Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-18
Tourists Not in Search Of Booze.
OF Personal Interest,

The Emperor of Japan has conferred
inc order OF the Rising Sun upon the
Lord Mayor Of London.
Sarah Bernhardt has an almost super
stitlous affection for Il necklace of gold
nuggets given her by California miners.
baron Speck Won Sternburg. German
ambassador, is the only member of the
dlplomatic corps who can boast of the
known as "Speck.'
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has
already received several letters address
, ing MN Man; as MIR. Napoleon. Secretary OF
he writes his name out in full.
DR.. Henry H. Rasmus. of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church. Catford
england, objects to the practice of lower
ed. He says he wants to see when his
congregation has had enough.
The Russian naval commander, Ad-
miral Rojestvensky. has always been
know him. An English girl once asked
him for his autograph, and he wrote the
following: Life is stupid. A little gay
night
Franco Leoni. an Italian composer has
| Just had presented at Covent Garden,
London, new opera, THE Oracle. which
| is said to have made a splendid impress
sion. The plot is laid in the Chinese quar-
| ter OF San Francisco. Miss Pauline Don
aida, Canadian soprano. was the heroine
ana SlSnOr ScGttl the nero
Three editors aspire to the Democratic
| nomination for Governor of Georgia.
They are HOke Smith. who was at one
time at the head of The Atlanta Journal;
Clark Howell, of The Atlanta Constitu-
| ton, and j. r. Estill, Editor of The Sa-
vannah News.
One of the most faithful attendants at
| the professional games of ball in Wash
ington is the Chinese Minister. Sir Chen
| tung was famous pitcher while stud
al n 10 have made
| money as a professional had he cared to
take up baseball instead of diplomacy.
Miss Bessie Balm, who lives on a farm
near Chatham, N. Y, has been appointed
an overseer of highways in her district.
| Miss Balm declares she will see that the
| work Is well done. She intends to have
the best section of road in the township.
She will superintend the work in person.
and put into effect some original ideas
relative to road construction.
Charles Henry Treat. who became
United States treasurer several days ago,
is a direct descendant of Robert Treat.
governor of the colony of Connecticut.
Mr.. Treat lived for number Of years in
Delaware, and later in Maryland, before
moving to New York. He is a native OF
Maine.
The Swedish decoration entitled Lit
teris ct Artibus'' has been awarded by
King Oscar to DIR. John A. Enander. for
':Hemlandet," Swedish weekly 'G news.
paper, of Chicago. DR.. Enander is the
author of a History of the United
States" number of other books and is
an able lecturer.
The late John Hay in speech be-
fore the Ohio Society of New York, about
two years ago. facetiously traced his
derivation as follows: Il was born in
Indiana. grew up in Illinois, was edu-
| Gated in Rhode Island. learned my law
in Springfield. ILL.,, my politics in Wash
ington, and my diplomacy in Europe,
Asia and Africa. l have a farm in New
Hampshire and desk room in the District
| of Columbia. My first ancestors l ever
heard Of were a ScOtchman who was half
English and a German woman who was
half French"
Camille Flammarion. the celebrated as
| tronomer. proposes to introduce in the
French Chamber of Deputies a bill to
! make compulsory a perpetual calendar of
his own. According to his plan, the year
should start at the vernal equinox March
% and every quarter should contain two
months of thirty days and one month of
thirty-One days. This would make 36i
days. and fete day, not to be counted in
any month. would complete the year.
while every leap year there would be two
such fete days. The same dates would al
ways occur on the same days of the week
| and one calendar would last a lifetime.