Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-07
GIeaninqs and Gossip.

Miss ouri paper says that it is per
fectly true that it takes more than one
swallow to make Il summer. but that one
frog can make any number of springs.
A hushcl of bitumnous coal is different
in different states In Illinois. Iowa. Mis-
sour and Kentucky its weight is 20
pounds. in Pennsylvania &c pounds and in
Indiana 20 pounds.
Lord Wodehouse is the youngest mem
| Der of the British Parliament. being but
~. EIe is the son OF Lord Kimberly
and papa probably owns the borough
which returned him.
Some one has figured it out that 1896
| 900 people have been killed by earth
quakcs since 1887. II automobiles had
| been in use that long the earthquake
would look like life saving device.
The wife OF farmer who lives at
| Grand View. Ill. has become the mother
of four children during the past III
| months An effort should BE- made by the
| Two Million club to set this family to
| move to Chicago.
Kansas now say; that she has S. out
| of 1916 counties without = rauper. Twenty .
five counties have no almShuuSes and
= have not q single criminal case on
] the docket Eut not many people live
| in Kansas. after all.
There are three existing religions in
hina-ConIuCiHni:'m. buddhism and Tao
ism. but no ecclesiastical hierarchy is
| maintained ut public expense Most Of
the people are BuddhiStS. hut some. who
wish to he safe, practice all three.
1t is said that the ArchducheSs Clotilde
| Of Austria Hungary is :, bankrupt and
| that Sh" owes over $2.W1WC. The only
hope her creditors have * that the en-
peror Will pay her debts for her rather
| than allow scandal to grow in the royal
| family.
one of the principal reasons for the
final abandonment of the drum in-s the
| French army is the new short term serv-
| ice. 1t takes 4 year and y half to make
4 drumirer. 50 that no sooner would tn"
French drummer have become proficient
| than he would begin to get ready to re
| turn tn civil life.
Some If the people i'll Missouri are get
| ting interested III muSScl%. They do not
seem to care for them as = food. but over
$4,000 worth of musSel shells were sold
| to the button factories last year MiSSou-
| rianS seem to think that the bivalvcs can
| be raised in the Missouri river. and, in
| time. possibly rival that state bird. the
mule, as money makers.
An extraordinarily sudden death oc-
| CURED the other day i'll Paris. y scxa-
| genarian went to have his photograph
| taken. He Ssrt i'm ch;rIr before tn"
| camera. and as tn" photographer uttered
| the customary words. please don t
| move" down fell the old man on the
floor 1t was naturally supposed that the
| ScAaScnarldn was in a faintinG fit, but he
| waS in reality dead, as the doctor who
was sent for testified after d brief eX-
| animation of the body.
| There is a club ut Macon. Mo. SAID to
| have the most prominent young women in
the place for its 10 members. There is
| also Il young dentist living there who is
very popular Recently he went to the.
| club members and said that he had lot
| OF socks which needed to be darned He
| offered to give Il pair to each member of
| the club to fix M for him. and said that
| he would marry the girl who did The best
piece of work. 1t is said that the girls
| jumped ut the chance.
a boaStcr related to an admrnS crowd
some Of his marvellous deeds. Aftcrward
| Il smaller man who knew him well re-
marked to a friend that tn" booster. to
, his certain Knowledge. had never don" th'f
things he had claimed to have done. and
why" said the friend, didn't You call
him q lar then and there and let the
| crowd know Just what sort of ii man he
| is!" For tie simple reason" answered
| TIL" small man, that my nose lis of u
llamcd sight more importance to me than
his reputation is to him..