Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-14


Putnam was once tied in the French
and Indian War is still standing in the
little village of Crown Point, a town
in the upper part of New York. 1t was
in the course Of skirmish near Wood
Creek, at the time of the French in
vasion in August, 1853, that he was
captured by the Indians and tied to
this tree.
Instead of wasting whole columns for
or against authors, the critics would do
wei to pattern by the example of a GER
tam Georgia literary society of which
an exchange says: There was a lively
ineetlng OF the literary club last night
at winch the secretary and treasurer
engaged in wrestling match to decide
Which was the best poet-Tennyson or
klpllnE. The secretary was for Tenny-
son ana the treasurer for Kipling. The
latter threw the secretary three times
and Kipling won out"
Pekin's Kin Pan is the oldest news
paper in the world. having been pub
lished continuously for nearly a thou
sand years. 1t began as a monthly,
became weekly in 1861, and since the
beginning of the century has been a
daily. 1t now publishes three editions
a day, and in order to prevent cheating
by the vendors prints them on paper of
different colors. the first being yellow,
the second white and the last gray.
hospital has been opened in Lon
don for the treatment of wounds, ulcers
and kindred ailments by oxygen gas
The new method of treatment was sug-
gested by the Zulus. When they are
wounded they climb an eminence and
expose their wounds to the pure air of
the mountain tops. After the Turco-
Russian war it was noticed also that
the invalids sat with their wounded
limbs bare on the deck. Scientifically
developed. and with the addition of
of purified air-that is the principle
now adopted at the oxygen home.
One of the rarest occurrences of
which the State department has op-
portunity to take cogniZance in COM
mon with the rest of the world is the
dispatch of a mail to Pitcairn Island,
the isolated community in the South
Pacific which depends upon the casual
visit of some sailing vessel for its ex-
ceedingly infrequent communication
with the rest of the globe. Sometimes
this happens once a year. but there is
no regularity about it. The last news
OF the island came six months ago
when an official of New South Wales
formerly annexed the dimnutive ter
ritory to the British Crown. Recently
the State Department has been in
formed that any letters addressed to
the island will be forwarded. if they reach
Her British Majesty's consul at Homo
lulu not later than September 20. 1t is
probable that another mail may not
leave for Pitcairn Island in year, and
there is possibility that there will not
be ANAL for two or three years
Two persons have lately lost their
cycsight in London by having the sharp
point of hatpins. run into their eyes by
accident. One was the case of a pas
senger on a coach next to a woman
with her hat fastened by one of these
pins, and another was that of a child
who was injured while playing with a
companion. AS a result of these acct
dents the newspapers of the English
metropolis are making warfare on the
use of the long hatpin. The most pc
cIliar thing about the hatpn question
is the fact that, while the United States
Patent office has issued fifty-four pa
tents for hat fasteners, the pin in use
is one that has never been patented.
These patents comprise every imagin-
able device for keeping hat on Il
woman's head, from a pin a little more
complicated than the hatpin in common
use to the most intricate piece of har-
ness for the same purpose. But this |
great variety of apparatus has had to |
give way in popularity to the simple |
long pin used in the feminine world for |
keeping hats on.