Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-09-23
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

n Newark man says tndl MS Guy 10
doing better and that the better en-
forcement of law is bringing better
business. One man reports $2OOo more
business last month than in August of
the preceding year, and he feels sure
| that law enforcement had much to do
with the Improvement.
When the schools opened in Philadel-'
phia last week DR.. Zephaniah Hopper.
professor of geometry at the central
l. high school, began his 6Sth year as d
| teacher in the public schools of that
city. He was at one time acting pres
ident of the central high school. He
has mad among his pupils boys who
have become governors of the state
and have occupied other high places
in public or private business.
AS was to be expected, attention has
been called to the current use of the
phrase make good. j. Nj. Hart OF
Ithaca. n. Y, points out in letter to
the Nation that the new oxford die
tionary requires an object after this
phrase. whose meaning is ITO atone
| for" Ito perform" carry out. etc.
The American intranSitive use of the
phrase is simply a synonym for sue
| ceed.' In 10 years, Mr.. Hart suggests.
the photographers may have to enter
make good as a compound verb.
TennySon wrote "a versions of Come
| into the Garden, Maud" This illus
tratCS the long toll over artistic pro-
ductions that nevertheless retain the
character of perfect Spontaneity.
young man once selected one Of Ten
nySon'S lines az an example of what
seemed TO him a pure improvisation.
Tennyson heard his remark and said:
| II smoked II cigars over that line
William James, whose st. le appeared
as a steady flow of mental energy. did
not achieve his efforts or style without
revision.
The "tipless hotel idea is to take q
different direction in New York from
London. New York's "tipless hotel
will open in November and will be OPP
Grated by women for the exclusive use
of women. The rates will be from $3.50
| to Sc a week for room and board. IF
| that hotel succeeds financially and
makes it patrons happy" says the Ohio
State journal, it will do more good for
the woman cause than the Whole suf-
frage movement One good that it
will do will be to set an example for
| the men TO go anu 40 llkeN Use.
A misprint in line of one of Burns's
poems. published in Edinburg in 1881,
| has led to an amusing situation. The
| line, in some copies of the second edi-
| ticn of the Poems" read, 'Auld Scot
| lana wants nae sinking ware" instead
| of "Skinking ware When the error
was discovered by a student, the vol
umeS containing the error We're valued
more highly than those in which the
word was correct, on the principle that
| the book with the error was the earlier.
, 1t has now been learned that the types
| OF this edition were all reset and that
Ithcsmistake appeared in the book prin-
| ted the second time.
Bill Nye was enthusiastic over the
| sport of fox hunting, and strongly rec
commended it to young men whose
parents have amaSsed large sums of
money in the intellectual pursuits of
| hides and tallow." Fox hunting" he
wrote, combines the danger and the
wild tumultuous JOY of the skating
| rink, the tOboggan slide, the mush and
milk socable ard the straw ride. For
| the young American nobleman whose
ducal father made his money by in
| venting d fluent pill, or who gained his
great weight through relieving human
| ity by means of lung-pad, a liver
pad, kidney pad or a food-pad fox
hunting is first rate"
Oklahoma is having better wheat
revival" A train is travelling from
| town to town bearing lecturers and
demonstrators. who preach from the
car platforms what has been called the
gospel of pure wheat" In four days
over 10000 persons had attended the
open-air sessions at the railroad sta
tions. The wheat evangelists," as
they are the more readily called in a
region where the old-t!me religious re-
vival still affords an analogy, travel
on train of the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific railroad, which also is go
ing to help the cause by transporting
wheat seed at one fourth less than the
regular freight rates. .,Ix