Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-27
GIeaninas and Gossip.

Gleanings and Gossip.
TIE British fleet lost 90 men ir the bat
| tie of the jamestown exposition. They
all deserted.
A Montana editor is wildly indignant
because the alliSators down in Florida
may be eXterminated.
With the aid of steam heat ana electric
lights, vegetables and flowers are being
grown in Fairbanks, Alaska.
During his last illness Curran, the
great Irish Wit, was one day told )'y the
medical attendant that lie seemed II
cough with more difficulty than lie had
| done the previous day That's odd
enough" replied the sick one. 'becauS+:
I've been practicing all night"
Following a wager with friend, Il Lon
don paWnbrCker exposed for sale in lis
shop window for five days a hundred
guinea tS5G0) diamond, which lie priced ~
shillinss pence (56 cents). The article
article found no purchaser and the wager
was won by the pawnbroker
Th. value of the maple sugar output of
Canada is placed at $2,G00O0, which is
ST opposed 20 represent throt-severths of
the output of the world. The ddultera-
ton of foods act has measurably put Il
stop to The mixing of cane or beet sugar
with maple, as such mixtures must be
marked ''adulterated'' or ''compound.'
Point Barrow Alaska, IS Uncle Sans
fartheSt point north. a letter from In
dialapOlis TO Point Barrow goes first by
train to SEATTLE, 300 miles; then by ocean
steamer to Valdez, 1000 miles farther
north and west; then by dog slcds, over
ice ami snow, 27i0 miles more to the
north and west. The letter travels in one
direction $500 miles, all the distance in
American territory
The burglars wife was in the witness
box and the prosecuting attorney was
conducting vigorous cross-eXa'nnation
Madam, vOu are the wife of this man.?
Yes You knew he was burglar
wnen you married hiIn?" Yes" How
did You come to contract a matrimonial
alliance with such a MANI" Well" the
witness said sarcastically, Il was getting
old and had to choose between a lawy er
and a burglar" The ross-eXamination
ended there.
There are several ancient privileges at
tached to the post OF armorer to the KING
One of these gives him a right to dine
at the kings table at least once a week:
another enables him to demand a golden
goblet from his majesty once a year. Guy
Laking, the present holder OF the post,
does not claim either of these ancient
privileges. Oh state occasions, however,
he wears the gorgeous uniform of his OF
flce which is no doubt far more ornamen-
tai than comfortab'e.-Ti t-Bits.
In Il letter on the Mechanics of high
speed cars on curves" in the Street Rail
way Journal, the writer says that mat
ter of very great Importance on curves
of high-spced electric roads has been en-
tirelv overlooked by the engineers. as far
as is SHOWN by their published calcula-
tons This is the fact that the rapidly
rotating arnature of an electric motor
tends to maintain itself in its lire of mo-
ton and resistS very strongly any at
tempt to swerve it in any direction from
that line,-Ergineer.
I'D to this season it has been the GUS
tom of eastern yachtsmen to unload their
old craft on the New York MARKET bGt
This year now that the spring rush for
vacrf, is on. conditions appear to be
changed. ana the local boats are being
sent to Boston and to Philadelpnia. THIS
change has been caused in part by the
abortion of uniform racing rules along
tie coast. these rules having been adopt
ed first in New York waters. Boats TO
conform to these Jules We're first Dmlt
here. and odt-of-toWn yachtsnen ar.
buving them TO see how the rules work
in their own waters.-New York Tribune.
It las just been discovered by statistics
that the state agricultural college at
rimonv in the Union. A larger per cent
OF its graduates get married than any
other school 4 young woman graduate
at Manhattan is dCubly attractive 70 the
Young man looking for a wife In her
four-ycars' course there she has learned
much of practical housekeeping. such as
sewing, cutting, making garments, COOK
ing AMI similar domestic arts, wnie
ture subjects. This ruts ner in touch
with home-making along with her CLASH
cal training.-Kansas City Star.
The parents of Elton boys are mainly o.
easy fortune, ana the ciuCatton loI tiese
who viii be financially Independent is
probably the hest given: for youth so
unfortunate as to have to seek immediate
er1plovmcnt after it ii may he the worst.
To make it answer both purposes is to re-
uuire it TO fulfil some mutually exclusive
conditions aud the moral seems to he
that until it ceases to he n suitable place
of education for the rich the poor should
avoid II. For just as an excellent du"list
with Che pistol does not ind his skill
available when he has suddenly to de-
must Elton under present conditions in
evitahlv Re an unsuitable school for d.
rect hand-to-rand competitor in the max
ing of money a fact which parents and
other critics will Go well to realize.-Mac-
millan's Magazine.
Proud Fathcr-My child is only a month