Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-02
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

| The Paris Gaulois says that Tafts
| nomination is due to Mrs. Nicholas
| Lonsworth.
The finances Of Cape Colony have
| been hard hit by the trouble in the
diamond market.
| At Il recent murder trial in Texas
nearly 100 reVOlVerS We're collected
| from various people in the courtroom.
| Prince Helie says that he thinks he
| will be able to live on any sum which
| Anna Gould can get from her fathers
| estate
Sedges can be used in Madeira al
| most the year around because of the
| slippery lichens which grow on the
paVementS of the roads.
A man at Atlantic City started to
| swim across the ocean the other day.
His friends rescued him after he had
gone a few hundred yards.
The Russell Sage fund is carrying
out survey at Pittsburg to sec what
| means other than water supplies dis
tribute typhoid germs.
Wilkeslarre, Pa, has just renamed a
street in honor of Secretary Taft Buff
lttIo IL It'dSllIlS5 DcttttSt size HIS ii w IL
liam and a Howard street.
The girls in the graduating class of
one of the Chicago schools voted the
other day not to spend more that 81
apiece on their graduating dresses.
Now that the Florida could not be
sunk the government is going to
change her name to the Tallahassee,
SO that one of the new battleships can
be named for the state.
Paris is now suffering With 9 plague
of curious flies " hich are known as st.
Marks Bebions They are ugly looking
things, Il half-inch long, but quite
harmless.
This country is behind most others in
the matter of postal savings banks
Australia now has $204 000, 600 on de-
post in her postal banks, and Japan
has $64 900.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., remember, Bridget,
the JOneSes are coming for dinner
Cook-"Lcave it to me, mum, I'll do
me worst They'll never trouble yez
again. illustrated Bits.
A pillow was put out in front of a
down town store in New York the other
day and several small boys gathered
about it specializing what it was and
what it could be used for
Germany is experimenting to deter
mine whether or not q vertical shaft
of light can be seen a greater distance
than a horizontal fash, with the idea
of so equipping its lighthouses if such
proves IL be the case.
get control Of mines in Moravia The
reasons given for the purchase are the
high price Of coal and the difficulty of
securing steady supply for the NUM-
cipal gas and electric plants
party Of musicians sailed from
New York for Panama the other day
1t is understood that the canal COM
mission is interested in the venture, as
it hopes that the employees in the zone
will be amused by the music
According to Prof. Berthold OF Wen
ma. mans intelligence, honesty and
good nature are in proportion to his
portlinesS. His brain expands With his
body, so that stout man is, as a rule,
more Intelligent than thin man.
n great extension of the Siberian
railroad is proposed along the river
Arnur, and as ii has met with hearty
approval on the part of the present
ministry, it is likely to be constructed
1t VIII! Crcn up 40,000,00O acres of corn
land.
II. w. Donehoc of Cross Creek, Pa,
has been teaching Sunday school
class for 40 years. and his class is now
known as "Cupid's class" over 20 of
its members have been married, and it
is said that any girl who joins it at
once gets a husband.
When the first passenger train in
England took its trial spin along the
tracks Of the Stockton and Darlington
railway in 1925, n horseman, bearing
a red danger flag. galloped along just
ahead Of the engine to warn the crowds
of spectators and to act as part OF
what was intended as a railway pa
geant.
IT was sentence day in the city
court. A man in the prisoners pen,
who had been sentenced to two wears
for larceny. began to cry softly. The
big man next him, who was going to
serve seven years for bigamy, said:
Jaw, wotcher snifflin' about" TIM
Tm-th-th-thinkin' about leavin (sob)
my-my-family. Lea-leavin' my wife
=" cav. cut il out. Look at me- I amt
cryin', am I? An I'm leavn' two of
m.''-EverybC dy's Magazine