Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-18
Foreign Gossip.

Eeports indicate that the secret rev
dictionary party in ST. PETERSBURG
becoming more active daily. hc
imperial ministers advise strongly ior
wholesale executions of the ring ieau-
ers. but the car. fearing an uprising
of the disconnected classes, hesltales
10 adopt such course. On the con-
trary, magistrates are unusually lenieht
with offenders arrested for small
political offences. Inflammatory III
erature is being circulated widely.
Squire" Croker of Vantage is at
odds with the nearby farmers through
his Interference with a privilege his
predecessors granted from time I'M
memorial. A pretty footpath passes
through some of his fields and the VII
layers have long used it freely, as
route saving distance on the highway.
But he has rallied it in with hlgh ron
fences, so that only an athlete can
climb over them. and refuses to con-
slider the suggestion that they be re-
moved. Now the irate tenants OF MS
estate threaten to level them.
A Somali woman astonished Brad
ford. Eng. holiday-makers at the
Whitsuntide festival by dancing with
out stop for 36 hours maintaining q
quick. eccentric step without pause for
refrcshmcnt or rest. She collapsed ar
the end of the 36th hour, but began
again after a short rest and continued
for a time.
The Prince of Monaco, who is sup
ported by his famous gambling tables
and lectures on "OceanOlogy' for re-
creation. has been lecturing in London
on maritime biology. He assured the
Royal Institution that the whales rose
and sank at intervals SO regular that
they could be timed to the. second with
a stop watch. and said that in swim
ming for hours a pursued whale
scarcely deviated n hairs breadth
| from it's course. He is described as a
tall man and broad. with close cropped
| hair. heavy mustache. and a thick
| beard half hiding his much tanned
| face.
The pope's idea of duelling is shown
| by his action in decorating Herr Weber
an! Or. Schumacher, who refused Il
l INJECT Oil lht h'-li WI iI''hpi- NV L
| Weber received a cross of honor, "Pro
| F;cclesia ct Pontifacc," and DR.
| Schumacher q knights cross of the
papal order of st. Gregory. His holi-
nnss' action makes profound sen
sation in Vienna. the home of the non
| bcliigcrent pair.
| There arc said to he ! 600 900 moro wo
| mon than men in Great Britain and ovel
| go coo more men than women in Carada
| Now Zealand and Australia As tn
| natural destiny Of the average man o
| woman is matrmony. the inference i
| Obvious.
A letter from Moscow to the Londor
| Telegraph tells how Admiral Makarof
was trapped. Unaccustomed to maneuvc
a large SQUADRON in 50 difficult place a
Pert Arthur harbor. he frc"uertly ha'
slight collisions at first and finally drew
| -''' y '''"" 60" -'ar"''v~eS- fivi"g the posi-
ton of each ship. Noticing this uniformi
| '""s.. ancho~n"i a contact min
in the position assigned the petropavlovs
and in that way accomplished its destruc
ton. An officer who requested the .ad
| miral to allow search for contact mine
hut a few minutes before the disaster wa
told to mind his own business
AIRY opinion of Filipino servants in hotels
"They have their own ways of lookin
after the rooms. They sweep all the dus
and dirt behind the trunks or into corner
land hide everything you want. so that 70
never can find it. There are no bells il
the house and when you want anythin
YOU have to go out into the hall and We
| Boy, boy! boy at the top of your voice
If he does not respond you keep on yellin
land clap your hands. Ultimately. If 70
will have patience, he will crawl ont fror
| the place where he has been SnOo2inl
rubbing his eyes, hitch up his trouser
and ,t.o. his white jacket over Ia
EauZe undershirt, which is the only Othe
garment he wears. You have to wake hir
| 3 or times before YOU car make him ur
dcrstand what is wanted and his face
so cXpressionless you can never tie
whether he comprchends you OF not"
Russian censorship is vigilant but not a
ways scholarly. A correspondent tell
how a Jewish mother in Warsaw receive
news from her son. young surgeon ser
| to the front. 1t bore signs of the censor
attention and spoke in an optimistic vel
of conditions and prospects in the arm!
Then in postscript he asked her to sen
| some of his books. the titles given in He
brew: Famine and Destitution, COnse
quent Fearful Epidemics. Scarcely An
Sanitary Appliances. Decentralization {
the Army Constantly Increasing, End c
Discipline. Wish l Were Taken Prisone
The censor could not read Hebrew.
Pointed Paragraphs.
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