Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-07
GLEANINGS, AND GOSSIP.

The United States ranks first in the
matter of copper production, and Japan
second
Licut-Gcn Baden-Powell. speaking Mt
meeting in connection with crusade
az; inst cigarette smoking, said that e15,-
c0O,1O0 1915 100000 Il year was spent on
cigarettes. He thought this could be
easily saved.
The bishop of London has promised to
join a contingent Of the Church army"
in midnight march through some of tine
worst Sums OF Westminster, followed by
a service in the church OF st. James tho
Less, Pim!ico.
Our referendum among the leading per-
sonalities of this country on the QueS-
ton, What is your opinion of the great
men of Europe and American" has result
ed as follows: Washington and Napoleon
are the greatest faVorites, after whom
come Harnibal, Caesar and Charles XII
OF Sweden. Among the most disliked are
Brutus, Cromwell ana Darwin-Nihan-
cyabi Nikonjiu CTokio).
A Stroud farmer on route No. / has
taken out patent on an electric motor
fastened on cows back, the electricity
being generated by a dynamo attached to
the cows tail, says the Stroud inventor.
1t strains the milk and hangs up the pail
panies the outfit, which ytlls "So!'' when
the COW moves If she kicks, q hinged
arm catches the milk stool and lams her
over the head with it.-Lincoln County
(Okl) Journal.
If the Regent diamond as shown in the
Louvre. is only a model in paste. and the
real stone is hidden away, it IS a case
of history repeating itself, for in 1897,
for house furniture to Vandenhers, a
banker OF Amsterdam, and he was reinOn
strated with upon the danger of exhibit
ing it to the public. he replied: THE
Regent that is in the glass case is a
sham: the real Regent is in my wife's
stays!"-Fall Mall Gazette.
Janes Glencairn Thompson, the only
surviving grandson of Robert Burns, is
somewhat reduced circumstances for
some time Efforts are being made to
get him a civil list pension and thus place
daughters. Mrs. Sarah Burns Hutchin-
son and Miss Annie Beckett Burns
of Cheltenllam. who each receive
of their grand-father's undying fame
London Globe. II ~ .'t|
difficulties today. We had just gotten
the press ont of the hole in the floor
gust of wind came through crack and
sent the stove sliding across the room.
We got that chained down just as
through a hole in the roof. and the last
We saw of her she was ungracefully
drifting through the air toward Bedrock.
Fresh air is healthy, but it's hard on the
CITY NOht.J ANCWS-
A "home show" to be held at the
Grand Central Palace in New York, will
be devoted to all the things in the con-
structive, decorative and furnishing lines
being made to have the electrical feature
as complete as possible. and it is hoped
to display all the very latest electrical
devices designed for home use. An in
ternational electrical show on a large
scale will be held at Marseilles. France,
this summer
A school for dogs has been established
in Paris: The object is to teach polite
come visitors by jumping mp. wagsing
tho tail. and giving a low bark When
the visitor leaves the dog accompanies
hin: to the door, constantly wagging the
tail, and bows his farewell by bending
his head to the floor. He is trained.
likewise, to pick up handkerchief. glove
or fan that has been dropI,ed and return
it to the owner.-London Tit-Bitc.
teryear?' lamentnd the sentimental girl.
The picture postcard craze, alas, has
DESTROYED the pressed flower habit as
vel as the art cnrres a"n
world my .glohe-trotting friends very
often backed UP their description of some
new place visited hv inclosing pressed
flower or a leaf Indigenous to that partic-
ular soil or plucked maybe from some
historic spot. 1t was pretty sentiment.
but it has been souelched by the picture
card. NOBODY VINO travels taxes time TO
write letters now, consequently there is
no way of sending back pressed flowers"
New York Sun.
Japanese is not an easy language even
for the native-born subject of the mikado.
but it is verv difficult of requirement by
the westerner Give Holland, in his
book, "Oid and New Japan" does not
give foreigners any encouragement that
they will ever be able really to learn the
language 1t takes Japanese child
seven years. it is said. to learn the es-
sential parts OF the japanese alphabet,
To use a Japanese dictionary. Mr.. Hol-
land saws, ore must be familiar with no
fewer than IA signs. which may be said
to serve the same purpose as initial let
ters in American dictionaries. Then.
after one has tracked down in one of
these pa signs some part of the charac-
tiers fer which he is abort to undertake
an exploration. he still has a veritable
north pole hunt ahead OF him.