Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-16
cLeAN,Ncs AND GOSSIP.


Assembly for reducing the high COST ~
living.
In Great Britain watches with solo
or silver cases may not be TRANSMITTED
by mail without registration. Up TO
few weeks ago the same rule applied 10
all watches. The rule has now bceh
amended so that cheap Watches may
be sent by mail without being regis
tered
A Baptist clergyman of Syracuse. n.
Y. has plans for an apartment-house
church. costing 100000. The first
three floors are to be used for church
purposes, and the other three tor
apartments for young men. The Ger
gyman who has conceived the idea OF
this novel church is Rev. w. w. Daw-
ley, and his congregation is said to be
the largest Baptist congregation in
New York state outside Of New York
city.
Perhaps it is not to be deplored, says
the Congrega tionalst, that houses in
| the United states are so largely built
| of wood and less durable than those in
England. John Burns the other day
said thai there are 100000 empty houses
| in England and Wales because they
were built so long ago that they have
not and cannot be easily adapted to
| the modern cunvenences which endoW
the community with strong men, en-
during women and healthy children.
T)bacco is d government monopoly
! in France. Last month the price OF
| tobacco was advanced, and there was
| Il striking decrease in the consump-
| ton. The receipts from sales of to-
bacco during the month were $1S0.000
| less than in July. 1909. when the lower
prices were in effect. Also, last month
was the first Of a new scale of charges
| in the post-office department. Here
there was a lowering of the rates. and
| the receipts increased 100000.
George Clifford is raising successfully
| a rare variety of sheep on Hesper is
land in Puget sound. They are Kara
kt1ls, the sacred sheep of Asia. Mr.
Clifford was q missionary in Central
| Asia when some of the sheep were Civ
en- him in return for favor to a no.
bleman of BOkhara. and it occurred to
the American that if more were secur-
ed there might be profit in raising them
in his own country. When he had sue
ceeded In getting possession CT a flock
of so, he brought them to Seattle.
Wash. and chose Hesper island AS the
place for raising them because Of its
luXuriaht shrubhery and the similarity
For its climate to that of the habitat of
the sheep in Asia.
T. 1t is expected that the Chicago city
hau, costing 100000, will be ready for
occupancy before Christmas. within is
months after the corner stone was laid
| me last stone in the exterior was laid
| IN just II year after the work was be-
| gun. This rate of building has been
noticed in New York, and compared
WIN the rate at which munlcipal
| rtll"lngs progress after they are be-
gun IN that city. Tammany permitted
the work of constructing the hall of
recor@s to drag until everybody was
| weary, and the public library has been
IN process of construction for 10 years.
ann IS still far from finished They
| nave TO grant that even in Chicago
*on'e things are done better
| Inc Chippewa Indians on White
| carth rrserv otior in Minnesota are go.
| iES 70 nave hard winter. and unless
ire indian offic" sees fit to do its DUTY
or contributions are made BY friends of
| the indian there is likely to be good
zeal of suffering. Nearly all the crone
| ialieo, and berries and wild rice did not
grow on 2ccount of the dry weather
| me Superintendent of the Indian
silGol on this reservation, n. b. Hurr
bought $57.220 worth Of supplies "a food
'''e Dun" ana SICK InGians during the
summer. and has learned that he will
rni 4
l"e government is so remiss that the
SUPERINTENDENT has written to an arche-
o'oslst at Phillips academy, in Andover
appearing 70 him to produce money
| rom the missionary societies or from,
individuals.
Kansas City, No. has furnished the
world with the example of a man who
IS 20 years old and who has never
USED tobacco or liquor. has never told p
| lie or gone to a theater. has never
travelled on railroad train or a boat
on Sunday, and has never spoken an
ohklnd word to anybody. Also. he has
| never lifted his hat to a woman
Two new varieties of roses we're
SHOWN at the show of the National
| Rose society in the Botanic gardens at
LONDON this year. One of them is the
hayon dOr. which is hybrid of a
rlch yellow. grown from the Lyon. and
the other is the Morley. a dark Grim
son tea rose. which, it is predicted
may become the largest red rose in
| cultivation
Acton Davies. once a war corre
spondent, now the dramatic editor of
the New York Evening Sun. has de-
clared that rag time is passing. He
'hlhks that the Vienne operetta
music, with its pleasant melodies and
dainty rhythms. has had it's effect on
the popular taste, and that what .the
pubic really wants in it's musical en-
'ertalnments was shown by the way in
winch the revival Of THE Mikado" was
patronized in the spring.
Hayti continues the stronghold of
Voodoolsm. The main interest of the
people. as in all primitive religions. is
7" conciliate evil spirits, and to do this
there is long program of sacrifices
IN which the priests take part with
lhuch ceremony. Black goats and
fowls are among the animals most
frequently sacrificed. There is be-
lief in the existence of we'll disposed
spirits. but as there is no need To con-