Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-22
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

lnuld annually pTouuCco iiSc Ciop
of greater value than the American
cotton crop.
Necdle-makers and fle-cutters seem
to be the occupations most susceptible
to the ravages of consumption.
Northern Florida and 'northc,
Georgia can boast Of some Of the
largest tobacco plantations in the
world.
The average size of Australian sheep
runs is $4,000 acres, while sheep runs
in South Africa average .only 5000
acres. -:
The London Taller wants, to know
who is TO look after tine British West
Indies and what is to become of them
if the whole American fleet is sent to
the Pacific.
James Bryce. the British embassa-
dor, has taken pew at the New YORK
Avenue Presbyterian church, WASH
ington. He is member Of the United
Free church of Scotland.
J. w. Beers of West View, Pa, is
said to have one of the most valuable
shorthand libraries in the world. 1t
includes practically all the systems In
vented since the year 1900
San Marine is the smallest republic
in the world. 1t has but % square
miles, but has population of $500.
It's annual revenues are $4,000. It's
army has 900 soldiers and $50 officers.
Fresh figs raised in hOthouses in
Madison, N. j., are the very latest
novelty in rare fruits brought to New
York. They are about the size Of
big strawberry and are sold for 1915
a dozen.
A Hindu barrister thus excused an
absent client whom sickness had pre-
vented from coming to court: THE
man has fallen i'll. your honor, and he
has sent man here to say that he IL
lying and cannot come"
r. Sixty years ago Pennsylvania
farmer cut down a chestnut tree on
neighbours property. Recently the
heirs of the two farmers paid the costs
upon final decision of the suit. the
total expenses have been 100000
The latest secret fraternity move
ment began at the Ohio state univer-
sity, where students recently o.
ganized a Delta Theta Sigma society
to stand strictly for advancement in
agriculture and extend its develop
ment."
According to H. d. Curtis, says the
Army and Navy Gazette. the harbor of
Valparaiso is now 10 feet less deep |
than it was before the earthquake of |
August 16, 1906; the movement seems |
to have been mainly vertical.
Vice Consul j. X. Foster writes from |
Newcastle that experiments made in |
Queensland with the leaves of the |
pineapple plant have shown that there |
is fiber in them which may be used |
in the production of a useful kind cf |
silky cloth.
One of the Ohio girls who recently |
visited London aroused the fire OIL
some Of the editors by remarking that |
London was the biggest she had seen
ION this side of the ocean," The |
Globe scornfully asks whether
"Onehorseville, Mich" is bigger
Rugglcs (the book -keeper)-rm
more than half sick with the hay
fever. Ramage the cashier That's
bad. You ought to go to some place
where you would be sure of finding
frost. Ruggles-I'n do it. Ramase.
I'll go this minute and ask the old man
for raise in salary.-Chicago
Isaac Rice, the arch enemy of city |
noises has found that Paris is more |
rackety place even than New York.
and that London's Strand is the |
noisiest street in the world. 1t has |
been for years London's boast that it |
was noisy. The roar of traffic and |
can be heard above the mere /
rattle and bang of the thOroughfares, |
and it sounds to the acute sense of |
hearing much like the roll of thunder. /
Begin once to notice it and the nerves |
culver. 1t never ceases. for during the |
one unworking hour. from 3 to 4 A. |
NJ, the echo of million of London |
sounds will still reverberate in space.
London is never silent. Paris, how
ever. has spasms of quiet in it's more
quarters, though when it |
recommences it fairly shrieks itself |
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