Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-30
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP,

A good many people can be found who
envy King Frederick of Denmark his lit
tie jaunt to Iceland.
Gen, Booth of the Salvation Army did
wise thing when he refused to kiss
those ZOO infants.
There are now over 100000 native chill
dren going to schoO! in India A few
years ag" there were barely 10000
What does he call his latest sons?"
would like that air''-ClevelanI Plain
Dealer.
Louise Chcatam is making her living at
Aiken, s. G., by training native song
birds to sing in cages. She sells them
to winter visitors.
Tie German government has built lit
tie railroad which is used exclusively for
testing new inventions intended to make
travelling safer.
Nearly 1000 people died fror the eff
f.cts of snake bites in India last year
II Kentucky had that record whisky
would be luxury.
The Cleveland Leader suggests that it
would be good scheme to change the
old adaSe so that it would read Keep
fast"
Lightning hit house at Dover, Eng,
not long ago, and a perfect picture of
vase of flowers was made on a mirror.
The vase was standing in front Of the
looking glass.
IIe I EIlSildH SflentlSC VINO Jumped
from {, fOur-story window in New York
the other day, thinking he could fig. is
now struggling with the error OF belief
that he is dead.
William ]. Murphy. the eldest son Of
the late Francis Murphy, says that he is
going to take up the reform work his
rather was SO long and successfully en-
gagged in. He was associated with his
father for many years.
Sir Langdon Boughton of Australia has
worked his way up from reporter to BE-
one Of the foremost newspaper editors ir
the British empire. He has been in the
Australian Parliament and taken a big
part in the progress of education.
Mrs Mary e. Bennett is now president
of the Ness City bank of Kansas. She
entered the institution Is years ago as Il
bookkeeper. and rose rapidly until she
was made president six years ago. Her
husband IL Il prosperous business man.
The name strawberry has puzzled a
good many people who like to find the
or1t.in of names. Many suppose it used
tc he the custom to string the berries
hence the ranc. But the real Eame is
strawberry, due to the running habits of
the vine.
=, The duchess OF Wellington has e set of
and every. single piece is different 1t is
almost priceless. She also has The Won
derful service of plate which Portugal
gave to the Iron Duke and which is said
L u
this service is five feet high and it takes
four men to carry it,
There is young girl in Miller. S. D..
named Della Spain who is a rural mail
from Miller to washington Springs one
day. a distance of 81 miles. She drives
lack the other way the following day
the roads are poor and sparsely settled,
but the girl Is never afraid, Sltf ouSh she
has had some exciting experiences with
storms.
The Cleveland Leader tells of woman
who was informing a circle of sympa-
her home. Yes" she said. 81 heard a
noise. SO T got up at once. There. under
the bed l saw mans legs sticking out. "
women. the burglars legs" NO. my
dear: my husbands legs. lie had heard
the noise, too.
The chapel at the naval academy at
Annapolis is rapidly nearing completion.
and is remarkably beautiful building
ARRANGEMENTS have already been made
for putting in some of the memorial
windows. One will be in memory Of .Ad-
miral David d. Porter. who was super
intendcnt OF the academy from 1S6,-69
and will 10 given by the members of the
class of '6S. Another of the windows will
be in memory of Admiral Sampson.
Discussing the bricklayers' strike lust
ended and strikes in general, one member
of the Union League asked another if he
knew when the first strike took place in
the United States The other confessed
his ignorance. TT may interest yo, to
know said the first ciubman that the
earliest strike of which there is any rec
ord in this country occurred right here
in Philadelphia in 1876. when 900 shoe
makers struck for higher wages. 1t is
also recorded that the strike was sue
cessful"- Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams has Just
completed one of the most interesting
trips yet taken by woman She spent
the past three wears i'm visiting every
country in South and Central America,
going far into the interior of some of
them. Much Of the time she was far out
side the pale of civilization. and in the
mountains of Peru she found Indian
tribes which are not ir the least changed
from what they were in the DAYS of the
Spanish conquest. She says that these
Indians are the remnants of the greatest
racr of American abnrigines and their an
cestors built the temples and did the var
ious ar: works which are still the Won
der of scientists.