Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-12
eLEANINcs AND GOSSIP.

Times are not as Hdru ds '"Sy 'e"N
be in the other worlds Jupiter mas
Just gotten new satellite.
Minister WI says that he never
smoked an opium pipe. No one ever
thought for moment that he was
dreamy.
Now the administration has really
taken a step to encourage race suicide.
II has put duty Of 90 per cent. on
foreign cradles.
Now it is said Pat Grove wanted to
steal ole of the Bryan children. A
bully press story this. Should be
worth a page to the Commoner.
1t is said that method has been
found of turning natural gas into al
cohoI. How people will talk when
they take too much of the stuff.
Kansas now says that she has q
new pest in the shape of chaitophorus
negundinus. Anyway it should m
crease the western sale of dictionaries
A baby fell downstairs the other day
while asleep. was severely injured, but
did not wake up. Yes, of course IL
happened in Philadelphia
Gov. Swanson of Virginia says that
the time is coming when the rich will
prefer a clear conscience to much gold.
Maybe, hut it's a long way off.
A Cleveland woman dropped dead
the other day while talking to the ice
man. He probably gave her a hint
about the summer price schedule.
A Philadelphia physician says that
the best way to cure headache is to
wash your face. No wonder good
many men are careful in the morn
ing.
An Atlanta, Ga, paper wants to
know what is better to own than hne
mortgageless farm in Georgia. Well,
for one thing, drug store in Georgia.
Really it begins to look as if some
of our young millionaires might
amount to something after all. Alfred
Vanderbilt is said to be an excellent
cOachman.
1t is rather a question as to how
many men in the fleet will be in con-
dition to stand that Australian recep-
ton after San Francisco gets through
with them.
It is said that 200 members of the
London stock exchange are not gong
to apply for reelection. It's not Of
ten tnat so many men know when
they have had enough.
The new national prosperity assocla-
ton is modest, anyway. All 1t asks
for is q rest and little sunshine.
That's all lot of us want, with per-
haps a fishing rod on the side.
The foreign count who married two
American girls was trying to spread
his title out bit too thin. and will
now have some idle moments to think
UP new schemes.
A fashion paper says that yellow
shirts are 20 be the correct things for
men this summer. Still it is thought
that a good many will remain true to
the good old red flannel.
A Chicago surgeon announces that
he recently found a gold nugget in a
mans appendix. Nothing new IN
this. A good many surgeons have
found much more than mere nuggets
there.
The new governor sent to Tabriz
Persia, was run out of the province
within a week of his arrival. 1t is
said that he tried to put a stop TO
gambling Evidently Persia has some
practical politicians.
The Belgian delegates to the inter-
national telegraph conference want to
have rule passed making any five
letters Il cable word. This would be
rubbing it into the Germans and Rus
slams rather hard.
A policeman in GAINESVILLE, WIS,
made a young woman throw away a
cigarette she was smoking on the
street the other day. GAINESVILLE ought
to either have better organized Wom-
ans rights club or a new name.
The friends of an Iowa bride and
groom had them arrested in five differ
ent cities as an clipping couple during
their wedding trip. Some heads
should be broken in this case. II
doesn't do any good to send foo
friends to Jail.
An Arkansas congressman wants
the government to initiate the Indians
by building great mounds along the
Mississippi which may serve as places
OF refuge for men and cattle when tho
river is in Hood. bikes are little
more UP to date.