Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-25
GIeaninas and Gossip.

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| Alice johnson has been engaged for
one of the important roles in ''The
Step-child."
| Consulting fashion expert is one
st. Louis wolnan's occupation, while
packing trunks is the trade OF another.
! The secret of the glowWorm and
FREELY is yet unsoiycd by science. Their
light is entirely unaccompanied by
heat. IA; ~
| According to the latest statistics, the
population of the German empire IS
&C. 60E,1s3. The average density of pop
ulation is 1908 to the square mile, as
against IS i'm the United States. Sax
ony is greatly crowded. Its 51S9
| square. miles contain 4,502, $50 people
or an average of 1883. Chemnitz con-
tains 1864 persons to the square mile,
aking it one Of the most denseiy pop
uiated districts of the world.
l The bluegrass region of Kentucky
and Tennessee was the first national
park and game and forest preserve in
America. 1t was so set apart before
the white man had come with profan-
Ling foot and conquering firearms by
the great Iroquois tribes of Indians
the Six Nations. They forbade any
settlement or agriculture in all that
great region. and 1t became known as
4 the hunting grounds"
The cost to nation of entertaining
lmnnarchs varies according to the mon
Iarrh. The cheapest SOvereigns to en-
ltertain, Judging from the bills Great
Britain has had TO pay, are the Ger
man emperor ana the king of Italy. 1t
cost about $1,000 to entertain each of
Them. The king II the Belgians costs
$2n 0od 4 week; the late shah cost $780,
OoG a week. The expenditure on dec
orations, etc, is not included in these
Figures. When the car of Russia
Imade his historic visit to France, the
cost to the republic amounted to $685.
000. g
| In ancient times the great engi-
neering works We're costly in human
lives. The making of the Red sea
canal is said to have involved the loss
of no fewer ti;an 10000 Egyptians.
Buckles examination made him believe
the number to have been somewhat
exaggerated. nut he gives it as still a
guido to the enormous waste of human
life in those days. The men who kept
: 1000 slaves engaged for three years
bringing 4 single stone from Elephan-
tire to tire Pyramids did not care a
: great deal SO long as in the 20 years
in which one Of the pyramids was
building there We're forthcoming the
! 900. 900 men required for the work.
Three French eardine trawlers, while
| engaged in fishing about 60 miles from
PclleiSln, declare themselves to have
been the eye witness of a submarine
earthquake. At Il distance of about
five miles from where they were the
crews saw dense black smoke rising
from the water, and, satisfied that a
ship was on fire. they bore in that d.
rection. No ship could they see, or any
trace of one but from the water there
continued To issue the cloud of smoke,
and as they got nearer they also saw
sheets of flame rise from time TO time.
In fear for their own safety. they
drew back in their former position.
, whence ct night they continued to see
The smoke and fame.
AS an instance Of Lord Wolseleys
dislike of bad language in the SER
, vice. a story may he told of swift
/, conversation which he one day effect
ed, says =. Il. 0. The commander
G-, Of an Irish garrison, was a
, man whose reputation for fluent
language was great. At an inspection
at which Wolseley was present c.
gave til" bnGler the order to sound the
charge" To G. --'S CONSERVATION
the man blew the retreat" Their
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volley. Suddenly, however, he caught
Wolscley's eye upon him AMI hes stop
!. ped short. The oaths that We're upper
his lips died away unspoken, yet say
something he must. For a moment he
ga2ed hlankly around; thcn-turnine
quickly TO the unhappy bugler, ht
!. r"arek out. to the intense amusement
,, of Lord Wolselcy and his staff, You
naughty, naughty trumpeter."
'DiSencha nted'' is the headline
over letter in a Vienna paper from g
L correspondent in ConStantinOple
s when l told my friends that 7 was
e coming To this city they envied me
e and when one man said. You go to tn,
: city of beautiful women I smiled will
n satisfaction because I believed as ht
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e forms n those whose pictures we hat
! seen so often as representing the wO
e men of Turkey. l have seen them
Those who are young, if they have any
t beauty no one knows it because theil
t faces are hidden. and those who hav,
r passed beyond the beautiful period
I arc -wcn. certainly not beautiful
. Take walk when you come here, on
8 day when the streets are wet, whe1
II the women lift their gowns to saw,
D them from the mud, and you will fine
that there is not 4 well-fOrmed Tur
kiSh woman's foot in the place ant
that the majority are stOckingless."
: Rene Cashier, who will race undel
k the blue and buttercup design of tn,
f Aero Club de France. is one of thu
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