Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-03
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

Over 100000 acres OF forest in Sibc-
ria belong to the car.
| Anyway the season for turkey hasl
and turkey soup won't last very long
| this year.
Col. Scott says that haZing is born il
West Point cadets. Yet most people
who have seen the corps were of the
opinion that the cadets were the re-
verse of the rule. made not born.
There is some talk of equal suffrage il
Munich, as the women there compete
with men in almost all lines of work
| They may be seen there carrying hOds
of mortar, sweeping the streets. split
ting wood and tending railroad swift
| oh IS.
The ne" assistant bishop of Stafford
and titu!ar bishop of Sevastopol, John
Vaughan, comes of a family which has
the distinction of having given seven
sons 10 the church. Six of TIE new
bishops brothers. including the late
Cardinal Vaughan. have distinguished
themselves IN various ecclesiastical Of
fees in the Catholic church. not the
least famous being Father Bernard
the Well-known Jesuit.
4 good many of us hoped that the
Teddy hear was a thing of the past
but now one has been put on the mar
ket which opens and shuts its mouth
and While doing so lights small electric
lights in it's eyes Whether or not ii
has prominent front teeth is not stated
If regulations recently issued by the
Connecticut national guard authorities
are enforced, the miltamen of that
~, G,,,l Il
cipline hardly less rigid than that of
the regular army. Among other rules
is the following, which ought to re1uct
cor silderably gossip and tattle around
the armores: deliberations or discus
sion among military men conveying
praise or cenSurc, or any mark OF APP
probation, toward others in the mill
tary ser, ice. ana all publications relat-
ing t. private or personal transactions
be tween officers, are prohbited.''
At the death of the duke of Yelling
ton the whole diplomatic corps was in
vited to the funeral at st. Paul's. The
French AMBASSADOR, on receiving his
invitation. was very much upset. He
hurried off to his colleague of Russia
Baron BrunnoW, and confided to him
the difficulty in which he was placed
1.-The queen" he said. expects us to
e" to St Paul to the funeral of the
luke of Wellington. How can [ go,
considering the injuries? What shall I
do" Baron Brunnow listened gravely
to his colleagues exposition and then
replied: AS the duke is dead he said,
II think you can safely go to the fu
neral If you were asked to attend his
resurrection. | should say refuse the
invitation.'
The best roo in tho world, alas is not
that of London. if we take as our cr-
tcr:On the number of inmates. London
has only 2512 animals. while Berlin has
21t3 and New York 4034. We hasten
to say that the result is not entirely
du" to proteStlun. The climate of Ber-
lin, though foreigners denounce it, Is
better for the purposes Of zoo than
London's. And New York has the
home market to draw upon. The ami
mails of the American continent arc
countless You can scarcely name I,
there are Il good many American ami
mails thai have no near relatives else
where. The very first marsupidl diScOv>
ored by Europe was the American OPP
o#sum. and neither Europe, Asia nor
Africa can produce an indigenous
member of that order.-LOndon Daily
News.