Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-11
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

| A good carriage horse costs 500 in Aus
| trdIId now, the pf.Cc beng four time us
great now rs 1t WAS 10 years ago.
| ono ol til" newest dishes offered in the
| Missouri boarding houses IS candidate
hash. 1t is as much 81 Il mystery as Inc
Old kind.
The kaiser has just added ii Spanish
| uni urm to his stock of ClctIIes. and now
| is said to have the largest wardrobe IN
| the world.
| Scientists claim that they know that the
| earth is SrowlnS At least Temporarily
warmer because the size u many glaciers
| is decreasing.
Japan is going to have Il 81 10000 hott
| at I ok!o. I he J3pS are surely gong To
get back Dit vi the money they spent at
| portsmouth,
| Piltsburg is fast becoming known
abroad the city where the rich youn.;
| men marry actresses and the ron young
women foreign noDl"mcn.
| An Italian has invented machine
which prints railroad tickets as they are
nee ded. 1t can PRINT ana register 100 dit
fercnt kinds Of tickets with station, date
and fare.
| IIcut-Col Duff. who is the editor of the
Young Soldier. the Salvation Army Lon
don publication, Is the sister OF the duke
| OF Fife, .wh1 married the princess royal.
Col. Duff has written some cl the Army )
most popular music.
"A doctor says that everyone should
whis'tl,. for hall an hour alter ricalS -
i; greatly aids the digestion. He might
have added that if the meal bad D.cn
of canned meat it would be better to put
in thu tire blowing an automobile horn.
A French ocuESt has been experiment.
Ing us to the effect of high attitudes on the
cycsi3ht. He went up IN balloon anu
found that he could see much better when
high in the air. He a.yS the lcssened
pressure OF the optic nerve was the cause
OF this.
TIL. Massachusetts state federation Of
woncns clubs now represents I. total
| membership Of more than $500 women,
| bread.-Bostor Globe. But it is feared
that some of them are bit weak on the
Bertha A. Fowler of Lewiston. Me. Is
only T. but is an expert horsewoman.
She mas driven in 4 number 81 races, anu
recently on a half-m.lc track, drove Il
winner in less thar 30. She has been
handling horses since she " rs SIX and
knows about all there is to know about
them.
1t now develops that the recent eruption
of Vesuvils put an end to the oysters IN
the Dty If Naples. No foreigner Will
mourn the loss Of this mscrabl: apology
to amy extcrt but the Italians l tn, thou T:di
cano Gcll into the bay in such great duan .
titles that the bottom was ctVcred several
feet in lepth. This smothcrcd all the BIZ
valves.
tarians an opportunity that they are 1uic';
to improve. One OF them declares that
milk at five cents a quart Is cheaper
food than bocfstcak IL. - cents a pound
that 10 cents; worth of -four contains
more food value than 80 cents worth ot
beefstcak, that Il pound of oatmt al cost
ing four cents. contains as much 1901
value as pound of beefsteak costing 10
cents.
Booker T. Washington SAYS that there
is a Wallstrect philHn,hropiSt whose
gifts are far greater than people have any
idea of for the simple reason that he
never heralds his charity abroad. It IS
said that he is the mar who sent $50 to
relief fund and refused to allow his nam"
to be published. Mr.. Washington says
that the country will he much surprised
when he dies.
a clergyman returning from q western
trip. brought back this story from farm
town he visited H." VIZ the guest OF
the chief dish was b"efStcak. t. whose
touehnosS the visitor testified by con
Stantlv 81 wing with his lSnftc IT the chunk
on his plate. Finally the host thought il
necessary to do some thing to say" h'S
reputation for hospitality Its fine
meat" he remarked Mice and tender,
but yon see. we have to keep the knives
very dull on account of tn" children.
When Amos Kendall was postmaster
general at Washington. as the story goes,
he wrote one day the DoStmaster at q
little st alton on the Tomhigbee river:
YOU will please inform this department
how far tho Tombigbee runs M. to
which tho postmaster answered.: -
have the honor to inform the department
that the Tomhghee river dent run UP ~
all: X runs DOWN" In due course of NAL
came another communication On re
ccipt of this letter vour appointment a.
postmaSta >, will cease Mr.. --- has been
appointed your successor. To which
won't tine following reply: The receipts
of this office during tn" last year nave
been H31, ard the office rent more than
double that sum: please to kindly instruct
my successor to pay me the balance and
oblige."