Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-16
cLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

IlGIs tlIdt CuCHo topASNC'
a blind man passed his hands over
the Irize steer at the recent cattie
show at Henley. Eng, and then guess
ed its weight to the pound.
Now the awful fact comes out that
Jack" Binns can't have Carnegie
medal, for the Republic sank outside
of the United States.
A Massachusetts, man has dietary
scheme that will enable man to live
$50 years. But who'd want TON Mas
sachusctts ?-Cleveland Leader.
1t has just been recalled that Bene-
dick il, Much Ado About Nothing,
whose scene is laid in Messina, says.
II look for an earthquake, too, there"
The English seem to enjoy Carrie
Nation, and wherever she goes she is
sure of big crowd. the English can
lust comprehend her style of humor.
It is said that Siberia is destined to
control the butter trade of all Europe.
Last -ear it sent hundreds of thous-
ands Of pounds to Denmark and Ger
many.
When you wish to show person
how to use a revolver remove the CYL
inder, put on tine safety catch and
keep your finger Off the trigger.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Indianapolis News says that it
knows it is wrong, but most people take
a good deal of satisfaction when they
see a physician suffering with a hare
cold.
An Indiana congressman says that
the fircst poem in the English lam
He meant James Whitcomb Riley's
"Evargeline."
A judge at Clarion. Pa. was quaran-
tined III his home last week on account
of the illness of one OF his children.
But it did rot interfere with his duty,
as he held court over the telephone.
John E. Madden is to give a novel
entertainment on his kentucy stock
farm today. where reception will be
given for Nancy Hanks. the famous
old trotting mare. AS she was named
for Lncon's mother Mr.. Madden
thinks it fitting that she should meet
the public again on the centennial OF
LincoIns birth
The recent cholera epidemic in st.
Petersburg has turned the attention of
~
hility Of taking the city's water supply
from Lake Ladoga. which is nine miles
away, and one of the finest bodies OF
water in the world. The water would
lie brought into St. Petersburg by
gravitation and would prove of great
value.
Admiral Frank A. Cook, who was
the captain of the Brooklyn during the
Spanish war, went to wedding in
New Haven the other day. and the
bride made him cut the wedding cake
with his sword 1t was the one he
were when Ccrvera surrendered to
him, and was given him by his father
when he entered the navy at the be-
ginning of the Civil war
Arthur Ciiuquet tells, in L'Opinion. a
story of Napoleon and Butcher. The
emperor received the general at the
castle Of Finkenstein while he was
preparing for the siege OF Danzig. He
story and paid him compliments on his
military gifts, and Blncher, going
away delighted. described the inter
view to his aid-dc-camp. What a
chance you missed" exclaimed the
latter. "You might have changed the
whole course of history" How"
"Why. you might have thrown him
out of the Window" "Confound it,"
replied Butcher. $50 might, if only
had thought of it,
Prof. Barrett Wendell of Harvard
was laughing the other day at the
British censor's refusal to allow the
''Oedipus Rex" of Sophocles to be per-
formed in London. "Censors," said the
noted teacher and critic, ARE always
like that. Why. there was censor
once in Rome who licensed a play
called Widows and Septuagenarians
The second act of the play took place
in a restaurant. 1t opened with the
words, Waiter, a beefsteak.' Well. to
this speech the censor appended the fol-
lowing marginal note: When the piece
is performed during Lent the actor, in
stead of calling for a heefsteak, will
order an omelet or fish,"
mt. Everest has not been univer-
sally accepted as the name of the
worlds highest mountain. It was be-
slowed in 1851 by the Royal geogra-
phical society in honor OF Sir George
Everest. the surveyor general, who or
gained the survey of India upon a sci
entitic basis. The society overruled
an objection that the Neralese already
called the mountain Deva-dhunga
Gods seat ana Bhaiava Langur (hc
Terrific pass it being doubtful whcti,-
er these names referred to that partic-
ular mountain. On the continent Of
Europe many have persisted in calling
it Dawhisankar-a title Of the god
SILVA the destroyer and his wife. But
this seems to he really another peak
and Col. Waddell has found by much
inquiring no native name for Everest
but 1.-The White mountain"-a vague
term. Just like the original Mont
Blanc" of the Alps.
kipIine and the Bus Owner.
Annoyed by the injury done to one of