Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-22
GLEANINcS AND GOSSIP.

There may be SONS fsw people who
wont believe It, but IT is said IN all Sc
robustness that mole eats W,OW eaftn
worms In Il year.
| Vienna hairdressers have received 50
| many orders for wigs for the coming
| festival in honor of the emperor's jubilee
| that they are at a loss to obtain the nee
essaly hair The hairdrcSScr OF the EOlks
| theater must secure 1900 heads of hair
| before rcxt month, but although he has
| offered fabulous prices, the number of
wcmen who have consented to part with
| their locks IL comparatively small.
| Hitherto il has been customary tn make
the Joints for gus and water pipes by
| first Introducing strands Of hemp yarn in
| to the socket. then filling the space left
with rlolten lead and afterward caIkin.
| the latter A more modern way Is now
provided by means of what IS known as
lead wool" The lead wool consists of
| fine threads Of virgin lead. cut by special
machinery In such manner that it will
weld together when calked.
| There las been invented In Ccrma ny ri
powder Which Is said to give no IlareiN, tx
whatever. even In guns Of the largest cal
ibcr.. The compost ION of the powder IL
of nitroglycetin, nittocelulose and vase
| line. The prevention of the fareback
however. is believed to be due to the in
eorn"rat"1 in aa the Epa "wh,er, Of small
| proved to be thoroughly effective.
The question as to whether turned UP
trousers had gone out of style was re-
tered to The editor of the Satoral Art
JOurntl, who said hat men who have to
walk in wet weather will turn UP their
trousers as they always have done and
he fools who turn up their trousers here
in fair weather because its raining in
Lordon' Will continue to do so until their
mental condition changes. But he aid
the turned.up trousers for dress never
were In style"
a Calcutta correspondent writes: Quite
n hn in,d
fronting India at tie present time Is the
ominons rise ir the price of food. quite
apart from the famine; ard also the rise
in the cost of living. 1t is difficult to as
certain the cause. which Is variously held
II he the shortage of crops, the extension
of ute cultivation ut the expense of rice.
the, currency operations of government,
and the eStension of manufactures ard
rise in the ideal Of living among great
masses of the people.-London Daily
News
THE greatest trouble with this job
now" lamerted a Ccdar-avcnue conduc-
tor. lis the jokers that a man taking
fares mas tc contend with. Every other
passenger has some cute name for those
TIN ee-cent tickets. Gimme a handful of
them washers, one man will say as he
slil.s half-dolar to me. a lot of them
call it 'chink money Just because it has
holes in it. and SC. it goes. 'Tjn. three
cent pieces perforated sluSs' clay
disks with the holes in email those
names and lot more we have to put up
WIFE. The passenger who doesn't have
some new name for these tickets looks
ashamed of himself. ''-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Here is dog stoiy that is vouched for
by d member of the New York Tribune
stall A family in Montclair possessed of
meEt up. near the lower edge Of Harlem.
His canine ordship didn't like his new
home y hit, and howled SO. energeticaily
nOSClH1n al in
hood. SO the next morning the dog was
shipped back to the peaceful Jersey
suburbs. That night weary, hungry and
footsore, he turned up at the Harlem
apartment. His master declares that he
walked tn" whole way. not explaining
how he crossed the river.
In an article on Robert Louis Steven
son $ horror of the Opium habit Few. w.
p. Clarke. in the chronicle of the London
missionary society. gives letter which
the novelist sent when on the island to
the native king of Samoa on the subject,
in which he said: Nothing is more quick
passes from one to another like Il song
nothing is so pernicious; it feeds upon nm
accnst omed races like a fire upon dry
wood And I assure your majesty no race
appears less abb. to stand tie results of
this drug than that to which your males
ty belongs 1nd over SO great a portion of
which your majesty is called upon to
rule
Let the reader keep his eyes open as he
walks about London, and he will see on
every side of him the broken soldiers of
this innumarablc army. The old Journal
list. tie old clerk. the old actor, the old
shopran. the old nondescrpts Of those
odd and multifarious employments whose
very names are unknown to most of US
there they go. pensionless. comfortless.
and homeless. living on the gratuities of
their children. AMI seeking in chance en-
Payments to earn casual siXrence for
their hunger. The common lodging houses
the miserable garrets in court and alley,
and the cheap bedrooms in small Subur-
han streets are always full of 1.ondon'S
shabby peoplc.-The Strand magazine.