Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-26
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Inc word costermonger was original
~ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES is, apple seller.
Their noisy manners were commented
upon IN Queen Elizabeth's day. There
are now over 10000 costers in London.
The red mullet is scaled Immediately
before It's death, to induce permanent
contraction of its superficial pigment
ceils, winch causes the fish to become
the intense red color so beloved of the
| trade.
| a member of the expeditionary force
on board DR., Nansens vessel, the Fran,
has stated that in the highest latitude
reached by this famous ship.guillemots,
fuimars, and narwhals were seen, but
no other organic life.
| After smoking tobacco 80 years or
| moro, Mrs. Hannah .Chard famous
| gloucester county centenarian, has
| thrown away her pipe, with the deter
| mination never to smoke again Al
| though She is 107 years old, she has
| been convinced lntely that the use Of
| tobacco was CT ming her life.
"A privat nber has no more
| chance of ins a bill through Parlia-
tnent thar ing to the moon,' said
Mr.. Lane, c., to an applicant who
was anxious nat the magistrate should
| nominate solle honorable gentleman to
take charge Of measure to establish
court O. eriminal appeal in this coun-
try.
The far aching fame of Lawrence
Alma-Tat ga has possible been re-
sponsibl n the fact that few people
know thu his wife. Laura, is also an
artist of 10 mean merit. She was the
sister OF Or. Epps, the physician. whose
cocoa has great celebrity through
out GI'Gt Britain and the British col
onies,
Pre- ent Jordan Of Stanford Uni
vcfsii has lust started on a trip u
the T. st partly for pleasure. partly on
government business connected with
ais presidency Of the Bering Sea com
mission. IN his absence Professor Still
man, chairman of the university On
ways and means. viii be acting prcsi-
dent
Not Ion ago the Pope received the
Marquis de Stacpoole at a private
audience. ON hearing that the late
Marquis lie Stacpoole was only g. at
he time If his DEATH he exclaimed:
Only 81 How young, | am Sc. you
know,' ltinued His Holiness. and |
don't think there is any reason why |
should not live to be &c.
An English writer says there is
cruelty in the keeping of gold fish.
Half Of such captives die from sheer
want of rest. As fish have eyes 81
formed that they cannot endure the
light. i glass vessel they are in an
entirely wrong place. as is evident
from The way in which they dash
about. and go round and round, until
fairly worn out.
Richard Harding Davis cape over to
america on the same ship with Lii
Hung Chang, and told Ii that he was
writ novel. This disguised the
Vicel y Writing a novel;" he ex-
claim "a. You ought TO be ashamed
Of Y urself. Writing rovel. indeed,
\ b strapping, able-bodied fellow
ike rou ought to be at work Why
,io1' you go to work."
tt new japanese opera by Mascagni.
com )ser Of "Cavalleria Rusticana,"
has been accepted at La Scala. the
ere opera house of Milan, where it
win De produced in the early spring
The opera La Boheme" based by
leoncavallo, composer of "Pagliacci.
upon Henri Murger's celebrated novel
viii also be given at La Scala. but
probably towards the end Of the pres
crt autumn
In Nice (France) there is society
called The Friends of Trees" The
forests and mountains being almost
completely devastated and denuicd in
the Maritime Alps, by the axe of the
peasant price is given to landowners
, plants trees on vacant sports. and
annual Alpine fete destines a dona-
L n of 500 to the society or individual
g plants the largest number.
A discovery has been made by an
nan sea captain. lie has found that
ne sails OF ship when filled with
lumber of small holes bear it along
ore rapidly than when they are per
city whole. He was led to make
these experiments by coming to the
tQnclusion that an ordinary sail can
Ut receive the full force of the wind,
2Wing to the bulk of stationary air
mat fills up the hollow of the bellied
tanyas.
Miss Stewart. a daughter of Lady
tairn's sister. Mrs. Stewart of Dal-
suisse. has just died at Edinburgh. in
Eer Tooth year. Miss Stewart had a
most of interesting recollections of her
famous aunt, of Sir Walter Scott, and
81 all the Edinburg celebrities of his
epoch. She was a most accomplished
musician, and had often played to Sir
Walter, and she was present at the
marriage of John Gibson Lockhart and |
Sophia Scott
1t requires persistent energy and I'M |
cpnquerable determination to win sub |
stantial theatrical success. A case in |
roint that may be mentioned is that of |
Louis Morrison. When he made his
version of Goethe's Faust about ten |
years ago, and decided on giving it a |
beautiful production. he was advised |
by his friends against the venture, that |
such play would never make dollar.
lie persisted, however. Business was
not tlatterlng for the first few months,
and. to make matters worse, all his |
scenery was burned in fire at Wor-
cester, Mass. He lost his entire invest
ment of $40. 500-every cent he had in
the world. Managers tried to per-
suade him to drop his production and i
sign with them at salary of from 5000 |
to 5000 a week. He declined, however,
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