Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-24
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Lake Huron has more than 5000 is
lands. which is said to be 4 greater
number than can be found in any 9th
er lake.
London says that she expects to have
5000, 900 inhabitants in 1910. This is
even more hopeful than Chicago.
1t is now said that King Edward
may send the Cullinan diamond to Am
sterdam to be cut. If this is done the
weight Of the great stone will be re-
duced nearly two-thirds.
\ Sing Sing convict has been par
doned after q years in prison, and now
he does not want to leave the Jail.
Any cid place where he has hung his
hat is home, sweet home, for him.
The correspondence schools seem to
teach about everything, but it really is
a pity that some of them don't start a
course in carving, so that the Christ
mas turkeys won't have to be quite 50
badly mauled
The American consul at Hull. Eng.
says that out of the $4,000 ships which
have entered the Humber river ports
il the last seven years only one has
been of American register. She was
bark loaded with barley at San
Francisco.
All employee Of the Carnegie museum
in Pittsburg has just returned from
Costa Rica. where he has been for the
past five years collecting the skins of
birds and animals. He has gathered
over 5000. which is said to be the finest
of it's kind in the world.
Princess SenakOffska has arrived at
Chantilly from Russia. having travelled
in an enormous caravan. in which she
is making n tour through Europe. The
vehicle is drawn by four horses and
contains three rooms reserved for the
princess and accommodations for 10
servants. Whenever the princess
leaves the van to take walk she is es-
corted by gigantic Cossack wearing
a military uniform and several medals.
The princess intends to proceed in her
caravan to the south of France-LOn-
don Express.
An interesting device which will be
of interest and value to automobilists
and others making use of gasoline en-
gincs. IS small apparatus for testing
the fuel This consists of three glass
balls colOred red, white and blue, and
arranged at different levels in the tube
which is but three inches high. small
enough to pass through n three-quar-
ter-inch hole. and which requires less
than One-Quarter ounce of gasoline t.
fill it. Each ball can rise vertically
about three-quarter inch. If the gasO-
line has specific gravity of 60 degrees
Baume, the red ball will float; if 6;
degrees, the white one: and if 20 de-
grees. the blue one. The instrument
weighs but two ounces. 1t is provided
with a chain foot long.
Ttnnyson said Of n strange literary
condolences: "a Chinese scholar some
time ago wrote to me saying that il
an unknown translated Chinese poem
there were two whole lines of mine al
most word for word" Byron. in hi
monody on the death of Sheridan
where he says there will never b.
another Sheridan, the mold being brok
en- up. employs. word for word. terms
in which an ancient Sanskrit documen
refers to the death of Maru, notwith
| standing that Byron could never hav
seen the document. Shakespeare
passage about love and lightning il
Romeo and Juliet" is almost identica
, with a quotation from "Malata an,
, Madhava," an Indian poem by Bhava
butt, written nine centuries before, ant
not translated up to Shakespeare
time.