Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-11
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

| Inc CnlHeSe uiVlUc Tue 'tv 'AS"
twelve parts Of two hours each
The postmarks of Belgium advertise
the international exposition OF 1910.
A lacemaker of Z 'verton has worked
for the same firm for seVenty-ohc
years.
Copper tubes are preferred to steel
in locomotive boilers by many Europe
ans experts.
Germany produces fourteen million
bottles of champagne a year. she I'M
ports 100000 from France.
European manufacturers make very
small pianos of light weight for trans
portation into the interior of Brazil by
mulcback.
The Masonic grand lodge of New
| Mexico is to appropriate u sum OF
money sufficient to erect suitable
monument over the grave of Kit Car
son, in Taos.
The development of a spirited contro-
vcrsy over the discovery of the north
pole has called attention to the fact
that the name of the town from which
both the explorers started when re-
versed spells Hate-Elmira On. W
Start Gazette.
| BaVaranS drink most of the beer
they make. OF a product of nearly
half million gallons, last year, only
scvcntv-threc million gallons We're cX-
ported The home consumption is 24S
quarts year for every man, woman
and child in the kingdom.
The wine storage houses in France
are now using cement tanks lined with
blass instead Of old wooden ones. The
glass lining is used for two reasons
the acids in the liquor dccOmpo3e the
cement while the cement absoI BIS the
bouque of the wine. A tank in Havre
has capacity of 100000 gallons
Milton Washbrrn is having trouble
with his well, which at first was giving
a big supply of water. 1t began to
blow a regular hurricane of wind up
the hole at first, then it changed and
blew down, after which the water gave
out Mr. Washburn will go down an
Other hundred feet if necessary to get
d sufficient supply Of Water.-Condon
(Orc) Times.
| AS South Jersey country physician
was driving through a village he saw
a man amusing & crowd with the an
tics of his trick dog The doctor pulled
|
YOU manage to train your dog in that
way? / can't teach mine a single
trick" The man looked up. with a
simple rustic look. and replied: well,
YOU see. it's this way; you have to
know moron the dog, or you can't
learn him nothn'."
In Halmstad. Sweden, Pontas Holm
strom is about to start a spinning mill
for making yarn out of paper. Such
mills already exist in Germany and
| Franco. Sc far the manufacture Of
rugs and carpets seems TO be the best
practical use of this new paper yarn.
1t is stated that people in Sweden, es-
pecialy in the province Of OstergOt-
land, are already making carpets with
paper welt. Narrow rolls Of paper tape
are used, but this, of course, is not
spun.
| There was q Democratic congressman
who failed to show up for vote on the
tariff bill. He was not paired, and mis-
absence was unaCCOuntable. He lciS-
urcly Strollcd into the house the next
week and was at once hauled over the
Goals for his dereliction. why. ]
couldn't come said he; my health
was givin' way. I had three doctors
t'umpin' me chist at wanst, and they
united in savin' that me condition was
alarming. and that me whole system
was reellin' with insomnia.
The tircsome Migratory effect SO often
seen Wher hiOscopc or llimetograph pic
lures ar thrown on the screen is not
due to the passage Of the film itself
across the front Of the lantern, but 10
the shutter, which cuts off the light AT
rapidly repeated intervals during the
motion of the film. BY simply incrcas-
ing the frequency of interpositon OF
this shutter from fourteen to fifty-siX
times a second, that is, by using a mo-
tor working at four times the usual
sreed this painful Migratory sensation
is completely suppressed.
This is one of the many queer stories
from Italy: A remarkable case attriD-
uted t. telcpatlry is reported from Ca
rua. A woman woke a few nights aSu
in state of delirium. Calling toget her
her friends and ncighbOrs. she told
them she had just seen an apparition
Of her husband who for two years haG
been absent in New York. He appeared
to her to be lying in a hospital with
one hand covering his breast and he
loid ncf thdt ne nad been graVelY
wounded. The day after she received
a cahlccram from America Informing
her that her husband was dying. hav-
ing been stabbed by an emissary Of the
Black Hand
Mrs. Emma Garrett Boyd, of Atlanta,
Ga, has been active in getting sigma
lures to the petition frcm the women of
Georgia to the legislature demanding,
better education for the children of tho
| state. More than five thousand Nance,
| have been secured to the petition, and
the leading workers will march with 1t
| into the hall of the house of repre-
sentativcs. The signers also demand
that the children of Georgia be relieved
from work in the factories. The petit
ton has the solid support Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
the Woman's Christian Temperance
| Union and every other body of repre-
sentative Georgia women.
A subscription has been opened in
Switzerland for the purpose of printing
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