Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-15

| sWindling people as a fortune teller
| confessed the swindle and offered as al
| excuse for her business that few res
| pectable women could earn an homes
| living unless they became swindlers
| Employment in various reputable line
! of business had failed to bring her ever
a fair Lying. AS soon as she began t,
cater to public gullibility her incOm,
grew until she had money to burn
| The insect which is destroying cab
bage in Howard county, Maryland, ha;
been identified as the harlequin cab
bage bug. 1t came originally from
| Central America, and first appeared in
| this country in Texas in 1866.
A Maryland fruit grower has sue
| ceeded in raising crop Of peaches
| with skins as devoid of the annoying
| fuzz as is an apple. Next year he pro-
| poses to raise peaches with a skin that
| can be removed like that of an orange.
new way of loading" bale of cot
ton was discovered in a Georgia compress
| last week. A negro lad fell into a cotton
press and had the life squeezed out of
him while the bale was being made up.
Only when ties We're being put on the
| bale was the accident discovered. in time
to save the dead body being sent to mar
ket.
Seven Yale students passed their
summer vacation by serving as con-
ductorS on a New Haven trolley car
line. The superintendent says they
were the best conductors he ever had,
and they We're not members of the
football eleven at that.
AT Belleville. Ind, two justices of the
peace have put out signs stating that
they will marry couples free. They
are trying to put a stop to the matri-
rconial traffic among the alleged min
listers of that place, which is a Mecca
for couples.
The fact is noted that a suspected
thief lately arrested by the Kansas
City police carried in his pocket and
diligently perused while in custody,
not tale of blood, murder and crime,
but Beatrice Harraden's "Ships That
Pass in the Night"
A recent writer on the Baconian
theory says the disappearance OF
Shakespeare's manuscripts proves
nothing. Only two or three signatures
and a four-line receipt of Moliere are
in existence, and he was born after
Shakespeare's death.
Rats have already invaded the new
parts of the Massachusetts statehousa
in Boston and are doing much harm TO
the books and statistical reports stored
there, greatly to the disgust of the Gus
todians, who are at their wits ends
how to drive them away
A man in Brooklyn who owned a
suburban tract planted it in sunflowers
and obtained 100 bushels of seed to the
acre. He expects to get from each
bushel two and one-half gallons of oil,
worth $1.25 gallon. or over $500 an
acre. The pressed seeds and fiber also
have value.
Heat holidays have been established
by law in the public schools Of Switzer-
land. recognizing the well-known fact
that the brain cannot work properly
when the heat is excessive, the children
are dismissed from their tasks when
ever the thermometer goes above a
certain point.
Boston's great public library has Z
large and well-appointed room for the
exclusive use of children. The books
and magazines are on low Shelves and
children have free access to them with
out the Intervention of an attendant.
though one is always at hand to be Of
assistance if called on.
Glover sickness, a common disea GO
which often ruins clover crops. has
caused German scientists to make ex-
perlments. They have succeeded in