Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-10-14

Bishop Vincent made something of n
departure for a Methodist when, at the
Michigan conference at Kalamazoo, he
expressed disapproval Of the time
roaring revivalist and revival He
also said that he had no sympathy with
preachers who couldn't play a game of
base ball or ride a bicycle, and added
that some Christians thought they
were pious when they were only bilious.
Some 5000 people are employed at
Bass Burton breweries, in England,
and the number of clerks employed is
nearly 300. The breweries cover about
200 acres of land. The annual output is
about 100000 barrels. and the annual
issue of bottling labels with the red
pyramid on them is about 230 OOO. .OC0.
Moreover, no less than $4,000 acres are
employed in growing hops for the
manufacture of Bass ale.
The colony of Victoria likes it car
tridges in packets of twenty-five, but
the infallible Britisher insists on sup
plying them in packets of 100. The re-
suit has been that it has opened mar
ket for the wideawake Americans, who
give the Victorian just what he wants
At Hong Kong the British makers
have lost their whole trade in candles
because they will not alter their sys-
TEN of packing to that adopted by the
continental makers.
When Jersey city recently paved
some of it's streets with asphalt, the
work was no sooner done than the
drivers of brewery wagons and other
heavy vehicles fell upon those streets
and cut them to pieces with their
wheels. So it has been necessary to
enforce a rule like that which prevails
in other first-class cities-to wit, that
trucks and heavily loaded wagons
must either seek less frequented ways
or they must be mounted upon wheels
that have wide tires.
Efforts are being made to construct
a railway from El-Tor to the summit
of Mount Sinai. On the mountain,
which is only accessible on one side,
depot will be erected near the spo.
where the stone cross placed by the
Russian Empress Helena, mother of
Constantine the great, stands, and
where, according to tradition, Moses
stood when receiving the command
ments. The line will also pass the cave
in which the prophet Elijah remained
in hiding while fleeing from the priests
of Baal.
In certain sense elephants are still
used in battle by Indian troops, but
they are only used as beasts of burden
and draught for artillery; but in an
cient times they We're used in the east
as fighting animals, and taught to
swing chains and bars of metal in
their trunks. There is. however, every
probability that the last campaign in
which they were regularly used in this
capacity was that of the year 1901, in
which the great Akbar subdued the ma.
tive Kingdoms of the Dcccan and es-
tablissled the Mohammedan power in
India.
The possible benefit of neighborhool
gossip has had an illustration in Ore
gon, where a bit of it which was
started in circulation a year ago IN
June bore welcome fruit last week. S.
B. Neil found while plowing carrots
on his land, nine miles from PendletOn,
last year, a gold locket which had been
used as a watch charm. 1t contained
two locks of hair. He told many peo-
pie of what he had found. Finally
not many days ago, James Linsey re-
called having once heard that sheep
man., James Hackett, had lost such
charm. Hackett was sought out and
he recovered the locket, which he had
lost while rounding up some horses
half a dozen years ago. 1t contained
locks of the hair of his two dead chill
dren.