Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-03
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

new JSISey lids dI last (WHICH NY u
it. She has appropriated s35O,O0O t.
fight mosquitoes.
Gas lamps are now being made from
egg shells in Germany and are said to
be very good.
Mexico now prints the weather fore
cast on all letters. 1t is done when
the letter is postmarked.
Indiana is now rising in her might
and claiming Tod Sloan for her own
since he has turned near-author.
Now some people are wondering
whether or not Prince Helie is send
ing Count Boni any souvenir post
cards.
The around the world automobile
race now seems to be attracting about
boom.
A good many men are now looking
over their fishing rods and lines and
making sure that the bottle of bait
is full. SAX z,a
Arkansas now has discovered a cave
which is full of snakes. But it's not
the only place in the state where you
can see 'em. =,
Now another French duke shows up
with scme unpaid bills and wants his
American papa-in-law to take chances
with writer's cramp.
Bishop Fallows thinks that men
should live to be 12O years old nova
days. A good many men feel the same
way about it.
iS said fhaf a had Of &1,hifn
has been discovered in Kentucky. 1t
may be that it will be used to make
white heat for the night riders.
The navy department is trying to
make a contract for $4,000 silk hand
kerchiefs for the navy. The jackies
are getting bit stylish, it would SEEM
Ebert Hubbard says that we are
part of the divine nebulae and cannot
go wrong. Doubtless he gets good
deal Of comfort out of the belief.
San Francisco is going to give the
officers of the fleet $2O-a-plate BAN
quet They will be in fair shape to
eat it after their rest in Magdalena
bay.
A woman in Indiana has been mar
ried so many times that she can re-
m 1mber the names of only five of her
husbands. She ought to be star in
a musical comedy.
An ethnologist is going north to
study an Eskimo tribe which has new
er seen white man. 1t is not often
that the ethnologist steals a march on
the whisky drummer.
A museum is going to be opened in
the house where Hans Christian An
dersOn was horn at Odensee. 1t will be
named in honor of the famous fairy
story writer.
Brown seems to be hot on the trail
advertising laurels. A professor down
there has made the startling discovery
that geese are not so foolish as they
are supposed to be.
A man in Pennsylvania has just
completed patchwork quilt which
has over $4,000 pieces in it. He would
be fairly competent to draw up a po-
litical platform now.
A Philadelphia man became so ex-
cited at moving picture show the
other day that he died. They never
phia. The pictures move very fast
New York professor says that he
is in communication with some one on
the sun by means of thought trans
ference. There must be some pretty
warm thoughts coming down to him.
A woman in the West is suing for
a divorce because it is alleged that
her husband has been drunk 5000 times
in the past 10 years. There are prob
ably some people who consider that
she has just grounds.
People from New South Wales are
generally nicknamed cornstalks be-
cause they are SO tall and thin. Those
from South Australia are called crow
eaters and from Queensland banana
eaters, while people from West Aus
tralia are dubbed sand gropers and
those from Victoria gum suckers.