Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-10
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.
Senator Knox refuses to have a tele-


hone in his house.
Japan's revenue for the fiscal year
| exceeded the estimates by 100000.
A woman in Chicago has been ar
| rested on the charge of stealing a set
of false teeth.
1t is hoped that Prince and Princess
Helie will now disappear from the
| newspaper columns, at least.
The ancient silver mines at Frei-
burg, Saxony, are to be abandoned.
They have been worked constantly
since 1853.
Kansas City reports more marriages
during June than during any previous
| month in the history of the city. A
total of 400 licenses were issued.
| The New York fish and game COM
mission reports that there are now so
| beavers in the Adirondacks, and that
| all of them are doing we'll and seem
happy.
| Three oysters were found growing
| on a briar pipe in Long Island sound
| the other day. 1t is thought that the
pipe had fallen into the oyster bed
from yacht.
Railroad transportation in this coun-
| try is now rs years old. There were
only 81 miles of road in operation in
1882 and since then 22S,12S miles of
track have been constructed.
| 1t is probable that the roulette wheel
came from Japan In the old days the
Japanese used a prayer wheel which
was much like the modern gambling
device, which is doubtless adapted
| from it,
The Philadelphia mint, during the
past fiscal year, made 137,133,777
| pieces of money, worth $126,755, S4S
More than S1,0O0,O0O of the new pieces
were cents, SO everyone in the country
| should have one.
! The petroleum deposits of India are
hardly known as yet, and it is thought
| that some sections of that country,
especially Burmah, have great futures
Burmah exported 55,776,O0O gallons of
loil last year.
| cat was accused of killing chick
ems in Maryville, H.. last week and the
case taken into court. The animal was
found not guilty on the ground of self
defense. The jury found that the pet
/
to drive it out of a yard
A New Jersey justice has announced
| that on account of the financial depres-
sion he is going to reduce the fines he
| imposes in proportion to the shrinkage
of values. The only thing he will not
| revise his tariff for is case of wife
| beating.
| David Rankin, one of the best known
corn growers in Missouri, was a poor
boy and when he was married in 1850
he gave his last dollar to the minister
| Now he owns $4,000 acres of land and
has made several millions from corn
and cattle.
| Five horse power motors are now
being installed in the locks of the
| Wclland canal and it is said that they
will save three hours for the boats run
| ming between Port Colborne and Port
| Dalhousie. The big lock gates of the
Panama canal will be operated by cleo
tricity.
| An old railroad engineer in Kansas
| says that he does not think that he
ever made a night run without killing
at least one skunk. Most engineers say
|
dark without running over one they
think they are going to have an acct
dent
During recent years the Methodsts
| and Presbyterians have had more men
in the White House than any other de-
nomination. Grant, Hayes and McKin-
ley We're Methodsts, and Cleveland
and Harrison, Presbyterians. Garfield
was of the Complexities and Arthur an
Episcopalian.
Baden now has system for sending
kilograms from trains that is mover and
convenient. A passenger wishing to
send a message while travelling writes
it on a postcard, sticks on stamp
and drops it in little mail-box. At
the next station the telegraph company
collect it and probably send it, if they
| feel like it. . ,.,..r.4-
The internal revenue department has
issued regulations governing four leg