Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-06
Gleanings and Gossip.

| Germany exer,pts automobiles used for
commercial! purposes from the TAX mi
| posed upoI pleasure vehicles.
During 1907. 1889 owners and 9.3e6
chaffeurs were registered with the Secre-
tary OF state OF New York against lei9
owners ard 1850 chauifeurs in 1906.
\ meeting of the principal olive grow
ers has been held in Madrid for Tie our-
| rose OF obtaining legislative aid to put 4
stop to the :;dutterati"n OF edible olive OIL
| piabolo has become such craze or
board vessels in the British Mediterranean
| fleet that diabolC sets are now rated Will
parrotS and monkeys as prohibited pets.
Yes. docto OF, one of Hariy'S eyes seems
ever so much stronger than the other.
How do you account for that knot
| hole in the baseball fence last summer.
most likely, madam. -Itarpers Weekly.
At last" said the ambitious young
novelist, i have written something that i
! think will be accepted b.: the first mag
azinc it is cent to-" What is it?' his
friend asked: "A check fol, = years sub
scriptiDn. ''-ChicaS2 Record-Herald.
Williams college claims the oldest living
graduate of any college i'll the United
States. He is William Earkin of the class
Of 1891. Mr.. Rankin is now % years old
and lives with his son Prof ". NJ. Ran
kin OF Princeton university.
The British admiralty has instructed
the commanders OF all ships Of war rur-
nishcd with wireless telegraph apparatus
| to telegraph To meteorological stations
tiCn full details concerning; the weather
al sea This new branch OF the English
meteorological service has already proved
valuable, and il is bnlived that it's i'm
portance will continually increase Wealth
or information !rom the sea is Of special
value in tie british isles because the
great storms generally approach across
the ocean. and not, in the eastern half of
the United states, across broad CONT
ncnt Melted with teleGraph.-f outh'S Com
panoE.
A pretty custom was Observed at the
nlidshipmens New-year's eve hop. which
was held in the arlnOiy at the nnS Al acad-
| euv. AT two minutes 10 l. III" lights
were turned out. the band stopped playing
and a huGlsr ppcd out on the ballroom
Eocr and sounded taps Hardly had
the last rotes died away WHEN Il clock
Logan to strike J.. Miss Badger, daush-
ter Of Commander Badger, United States
struck eight bells the arnoIy fairly hiaz-
ed with lights, and TIN, class 81 Us, stand
ins together, sang its class song. AS us
Gal the band ,hen piazza 6a 9s Wssi
Banner" every couple standing at at
tentior while the latte: was being played.
About two months ago one of our farm
er friends dropped it and stopped his
take the paper and just had to do with
ont IL He dropped in again last Satur-
day and rlanked down $50 for. Il year in
:tdvan:e-;.nd then hcaved a big sigh of
relief Everything had gene wroni; since
the Farmer ceased to visit him. His
chickens refused to lay. his cows got on
Tie alfalfa and died, and his hogs got tha
cholera. The rats Snawed holes in his
granary and his wheat ran out and the
birds ate il up. His windmill blew over
and killed horse, ard his best shepherd
dog got bone in his throat and choked
to death. His children got the mesle-
and his wife mashed her thumb IL the
wiinger and couldn't do ary homework.
Thieves broke into LIS smokc-house and
stole his winters supply of meets and
fire DESTROYED! several stacks of his alfalfa.
he bought groceries of tray cling faker
and never got them, While his neiShbor
escaped because he read in the Farmer
to watch out for crookS.-Osbornc (kan)
Farmer.