Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-01
eLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

One of the Chinese oHlcidls mas
started crusade against the binding
of the feet of young girls.
With elections in this country last
ing as long as they do in England all
our politicians could afford to move 10
Ireland to live at the end OF ABOUT
two.
diamond ring which is on the mana
of it's owner cannot be attached III
Texas, according to the recent ruling
of a Judge He holds that it is wear
ing apparel.
A boy in New York has been given
90 wears in the reformatory for steal-
ing 81. If he had swped $1,O0o,ooo
thew wouldn't have taken the trouble
to arrest him.
widow with three children is
member of the graduating class at the
Waller High school in Chicago and IS
one of the most popular pupils among
her classmates.
A German has invented a safe which
is said to be burglar proof and is called
the roundabout. 1t is poygonal
steel affair which revolves freely on
| hall hearings. 1t is built into a wall
and is in constant motion when locked,
so that a burglar cannot get hold of 1t
to drill.
The cost of living doesn't appear to
have affected the immigrant station at
Ellis island. A contractor has just
submitted a bid for furnishing meals
| to our future citizens, and says that ne
will furnish breakfasts for five cents
each, dinners for nine and suppers Tor
| six.
The queen is trying to get King Ed
ward to give up his annual visit 10
Marienbad' next summer and go on q
Yachting trip to Villa Hoidore instead.
| This is near Copenhagen, and belongs
| to the queen and Queen Maud OF Nor
way Edward has never been there,
| but Alexandra is very fond OF the
place.
That the blood of q horse has the
peculiar property of actink as a styptic
and assisting the formation of cica-
| trix when applied to the medical pro-
| fact well known to the medical pro-
| fession The difficulty about its APP
plication has hitherto been how to OBJ
tain fresh rm-free horse blood in an
emergency.
England has lost her only cus-cus.
1t was taken to the London 700 from
in the climate in spite of the fact that
it was kept in q dollhouse. The Gus
Gus has head like Il rat, with eyes
that never close even while the animal
is asleep. It's paws are like those of Il
monkey.
Belgium is one Of the most prosper
Gus countries in the world as we'll as
the most thickly settled. The reign of
the late king was marked by an enOr-
nous advance in wealth and social re-
form. one of its great advantages is
that its international naturalization
permits it to do away With a navy.
and its army is very small.
A Bombay correspondent writes to
the London Times that a murderous
secret society has existed in the Dec
can for years. The Spectator notes
the avoWal of the young Hindu of
Mask. who killed an English magisi
trate on the theater sill, that ne did so
because his victim had sentenced a
seditious Brahmin to trans portation.
The murder of Mr.. Jackson means
that in certain parts of India every
civil servant who honestly performs
his judicial duties carries his life in
his hand" it says. THE cause Of
revolution is not likely to be furthered
by the assassination OF men like Mr..
Jackson. who was a distinguished
oriental scholar a man of high char
acter and noted for his extreme SYM
pathy with the natives"