Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-23
OF Personal interest.

Conan Doyle says literature is the sin
gre profession IN which men and women
stand upon an absolute equality"
Theodore Thomas has put in the sum
Nor chopping wood at his cottage in the
White Mountains. He says ii is almost as
good exercise as directing an orchestra
OF WaSnerian musicians.
Florence Thompson. the youngest child
CT Mrs l4aunt Thompson of New York
ana the favorite niece of Bishop Potter
Of the Episcopal diocese of New York
has become a Roman Catholic.
The Home Missionary society of Phila-
deipha will celebrate in December the
thirtieth anniversary of the connection
OF the Rev. f. III. Toland with the So
ciety. He has been instrumental in or
ganizing twenty-five churches.
The monument TO Mozart which was re-
Gently unveiled in Vienna is said to he
one of the most beautiful pieces of plas-
tic art of the age. The great COMPOSER
IS represented in the bloom of youth and
IN a moment of inspiration. The face is
uplifted, the left hand rests on a music
stand, and the right hand is raised as il
beating time.
Prof: Hoch. who spent ten or twelve
days IN the district, of Memel, in East
PRUSSIA, studying the cases of leprosy
that have occurred there and their causes
has discovered only one new case. He
therefore. regards the danger of infec-
tion as not SO great as was thought. He
seems to favor the idea of establishing
iepers' home at Prokuls. a small town
in Memel district
Mother Goose was born in the year 1865.
in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay Her
maiden name was Elizabeth Foster Sha
married Isaac Goose in the year 1922 and
a few years later became a member OF
the Old South church. Boston. The first
edition of her melodies (Which were origi-
nally sung to her grandchildren) was pub
iished i'll Boston in l1l6 by her son-in-law.
Thomas Fleet. Mother Goose died in l757'
\ London journal says that the latest
hobby OF William Morris was the collec-
ton of old manuscripts and missals. ana
the collection on the shelves at Kelmscott
House. made in Il very short time. is one
OF the best in existence. Last year he
bought a copy of the Sarum missal. done
in the fourteenth century with a differ
ent border printed round each page n
mighty volume which he called his cathe-
oral he had wonderful memory and
ton. gave him an unrivalled storehouse
on which to draw for his artistic work
He could describe the details of par
t1cular page of a manuscript which no
had not seen for thirty years.
Ex-senator Philetus Sawyer of Wiscon
SIN. told the following story the other
day; When we We're living on my farm
AT Rosendale 1t became necessary to sell
COW or none at all. 1t happened to be the
COW | had given to my wife, | went
INTO the house and told my wife. She.
money. | sold the COW, gave my wife n
couple of dollars and said: Call on me
when you want more. When she wanted
to buy dress, bonnet or wedding pres
ent she would ask for some of that COW
money. had paid back several thousand
dollars of the COW money, and was won
dering when the demand would cease. A
house was built. 1t had to be furnished.
we inquired up what the furnishing would
cost. 1t amounted to several thousand
dollars. ! said Wife. I'll pay YOU the
balance of that COW money and you can
pay for furnishing the house with it, II
was q bargain, and the COW deal was
over. The $50 COW cost the old senator
not far from $4,000. but he never com
planned at the price.