Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-25
cLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

1t is said that Clyde Fitch had three
untried plays in hand when he died.
Most dramatists can beat that record.
The Charleston News and Courier
rises to remark "There's no place like
Charleston" Is this a boost or an
excuse?
Mr.. Bryan is having windbreaks
built about his Texas ranch The
Democratic party appears to be get
ting excessive.
A good many people are beginning
to wonder what effect the discovery
of the pole will have on the price of
coal anyway.
Alabama appears to be wildly en-
thusastfc on the subject of prohibit
ton. 1t now wants a dry clause tack
ed or the constitution.
The man who claims to have found
a new way of curing tobacco should
be suppressed until the coming cam
paign is over.
The Buffalo Express says that the
prohibtionists at Niagara Falls have
nominated a full ticket. 1t would be
a sad thing if the falls went dry.
There is only one thing more which
can happen to make the COOkPeary
controversy unbearable and that is to
have the two great political parties
take sides.
John, will you get some CASTLE soap
while you're in town-those long bars,
you know" YES, l know the kind:
but shall I get the pistachio or the
vanilla?"
Explorer Peary's friends explain
that he wanted the honor" He
might have established a clearer title
to at least half of it by the simple
| expedient of keeping still.-kansas
City Times.
The Methodist churches in Ohio will
have no clocks in future. The recent
conference there voted to abolish
them, as they distracted the attention
of the congregation and pastor alike.
Under the new excise law in Mchi-
gan it is illegal for any college student
to enter a building where liquor is Of
fered for sale The university of
Michigan will need a championship
eleven this fall.
Every year since the death of the
prince imperial ex-Empress Eugene
spends q few weeks at ChiSelhurSt,
but seldom leaves the castle grounds.
This summer she took q little trip over
the Killarney lakes in a motor boat
with the Princess Eugene Bonaparte,
who, it is supposed, will inherit her
vast fortune.
Cancer is unknown among the lGSki-
mos and they suffer but little from
sickness. They have no physicians
and no names for any drugs. Most
of their food has iodn in it, which is
one of the most powerful and least
harmful Of antiseptics.
The duchess of Bedford is a great
bird fancer and in a recent article in
an English publication gave some in
teresting figures on the longevity of
birds in her own collection. A Bar
barry dove, which she has had for Is
years. was given her by a woman who
owned it Is years and said it was old
when she got it. The duchess has
Chinese goose that has been in the
family 81 years and a pintail drake
which she has owned for IS years.
In the building of theater galleries
and grand stands the supporting
strength of the structure has to be
carefully worked out. This is done by
multiplying the area in square feet
| by the pressure which it is estimated
a crowd eXerts to the square foot, and
making the supports proportionately
strong. At one time the weight of a
crowd was determined at between 50
pounds and 102 pounds a square foot,
but experiments have shown this to be
a great underestimation, and the
weight eXerted is now calculated at
from 1923 pounds to 133 pounds.
When the first international congress
for the suppression of street noises is
called to order in Berlin in June, 1916,
there will be representatives, according
to a statement made by Mr.. Borden
green of the society for the better
ment of London, from the United
States, England, Germany, Austria.
| Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and
Denmark. by that time" says one
of the New York society, "the objects
of the organization will have become
better known, and we will have out
lived the ridicule with which the noise
fighters are now looked upon" AT
the London conference, where the
question as to where to hold the first
congress was determined, it was also
agreed that the second meeting of the
kind be held in New York in 1912. I'M
der the direction of Mrs. Isaac J..
Rice.