Daily Kennebec journal., 1907-11-05
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

Chicago Says that 1U.rye carloads "f
froish- viii lie passing through Lcr sub
way eacli day next month.
Padcrcvski is said to play bridge about
rs we'll as he does the piano. There is
40 reason Why lie should not return home
rich now.
The educatiun Of tie crown prime" Of
Spain is not being neglected. lie has
fcen given Teddy bear to play with
v liilr in England
The fact that eight illuo!,s tew half
way across the continent and no one was
hult proves bdlloonlng to De safer than
;tut"nobiing anyway.
rle president of tlt university Of SNra-
cu&c wants the college course |, lgthened
tn five years. Docs he want to keep that
football eleven in college indefinitely:
4 man in Pennsy lyania las Just been
sentenced 10 1J5 years i'm the peni'entiary
for murder il Tie second degree This is
almost as severe as Il life sentence"
The decree comes from Pa,is that hisi.
heels on NoIlcnS shoe" are had foitG.
That is one Of tie tow fashion rules
which las any sense that has COME from
France in months.
About irO fan.ilics on t" last SHE
OF New York have been ordered to Va
cate thcir homes before November l.. as
the city is to tear down lot Of houses
to make room for d bridge terminal.
In Kansas City recently a negro LAWYER
asked Il judge to postpone a case because
his client had fallen and broken his wood
en- leg and was unable 10 walk. The court
in granting TIE Teques' directed the law
Yer to secure the services Of Il carpenter
at once.
Native historians OF \tGlianistan assert
that the Inhabitants of their country are
the lost 10 tribes OF Israel, According to
these chrOniclerS. the AfgnanS are de-
Scended frCm AfSh1na. who was the son
of d certain jeremiah. who was the son
of King Saul. The eastward removal Of
the seed Of Afshana is attributed to Neb-
uchadnezzar.
Among tie authors from whose works
selections have been made for a nov
anthology of contemporary verse Is Al
fred o. Williams of South MarStun. nodl
Swinden. Eng. Mr.. Williams IS employed
at the forge in the wagon department
stamping shop at the Great Western
Railway CoinpaEy'S works. Swindon. He
| is an entirely self-tauSht man and worked
on the farm il: his youth. He is well reaG
| in Greek. Latin and French literature
and his contributions to the anthology
| consist OF the translation of an ode from
| Anacdeon and an original ode.
There are. il is estimated. something
| Ike 2W women CE various publicly
! elected bodies il England and Wales al
| the present time. and of this numbe.
| about l"OG are members OF boards OF guar
| GianS. Of the Ga unions in England and
Wales. i31 nov have women guardians
the proportion of women to men being
| one ir every Il or - In London there
| are 10 women guardians distributed
| tn will open up All more public bodies
to women namely. -; town councils. l.
county councils and IS London borough
| councils
| Having seen Niagara tails. ana having
| rea;: Southey's poem descriptive OF the
| manner in which the water comes down
| at I.Odore, it is alleged that an American
became conl inced that The l.odule cat
| aract VAS the greater. So he went t;
| England to hunt mp the tails of Lodcre
File set out the ElOment he reached kcS
| wick and walked and toiled over rcck@
! ard boWlderS. Tie could not find the falls
| lie rested ard asked an native: Can yol
you're a-sittu' on en-" was tue heart
breaking answer. The falls of all the ad
| icctivcs We're dry
| The census of 1906 gives the first re
! cord of coal mining in Indian territory
but 50 we'll ilaS this territory developed
along that lin" since 1870 that tho Showin.
| made in recent Years is we'll worthy O
note. Of her total area of cC.O00 s4lrar,
miles. lI.0e0 square miles are easily work
| able for fuel purposes In 1906 the Goa
production of Indian territory amountet
| to 3.S6i COO short tons. with II total spo
| cas,! value of 81 f32. ::s.oG. BY reason of thu
long strike. the production of 1906 VIZ
| GIT tons short of that of 1905. yet th'
value Of this production was S:s;;7 90
greater. This increased value was due t,
Il larger demand. on account of the de
cline iE the production and the increase
price of Texas oil. Because of lie strilI
1"7: of the S251 coal workers of the ter
ritory were idle during the u days of it
duration. The total number of workin.
days lost by reason OF the strike. there
fore. was a25504, or nearly A. percent o
the time made.