Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-07-08
GIeanings and Gossip.

Good waternelons are selling for
eight cents apiece down in Georgia
now.
Hiram Maxim ought to get busy and
do a real good to suffering humanity
by inventing a noiseless load of coal.
what are you doing?" "Grafting
trees at $3.50 a day" THAT amt graft
ing. That's working. g."-kansas City
Journal.
The French minister of finance has
suggested that the tax on vendors of
absinthc be doubled in order to meet
deficiency in the budget
A Pennsylvania woman has demand
ed that county buy her three teeth
to replace some she lost in a fight with
another woman.
Gov Wilson of Kentucky told the
Boston reporters the other day that
night riding in Kentucky would soon
be nothing but memory.
Harvard cleaned Yale up in every
thing but money-getting this spring
President Hadleys record was twice as
large as President Eliot's.
A Danish concern has found that it
can manufacture alcohol from peat at
one-fourth the cost which it pays for
the stuff made from potatoes.
There are 25 women in Kansas who
are principals of high schools. 1t is
said that all have done their work SO
well that there has been no talk of re-
placing them with men.
Only twice before has this country
been without an ex-president. George
Washington died while John Adams
was president. Andrew johnson died
two years before Grant retired from
Office.
1t is rather hard on the new Spanish
prince to call him Jaime Luipold 1sa-
bclino Enrique Alexandra Alberto AL
fonso Victor Acucion Pedro Pablo Ma
ria before he is able to fight in his own
defense.
"Oh, John!" she exclaimed, NOW
that you've seen my new bonnet you
simply can't regret that | got it. Isn't
it just a poem?" "Well, if it is" re-
piled John, Il guess a proper title for
it would be Owed to Mlliner.' -
Philadelphia Press.
A guard on a French train failed to
child fell out while the train was in
motion and was badly injured. The
guard has been sent to Jail for two
months and the road fined $4,000 and or
dered to pay the child an annuity of
S12OO
The government of India has recent
iy authorized the employment of wo-
men as telegraph operators. They must
be between the ages of 1S and 30 and
either unmarried or widows. Before
being given a job they must undergo
II months of training in the govern
ment classes.
western congressman is in trouble.
One of his constituents wrote him to
ask how to cure sick hog. and at
once received a pamphlet from the de-
partment of agriculture. Then the con
stituent's wife wrote asking how to
cure a sick baby and the congressman
said he couldn't tell her
The post office department is now CO.
operating with all highway officials
| toward the betterment of the country
roads. The rural free delivery carriers
have been ordered to notify highway
| commissions when the roads ever
which they travel are in bad shape and
| to tell them that the free delivery will
not be continued unless the roads are
| kept in condition.
The Dayton (O) Journal celebrated
| it's Tooth birthday on June q by getting
| out 12i-page paper. 1t proved to be
| much better piece of work than Is
| usually turned out on such occasions,
and gave a comprehensive and intelli-
gent resume of the home city's history
| and industries. All the work was done
| by the journals own staff, the many
interesting special articles written by
| it's own editors and reporters, and tine
excellent cuts made in it's own shop
To industrial Dayton the paper should
prove of much value, and it must be a
| source of pride to the men who made
| it. 70
| Beggars are never suppressed in Tur-
key. The story is told tand they say il