Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-22
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

A New York woman recommends the
abolition of alimony as a means OF pre-
venting divorce. WhereupOn the ON
aha Bee says that someone is sure to
charge her with 'womans inhuman-
ity to woman"
The Rochester Post Express notes
the incident of New Jersey girl
marrying her tiance's chum for a joke,
and remarks that she will probably
find that the joke is on herself and
that the Tilted tiance will have the last
laugh. newspaper which reprinted
the Post EXPRESSES paragraph scrupu-
lousy spelled it fiancee. which some
what complexities matters.
The frankness and picturesqueness.
to say nothing of the originality, of
newspapers irr the West, continue to
excite the admiration of the bromide
East. The following from the River
ton (Wy) News would be hard to
beat: "Jenkinss ribbon counter ape
got poked Tuesday night so hard On
the Adams apple that he could taste
cider. He has no license to butt into
conversation in which several gen.
tlemen were engaged"
out by the Chicago Inter Ocean as the
successor to Frederic Remington as a
painter of western life. Many of Mr..
Schreyvogers paintings have been of
scenes in army life. and the Denver
Republican. granting his excellence in
this line. takes exception to the char
acteriZation of him as the greatest liv-
ing painter of western life as d whole.
This honor. it says, should fall to
Charles NJ. Russell of Great Falls.
Mont.
IF w. W." the social and esthetic
mentor of the Rocky mountains, says
in the Rocky Mountain News that to
picture the man who during hard
working life has won a million dol
lars as an utter vulgarian is the hight
OF absurdity. In their careers they
must have brushed up against some
social life he says, and argues that
"the capacity which enabled the man
to acquire large fortune shows an
intelligence which must be sufficiently
adroit and alert to absorb some of the
little niceties of life" The incest peo-
pie" in Europe. he says. are the
wealthy Americans who form colonies
in London. Paris and Berlin. and most
of these have fortunes dating back
only one generation.
The house in Cough square. London.
in which DR.. Johnson lived from 174s
to 1853 is not ito let" according to a
London newspaper In this house the
famous dictionary was. in part at
least. complied. the photography being
confined to a room on the top floor
6nr Ex,a e.s, toto
under the masters eye. Johnson's
tenancy of the house was not alto
gether a fortunate one, or not at any
rate until the last year, when he began
"The Idler,'' and when, as has been
said of him. he was in "as easy and
pleasant state of existence as con-
stitutional unhappiness ever permitted
him to enjoy" His wife died in 1852,
and he became more than ever gloomy
after that event. and he was arrested
at the house for a debt of $50
The president of the jackson comfy
(Mo.) medical society said recently
that the prevalence of disease in sum-
mer depends upon the activity of dust
and flies. The particular danger. ac-
cording to this authority. is from the
exposure of dust to food and he ad-
vises against the purchase of any food
that has been so exposed. Fruit, vege-
tables and meat should be kept under
glass covers. But this is not the worst
of the situation. for from another
part of the world comes the informa-
ton that flowers contain the germs of
many diseases This Is stated by DR..
Walsh of London. who traces cases of
skin disease, catarrh and nauea to
lilies, roses, narcissus and gardenias.
The germs which cause lilly RASH
are explained to be the plants pro-
lection against snails.