Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-12
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

There are several species of fish,
reptiles and insects that. never sleep.
The pike salmon and gold fish never go
to sleep, and there are Il number of
others that only sleep a few minutes
during month. There are a number
of species of flies that never sleep, and
a few snakes.
Lord Walsingham is the best shot in
England, if not in the world. He has
perfected his craftsmanship to such an
extent that he can kill a flying wasp
with q rifle almost every time. He
holds the grouse record, having killed
1910 birds in Is hours and once killed
S42 birds with 100 cartridges.
The following inscription, says the
Westminster Gazette. figures on a
stone in the garden of a certain Fish
Cottage, in small Worcestershire
village
IN MEMORY OF TUE OLD FISH
Under the sol! he old fish do lie.
Twenty years he lived and then did die
He was SO tame, you understand.
He would come and eat out Of Our hand
Died April the 20th. 1850.
Aged 20 years.
AT the sound of the shot, says q
writer in the Strand magazine. des-
cribing alligator hunting in Egypt, "the
whole of this bank of the river, over
the extent of at least quarter OF
mile, sprang into hideOus life, and my
companions and ! saw hundreds o
crocodiles, of all sorts and sizes, rush
ing madly into the Nile, whose waters
along the line Of the shore were laShet
into white foam exactly as If heav!
wave had broken. 1t could be no eX'
aggeration to say that at least 1000 o
these saurians had been disturbed a
| a single shot
A temple to Ii Hung Chang ha
| been erected at Lu Chow Flu, 140 mile!
above Marking on the Yangtse. 1t i
| one of the finest modern temples II
China and cost 100000. 1T has beel
built" says the Pail Mall Gazette, iii
accordance with the universal custom
of ancestor worship, but further IL
order to afford opportunity for tn
alteration of the spirit of the grea
statesman: not only by his own rela
tives, but by the public generally. L
Hung Chang has been proclaimed
deity, and thus one more has beef
| added TO the COUNTLESS SouS III lii
| Chinese pantheon"
To prolong the life of cross-ties, an'
thereby minimize the consumption o
timber. the Pennsylvania railroad ha
determined in future to treat Will
creosote ties which shall be used OF
it's main tracks. The company wv
wears ago undertook tree-planting up
on a large scale. Since that time /
has set out 2,425.O00 trees and ma
handled this year 625.000. EXtenslV
planting of trees and shrubbery 10
ties. lumber and ornamental purpose
is being made on land owned by III
company in various parts OF PehhSEl
yania and New Jersey In order I
provide still more completely agans
the future, a contract has just pee
nlaced for the construction of tie
treating plant at Mount Union. IA
and, in addition. for two large creoso'
storage tanks in Greenwich Pom
Philadelphia.
It was a former archbishop of Yor
DIR. Thomson-who appeared once !
the role Of coachman. He had at
tended an evening party, and, on leaV
ing the house discovered that nj
coachman was drunk. There appeare
nothing for it but to drive home nm
self, and the archbishop. after placln
the smiling but unconscious coachma
inside the carriage, mounted the bo
and took the reins The monotony c
the homeward journey was broken D
a wheel of the carriage coming INT
violent collision with stone Just out
side the entrance to Bishopsthorp'
The lodge keeper, unable to recoghlz
the approaching figure in the darkness
called out cheerily: Halo, Bill, drum
again,-and blowed if you amt got tn
old cocks hat on" It's the old coc
himself" gravely responded his grac
In one of the vestibules OF the TIL
bune building a crowd gathered GA
or two ago around a handsome llttl
boy about 10 years old. VINO, betWee
sobs, told the sympathizing people,
: want my father Diligent search wa
made through the building, but tn
missing father could not be foun'
Men neglected business engagement
and women forgot their errands
efforts to console the little man. Afte
long time, when pictures and storle
failed to interest the child. the fathe
sauntered leisurely along and SCENE
to be astonished that the child shoul
have worried, because he was onl
zone flight up One man in tn
crowd said: you know that, and th
people with you know it, but the litt
boy-how about him? And how abol
all of US here. who have been carin
for the youngster ?"-New York TT
bune.
Frank n. Meyer, the scientific e,
plorer for the government, in his re