Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-15
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A woman has been appointed for the
first time as member of the home Of
flee committee of the English government.
Her work will be the investigation of
factory accidents in which women and
children are concerned.
Boston has a Salome of its own. Sa
lome is a large swan whose habitat is
Jamaica pond and the shores thereof.
Salomes disposition is combative. muir
derous even, for she has fought with sew
eral Of her kind and killed them.
There is a decline in charity entertain
ments in England, but the alleged cause,
namely, that there has been SO much dis
honesty among fashionable women who
got them up that people have grown I'M
willing to make contributions it is hard
to credit
Town and Country observes that "out-
door counting is almost a national habit
in England" and further remarks that
England is the only country where you
see lovers walking with his arm round
her waist, and here and there stopping
to kiss
OF 112 dairymen from the states who
recently met in convention at Chicago,
roads in the creamery districts represent
ed by the dairymen are level and well
made, but not SO well made that the SO
owners of automobiles We're not anxious
to have them improved.
On the recent chilly May day the st.
Paul Pioneer Press, remembering Tenny-
sons poem about the queen of May, pub
lished this conceit: The following mar
conigram has just been received from
Styxville on the Styx: Hold Wake and
call me early, mother etc, until released.
Bill Tennyson."
The registrar-general of England has
recently discovered that no license to SOL
emnize marriages was ever issued to st.
James church, Stantonbury, although for
SO years couples have been married there.
Technically all such marriages are illegal,
and it may be necessary for Parliament
to pass special act to legalize them
The strike is becoming established as a
characteristic of educational institutions
as we'll as industrial plants. The latest
academic strike is reported from Adelbert
college of Western Reserve university at
Cleveland. The sophomore class went
out" because the faculty suspended two
OF their number caught hazing freshmen
in violation of the rules.
Grocery stores in Missouri are to be eX-
amined by the state dairy and food COM
missioner, who. will rank them according
to a scale in which ventilation and light
as the most important qualifica tions
will count most points. Grocers may be
able to advertise that their stores are SO
many per cent clean, just soaps are now
advertised as SO many per cent pure.
Minnesota formers are to have the priv
ilege of correspondence instruction in sci
entific forming at the expense of the
state; $4,000 appropriated for the purpose
will be spent by the Minnesota agrcul-
tural college. which will conduct cores
pondence courses, and it is hoped also
send trained men out among the farmers
to assist them in putting the teaching
into practice.
There are % princesses, six duchess, 70
baronesses, and eight viscountesses of
American birth. Mention of the large
number of princesses probably will come
as surprise to the average American,
but the fact is not as significant as it
seems. A princess in the generally ac-
cepted sense stands close to a throne but
several European countries have princes
and princesses by the score who are far
removed from royalty and really stand
low in the scale of nobility.-New York
Press.
There are five states in which steps have
been taken toward getting bills passed
that would result in the taxation of bach
elors. In some state legislatures bills
have already been introduced. 1t is sug-
gested in Wisconsin that a state bureau
be established whose work should be to
find wives for bachelors who would rather
marry than pay the tax. In Iowa the
plan of paying the money received from
taxation of bachelors to impecunious
widows and spinsters has been recon-
mended. These provisions are illustrative
Of the general character of proposed bills
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