Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-02
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

1t is probable that the peace advo-
rates will take the burning of the Ne
braska military academy as good
omen.
The fishermen at Nantucket have de-
cde1 to stop shipping scollops to the
New York market until the price adj
vancCs.
The society for the protection of chill
dren against the cruelty of parents in
England received more than 10000 com
plants last year.
In northern New York the authorities
are much stirred up because some one
has been stealing crushed stone from
the state roads.
Two cans of counterfeit money We're
found on a Canadian farm the other
day. Counterfeit milk is usually found
in such places.
Marble cannot be blasted in the
quarry, as the powder or dynamite
would stain the stone. 1t is split off by
the same methods as We're used AT the
time the Parthenon was built.
A party of musicians have just sailed
from New York for Panama. They go
ment I'D its efforts to amuse and keep
the canal workers happy
Now people are worrying for fear
that the forest fires will cause a short
age i'll the Christmas tree crop. But
there are plenty of chestnuts 50 the
Thanksgiving turkey crop will be all
right.
1t is said that one of the automobile
manufacturers is going to exhibit Il
wind wagon" at one of the shows this
winter. 1t probably looks a good deal
like the back platform of Pullman
car.
Tho Princeton Alumni Weekly pub
fishes 4 retrospect Of Mr.. Cleveland's
Connection with Princeton university by
Prof. A. F. West dean of the graduate
department. Dean West was Mr.
Cleveiand's neiehbor and most intimate
friend at Princeton.
Alaska is almost ideal practice
ground for the signal corps and the Sc
we're storms which once wrecked tele-
graph poles have no effect on wireless
messages The corps is now using
wireless with fine results and training
many men in the business so they will
be available in war times.
Bill Nye in his earlier days once APP
preached the manager of a lecture bu-
reau With an application for employ
ment. and was asked if he had ever
done anything in that line. "Oh. yes"
said Bill. What have you done?"
Well replied Bill my last job was
ia dime museum, sitting in barrel
with the top of my head sticking out
posing as the largest ostrich egg in
captivity"
On" of the German papers has dis
covered five signs by which a novice
can detect the school to which a paint
er belongs. If he paints the sky gray
and the grass black, he belongs to the
Old classical school: if he paints the
sky blue and the grass green, he is a
realst; if he paints the sky green and
the grass blue he is an impressionist;
il he paints the sky yellow and the
grass purple. he is a colorist. and if he
paints the sky black and the grass red
he shows possession of great decora-
tive talent.
| The remarkable progress Of motoring
| in tho British Isles during the last few
years is seen in the enormous increase
III the consumption of petrol. Great
Britain is now the largest consumer of
petrol in Europe. The consumption of
| petrol in the British Isles has risen
from 10000 tons in 1904 to 100000 tons in
| 1907, and it is expected that the con-
sumption for the present year will ex-
| coed 100000 tons. France. on hte other
hand, has not increased it's consump-
ton of petrol to any extent during the
same period.
Turkish women are frequently well
educated. Their lives of secluson en-
courage study and they pass the long
winter evenings in devouring any liter
atnre that comes their way. Many are
excellent linguists, and Pierre Lott tells
that they are well acquainted with the
works of modern thinkers They are
often we'll versed in ancient classics
and they eagerly read modern novels
/ especially of the morbid, erotic type.