Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1893-09-15

Amooa the curious displays in the parade
was the fairy carriage Of tho Michigan
BuGay company. drawn BY the smallest
horss on earth. an equine Tom Thumb q
incnes high. Another WAS parade o.
about l1o bicycles, the wheelera represent
Ing al sorts Of races and characters from
Columbus to Cetewayo. with Knights,
SamoAns. Americans Indians, Cinnamon.
DahomeyAn and fijians. ln the water
parade was every kind Of small craft, pro
pelled BY steam. naptha, gasoline. elec-
tricity. wind and man-power. There were
Eigs from the hattlcship, cutters. fishing
boats of all the nations from Alaska 70
Norway, Indian. Esquimaux and West
African canoes and long array Of pleas.
urc boats. After tho style came the fun.
such As tub racing and other aquatic
comedies, and so the evolution of progress
was exhibited from tho followed log u
the aborigino TO the latest triumph of
science.
In rambling about the grounds and
reading the notices posted In various Ian
guages am once more struck by a fact
often noticed in New Mcxico-that u state
,Aent can nearly always be made in fewer
letters In English than In any other Ian
guage. Here is a familiar card:
Rite Nicht III beruhm.
On est prie de nebas TOUGHER.
81 prega iii non toccarc.
RueIo qSe no 10 toquen.
Please do not touch.
Hands of,
The Ave sound polite; the last means
business. Even the peliter form in Eng
lish is shorter than any Of the Others. All
this make me think that II we would only
reform our barharous spelling. English
would become sort Of universal language
In fifty years. As it Is every foreigner has
to learn two languages in this country, II
he would be thought an educated man
the spoken and the written. And the lat
ter is SO much more arbitrary than the
former that il requires more labor. Now
II should write the longer English form
above in some Of the well established
Of our speech IL would run
thus:
Pliex dough notte tuch.
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II Ia not in the power Of any one man TO
get the hang Of all that Is done and being
done In the various branches Of the rclig-
ious congresses Of this month. Suffice IL
to say that the Catholics began on Sunday
the 3rd and in their eight days really did
a wonderful work. What with Maryland
Day, Columbus Day. Spain's Day and
Irish Day yet to come their prominent
men really had great deal to do with
running the fair, and since they have
called my attention to II | confess IL does
seem little singular that all Of the two
save little strip Of the north
Atlantic coast should have been discovered
and explored by and should once have he
longed TO the Catholic nations. guess
they have earned right TO be prominent
here.
The Jews began on Aug. %, but their
activity In the fair IL exclusively OF
business nature. The Lutherans and the
Welsh religio-musical societies weye active
last week. The Protestant denominations
are now making a so-called presentation
each morning and evening while the
main religious parliament is running, the
having led off on the
10th. In the correspondence OF DIR. Bar
rows are letters from over u thousand Of
the worlds prominent men and religious
teachers, warmly approving the great par
lament, including Gladstone and nearly
III the great lights OF the English estab-
Iishment. The more l see OF it the more
wonderful this congress seems, and ! recall
a statement in the history OF India that
The great mogul, Akbar, once attempted
10 organize such a congress.