Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-20
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

It is now the fashion in France for
schoolboys to have their heads shaved fs
There are over 2,OO0.0oo poles Used III
thls country every year TO strina wires
on.
a girl at Brooklyn says that she ri,
write 50 words minute on a tvpew,itar
and talk at the same time tf
Miss Ethel Roosevelt is to make her
debut into Washington society at 4
great ball which is to be given at the
White House on New Years eve.
The official announcement that The
jamestown exposition is now finished
may recall the fact to some minds that
such a show was opened a few months
ago.
The Hague conference wants balloons
restrained from dropping bombs on de-
fenselcss towns. Why rot empty cham
payne bottles too?
1t is said that Croker has been offered
Siw,mO TO write an autobiography He
could probably collect more than that IN
New York b. promising not to do it.
IL is said that every time the kaiser
visits one of the German naval bases
that all the old warships which are OF
no use are lowed to 4 place where he
can't see them. -
The editor Of a Houston, Crexn, paper
says, proudly: We adIather have the
toutlIache in Houston than have our hi ad
sfampoded by lady barber il Rich
mond Va.
4 man who is Is and who lives at
Provide nee, X. J., claims that. he has
meerschaum pipe during Ibis life Ha
smokes his pipe practically all the Tins
he is awake. MI
The Long Island Judge who recently
sentenced burglar to ~ years III pris-
on says that he was very lenient But
the burglar could not have served much
more unless he had stolen a milk bottle
when lie vas hungry.
1t seems that Vassar has always been
the most popular college in this country
among japanese women and now the Chi
nese seem to be following suit. Several
girls from that empire are going to en-
ter NaSSar this tall
Gov. Cumrnins, al recent Chautauuua
lecture, said that IL Adam had secured
q job which earned him $3.50 q day and
had worked steadily at it ever since
without blowing Eve to any frocks from
the rue dc Ia PaiN that now he would b3
almost as rich as John d. Rockefeller.
The University of Chicago seems to
be trcadinG on dangerous ground or else
1t has got enough slowed away in its
stocking. One Of the professors now
saws there is q possibility about a mans
being sincere Christian who is engaged
in getting rich under modern methods.
a policeman at LoganspoTt Ind, or
dered Il United States army recruiting
sergeant 10 take in a United States flag
flying in front Of his Office last week.
as the policeman said it was against
the LoGansport ordinances to t'y a flag
without permission The soldier pulled
out his revolver and told the policeman
70 80 ahead and Try to take ii down.
Since then the policeman has found ont
that he could lie given three wears for
trying to pull down a flag flown in fed
eral jurisdiction
antonio Baroni. an Alpine guide. has
just announced his retirement after 3
years Of hard work. IL has plotted
about the Alps Ills early manhood was
spent in the Austrian army. but in 1874
he took up guiding. He was one Of the
first 10 climb the dangerous Corda ds
LaEo and has climbed most of the peaks
from Monta Rosa to Antelao. and from
the 1iedmont"se ice peaks to the D,lo-
mites OF Cadore. He has been given
two gold medals by different Alpine clubs
for his daring work II