Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-22
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

The season of the torchlight parade
is about here.
A farmer in New York committed
suicide last week because he could get
nc one to help him with his harvest.
Enough buildings are torn down in
New York each year to create a city
large enough to house $4,000 people
1t is said that every bit of plate
glass in the world is due to be broken
inside Of ten years, according to the
law of averages.
A New York bill collector SAYS that
the hardest people to collect money
from are those who have none and
those who are very rich.
A report comes from New York state
that the birds which are going South
ar" flying backwards in order to keep
the dust out of their eyes.
A mems league for woman's suffrage
has been formed in Holland and the
Lutheran church there has already
given women vote in its affairs.
Two one-legged men went into an
automatic shoe shining shop in New
York the other day and each got his
one shoe shined on the same nickle.
A teamster in Chicago fell asleep the
other day and his horse broke through
q plate glass window in a market and
began to eat the vegetables
An English earl. whom people have
just discovered can sing, has refused
a salary Of $4,000 a week for 80 weeks
to give series of concerts in this
country
A Chicago cabman has agreed to put
81 dollar week in the bank for his
son until the latter is u. This will
give other cab drivers a good excuse
to overcharge.
training school for Office boys has
been established in New York city and
it must b" looked on in the light of
missionary work by a good many
people
The regulars at Fort Lawson. Wash.
are 20 take a three days march and
during that time each man will be ex-
pected to prepare his own food.
Doubtless a number Of them will try
fasting.
Oklahoma is making a great effort
to keep before the public. She is now
getting up a big wolf hunt and says
that there so many wolves and coyotes
there that the farmers are loosing
much Of their small stock
The Smiley testimonial gateway.
which has been erected at the principal
approach to the Smiley estate at Lake
MUhonk, \. Y. from funds subscribed
by Albert *. Smileys friends and adj
mlrerS. IS now completed. and will be
dedicated on the 18th. The exercises
will be held on the evening of that
day. in the rarlors Of the Lake Mo-
honk Mountain house. They will in
clude a presentation address by J. Ed
ward simmons. chairman of the COM
mlttee representing the subscribers, a
response by Mr., Smiley. and a dedl-
catorI address by Rev DR.. j. NJ. Tay-
l0r, president of NasSar college.
Paris authorities have discovered
that the telephone system of the CITY
is largely controlled by the nervous
systems of the telephone girls. The
majority of these girls live alone and
neglect their proper meals, and in con-
sequence subscribers suffer from the
telephone girls nerves more than is
necessary. The telephone officials, to
remedy this condition of affairs. have
organized canteenS to provide their
girls with luncheon and dinner at -
cents and ID cents a meal, CONSISTING
OF roast beef and mutton, and plenty
OF sweets. The authorities have
dTdWn the line at, caramels which.
says the Official circular tends to dis
organize the service Subscribers
complaints. il is stated have dimin-
lsned ~ per cent since the innovation.