Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-25
GIeaninqs and Gossip.

1t is quite probable that som" one viii
carry out the invitation i'm the new Rus
sian prcmier's name before long.
Frcnchman has invented gun which
works electrically and can fire 1000 shots
a minute. 1t will cost something to run
it.
District Attorney Jerome says that his
three great weaknesses are eating candy.
cooking strange things To eat and making
y. H. Hartman is said to have given
his chauffeur 500 to give up smoking. lie
feared that the habit would weaken the
mans nerve.
The Oldest clerk in the government ser
vice at Washington is BOW 81 There are
tw" who are 80 and three Sc. while =
more are over Y.
Twenty-tiv- pianos have recently been
nut i'm the Kansas insane ASYLUM. Evi-
IDENTIFY an attempt to drive all the sane
insane.
King Carlos of Portugal l.; Offering FOR
sale some picture; which he painted. the
proceeds to go to charity. That Is one
l,way to get r4d of them, anyway.
San Francisco i now rejoicing and does
not care much about the loss at h'r busi-
ness heart The manuscripts Of Gertrude
Atherton's books were saved.
An order has been promulgated III San
Francisco that every able bodied man
must either work or get out. Til would
he a fine rule to put III force every where"
A recent hail Stnrm ut BrdnchNhlle. va.
Killed q great many fowls aud some 81
| III. hailstoncs were 50 larg" that Il sheet
| iron store house was riddl"d aud ruined.
| 4 Philadelphia PAL recently came out
with this heading: "Eird shot in his fic',
| and shoulder" 1t is commonly suppose,
that Il good sportsman only shoots q bifd
| on the wing.
| The latest vegetable novelty is the black
pntato. 1t has been introduced into Lon
don from the Congo, and IS Shld l" pc
| good to eat bat chiefly valuable ior III *
| ing ornamental salads.
| 4 New York girl recently underwent a
strange operation. She had Il weak %p"i
| in her spine, ami the surgeons GU y "ut
and Nraccd up the rest of her BACK Many
people need srch treatment.
| The author of a standard book on ma
| tbrm,tics has been convicted At Kansas
civ of forgery. The school children all
| over the country should c"lcbrat" MS
birthday as one Of en- caught az last.
| DIR. w j. GOndhuc. medical SUPER nt"nd-
cnt of tn" lcpcr settlement at Molnkoi,
| Hawaii. has devoted manY years L" IN
| study of l"rr' Sy and now saw mat j"
has discovered the germ Of tn" dScaS',
and that it is carried by mosquitoes ana
| Vrrmin.
| The Russians have MANY notable Gus
toms which have been handed down from
the earliest times. There is on" which X
the expression Of a religious bencdlction:
low on meeting. cXchanG" TIL" Glnrt-
Gus announcement "Chist"s N"Skr,&'
| Christ is r.scn,) On an Easter sun
dav the late Emperor Nicholas on lcav-
ing his apartment addressed this custom
airy phrase to the sentinel on duty. VII"
replied. so they say. sir tn" emperor
lastonishf d at this rcnly, inquired what II
meant and learned that the sentinel was
a Jew. II" gave orders thereupon that
no Jew was to be henceforth on duty At
| the winter palace on Easter Sunday.
| The oldest architectural ruins in tn"
world arc believed to be the rock-cut tenn
ples at Ipsambocl. on The left bank Of tn"
Nile in Nuba. The largest of thes" an
cient temples contains II apartments,
lhrwn out of solid stone. The largest sin
Gle stone used in this work is one which
forms a veranda- like projection along one
side of the main temple. 1t is 81 feet
long - bread and lone account says
I19-fent thick This colossal stone is sup
| ported hy two rows of massive SGuar"
Pillars four in each rev and each 30 feet
high To each of these pillars Is attached
n CniloSSal figure of . human being.
reaching from floor to roof. In front Of
the main temple arc seated stu other
lcoIcsSi four in number tho two largest
being each ca feet high. The runs are
supposed to II" 1000 years old.