Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-01


Lord Burnham,'' said an American
Journalist, presided at the recent an
nual dinner in London of the News
paper fund. He proved to be an adj
mirable gentleman. He told a number
of amusing stories.
"Cnc thing he said was that, on q
fishing trip in Scotland, he set out on
certain morning with large lunch
basket. intending to be gone for the
day. He fshed till noon. Then hunger
seized him. At the same time, too, he
recalled the fact that he had left his
lunch at the foot of cliff on the road
where he had stopped to rest.
THE cliff was two miles back, but
| the hungry lord set out for it on a fast
walk. On the way he met shabbily
dressed Scot.
Did YOU he asked, find anything
on the road as you came along?'
| ma said the Scot Ma: not I.
Could nae q stray dog ha' found an
I eaten it?'''
| joaquin Miller. the poet, has collec-
ton of original documents that shed n
| light on many odd phases of early
Western life
4 Among these documents is a letter
that New England youth wrote in
1 1850 from Oregon to his father. The
Eietter treats at great length of the
k1carcity of women i'm the West and OF
fe general desire to marry that pre-
NNcd among the Westerners of that
| dayS 1t has for postscript:
shy, pap. it might be good ideaxc
| Nhn ryir1C fant !, Il
them ort here"
CharlSs NJ. Schwab. on tho Day h
sailed Nor Europe on the Nro<'rrin
Wilhelm said that he believed ASneric
offered 10 workingmen moro 4. opor
tuniticS than any other country.
1.-THE wcrkin-mcn. thouGh.'J he added added
must he, of the right kind. t1ie nps
rot he like the Greek l heat Of fe
Gently 4
| "This chap, having come to A n
secured "a good laborjng job al
week. Rut he did not get on IL.
He was continually afraid ing
moro than he was paid for.
They say that a gcntlemT tSin'
| one day the new building ,aree'
was 1T work on. saw him !. III ms
stomach on the sidewalk. Z Nact
was pale. a succession of luuc yrRah'
| arose from him.
| "'What is the matter h 1t 'fe9-
low?' the gentleman said.
| IAN Irishmah replied that he was
sick.
| well said the gentleman, If he IS
sick, why doesn't he go to the hospital
and get some relief"
"The Irishman laughed scornfuuYlA'
| "'Do you think he'd go to ther1ospi-
| tai In his dinner hour?' he saiy'
| .
| A reporter was interviewing Vice
| President James Gayley of the United
States Steel Corporation, on the won
derful new process for making steel
| that he has invented.
1T is a phenomenal process, I am
told" the reporter said.
Hardly phenomenal answered Mr..
Gayley, smiling. "A. phenomenon, you
know. is mighty extraordinary thug
Did you never hear the Scottish iectur-
er's definition of a phenomenon?
NO." said the reporter, II never
did"
swell this lecturer" said Mr.. Cay
ley, "put the matter thus:
5" .Mayhap, ma friends. he said, we
dinna ken what a phenomenon may be.
Weel, I'll tell We. we've all seen COO,
nae doot. Weel. a coos nae a phe-
nomenon. Ye've all seen an apple
tree. Well, an, apple trees nae phe-
nomenon. But gin We see a COO gang
up an apple tree tail foremost to pull
apples. that. friends, would be real
phenomenon
shooting iron. the boys out my way
call firearms" said Representative
Gregg Of Texas, ."and never read Gel
q death by this route that Il am tlofiss
reminded Of an Inscription which E
be found on tombstone in one u Stjs
churchyards in the state Of Arkansas
It reads: