Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1908-06-03
CONDENSED NEWS
Brief Items of Interest for the
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or annually Tor Jam MAKING.
In Auetralia there arc nearly
247 900 more men than women.
For every ton of gold in circula-
ton there are fifteen tons of silver.
Chicago is to be the storm center
of organized lcbor's political cam
paigr, according to plans now made.
Male servants in the Argentine
capital get &c ceLtr To ". 20 gold q
day and fenuls help from 40 cents
10 Sl.10.
Atlanta, Ga, suffered a ii, $50
600 loss by FIRE recently. The best
partcf two business blocks were
destroyed.
In the United States last year
l0S, 600, 900 railway ties were used.
which denuded 100000 acres of
forest to supply.
Million free rides are given on
Cleveland, Ohio, street cars to Gel.
citrate Mayor JOhnson's victory for
a 3.cent car fare.
Italy's imports from this cOun-
try ale not quite S67 1000, 900
year, and ours from that country
are only $50, 900, 600.
According to the California State
Board of Health opium smoking is
on the increase, especially in San
Francisco's "smart set"
According to the report Of the
geological survey of British India
the production of coal in that
country In 1907 was 9,7s3, $50
tons.
Belgium is now importing year.
ly about 81 100000 worth of au-
tome biles, motorcycles end BIZ
cycles. These imports have quad
rupled in four years.
1t is said in Richmond that the
four delegates at large to the Den
yer convention will be Governor
Swanson, Senators Martin and
Daniel and Maj j. Hoge Tyler.
While taking up the floor of an
empty house at Patroeinis. Brazil,
a poor woman found imbedded ia
the earth beneath diamond of the
first water and perfect shape,
weighing 220 karats. 1t IS the seq
ond Iarges diamond ever found in
South America.
j. T. Deal has purchased the
Virginia State Building az the
jamestown Exposition for S18, 900,
including land and building. This
is the highest price paid for any
of the State buildings. Eleven of
the State structures remain to be
sold.
According to German physi.
clan, buttermilk is blessing to all
persons suffering from govt. ue
says that it gently stimulates all
the excretories liver, skin and kid
neys. 1t also tones the stomach and
furnishes it the material from
which to make rich, red healthy
blood.
President Edwin A. Alderman,
of the University of Virginia, left
New York on Saturday for a brief
trip abroad. He will sail on the Min
nehaha, of the Atlantic Transport
Line, going direct TO London, and
will spend few weeks in the en-
joyment of country life 10 England
and Scotland. He expects to return
home late in July.
Farmville Herald Let a young
man at twenty years of age put
twenty dollars at interest. instead
Of expanding it for tobacco. Then
at the beginning of the next year
repeat 1t, and include also the
principal and interest of the pre-.
cedlng year, and thus continue TO
do from year to year. until he shall
have reached the age of seventy;
the an cunt he would realize would
exceed thirty thousand dollars.
How many of our young men will
try III
An epidemic of typhoid fever in
Rockwell City, Iowa, which had
its origin in the food cooked for
Methodist Church social has 70.
suited in it's fifth fatality. Thirty
u ore members of the church, in.
GLIDING the pastor, Rev. NJ. Il.
Ready, are now seriously i'll with
chance tina. several more will die.
Physicians who have Investigated
the case declare that be germs ex.
listed either in the fried chicken or
the ice cream.
While the grading of Main
street in Manassas was In progress
Tuesday preparatory to receiving
macadam, which is being applied
to the street, the workmen die
covered that their picks went to
a depth that indicated a subter.
raneous cavity. Upon investiga.
tion II was discovered that trench
to the depth of three feet had
been dug, presumably during the
Confederate war, and nun Der of
barrels of nour put therein and
concealed from the enemy On the
evacuation OF Manassas by the
Confederate troops.
The Allegheny Collegiate Insti-
tute has been turned over to the
Southern Seminary system of
schools, and in the future will be
conducted and managed by them.