Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-26
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A couple of New Workers recently got
into row over some trivial matter and
now one of them has shown his temper
in an original way. He bought :he land
next to the other mans homs and -
building a Sa1dce there. He "a s that h :
Is going to have automobiles running and
blowing their horns near the PLACE At all
hours of the night 50 that his cN-friend
cannot sleep. The friend could iirre than
get even by making him a present OF an
automobile.
New Zealand surgeons have accom-
plished remarkable feat. Harley WI
llams of Wellington was hurt in an acct
dent which destroyed his right hand and
burned the sole of his right foot so that
ii was impossible for il to heal without a
new skin. The surgeons strapped the
snel"ss foo. closely to the inside OF the
left thigh and allowed it to grow there.
After the foot had grown on to the thgn
it was cut away the skin Of the thigh
adherinS to the foot. The patient recoV-
cred.
! London feels the effects of the fresh air
| fad. A writer says: Il have encountered
a baby, born last summer. who was set 10
sleep in Chelsea garden during the h9i
weather. When the temperature dropped.
the careful parents brought the baby into
the house at night But the infant was
throughout the winter. that child mas
slept peacefully in the garden i i
well wrapped up. and tarpauln guard;
| it from SNOW or rain. But il is Il flne ana
healthy child. and a compliment to the
fresh air that London can provide At
night
Germany boasts an astronomer who
probably approaches nearer to being ,
centenarian than any other scientist q
equal cminence for many years-Herr
| Gale. who last week celebrated his 9'tn
birthday. Although he lives quietly ~
| Potsdam and is seldom heard OF IN PUB
| lie. GALES discoveries. created sreat
sensation throughout the civilized world
| in tho middle 10Th century. In lS~ ~
discovered three new minor planets s dnn
six years later acquired fame Whcn
will endure so long as the science ol r.. H.
tronomy survives by revealing to the
world the planet Neptune.
Col. Milo Kosterlsky, commanding Ine
rurales at Sonora, Mex, whose preSenc"
nuellcd the riot at Cananea. is terror %
evil dCers. both savage ard civilized: am
is admitted to be the strongest miiltV o..
character on the Mexican frontier. ho, pr
birth he was Russian. In Isl, beng
then a soldier in the United St1tHs ci'a,
~. he deserted in Arizona. escaped ~ i,
Sonora and obtained a commission IN ore
doned him through the intercesslon OF Inv
president of Mexico He is st rnnG
friend Of American interests i'll M"x .,,o
and his promotion to high RAM, under ~
DiaZ administration is expected
Sorrow rropcllcrs. like most other invru
TONS had great difficulty in eetI'nS
lr""""rition from authority. For insta rrr
Sir William Symonds. surveyor mo 1irna it
''idl DESIGNER 10 inc fSIltiSii
could not he brought to believe ir I'M
He declared that steamships Of any o wv
We're ''monstrOus'' and that the -,
was impossible. The day came Wiz
choice between paddle wheels Ind SER,
propellcrS had to be made. Inc Iiarn
authorities tied two ships stern to Slt,nS
and when the scrcw-propelled vessel "I n
triumphed over the paddl" steamer .ho
this ludicrous tug of-war. the lords Of ~ ~
admiralty felt justified in modelling ''
British navy anew.
The late DIR. Peters used to spend ia
summers at tho Profile house IN ~"
White mountains, and was one OF sty ia
which made tho early day socia, IN n
there famous. That group succcedem -
hnmbucging =. r. Barn,im They Werr
sitting on the piazza, one afternoon fence
Dr. Peters proposed q race To W n
about 70 yeards awav. the last mann man
touch it to paw for champagne Basfndied
saw many men there less ahie-oo. ~,
than he and was willing to come ,r,,a
what seemed to him an easy thing, the
race was run and nobody touched III,
fence hut Barnum. He was chp' h,,,
about the champagne. saying II was ngn
Just he should take little or MS SIN
medicine once in a while.-New YORK Sun