Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-17


been formed to carry on work against
what is called a pest, and the society
would like to be able to pay 4d eight
cents for every 100 sparrows killed and
&c (sX cents for the eggs. The farmers
have been slow to respond to the propo-
sal of a penny per-acre payment.
Two religious sect who hated one an
other bitterly We're found by Sven Hedin
in Thbet. Searching for the cause of this
aversion, he found that one of the sects
believed that the prayer wheel should
turn to the right, while the other was
convinced that the wheel should turn to
the left. In the region of the Bramapu-
ira he found mountain which is so sa-
cred that whoever walks around it Is
times has all his sins forgiven. The re-
suit of this belief is that criminals from
far and near infest this region. When
Sven Hedin started to ride around this
mountain on his horse the pilgrims in
formed him that that would do him no
gocd.-Indianapolis News.
In a recent decree affirming the deci-
sion of a lower court to the effect that a
city is liable for damages or injuries
sustained by participating persons
as the charivari, under the statute which
makes municipalities liable for all dam
ages arising from the action of mobs
within their limits, the supreme court of
Kansas says: THE object of a charivari
is about as barbarous as the pronuncia-
ton of it's name. Whatever liberation it
once had has long since passed away.
Even when in vogue it was often attended
with violence and bloodshed If it ever
was allowable to direct a jury that such
ar assemblage, with all its tumult and
confusion, was not a great provocation to
those annoyed and insulted by it, that
has passed away.
The researches of Professor Flinders
Petrie at Memphis have resulted in tn
urearthing of the palace of King Apries,
the Pharaoh Hophra of the Scriptures
and a contemporary of jeremiah. Armor
and bronze figures of gods were found in
the ruins
HoathO, a Chinese physician, who
lived in the third century, gave his pa
tients a preparation of hemp, where
by they We're rendered inscnsible dur
ing surgical operations. The soporfic
effects of mandrake are mentioned by
Shakespeare.
when you're in doubt about a mans
title said General Jared A. Smith L.
S. A.. than whom there is no better
authority on the subject of military
courtesy, 'try him with a title higher
| than you think he is entitled to. If
you overshoot the mark he will invari-
ably correct you; but no matter how
often you miscall his rank by failing
| to extend to him the courtesy of the
| title which is his own, he will never
fail to answer, thus offsetting your bad
manners by his politeness. Remember
that it's the hight of bad manners to
call your medical friends Doc or even
Doctor unless you add the name to
the title" -Cleveland Leader
Chief Engineer Burgess, of the Hon.
duras National railway, giving advice
to engineers working in the tropics.
says emphatically, Don't get LOST"
He adds that man should no more
think of going into tropical forest
without a compass than of going alone
to sea without one. Without compass
one has no way of getting his direction.
In a few minutes he is turned round.
The sun can only be seen. if at all,
when directly overhead. There is no
moss on the trees to serve for guide
Distant elevations, or mountains. if any
exist. can not be seen on account of the
density of the forest. Even on the
treeless llanos of South America, where
the mountains are too distant to be
seen, the compass is the only guide.
One can tell the direction east and west
at sunrise and sunset, but in the middle
of the day the sun is useless as
guide because it is almost directly
overhead, and often one may stand in
the shadow of his own hat.-Youth's
Companion.
Mr.. G. r. Neidinger, of Bettsvlle,
o., is the proud owner of q cat named
Roosevelt, which has killed (according
to careful calculations) 45,G25 rats dur
ing twenty-eight years of useful life.
The cat has outlived two masters, and
| is thought to be the oldest cat in the
world. Roosevelt has lived for more
| than twenty-five years in Bettsville'
and has maintained a high daily death
| rate among the rats and mice OF that
| pleasant town. BY continual activity,
| his teeth have been kept il unusually
fine condition, and Mr.. Neidlinger has
not spent n dollar on the cats dentist
bills in ten years. Roosevelt works
seven days in the week
| Among the latest vaudeville novelties
in Paris is a bicycle act which is re-
ferred to on the program as the
whizzing globe" In a great wire cage.
| globular in form and about twenty
feet in diameter, man sits. mounted
on bicycle. His wheel rests on rim
| of narrow wooden Stats which extends
in circle around the inside of the
globe. The man pedals vigorously
and the globe, resting on an axle and
free from the floor, is set in motion
the revolutions being in keeping with
the rapidity of the wheel on the inside.
The show is not half over, however
when the man energies and makes his
bow, for in the second act another
wheelman takes his place on the top OF
the globe and, while the great cage -
whizzing, impelled by the bicycle rider
inside, the man on top maintains ms
place, the wheels of his machine spin
ming around in harmony with the
globes motions Nss