornado in Wisconsin Satur-
day picked up building and car.
ried it a mile and half.
There are 200, COO, 600 copies of
the Bibles scattered throughout
the world to-day.
According to the present pro-
gram. the battleship feet will not
reach San Francisco until May /,
1908.
Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz
have offered their good Offices to the
Central American republics for a
peace conference.
Compliment and praise Should
not BE- laid on with the trowel of
extravaganza, but with the br sh
OF circum spectiOn and truth.
The value OF the land in New
York city Is computed as worth
nearly twice as much as all real
estate and improvements in New
York State.
The diamonds owned by Mrs.
Leland Stanford, Of California,
have been sold ia London. The
proceeds will 90 to the Leland
Stanford, Jr., University.
An obscure dispatch states that
an angler in this State "caught a
black bass with a fly weighing
four pounds" The question arIses,
how big was the fishf
The Comptroller of the Treas.
ury decided that Government
officials must sign all documents
by hand, the use of rubber stamp
"signatures" being illegal.
1t is announced in Washington
that the Congressional committee
in charge of Panama Canal expendi-
lures will make personal iLvestiga.
ton of conditions on the isthmus.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon de-
clares he would rather help the
next Congress to win Republican
success in the election than be
'fered the Presidency on a golden
;alver.
A Reading, Penn, newspaper
printed in l627-just 80 years
ago quotes butter as selling for 10
cents pound; chickens 81 % cents
i pair; eggs at g. cents a dozen;
coal at $3.50 ton, and whiskey
ut 22 cents q gallon -
A new drink has made it's ap.
pearance in Taunton, Mass. 1t is
known as "Kate Carney. The first
glass, il is said, makes "a man sing,
1t e secc nd causes him to dance, and
after drinking the third he begins
to throw glasses about.
The Assembly Home and School,
with the Presbyterian
church Of fredericksburg, has been
EFT a large sum of money by Miss
lste Krebs, who died last week at
Woodstock. The Presbyterian Or.
,hanage at Lynchburg was also
eft considerable sum.
Virginia coal production for the
'ear ending December 81, 1906.
vas 1924, 1879 short tons, CT the
"a ue of 81, 1873, 99l at thu mines
Virginia was the only State of i'm
)0rtance in coal production east of
he Mississippi whose production
vas less last year than in 1905
The decrease, however, was .unim-
amounting tc 20, 1872 short
ons only.
Rev. DR.. Richsrd +. Wilson, one
# the nest prominent n,eG bers Of
he Virginia Conference of the
southern Methodist Church, died
asst week at his coutry home in
)inwiddie county, one mile and
lalf from Petersburg, after an i'll
ess of several months. DR.. Wilson
ras born in NOttOway county, 90
ears 40. He graduated from the
yirgini0 Military Institute n tie
lass of 1870.
Judge w. II. Mann IN all address
! Blackstone, said at the next SEES
ion of the Legisl tGre lie intend
d to offer al amendment to the
Ugh school bill To- the eG0 that
uch high school in each comfy
n the State should have Il special
apartment in which manual
raining and scientific agriculture
hall he taught in order to educate
he boys of Virginia to remain
t home upon the farm.
Advices from st. Petersburg say
hat the rush of Immigrants to ST.
eria is 50 great that all the avail
bic homestead lots have been ex.
austed and the authorities are
pable to distribute recent arrivals.
lany people are under the I'M
ressicn that Siberia is a barren
md of ice ard snow where politi-
al prisoners are sent from Russia
} die, but the above will give them
different opinion of that far away
OuntrV.
The netinal committee appointed
Y President Diaz to arrange for
ne cele bration of the one humid
edith anniversarXof MexicO's in
ependence, has adopted unique
sature as a part of the general
Ian for observing the patriotic