Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-17
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

New York city consumes nearly sew
en- times as much electricity as Lon
don. in proportion to the population.
Although London has nearly twice as
many inhabitants the American city
uses about four times as many units
Of electricity.
Charles Dana Gibson is seeking a
studio in Paris after a tour of the great
art galleries of Italy and Spain. 1t is
said he acknowledges being a sufferer
from Inconsistencies and would have re-
turned to America but for the per-
suasion of friends.
I don't see why they are making so
much fuss about this new way of SPELL
ing" remarked Rear-Admiral Brown
son after the naval review. NO" re-
piled Rear. Admiral Evans. thought :
fully. 1T will be just as warm, prob
ably, with one as with two
A minister in Trenton. Mo-, is show
ing that he is good fellow. He says:
"As a minister Of the gospel l shall
attend all this week the county fair
I am going to the Eall game when this
is over. We church people are for
anything that is consistent with NOR
atty, industry and progress"
Years ago the French government
offered 100000 francs (s600OO) to any
one who would give remedy for the
phylloXera, but the prize has never
been awarded, because no remedy has
been discovered. 1t is easy enough to
kill the pest with a poisonous spray,
but that same spray kills the grape
also.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Newberry has sent a letter of commen-
dation to A. A. Eckdol. coxwain Of the
United States ship Cleveland, praising
him for his gallant act at Bar Harbor.
Me-, some weeks ago. when he rescued
from drowning a man and child who
had been thrown overheard by the
capsizing of a canoe.
whenever we get a call to attend
case of epilepsy" said an ambulance
surgeon at Bellevue, I'VE always finu
the patients neck and face covered
with salt. The efficiency Of salt as IL
cure for epilepsy is evidently a relic
of some old-country superstition.
though just What it is we've never been
able to find out."-New York Sun.
1T is 900 years since the failure of a
bank in China said bank examiner.
Over 900 years ago, in the reign of
Hi Hung, q bank failed. Hi Hung ha
the failure investigated. and to his in
dignation found it had been due 10
reckless and shady conduct on the part
of the directors and the president. Hi
Hung at once issued an edict that the
next time a bank failed the heads of
its president and directors were to be
cut off. This edict, which has never
been revoked, has made China's bank
ing institutions the safest in the world
We may yet come to it in this country.
Getting around a difficulty: An in
structor in certain boys school il
noted among his pupils for his difficult
examination questions. One of the
youthful students, after struggling
over a particularly strenuous list of
questions in geography. came upon the
following query, which completely
stumped him: Name II animals of
the polar regions The yOungster
scratched his head, thought hard for
many minutes. and finally, under the
spell Of a sudden inspiration, wrote:
Six seals and six polar bears" The
! professor was SO pleased with his pu-
pills cleverness that he marked his pa
per 100 per cent.-Lippincott's
| Cyrus Townsend Brady. the novelist,
was for number of years a clergyman
on the western frontier. Il was dis
cussing western life" he said recently
with a friend of mine, a missionary.
This missionary told me how he once
asked Dakota tavern keeper for d
subscription toward a Sunday-school
There was no Sunday-schOo in that
neighborhoOd, and the missionary laid
before the tavern keeper a number of
strong arguments. The man listened
in silence. He thought a while. Then
he gave to the missionary a $40 bill
Goodness knows he said. we are
wicked enough around here. and If any
thing can be done to raise the price oil
land, TN IN for it.