Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-01-05
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Instead OF immediate Statehood,
New Mexico and Arizona will be al
lowed to submit constitutions.
Republican leaders are urging
the President not to send in spec
ial message or press for a change in
the antitrust or commerce laws
now.
A hungry bear which ventured to
the outskirts of Newmarket, was
killed last week bxy. A. Price and
a party Of hunts} 4eh, who, seeing
Bruins tracks, started after his
bearship. The animal when dressed
weighed 137 pounds.
The presidential definition of
whisky" is simply the old
fashioned "spiritus frumenti' of
the prescriptions, and it's common
sense accuracy is beyond dispute.
or course there is whisky and whis-
ky, but it is all whisky. Many
think that some whisky may be
better than another, but that none
is bad.
A Confederate bond for $500
turned up in the Treasury mail a
few days ago in Washington. A
lawyer of Pau, France, sent it on
with a polite note to the effect that
ne had been told that the United
States always paid its debts prompt
ly. Acting Secretary Norton re-
piled that this government was
good for all it's debts, but that the
Confederacy's were another affair.
Former Minister WI Ting Fang
left New York few days ago on
the steamer Lusitania for Liverpool.
Before he left he said to an inter.
viewer: You Americans eat too
much; you rush too hard; you work
too hard; you play too hard; you are
too much concerned with the al.
mighty dollar; you are wearing
yourselves out, and when l come
back here in 1859, to impart new
truths to you, will be the young
est man in America"
A New York woman who was a
belle in the 70's is making efforts to
revive the old time custom Of New
Years calling. She sent cards to
her men friends and to those OF her
daughters stating that they would
be at home on New Years Day and
keep open house." In speaking OF
the custom as she had known it, the
woman said: Our house used to
swarm from early morning until
late at night with callers on
New Years Day, and there was a
rivalry among the girls as to who
could show the most cards the day
after" This will recall the happy
days of long ago when New Year
calling was the custom throughout
the South.
Handshakes and kindly words
are doing more than medicine for
the patients of the Western State
Hospital for the Insane in Staunton,
according to the annual report of tina,
institution. To speak to and shake
hands daily with every patient in
the institution is rule rigidly en-.
forced upon the officials OF the hes.
pital. This treatment" the report
says, inspires kindly feeling and
gives the patients an opportunity tc
talk to the physicians. At the same
time the physicians are certain moi
to overlook the patient; is enabled
to tell whether he is cold or fever.
ish. and is assisted in the diagnosis
of his form of insanity, as certain
forms of insanity have a peculiar
handshake.
An argument bristling with ante
bellum history and later incidents
of the civil war in Virginia and
West Virginia. involving a claim o
many millions dollars on behalf o
the former against the latter State
was heard recently in New Ycrl
before Charl !, E. Littlefied, as spec
ial master in equity of the United
States Supreme Court. Attorney
General Anderson represented Vir