Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-06
GIeanings and Gossip.

an English newspaper. had this death
notice the other day: AT Stratford- on
Avon, age Seventy-fiVe. William Shake
speare AT rest
South Africa owes three of her greatest
industries to Jews. De Pass developed the
whaling and guano industries. AndradG
that OF ostrich farming and Mosenthal
the wool and hide trades.
While the English vocabulary of slum
child of five. according to the obServa-
tions Of Il Scottish school inspector num-
bers only two or three dozen words. an
average middle class child of the same
age commands 1900 words.
An enormous man-eating shark was
caught in San Pedro, Cal. the other day.
1t was harpooned by some fishermen out
side the harbor ana lowed in. The shark
was y feet long and weighed over 500
pounds. 1t was to he exhibited by an en-
tcrpri&ing Snowman.
Peoria. ILL.,, claims the most remarkable
bycycHst i'm the world considering his sd-
vanced age. This man. Thomas w.
Davis. is now in his nth year and has
ridden over 100000 miles, He received
from the Century club Of America the
first prize for the 1902 mileage record.
The following doubtful compliment is Il
fragment from love letter: "IIow |
wish. my darling adelaide. my engage
m"nts would permit me To leave town
and come to see you, 1t would be like
visiting some old ruin, hallowCd by timo
and fraught with thousand recoIlec-
tons"
Banns of marriage that had been pub
lishcI twice were published for the THAI
time by the parish clerks daughter at
Ellington. Eng. on recent Sunday
morning. The vicar was away on a holt
day. and for some unknown reason no
other clergyman came to take the ser
vice.
Speaking i'm Toxic recently Rev. Dr.
Weldon an English school principal
said that in England corporal punishment
was coming to be a privilege Of aristocra
England
said. felt that the humiliation w+s really
only i'll the wronSdoing. not in the fog
Ging.
The gardens of the palace of La Gran
ia. where Alfonso and Victoria are spend
ing their honeymoon. are celebrated for
their fountains. Ono of them. tn, RanoS
del Diane. sbots to the height of 100 feet.
When this fountain WAS completed Philip
V. the builder of the palace. said: Well
it has cost mo three millions. but for
three minutes l have been amused
Asbestos stockings arc now being manu-
featured for use by wOrkmen in boiler
rooms and foundries. III these ard Other
situations the door often becomes mcom-
fortahly hot! though not hot enough to
burn through the solcs of shoes. The
workmcn in these positions suffer tor
lures from uthcir feet. and 1T is declared
that the noHconducting properties Of as
heStoS enables them to withstand higher
Temperatures with absolute comfort.
Fourteen years ago a bottle manufac-
turer. Claude Boucher in Cognac France.
was forced to close his factory by the
continuous $trikes and eXactiOns of his
employees. He then set to work to invent
n machine for the manufacture of bot
ties. This machine is now in use in vari-
Gus parts of the country: 2D,WD bottles
are turned out by it daily. a single ma
and any onr can learn to run it IN 4
week The bottles are stronger and look
better than those made by the blowers.