Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-13
cLEAnINes AND GOSSIP.


made 81 years ago. He has worn the
boots every day since. and has them
reso!ed once Q year.
| Mrs. Mary Emery. widow Of a mil
| lionare realty dealer of Cincinnati,
has bought a two-arce tract of land
! in that city to be made into PARK
solely for birds. Mrs. Emery intends
to spend S250,OO0 on the little park II
necessary.
| Troy. n. Y, has a huge water wheel
so feet in diameter, with buckets ~
feet long and six feet deep. 1t was
constructed in 1885, and the people
will not permit it to be destroyed. al
though it no longer serves any useiui
purpose.
| 4 shower Of brown beetles swept
over the section about Plainf1eld, CT
| just after sunset Wednesday. Fruit
trees were loaded with them for about
an hour, and people were driven IN
! doors. The beetles were med1um
brown in color and about half the
size of June bugs.
| Russia is becoming interested IN
| hydro electric power plants, and IS
examining into the matter OF elec-
| trifyng suburban divisions of it's state
| railroads. An investigation is being
made of our high tension transmits
sion systems. and it is probable that
| a new field will be opened for Amerl-
can engineers.
| Custer, S. D., boasts what is prObab-
| w the strongest water tank in the
| country 1t is on a ranch near the
town, and is nothing but large bank
safe set on its back. 1t formerly did
dut. in the line it was made for but
burglars blew the door off. A ranch
| man bought it, and it now serves as
a trough for cattle.
| There is a case on record in which
l a great fall of earth at Dover, in Eng
land, buried a whole family. A hog
| shared the fate of the family, so far
as to be buried by the same Landslide.
| Five months and nine days passed,
and then the hog was discovered
alive. Presumably it had had neither
| food nor drink in the interval.
Some one has figured it out that
| Paris makes about $6O0,000,0O0 year
| from tourists who go there from all
over the world. OF course this in
! cludes indirect expenditures, as the
hotels and restaurants do not get quite
| that. This country loses a vast sum
every year because of tourists who
go abroad in greater numbers than
| foreigners come TO this country.
At the annual dinner of the South
Motion barrier hunt, says the London
Graphic, Fred Day quoted from writ
| ings by a Greek author who lived $50
years before Christ, to prove that hare
hunting was the oldest sport in exist
ence One of the speakers said that
| there was not a man in his parish who
| would shoot a hare; another declared
| that in his district hares were looked
after as carefully as sheep.
Lord Archibald Campbell has pre-
| sented to the army museum in Paris
| curious relic Of Napoleon. This is
the flag which the latter flew in the
| isle of Elba during his captivity there.
| The flag is square, white and fringed
with gold, bearing three gold bees
and diagonal scarlet stripe. The
staff carries a white and scarlet scarf,
having also three gold bees. Napoleon
does not seem to have used the flag
he invented elsewhere than in the isle
| Of Elba, where he was dethroned
and captive monarch. In France. al
though bees We're always his emblem,
and were embroidered on his state
robes, his standard was the tricOlar.
japanese Wrestlers are not to be
confused with japanese opponents of
iiujitSu. The wrestlers belong to the
older school, in which weight is
paramount quality. 1t is remark
able thing that a race which is. on
the average four or five inches under
the European standard in point OF
height. should have produced spe-
cial cult of wreStlers who are giants
| in stature and strength. The leading
wrestlers of Toxic or Osaka or Hiogo
arc all men at least six feet in height.
and weighing, perhaps. 200 pounds.
They are a race apart, wrestling is
an occupation which has been handed
down from father to son for many
generations.
In an article on the cost of main
tanning the grand opera in Paris, the
| Matin says that at the last general
meeting of the opera house board
report was presented which showed
among others these figures. The ex-
pcnses for the season were 4.lOi,436
francs. The cost of each of the regu-
| lar performances was 20,25S francs.
and the extra performances about
l6. 900 francs each. There were even
ings. however, when the expenses ran
much higher Thus it took 10000
francs to pay for the new Faust"
decorations. and those for Norma
Wanna" exceeded $4,000 francs. while
the extra stage cost of "Goeterdam-
marung" was $1,000 francs.