Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-14
Gieaninqs and Gossip.

Gieanings and Gossip.
The sultan of Morocco must choose
his four real wives from among his
cousins and the king of Siam is forced
to marry his sisters.
A garden composed entirely of plants
bearing blue flowers has been laid out
on the estate of Sir Elliott Lees of
Dorsetshire in England.
The station waiting-rooms in Sweden
are provided with beds for passengers.
Portcrs call the travellers 10 minutes
before the arrival of trains.
A Chicago antiQuary has discovered
that Columbus received a salary of
$500. He estimates that the entire
cost of the expedition which found
America was about $1,000.
Reports from the famine districts of
Russia show that the distress is stead
lily growing acute and that the peas
antry in the government of kazan have
been driven to desperation and are SELL
ing their daughters to slavery to the
Mohammedans of the Caucasus. The
ages of girls sold range from II to II,
and the prices realized are from $50 to
So. \ form of typhus fever, known
as hunger typhus," resulting from
starvation. has broken out in ZaZan
and is raging epidemically.
William Z. Curtis, writing to the
Chicago Record Herald, says that the
French government is building a tele-
graph line across the desert of Sahara,
and that within year the line will be
open to Timbuctu. The wires will run
from the City of Algiers across the
sandy waste down to the oasis of
Touat, which is very important point.
From there they will follow a caravan
trail that has been used for centuries
south of the Ahagar mountains, and
thence southwark to Timbuctu, and
thence follow the river bank to the
port of Dakar on the Atlantic coast.
Many reports come in on the failure,
or partial failure, of mushrooms. MIR.
Greiner says that Il canning factory III
Shrewsbury, \. j., erected three large
greenhouses ana equipped them with
every possible convenience for grow
ing mushrooms, employed skilled hclp
and spared no necessary expense to
make a success. The results were 50
mcager that The enterprise was ;ilitn-
doned. Several small growers, evil
IDENTIFY with every convenience, have
attempted to grow mushrooms, ana
failed in making the spawn produce q
crop. Mr.. Grciner cautions his read
ers against going wild over prospcc-
tive profits of mushroom culture. on
the other hand, there are those VINO
have been successful in producing lair
crops. There must be secrets i'll the
NOT known ia II There. is
no secret about the fact that a pound
of mushrooms has the food value oi
pound of becfstes,k' is exploded.-The
Country Gentleman.
one Of Victor Hugo's friends, refer
ring to some Of the poets ldlosyn-
crasi"s, said: at happened frequently
that he would take too much INK Oh
his pen. and drop a large blot on the
paper. His letter and autographs We're
ant 10 be generously embellished in TINS
fashion; ana his friends would often
tell him. laughingly, that some day tals
voilId be the mark of authenticity Tor
his handwriting" The same writer
added. "When an accident of this ma
turo defaced a dra wing already begun,
one might suppose it to have been q
serious m2tter-but no! Here Victor
Hupo's rcsourcefulness and ingenuity
were, displayed; he transformed the
blot into a feature of the picture, ana
TINS what might have been DlemiSh
became an establishment. 1t was an
example, in little of the working OF
mind largely Planned. Instead OIL
throwing away the half-fimshed WORK
in dismay or encouragement lie u'h-
lied the nk-blotch, and thus conHuei ca
IT. instead of being conquered ny IT,