Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-12
GlEANINGS AND GOSSIP.


private enterprise and was begun about
1864
The Japanese will never sleep with
their heads to the north, but their
dead are always buried that way.
Hereafter no wine is to be sold in
Spain on Sunday. and all the bars have
got to close at midnight
Things seem to be looking up down
in Mexico. A brewery there had re-
| ceipts of over S6,000.000 last year.
y New York man married his moth
er-in-law last week. Bat he HAY have
merely wanted to get even with her.
1t begins to look as if Count
Boni might brace up after all and earn
a little money. He could enter the
ring as light weight.
DR.. Parkhurst says that all college
sports are brutal. Chess matches and
golf tournaments certainly come under
this head
st. Louis lecturer says that he has
been surprised by President Roosevelt.
lhatS more than most people have
been.
a Michigan judge has ruled that II
sausage is q sausage and nothing else
lie has q good deal of faith in the pure
food law.
William Cross, the secretary of state
IN Oklahoma, signs his name officially
Bill Cross. But Oklahoma is very
young still
The members of the Pittsburs stock
exchange wants to have the exchange
opened again. 1t has been closed since
late in October.
Inc deepest interest has been
aroused in medical circles over the re-
port from tie Fay View insane asylum
at baltimore OF novel and apparently
successful effort to cure certain form
Oh insanity that is known to the profess
sion as denentia praccox. by cutting
away Il portion of the thyroid gland.
In the first case operated uuon the
Improvement was very marked with
III - hours' and Of the four other cases
treated, tnree showed 4 like favorable
result. The exception was Il case ex-
tremely far advanced.
the clothes of an ordinary beGgar
Ill i'on'pay were searched cooked food
suH'clent 70 satisfy at least five per-
'oiiS would pc found slowed away in
inherent places. 1t is we'll known that
these pesSarS are regular vendors of
1000 trey eat as much as they can and
sell the rest. a Bombay street beggar
IS a weil-to-do individual and sends
nome weekly a postal order OF 1G or Il
rupees one of the fraternity was
overheard SaEntr
leSSlolai that he had done badly that
""S' having earned" only two rupees
ana lour ahna".-Mufidi Razgar.
Inc latest to enter the already
crowded field Of Photographic enter
PRISE IN New York are the Japanese-
ana three now occupy large studios
mere. Az least one of them has succeed =
eu IN attracting a clientele of rich and
ihiiuehtial customers. to Judge by the
SupJectS ne exhibits. None Of these
ne" photographers betrays in his work
we ie"St trace of his original origin
lhey are successful in producing very
arusuc ana pleasing portraits, but 50
lar as any national characteristic is TO
ne noticed in them they might have
been taken by artists from any western
country.-New York Sun.
me BARRIERS and wig makers union
IN vienna IS very stringent in it's ex-
ANIMATION before it will admit any
new members to the society. Only
iullN competent persons are allowed to
practice. and to prove their capabil-
tiles must first show that they thor
oushly understand the disinfection of
raZors. brushes. etc, used in their
craft and also how to keep the ra.ors
sharp and use them to the hest adj
vantage. Even SO. the man who sue
cessfuliy passes the examination of
fthe union is required to serve an an
premiership fer two years before he
can take UP shop of his own Wom-
en- BARRIERS are also admitted to the
Australian union, but they are re-
CURED {" apprentice themselves II for
.'lree years before they can go into