Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-22
eLEANINcs AND GOSSIP.

Now the queen of Holland comes to
the front as a scientist. She mas IN
vented a baby carriage.
Some one has made the awful dis
coyery that there are only 10 weeks lett
to do the Christmas shopping in.
Simmons college in Boston boasts
that it is the only place in the world
where woman are taught how to man
age lunch rooms.
A sheriff in the West chased a bank
rohher recently until the man dropped
dead This is one way of catching a
thief.
Nineteen fatalities resulted from
baseball during the past season, but
the game probably saved good many
more lives than that.
A man committed suicide in the Nj
agara whirlpool the other day and left
word that cigarets drove him to it. He
had only smoked them 40 years.
Fashions seem to have the faculty of
running backward so it will come as no
surprise that they are trying to revive
the style of wearing ornamented gloves
in Paris.
A German writer says that if you
you will know him better than if you
talked with him year. 1t may hap
pen, also, that you will wish you had
not met him even for that hour
Miss Helen Gould has given $150,000
to the American college for girls at
Constantinople. The college is about
to move from Scutari to the European
side of the Bosporus. DR.. Mary Mills
Patrick, q native of Canterbury, n. H.,
is the president.
Or. Ivy E. Woodward has been adj
mitted to full membership in the Royal
college of physicians of London. 1t is
the first time in it's history that this
body has conferred the coveted NJ r.
c. p. on a woman, although some wo-
men have obtained the l.. r. G.. F..
which latter indicates that the holder
has been licensed to practice the med
zeal profession.
"Rostand's 'Chanticler.' about which
so much has been written and-imag-
ined, e writes Il German correspondent
from Paris, will be produced at the
Porte st. Martin theatre, early in No
vcmber. The secrecy with which the
play and ell about it have been guard
ed still continues, and the director has
been Instructed to exclude all persons,
press and all, from rehearsals. The
public has become so thoroughly excited
because of the methods employed by
the author that 10000 francs has al
ready been realized from the sale of
seats. Some parquet places for the
opening night were sold for 10 francs
each
Miss Kate Bernard, state commits
Sioner of charities and correction for
Oklahoma, is making a tour of the cas-
tern states for the purpose of studying
social conditions. She first came into
prominence during the statehood cam
paign in Oklahoma. Three of the
planks in the state constitution relar-
ing to child labor. compulsory educa-
ton and tie department of charities,
were drafted by her. After being made
commissioner of charities she exposed
The way in which the state of Kansas
cared for the prisoners entrusted to it
by Oklahoma, with the result that the
contract was broken and Oklahoma
now has model penitentiary with a
night school and a baseball team.
People all over the United States and
Europe have got tine idea that you
can't get piece Of bread and butter
in New York for less than its weight
in silver, nickel or copper. All this
comes of hearing a lot of talk about
the st. Regis and few other such
places where some handfuls Of newly
rich nay absurd prices for food, drink
and beds. Now if New York visitor
takes a notion into his head to sit down
in silver spoon cafe and hand ont
money to everybody, he certainly will
need big bunch, but if he wants to
live on the right food for about Is or
20 cents a day. the trick can be done
here, perhaps little better than any
where else in the wOrld.-New York
Press.
The industrial village if MneviIle n.
Y, near Port Henry, is gradually be-
ing transformed to one of imposing
buildings OF concrete. The village is
near some rather extensive mines and
is in the heart of what was once a
great forest, hut wood is now being
supplanted FOR all purposes. 1t should
be stated that one of the factors thai
led to this extensive use of concrete
was lIlt ECSScSsoloIl ny lIlt CoUlEdiy III
very superior aggregate in the shape
of the "tailings" or residue left after
the separation of the ore. An immense
heap of these tailings gives a seeming
ly ineNhaustible supply of aggregate
ami tests have proved that cement
mixed with the run of tailings in the
proportion Of one to five produces a
very superior concrete block without
the addition Of sand or gravel
This story from the Buffalo Elk
press: Two friends of a about
town arrived in the city about 10
o'clock a few evenings ago. They
tried to find their friend at the hotels,
but failed. Finally they took taxi
cab and rode out to the man about
towns house. A woman came to the
door. Does Mr.. So-an-sO live here,
inquired one of the visitors. Yes,
the woman replied, gazing at the taxi
cab. Bring him in
A note in Knowledge calls attention
to an estimate of comparative
geological time made by Dr. II.
Schmidt of Jena. Assuming that the
whole Of geological time is comprised
of 100000 years, then it is esti-
mated that 20 600 900 or rather more