Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-23
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

IN the state OF New York tnere are
1900 so-called abandoned farms.
representing an area Of 12,oOO,00O acres
and capable Of caring for population
OF $50, 900.
Probably the oldest minister of the
gospel in the world is Rev. John
Shaefter. who recently celebrated the
1920 anniversary of his birth at North
Benton, O. For 60 years Mr.. Shaeffer
has preached each Sunday.
The publisher, q commercial fellow,
W.lS tOr economy. Seems to me five
columns It day ought to be enough for
that murder trial." he whined. But the
editor, Il man of ideals, was sturdily for
tie better part. Let justice be done"
re cried, though the price Of print
paper goes up!''-Puck.
I'VE thought" said the reporter you
raight care to say something about
these charges against you" NO, re-
Flied The crooked public official: Il be-
lieve that Silence is golden well.
replied the reporter, perhaps the
public might believe it's merely gilt in
this ase"-Philadelphia Press.
Nine Schumann- Heink has cabled to
Nine. Cosima Wagner that it would be
impossible for her to sing next summer
in the Wagner festival at Bareuth, as
size has promised to do. Next winter
she will make 4 concert tour of Europe.
and believes it judicious to rest and
accumulate strength during the sum
ricr.
A wax from the rata palm of NADIA
gascar is expected to prove Il substitute
fer beeSWaX. The leaves of the palm
are beaten to small fragments on Il
mat and then boiled. the wax so OBJ
tanned being collected and kneaded into
small cakes. The new material is being
tested for bottling purposes, phono-
grapl cylinders, etc.
Three young sons of Prince Frederick
Leopold of Prussia, ncpheWs OF the
kaiser, have gone to the manual labor
training school at Gross Lichterfelde to
take Il course in practical mechanics.
This is i'll accordance with an ancient
traction of the HohenZollern house. !
The eldest boy, Prince Friedrich Karl |
who is il. is learning the loCksmth'S |
trade, and his younger brothers, aged ,
Is and IL, are being taught cabinet
makers work.
Glasgow university. was occasionally
obscure and complex when the interest
OF a side issue led him off the beaten
track This was made the subject OF
an epigran1, which contrasted his
methods, with those of his assistant.
Day, to his disadvantage The occasion
chosen was that of his return from
having received his knighthood. and 4
no Il na Il
work while it is yet Day. for tho
Knight cometh when no man can
work.
TelegrIphlc communication is being
rapidly opened up along the Soudan
rart of the Cape of Cairo" steam rail-
way route. Khartum has direct con-
nection with Egypt and through her
with all the rest of the world The
wires have been strung from khartun
to Belgian Congo and this place is now
in direct communication with Entebbe
on Lake Victoria, near the source of
tho Nile. There are now more than
1000 miles of telegraph working wires
in the Soudan, and last year more than
100000 private kilograms were sent over
them.
professor of mnemonics had gone
TO lecture at or near Canterbury. After
the lecture was finished he had to wait
for his London train. 1t was q most
comfortlnSS day and he retired to an
inn for shelter and rcfreshment. To
pass the time he began to exhibit his
feats OF memory to the yokels in the
i'm parlor. and one and all were thun-
derstruck except the waiter There is
always one skeptic in every COM
whether of saints or sinners
DO what he would he could not nliti-
gate the acrid smile of acid incredulity
of that gloriiied potman. In the midst
of on: Of his most difficult feats the
whistle sounded Of the "only train to
London tonight" and he rushed off to
catch it. He caught it at the station
and his reputation caught it in the inn
parlOr, for the waiter-coming in with
some ordered refreshments and finding
him gone-pointed to the corner where
he had been sitting and exclaimed:
SILLY 'umbug. he's forgot his UNI
brell;,! THE Young Man.