Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-08-15
Brief Note OF N )tables

Joseph Banigan, a rubber manufac-
turer, who died recently in Providence,
was made a knight of the Order of 81.
Gregory the Great by Pope Leo XIII.
Father Piscopo, the Italian priest
who has begun a crusade against social
evil in the Italian colony in New York.
is not yet 50 years Of age. His life has
been threatened a dozen times.
While Councillor Il. Freedman of
Swansea. was riding his bicycle along
the Mumhlcs road. the celluloid gear
case of the machine caught fire, and
before he could jump burned his trous-
ers Oft him.
When the Wcllman Polar expedition
on the Fridtjof. dying the American
flag. put in at Archangel, a Spanish
trading vessel happened to be in port.
For fear Of trouble the Russian author
tiles held the Spaniard till "a hours af-
ter Wellman had sailed.
\ st. Petersburg Journal says that
the Car has declared his intention, of
making a long visit in Paris during the
Worlds exposition there in 1900. ,, A
special envoy is said already TO have
been sent to find n commodious palace
for the august guests occupa tion.
Mrs. A. NJ. c. Allen. whose 2i-horr
ride from New York to Boston. on u
wheel has just made a record for itself.
passed through New England towns
very much as Captain Boynton, the
swimmer used to float down rivers.
They made excursions to meet her. and
all lie Wheclmen turned out of course.
OTTO Ribbeck, the successor Of Fried
u.
philolOgy at the University of Leipzig,
died recently of heart disease. aged Il
years He wrote Il history of Latin
poetry and published many texts of
Latin authors, notably a Virgil He
was a vigorous opponent of the meth
DDS Of comparative philology.
The Duke, of Devonshre owns the
greatest curiosity in England 1t is
known as the weeping tree. This imi-
,ation tree is made of copper ana is SO
dsvtcriously contrived and cunningly
painted that at a careless glance one
does not distinguish ii from a real tree.
1t drips water on tourists who wander
beneath its shade.
Mrs. Albert Bowker, for % years
president of the Woman's Board of
Missions, who died at her home in
Massachusetts recently had two for
cign buildings named after hcr--Bow-
ker Hall, in Bombay, and American
mission school with more than 100 pu-
pills. and Bowkcr Hall, one of the two
large buildings of the American Col
lege for Girls ii/Constantinople.
Salmon Reirach. the archaeologist.
has attacked the Venus de Milo. de-
Claring that She is no Venus but an
Amphitrite. He bases his theory on
the fact that statue of Poseijon was
found at Milo in 1874. which is of the
same size as the Venus. and tries to
supply the missing parts of the statue
on the supposition that it represents
the goddess.
1t is reported at Canton, that Or. Sun
i AT Sen. whose detention at the CHI
neSe legation in London, attracted
much attention. some time ago is one
of The prominent leaders of the rebel
lion IN China. His Kidnapping by en-
issaries of the Chinese government and
his illegal detention in the Chinese le-
cation in Portland Palace. occurred
in October, 1896
a committee of prominent men in
Germany has been formed for the pur-
pose of erecting a monument to Wilt
bald Alexis in Armstadt where. he
passed the last years of his life. He
was q writer much esteemed in Ger
many at the beginning of this century.
and his works in many forms-pocms.
stories, books of travel and criticisms
We're widely read. His real name was
Wilhelm Haring.