Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-16
eLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
\ a church at Topeka, Kan. has decide
| to have one of the members who has
| onlv one arm take tlp tile collection here
| after.
There are no automobiles in Corsica
| The venhtttas probably keep the death
rate high enough without inviting further
| trouble.
Tie night riders in kentucky have al
| ready cost the state $4,000 and viii cost
it !, good lit more There are still many
| mliti"men under arms
Ire completion Of another tunnel under
the East river at New York causes little
comment II does not take the country
long to get used to novelties.
| A Californian has a scheme for playing
baseball on horseback. He says that II
can be worked out into a practlral sport
| and VIII create much interest.
A movement is underway to form 4
| baseball league between teams composed
Of the aldermen Of New York, Philadel-
phia, Cleveland. Detroit, Buffalo. St
| l.n.lis. Chicago and Milwaukee.
! A telegraph operator in Missouri has
| been arro Sted for manslaughter for his
connection with a fatal railroad wreck
One Of the western railroad managers
says tina; there will be another shortage
| of freight cars Non emhcr l. which will be
! about Us bad as that If last yeat.
Saratoga. ~ Y, is a good bit in ad-
| vance of the rest of the country. Not a
frccracker nr torpedo was exploded there
| on the i ourth and not an accident was
reported.
| I'ittshu'- has filed kick on the result
| Of the recent spelling contest III Cirve-
| land. 1t wants to be known as the center
| Of something besides young and Wild fllll-
| ionalrCS.
TIE son Of the man who wrote "Ameri-
| ca" before the board Of pardonS IN
Iowa the other day. irving to get out 81
| prison, where he is serving q four-years
| sentence for emhezzlemcnt
A millionaire in Chicago was arrested
the other day. charged with horsewhip-
| ring hls son. The bows r,other made The
compliant. and said that her husband has
| been living in idleness ever stree he came
into his money.
A good many English fruit growers are
now hacking their produce in ferns in
stead OF grape leaves, when they wish to
make an attractive display. 1t has been
found that ferns keep away flies and
Othcl insects ana prese rveS the life of the
fruit to some extent.
Jonn Il. Alternately, the former rough
rider and man whom the preside mt APP
pointed marshal for Oklahoma under pro-
test. has lust Ioled With q l9-yearoll
snl. Z he marshal is 81 and his tlrst wife.
with whom he clo0ed from Texas, has
been dead a year. Re has six children.
CT tie Il girls who were elected to the
Phi Beta Kappa society at Smith college
last year two are teaching school, one is
on newspaper. on" is studying medicine.
two are III Europe three dlc man rltd ana
the rest are lin society,"
Tae grave of Gov. GOebel of rentuckv
at Frankfort is to have Il monument cost
in" 81; ."h placed over it. The monument
will come from Barrc. NJ, and will ~ q
figure IL feet high of tn" governor The
state has appropriated S25HiG for 4 statue
of .iocbel to be placed in the capitol.
1t had to come An advertising firm
says that it is going to add balloon to
its business. 1t viii not sail about with
an on, HN+jp Is
tail. b"t will How over town while tho
gentlemanly agent drops hand-blls ana
SAMPLES on to the heads of the unwilling
people below.
Can't. II. l.. Wier,ore who has been in
vestieatins the coal fields in Balau. an
island of the Philippine group for the
government, saws that he las discovered
fields large enough to supply the govern
mcrt for years. 1t is If q better quality
tn; u the coal found in Japan and AUS
tr3lil.
Edward W. Parker Of the United States
geological survey SAYS that future genera
tions VII, have 50 far developed methods
Of Subdu:ug ana utilizing 81 her forces of
nature that the need of coal for pro-
du"ing beat. light and power win have
been eliminated t. q great extent. He
says that until then there is coal enough
and doubts if the production of ant hracite
in 1907 will ever greatly be exceeded
Rev. Or. Edward Everett Hale, chaplain
Of the Senate. went over to the state de-
partmcnt = short time AGO to see Score
taly Root He didn't know it was diplo-
matte day at the department. when only
dirlomatists are received during certain
ho'ms. lie started to so INTO Secretary
Roots Office when a messenger stopped
him, Are YOU foreign ministers" mo-
rcrlcd Or. Hale, Il am a domestic min
lister"
Signora Rina Monti has Just been ap-
pointed professor Of zooloey. and con,par-
atlEe anatomy ut The university ofSas-
sari; Ital* After the death If Prof. Masgi
of tho university of Pavia. She taught
comparative anatomy in that institution,
and then for two years at Siena but it is
only recently that she has had a unver-
slty nrofeSsorship conferred on her. AL
though the wife OF Ssnnr Augusta Stella
ana tho devoted mother of handsome
10y she Keeps her maiden name in her
scientific work