Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-29

ing made from plotting paper. The
we understand, in the fact that as soon
as you get out Of your depth, the blot
ting paper sucks up the water.
The sum of $4,000 was paid by
private collector in London recently
for an interesting Caxton volume sold
at auction Five small works We're in
cluded in the original oak binding.
The volume was discovered by chance
recently in the library of an old man
or house in the north of England. A
defective copy of Cations Royal
Book" was knocked down for $500 in
spite of the fact that another copy of
this work brought $11, 500 in 1902.
A. preacher of the 'sanctified sect"
| Rev. J. Z. Cooke, and a West Ashe
vile IN. e. high school student en-
gagged in a debate on the subject, Re
solved, that the earth is fat" The
preacher spoke in the attirmatfilive
and three of the five judges decided
that his arguments were convincing.
He made use of the Bible for evidence,
as, for instance, when he declared that
the sun, and not the earth, must move
to produce night and day, else how
could Moses have commanded the sun
to stand still? The minority judges,
who did not accept the cosmogony OF
the Old Testament, are reported to
have protested stoutly against the de-
csion of the other three.
| Giuseppe Pinsuti, who will run the
popular priced opera season at the
Academy of Music in New York which
will begin in September, expects to en-
gage the soprano Bellincioni. the versa
tile Camille Leygard, Mrs. Donalda,
| the Canadian prima donna, Blanche
Fox, (whOse stage name is Volpini, an
| INFLAMMATION of her name), who have
| been successful in Sicily and Italy;
| Miss GoLZaga for colorature soprano,
| the robusto tenor Franceschini, and
for lyric parts Armanini, SarOli and
DAM. DIAM has sung at the Metro
poiitan, Armanini has been a star at
San Carlo in Naples and Barcelona
in Spain, and Sarolis reputation has
been gained in Sicily.
A Paris paper, according to a trans
lation in the Indianapolis News, says:
Formerly the masters Of the house,
when they received, held their guests
to as late an hour as possible. 1t was
the age of the heroic ball, when they
danced until dawn. Today the longest
| soiree ends at o'clock in the morning,
and when our worldlings retire at 3
A. M. it is an event to be- talked of
the entire season. Now when the peo-
pie receive they appear to have but
one desire; to show their guests to the
door as soon as possible. The invi-
tations usually bear the words, From
9 o'clock until midnight" which, as
Nine x. remarks, appear to say: Il
| consent to weary myself in your COM
pany until midnight, but no later"
So great is the official prejudice
| against the stage in China that it eX-
| tends even to the children of actors,
and these are prohibited from holding
any post under the government. -Four
years ago the grandson of an actor
named Cheng was appointed transla-
tor to the Chinese legation at Berlin.
Cheng in his day was in the very front
of his profession, and ranked high in
the esteem of all classes OF society as
Sir Henry Irving did in his country.
Yet the nomination of his descendant
caused an cutlery among Chinese Of
| ficials, and memorial praying for his
removal was presented to the empress
| dowager. The new official, it was
pointed out, belonged to the caste of
factors, who ranked with BARRIERS and
| chiropodists as the three lowest class
es in the country. The younger Cheng,
however, was able to prove that his
parents Gid not follow his grandfather's
profession, so the appointment was al
lowed TO stand London Chronicle