Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-16
Gleaninos and Gossip.

What are the coloners hours for
drinking" "Quarter after, half AFTER
| quarter to, and at."-Puck.
Inliana is again getting chesty. The
| head of Dowie church. Voliva, comes
| from the HoOsier district.
| Travellers in Africa cross some rivers
IN small. round boats made of hide
Ihe boats are pushed across by ne
groes.
The book reviewer-The plot of this
novel was stolen, sure. The ponce
reporter-Ah, A second story job, eVi-
| dently!-Puck.
The galleries in the new Russian PR
| llallent ale not to be open 10 the pun
lie at first. 1t would be too easy 10
drop q bomb from one of them.
IL Is said that the hotel-keepers IN
Naples are making much money our OF
The eruption Of Vesuvius. Tourists
are Hooking to Naples from all points.
| A student at the London university
mas written thesis on 1.-The cOndensa-
| ton Of thyldihydrOresorcm and
Ch'ornkctodimethyl etrahydrobtnZene.
When Cannon was acting as watch
| Alexander of Buffalo was sponsor for
| proposition to make the government
pay he losses of the Pan-American eX-
position. Cannon opposed the idea.
Yes" he yelled, shaking his fist in the
air, make the government Il partner
in your eXpOSitions. Then the next
step will be TO make the United States
pay the losses of the county fairs, and
after that, | suppose, well become the
hackers of a Wild Bill West show"
When Lord Dufferin was viceroy of
India he was presented with novel
paper knife. one day the MaharaJah
Holkar of Indor paid him visit AT the
residency and asked for his ivory
paper cutter as Il remembrance. LORD
Dufterin consented, the Indian left.
and the riceroy never saw him until
some months later, when Holkar intro
duccd fine young elephant into the
room. A pile of newspapers lay at
Lord Dui1erin's side; the animal went
up 10 them, cut them neatly with his
tusks, which had been purposely
snarpened, and laid them in neat
heap ON the floor, ready for perus;,l.
Princess Victoria Eugenia Julia Ena
Of Battenberg, who has just become
The "Pope's most loyal daughter,
awaiting her marriage to Alfonso of
Spain, was as little girl a veiy pretty
and charming English child "out Of
story book" as Il French woman once
expressed it at Nice during one Of
Queen VictoriaS last visits there.
Princess Henry and Princess Ena were
always favorites of the queen and ac-
colnpanied her on her pleasure trips.
At Nice they were living in 4 separate
villa, since Princess Ena and one Of her
brothers We're rOmpS of the most riot
Gus description. Their free, outdoor
lie was the amaZement and amuse-
nlent of the French residents ami
visitors.
1t is now quite the correct thing
among the gilded young people Of New
York city to have gray or almost white,
hair So much admired have these
"prematurely gray" folk become of late
that -blanching is now nearly as
commonly resorted to as manicuring.
Canites, poliosisltor hoarinesS may be
either physiologic or pathologic; grad
ual or rapid, general or confined to
localized patches. A distinguished
captain i'm the British army, recently
in New York, had patch of white
about the size of a silver half-doliar
juat above his right ear and all the wo-
men he met fell in love with il. They
jumped to the conclusion that he had
been shot there. but he said It was due
TO an absence of pigment.
If voice falls like a falling star
upon the ears of the London pedestrian
this summer, with snatches from
Baedeker, or a few select figures from
the county council yearbook. it is
probably one of the new megaphone
guides showing a brakeful of American
visitors round the metropolis. Fiji
teen motor WagonetS are being sent
across ii appears, to tour London, each
accompanied by an expert appraiser OF
the csthetic and the antique, who Will
indicate persons as well as places TO
his flock in tones suitable to compete
with the din Of traffic. The guide will
be comedian, trained To make.
"amusing personal comments. besides
providing gossip and criticisms when
indicating notable houses or person.
ages"
Miss Bertha Krupp, the richest Wo-
man in the world perhaps, is now
known as Queen krurp' all around
Essen. where are located the vast cail-
non factories which she inherited from
her father. In that place alone she
has Al, 900 workmen tuiling for her
who, with their famiiues, make more
than 100000 persons dependent upon
her ROW. If other concerns be added
wt have total of 100000 dependents
She Owns gas works. railways, tele-
graphs. telephones. her own bakeries,
|Siau9hter-houses and general stores.
She has even her own army, regularly
drilled, with stern rules of discipline,
1t is called a fire brigade. but is as
much a body Of picked troops as any in
Germany. Her army numbers more
than 900 men. well armed. Finally,
she has her ambassadors in every court
in Europe. They may not be known in
the regular diplomatic world as such
but they are there all the same.