Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-24
Gleaninos and Gossip.

Representing about 80 schools, nearly
1900 public school volunteers We're en-
gagged the other day 1T Aldershot, Eng.
in field operations
one Of the pretties flowers Of autumn
is the cosmos. Don't neglect To plant
them, and plant now, as they are of
slow growth and late boomers.
1t should be the aim of every man
who raises horses to 50 breed, feed and
care for his stock that each crop of
fOals may be an improvement on the
preceding crop.
l. A. AleXien, Il st. Petersburg
cooper, who died the othcrlay, was
buried in Il cisk of his own manuf;ic-
ture. He looked forward to his burial
with satisfaction, as he was very proud
of the cask.
1t has been proved beyond a doubt
that incubatorS were in successful
operation among the ancient Egypt
ianS. These original Matching machines
We're about nine feet high, and We're ar
ranged with galleries for holding the
eggs, which We're heated from a central
oven. About 400 incubators have been
discovered i'll Egypt.
The Paris chauffeurs' league has ar
ranged for Il competition to test the
value of different kinds of motor car
springs. A vessel containing milk viii
be carried by each car, AMI the race
will be run over rough roads i'll a given
time. The chauffeur who arrives III
the end Of the course with the most
milk will win Il silver medal.
When any one with normal eyesight
stands at right angles to ray of sun
light ii is easy to see floating dust
PARTICLES which are not diScoverablI
with tho aid Of the strongest micro
scope. What is seen by the unaided
eye is not the particle of solid matter.
but the cone of light reelected from ii
and occupying a much greater space.
The opening of a bank with 4 capital
of $25,0oo in Tioga, Pa. would not.
under ordinary circumstances. consti-
tute Il notable event; but as the bank
is organized under the auspices of the
state grange, is owned and m:tiIaged
by grangers. and is designed to be tn"
first Of Il series of grange banks. its
opening is very interesting.-Ph ila-
delphia Record.
Andrew Jackson Buchanan entered
| the Western and Atlantic railroad
shops in Atlanta g. years ago last
October. His name is still on the pay
roll as 4 competent mechanic. though
| he is nearing his H1th birthday. The
| old gentleman shows few signs Of age.
sta nding as straight as he did at 40 and
moving with Il wonderfully elastic step.
Corn and bread are still offered by
the pious Basques of the Pyrenees to
| the dear departed on their death an
nivo rsary. a traveller in Spain
describes how, at San Sebastian, he has
often seen some poor fisherman's
| daughter praying in 4 church for a
| dead relative, ''amid baskets full Of
| fruit, loaves Of bread and corn, and
| kneeling upon the tomb of her
| ancestors"
The fire which destroyed the old
house of Parliament broke out on
October 1G, 1894. The present building
| termed the palace of Westminster was
| opened on November 4. 1852. ii stands
| on 4 bed of concrete Il feet thick and
| covers an area Of nine statute acres.
| II contains 100 apartments 100 stair
| cases and two miles of corridors and
passages. The great Victoria tower at
| the southwest extremity is SIG feet in
| hight.