Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-18
GlEANINGS AND GOSSIP,

No one seems to be greatly worried
over the possibility of John D. wander
ing into Monte Carlo and helping
Schwab do things to the bank there.
Prof. Wiker of Heidelberg has figured
it out that the garden of Eden was near
the north pole. If it was the climate
must have changed or else the fig
leaves up there must be fur lined.
King Edward is a member of a couple
of clubs in London. and these are SAID
to be the most exclusive in the world
No new member is ever admitted un-
less the king has first passed on his
name.
1t is now figured out in Wall street
that Rockefeller gets $4,000 day out
of the Standard oil. And yet the poor
man could not afford the best state
room on the liner he went to Europe
on.
A member Of the Louisiana LegisIa-
ture wants a law passed that will make
it felony for man to make love to
a girl before he is "a The bill would
never pass if woman suffrage was in
force.
1t is reported that reporter on
Paris newspaper offered John d.
Rockefeller $1,000 for a 15-minute in
terview. The oil king probably refused
because he could find no other reporter
to give a second thousand
1t is said that the three richest men
in the House of Representatives arc
William 3. Mckinley of Illinois, John
E. Andrus Of New York and William r.
Hearst, Huff and Morril! of PEN
nsylvania are fourth and fifth
john w. Crockett. who is candidate
for the presidency of the Arkansas
railroad commission. is a great-grand-
son of Davy Crockett and has the gold
watch and famous rifle gum of his
distinguished ancestor
A duel in France nearly ended in a
serious manner last week. One of the
desperate fighters became 50 tired that
they had to stop the fight. They would
have stopped French dueling long ago
if the public had been considered
The children's hospital at Bristol.
Eng, has three dogs which collect
money for it. These dogs have been
trained to catch money thrown to
them. and then drop it in little bag
hung about their necks. They pick up
a large sum during the course of the
year.
A man at Waterbury,. Ct, says that
he was recently chased for some dis
lance by two large rattlesnakes He
threw pic at them in the first place
and that got them mad. There is
feeling. however. that he may have
O q ton fhn nil fret
sleep.
The new queen Of Spain has been
baptized three times, once as an infant
when she was taken into the Preshy-
terrain church. a second time when she
was made a member of the church of
England and lastly few weeks ago
uhen she was baptized as member of
the Roman Catholic church.
The people Of San Francisco have
discovered that there Chinatown was a
paying investment. The district drew
$50. 900 900 in trade each year and it is
said that large share of this WAS
tai en- out of the pockets Of the innocent
tourists. IL is safe to assume there
fore. that Chinatown will be rebuilt
An English surgeon has come ont
with a novel dressing for wounds. He
says that ordinary glass is the best
thing ever used for this purpose. The
glass is smeared with carbolated oil
and packed around the edges with
absorbent cotton. This gives perfect
protection against blood poisoning, and
the glass can be removed and cleaned
easily.
When the bomb was thrown at tho
recent wedding at Madrid. the prince
of Wales was riding in carriage
which was but little way behind that
Of the king and queen of Spain. The
prince never dropped his nerve and
kept right on smiling and bowling
And yet they say that the tigers he
shot in India were all nicely drugged
before he was permitted to hunt them.
A correspondent of the New York
Times gives the following incident of
the San Francisco earthquake. cleaned
from a private letter: "a house had
fallen and its roof. with the brick
chimney. had crashed down into the
living rooms There. in one of the
rooms lay an infant in it's cradle. But
when the bricks and refers had nearly
reached the slumbering babe they
struck each other in such a peculiar
way that they descended no further.
but formed an archlike roof over the
child. beneath which the little one lay
| unharGed. And there beside the child
fell the family Bible: it opened, and
when it was found it had opened to
the 23d psalm