Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-27
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A bride in Washington was nit in tile
eye b. some rice which was thrown III
her. 1t is about tim" TO quit tEi:; rice
business. Any OF our June brides will tell
you SO.
| Alabama is the only state in the Union
whose Legislature meets but once in foul
wears. Thcn its session is limited to u
DAYS and the members of the Legislature
get 81 il day.
IIe-That handsome girl over there
made Il fool of me tWo wears a:O. She
| felt sure that something happened III
your past life that YOU had never got
oVer.-rit Lifts.
Italy is now going to celebrate July 4
double celebration on hand, lie usual
murders in the Italian quarter can be
confidently expected.
A man and a woman said they would
commit suicide together in New York.
The woman shot herself. but the man
didn't He says he tiled -four times, but
tile pistol missed fire each time
Daniel +. Skinner of Dayton, o., has Il
record that has never been equaled. Dur
ing his y years he has established 81
newspapers, and 90 of them are sill alive.
He now runs Il Job printing office.
Helen GoilG las become 50 noted for
her generosity that she now averages re-
quests for S2,0"0Go0 4 week. and they
range all the way from false teeth to
money enough to start solOnies in forei@n
lands.
A garne warden arrested = farmer for
sfn"tini on his own farm ont III Kansas
last week. The court refused t" mold the
farmer and he :traiehtwHv turned
around and successfully sued the warden
for trespa"S.
William burst Of Philadelphia thinks
hat he is the only member Of the crew
of the Monitor when she licked the Merri.
mae WHO is still alive He is in good
health. ana has tried for some time to
nf his fellow sailors.
Gcnrar Tarr. who was ii member of Sir
James RoSs's antarctic cXpcdtioE in lS33.
has Just celebrated his 9lst birthday. lie
il still in good health In addition to his
dash to the South he NaS n member of
the Franklin arctic expedition.
The Old Caylloma silver mines in Peru
ni>' situated higher titan any other in the
world being up between l49Nr and Ii 0hl
Tent IT is believed that they we're first
worked bv the InCas. An English COM
panv is now planning to work them.
Yuan Sill Kai, Tia" vicernv of Pc-chi-ii
province in China. claims that lie is &oin@
"a establish antiupinr shops, Where vie
TINS OF the drug: habit Cal, obtain relief
and cures He is COIN" to institute Il
crusade against The Chinese opium dens.
seven wealthy citizens Of Guatemala
have been condemned to death hroduS"
they were mixed M ir the recent attempt
to ASA SSinatc President Cabrera. Now
Cabrera is trying to have the government
cOnfiScate their wealth, which amounts to
!
probahl" that he will live comfortably in
Paris after the next revolution.
Rev + f. Davies of Hartford. Ct, has
made Il most generous Gift to Hartford
Tlcoloaic"l Seminary. He has liade ar
rancemtntG to ;!iVe this school 81 Goa 400
Pint it won't affect his wealth rIuch. He
has pi"cn $50 and says that it must he put
in Il savings bark and kept until the in
ternSt amounts to 81 NNhG0 You can fig
ire ont how long that will he. if YOU want
10 1t will he good exercise.
Sir Robert BAH, the famous English
5, ientiSt, likes to tell young people things
which will IT, of value to them. Recently
through il telescope, and told him that
ti!is star went around another one. Tn ;
NY wished to please Sir Robert, So qnick~
" said that he had just seen the star
make the circle. Sir Robert didn't try To
rNrIaih to him that il took it 800 years 20
do il.
C:wcn,lolin Carey is going To many a
nephpw of BiehCIr Potter in LONDON, soma
time H. July This is not particularly i'm
portant, tut interestin" because of the
brides history. Why her grandfather,
W. Il. p!avfcrd. then in the PennHylvan
years ago ard hidden her in the western
mountains until her father gave 1t mp,
ana returned t. England wtohut her. has
not been explained The girls mother
died when she WAS n babe of a year or so.
ana there Ead been much diplomatic
negotiation before a friendly arrangement
was reached between her American
grandfather and her Enelish father, who
is ana was at the tim" of the kidnappin%,
a man of fortune But now that the girl
has reached y and IS to marry Francis
Potter. the father is accorded some
rights and she will he married ilt London.
and the father will give the bride away,
rs is fitting in the church.