Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-21
GleanInqs ard Cossip.

| CONDUCTOR" said the anxious pas
Sehscr. we must be going at the rate
| o1 90 miles an hour. Isn't it dangerous
TO travel as fast as that" Not ut
all. sir, responded the conductor
steadying himself by graspins the
PACK OF Il seat as the train shot around
u curve. ITS perfectly safe-so long
as W" Keep on travelling Chicag,
Tribune.
William c. McAfcc. hero of the Bal
'iih"rc ilre, died recently. lie had pre-
NIouSly been head of the Baltimore
IRE department. but his resignation
WAS forced by antagonismS. On TIL"
day OF the great fire. February :. 1901
ne happened to be in Baltimore. AMI
when Chief Horton collapsed McAfcr
offered his services and directed the
fight.
John Burns. Englands labor cabinet
minister. was asked by an American
Women to contribute something to ner
autograph album. Mr.. Burns kept the
album three days and then returned it
with the following original stanza:--
Iorn in struggle. reared in strife
ASItatOr all my lite.
Blessed with h";llth, my only wealth
MT am SuIc wife.
There is 10 city in the world where
so much bread is consumed as in Paris
1t IS estimated that every inhabutant
cats one Iound Il day on tho average
Even III past centuries the French -cS-
pccillly Parisians-had q horror Of
stale bread. And, as in those days ,eo-
Die manufactured their own bread
they had curious way of making it
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board for meat, the juices of which
soaked into it. kept it from Incoming
dry and gave it a pleasing taste
King Edward is six inches shorter
than Queen Alexandra. The car is
over-t0ppcd a full head by the czarina
Kaiser Wilhelm is above the medium
hight, but the German empress is very
tall, and that. they say. is the reason
the proud IIohenZollcrn will never he
Photographed beside his wife unless she
sits while he stands. The king Of Italy
short and squat, hardly reaches to the
shoulder of the tail, athletic Queen
Helena. The king of Portugal, though
he would AXE up amply in girth, fails
of the hight of his queen. The homcly
but good queen of Denmark literally
towers over her lord.
One of the most astonishing rcgula-
tiors has been made regarding the
transfer Of real estate in Korea No
one is TO be allowed to sell or buy
real estate except by express permits
sion of the governor. This is appar-
entity IL move on the part of the lap
aneSe to prevent the selling of any land
in Korea except to people that they
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course, under the Japanese adviser :.
1t makes no difference that foreigners
have as good a tight to buy land as
the japanese. The matter viii have.
to be tested in the courts before the
powers will allow their citizens to be
curtailcd in their privileges in the Pen
inSula.
An unusual type Of Roman villa Ia,
been uncarthcd on the site Of the an
Gent Roman cncanpmcnt i'll Britain ut
CatrWcnt. The relics have been foun
in an excellent state of prcserVat ION.
y departure from the conventional
practice of the Romans in the designs
of their residences. as revealed by pre-
VlouS excavations in that country. is
the provision of extra rooms Hbuttins
on tn" four sides of the court yard
In tn" Easements tWo completely per
tc"t heating devices Or hypOcauSt. :;
We're rpUnd, together with the peculiar
blue tiles utilized by the owners for
conducting the heat from the stove in
the basement and radating il through
the upper rooms Of the dwelling. In
the basement some exquisite specimens
of Roman paving were unearthed
SChoOlbrys in old England took to
Latin and Greek at an early age. At
st. SaVior'S grammar school, South
Wark. in 1911. a pupil of seven yea RS
ana three months was admitted as an
ordinary occurrence who signed his
form Of admission. stating himself 81
be reading and learning in the Acct
dcnce. and entering into Propria quac
Mariubs. etc; and also Tully his sec
ond cpiStle, among those gathered hv
Sterrius. and CordcriuSs dialogs, ETC.
The hours Of study werc long too. An
old record says that from March till
September "the child is to come at
in tie morning and he at school till
II. Again at l and tarry till 6; the
| rest of the year he is to begin in the
morning at : and leave at ) in the
afternoon. The master shall not give
leave to play but once a week"