Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-05
CLEANING AND GOSSIP,

Kansas now claims that she will har-
vest about 20, $4,000 bushels Of wheat.
Two months ago She was sitting UP on
her hind legs and screaming that she was
rl;in~.i.
Cleveland is now casting longing eyes at
her Gravcyards and new directory, ana
wondering if she can get past tine $50. 0l5
mark without being made too luuch fun
Of.
A lot of rainbow trout eggs are to be
sent from the Colorado State fish hatch
ery to the imperial hatchery in Toxic.
The nllkado has become Interested in fish
culture and wants to try trout fishing.
Three sisters and Il brother met in
ltna'a he ether day after having been
separated for - years. Their ages ag
crcSatcd 30. How MANY students Will
there lc in the freshman class at Cornell"
Tie longest drv dock in the world is
now ut Belfast, Ire. but San Francisco
is soon to have bigger one. II will be
1850 feet long from the gate to the land
ward extremity. and ia feet wide. Il
will be about Az feet deep.
Gen. C"Ncv now says that he is goina,
to spend 5000 III taking an army Ill over
this country iii a special train made up of
lhillman cars. He must either have IL
big ru!i or els" the interstate comm cree
OF It.
Mayor Joiner of Atlanta. Ga, is taking
his vacation by following tire Atl&nt /
bal pine around the circuit. They must
I!aE hettel hall in that section OF the
country than they do here. Imagine any
one doing 4 circuit Of the Connecticut
league Tor the fun of it,
a London scientist now claims that ho
mas figured il out by mathematics that
he world is SHAPED like n pear We wcra
tau:ht that it was round, like an orange
Probably professor in the university of
tnca"" Will soon announce that it is
SNAPPED like Il lemon.
The western papers are full of stories
icl cot In,
Zig -Four express car and made a lot
OF trouhlc. and about 16-fpot crocodile
Wiici' was seen in the Ohio river. All
the Nature fakilS arc not to he found
among the authors of books
One of the i,irhmond (Va) papers has
lust printed a bunch of pictures of linen
WHO are foremost in shaping the present
ana futur" Of the jamestown exposition"
S"ile people have forgotten there was
S'ich thing.
some idea of the growth Of steamships
may be obtained from the following fig
YES: IN iSir the longest ship in existence
one lad p"cn built over 525 feet, and now
toe --uSitania is 1876 feet Already ma
rlhe arCnitects are talking of the 1000
| foot vessel.
IN the navy and silk will be used in
ticlr place. The accident on the Georgia
vas due t" the cotton bag catching fire
ana burning rapidly. Silk burns badly
breath of air is apt to eXtinguish 1t when
it. gets aiire
labor candidate for the Australian
farliament has hit upon a rather startling
plank for his campaign platform. He
SAYS that he is in favor of ''young-age"
PENSIONS and that these will help the
parents &c large families to educate their
chlidren properly and so raise the stand
ard Of citizenship
The army of the grand Llama of Thi-
ret is to- he ntodernized. This may mean
that 1t is to be given new uniform and
a si>-SlIorter. but it is going to have a
real army surgeon to take care Of il any,
way. Recently the army got sick and
the slfrPnon wrote q prescription on
board with a niece Of chalk. Tho ARM.
washed off the marks. drank tho water.
hut didn't get much better. Now tho
surgeon is going to write MI rresrrintinnq
ON Paper so the array can eat them and
get immediate relief