Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-02

| that ne mas 10 pay Tie Hi6hooI Piehh
UNI of any one on earth.
| A girl in st. Louis recently demand
that the marriage service at the we'd
ding should be changed to read "love,
honor and humor."
| A boy in Washington Is said to have
captured a criminal for the police by
tripping him as he was trying to run
away from the officers.
| The real reason for all this Japanese
| trouble on the other coast appears to
be the immigration of 1855 Japanese
| into this country last year.
| Upton Sinclair is said to have an
nounced that he is ashamed that he is
married His wife probably feels a
great deal worse about it than he does.
The fact that Germany has sent an
ambassador to Washington who Is f.
strong golf player rather looks as If
athletics were coming to play an i'm
portant part in diplomacy.
| A party of sightseeing tourists stop
ped in front of the old flag vendors
stand opposite Trinity church and made
purchases as souvenirs. The inquisi-
tive one of the party. who had bought
an English flag, asked the old man
whether he sold many of that kind.
ooh. yes.' he said, 1.-The newly-landed
always stop here on their first walk
uptown and buy the flag of their coun-
try. 1t is an evidence of inconsistencies.
but they usually buy also United
| States flag to match. when I show
them how well they look crossed" The
young woman took the hint and added
| little cold Glory to her purchase.
| That's business said the old man,
with a twinkle-New York Tribune.
In Paris the school canteens provide
| a. varied palatable nutritious and suf-
| ficient dietary at a cost of under four
cents a child The meal consists of
three courses, is served with scrupu-
| lous cleanliness and. though simple. is
| more refined than the meals of fairly
| well-tO-do people often are.
1t was while Charlemagne Tower was
ambassador to Russia that a New
York City newspaper "spread itself
upon q fete held at st. Petersburg A
green copyreader produced this result:
Gas pleasing to the eye as was all this
decoration there was additional pleas
ure in the sight as one stood at the
head of the Prospekt Nevska. of Char
lemagne Tower, brilliantly illuminated,
looming grand and imposing against
tho winter sky."-Success magazine.
Red raspberires were a novelty Offer
ed for sale in Chicago the other day. A
fruit dealer last August put three
crates of the berries in cold storage
and had thom frozen solid. Lately
they We're thawed out and offered for
sale at 25 cents a quart. 1t Is said.
| though the red raspberries could be
kept fresh in a frozen state for three
years, the black raspberries treated in
the same way last August. has come
out of the ordeal entirely lifeless and
tasting like cork.-New York Tribune.
Chicago children infected with tuber-
culosis will go to school in the open air
IL a request to be made by the Chicago
tuberculosis institute is granted by the
board of education. The suggestion was
made in a report of Frank e. Wing.
superintendent of the institute. and
unanimously adopted by the members.
The plan is to have open air camps in
various parts of the city where chill
dren with consumption can attend. In
the stormiest weather the children will
wear heavy listers to protect them
from the cold.
eve do these things better. We pro-
vide steady jobs for men like King Ed
| ward. Sir John Macdonald and Sir Will
fred LaUrier." So Canadian paper re-
marks in reference to the coming end
| ing of President Roosevelt's career at
| the White House. The Canadians are
| certainly fond of giving their chozen
chiefs a long inning Sir John Macdon-
aid ruled the Dominion for nearly 90
1x-if1 nd <Io
| prime minister, Sir Wilfred Laurier, is
| in his 18th year Of continuous office.
Eskimo banquets last longer than
| any other, and the quantity Of
| food swallowed is also proper
| tionately greater. Ross records
| that seven of his party of ma
tives once ate continuously for
S3 hours, during which time they con-
sumed 200 pounds of seal meat. Eu-
| ropeans exposed to the same climatic
conditions act much in the same way
| Capt. Scott of the Discovery on his
return from his long sledge journey
| over the island ice of the Antarctic
continent. did nothing but eat and
sleep for the space of three days and
nights, and even then he was still hun
CRY.
| Probably the Oldest derricks still in
use are the two built at Trier, in Ger
many, in the year 1913, and the one
built in 1854 at Andernach, also in
Germany. All these three derricks are
built on the same principle. In the
middle CT a massive A-frame tower is
located the swinging or main boom,
20 by 20 inches, whose iron pivot moves
in Il pan shaped bearing cup On top
are fastened the guy ropes and the cap,
which is also movable. The derrick
can be moved by crossbars fastened to
the main boom. The load is chain At
ted by treadwheels 16 feet in diameter.
More than s1,0OO,OOO pounds of tobac-