Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01
Gleaninqs and Gossip.

the bare ground. Regardless of rank
or age, no rug must intervene between
him and the earth when he breathes
his last
On June Ia Kentucky will unvei Il
statute Of Stephen Collins Foster, who
wrote MY Old Kentucky Home" The
statute was made by Sculptor J. L.
Root from description of the COM
poser and an old daguerrcoeypc in the
possession of Fosters daughter. Mrs.
Marian Walsh of Allegahny City. Pa.
Southwest Africa. which has been the
scene of d disastrous and dilatory war
for nearly three years. is the only Ger
man colony favorable for European
settlement, and this land is so poorly
supplied with water that an area of
from 5000 to 10000 acres is necessary
To keep alive the herds of even small
ranch.
The chirping of crckcts on hot
summers night falls into a rhythmic
beat and this beat is IL very accurate
thermometer. In the latitude of Bos-
ton, according to Outing, the crickets
chirp about so times a minute when
the temperature is at so degrees. They
add four chirpS Il minute for every de-
gree above that
These must be anxious days for low
ers i'm Korea. A Seoul telegram states
that law has been. proclaimed pro-
hibitinG the marriage of all Koreans
until the cOnsort of the crown prince
is nominated. 1t is to be hoped, for the
sake Of the youths and maidenS Of the
kingdom, that the crown prince is
marrying man and will make up his
mind quickly about his cOnsort.
such an amendment" said Senator
Filling in a debate. would destroy the
bills meaning the meaning of the
cpitaph on old John Skinn'S tombstone
was destroyed. An amendment was
tackled to John Skinn's epitah. 1t con-
sisted of one wOrd-the word friend
1t was put on i'm the dead of the night.
The epitaph previously to the amend
mcnt read He did his best"
scheme is on foot in Spain to pre-
sent Princess Ena with a collection Of
postcards from the whole of Spain,
with "piropos'' dedicated to her. A
"piropo' is short phrase. eulogizing
the beauty of women. Prizes will be
given for the most ingenious and pleas
ing postcards. The cards will be ar
ranged i'm special albums. with artistic
bindings, one for every province in
Spain.
James T. Armstrong. president of a
wealthy coke company in PittSburg,
and himself worth a deal of money.
has just returned from a voyage to
Africa on a sailing ship. He was en-
rolled as a member of the crew, but
was not called upon to do any hard
work, as he took the voyage for his
health. He sailed from New York last
September and returned to the same
port few days ago.
England is Il land saturated with
flunkeyism. a land where a man born
in ordinary circumstances expects and
is expected to die in ordinary circum-
stances: where the scope of
the individuals effort is too
largely traced beforehand by the acct
dent of social position: where a man is
handicapped in all cases and crushed
in most by the superintendent weight
of caste privileges. good form and
the deadening artificialitics of an old
society.
King Leopold of Belgium is, perhaps.
the only man in the world who has
power to bequeath kingdom in his
will. This remarkable bequest how
ever, is not to be voluntary one; by
stroke of his pen Leopold ii can be-
queath nation to a nation-or, to be
literally correct. Il state to state.
Should he die before the Congo Free
State has been finally annexed to Bel
GUM, Leopold must leave the state
which he now runs as practically n
business concern. to his people, who
have the right at any time to annex the
country If they desire.
DR.. Schaefer of Berlin. speaking be
fore the German surgical society on his
experiences in the Russo il pancse war
said that after the battle of Mukden he
examined more than 1000 wounded men.
Three months after the battle half the
wounded of the army corps to which
DR.. Schaefer was attached were cured.
The percentage rose in some regiments
to 20. A Russian general of division
tried to forbid further investigator
saying that the world would laugh at
the fact that the japanese had beaten
the Russians while the former were us
ing such miserable rifle.
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