Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-23
Odd Items Of Interest

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nese admitted into the Transvaal, there
are only $1,000 there at present.
Mrs Elizabeth F. Noble, of Mansfield
Mass, whose will has just been made
public, left &c. 900 to the Midnight Mis-
sion of New York and the same amount
to build drinking fountains for horses
and dogs in the streets of New York.
Four years only have elapsed since
the first indefinite news of the design Of
the DreadnouEht became known, and
now seventy ships, representing in
varying degree the adoption of the all
big-gun principle, are either bullt,
building, or about Immediately to be
authorized for the worlds navies.-
Casters Magazine.
A project is on foot to found social
clubhouse for the girl students OF
Boston. During the last school term
there were said to have been twenty
thousand girls and women studying IN
that city. The persons at the head OIL
the present movement believe IT WouId
be a great safeguard if a clubhouse on
the lines proposed could be established.
Galveston has not only displaced all
but one of her American competitors III
the volume and the value of her foreign
commerce, thereby RELOCATING Boston
to the fourth place in the column, but
was the only port in the United States
to show a gain in her exports and i'm
ports during 1908, all the others, in
Guiding New York, suffering declines,
as compared with the business of 1907.
The California Club, the largest civic
club in San Francisco has succeeded
p rth IF It
bank set aside as bird and arbor day
for the State. While the day is not TO
be holiday, all public schools ana
educational institutions are directed 10
observe it by including in the school
work such exercises as Will teach the
children the economic value Of blrds
and trees and promote spirit OF pro-
lection toward them.
1.-The expression, According %
Hoyle,' which is so often used by people
to verify a statement, even if it does
not refer to cards, has companion
among the people of Germany writes
an American from Munich. Here they
say, Mach Adam Ricsc' according 70
Adam Riese) when the statement is to
be considered fundamentally correct.
The name is that of great man a.
figures, who laid down study rules
hundreds of years ago which are sui
followed. His 4O0th birthday was un-
noticed on March 80 even at Anneberg,
where he died in 1852
Ida Fable Hansen, general super
visor of public schools OF Denmark,
celebrated her sixtieth birthday the
other day. She is said to be the best
1 Of
brilliant of the women of her country.
She was a pioneer in the work for the
higher education of women of Denmark
and after overcoming numerous OBJ
stacles gained admission to the uniVer-
sity, where in due time she was gradu-
ated For number of years she was a
teacher in the Normal College Of
Copenhagen, giving up that place IN
1903 to become general supervisor OF
public schools. She is the first woman
in Denmark to hold the office.
The increased cost of living in India
generally and in Calcutta particularly
is severely felt not only by Europeans,
but also by Indians, according to
of the London Daily
Mail House rent in recent years has
trebled, and even quadrupled. Ten
years ago a family of half dozen
persons could live in fair comfort Tor
81 900 a year, excluding extras. With
nothing less than $4,000 can they live in
the same way now. This is recognized
by the government, and the salaries OF
officials have been revised.
Domestic servants wages have in
creased enormously. A good cook can
60,
whereas half that sum was sufficient a
decade ago.
kissing the book seems to be on the
point of being consigned to well de-
served oblivion and England might
easily take pattern by the form of oath
that obtains in the Channel islands
The twelve rectors are ex officio MEM
bers of the states of Jersey and in COM
mon with other constituent elements OF
the same body they may be frequently
seen with the uplifted hand swearing to
the validity of the excuse that another
member is absent through illness. Ih9
custom has been handed down from
Norman ancestry that ever recognized
the sacred finality of putting a man
on his oath and emphasizes most
strikingly the parallel values OF lle
right hand and of mans pllghteo
word. "Poingdestre" is still Jersey
Guardian.
The Norwich education committee
has approved the holding of an open
air school at Belle Vue. in the Eaton
suburb of the city. from the middle OF
Nav to the middle OF October, Tor loo
children, to be drawn from the ele-
mentary schools on account OF some
nhysicaI weakness. This novel school
will be open from $3.50 In the morning
till $50 or 1880 at night The children
will be conveyed to and from the
school on tramcars and will have three
meals a day there. The school will be
open for five days a week for twenty
weeks and voluntary contributions VIII
be invited toward the cost of the meals
provided The object is to improve the
children physically and enable them
the better to receive their education
London Standard.
You read about that iron worker
being killed by a fall from the Man