Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-29
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A man in Washington has brought
suit against another man because the
defendant hit him in the head with
rolls of bills.
Texas papers will probably quit talk
ing about Jack" johnson in a few
years. Fame has gone to the head OF
| the Lone Star state.
1t is said that man who recently or
fered to give $1,0O0,000 to charity only
returned $4,000 for taxation, and this
| in New England, too.
1t is said that monkey at Chicago
| has starved himself to death because
| of the death of his owner. This VIII
| make the New York society crowd sit
up and take notice.
Sometimes these abandoned farms
prove good investments. One OF %
acres was bought for 500 in Maine 10
years ago, and this year 1900 barrels of
apples were sold which had been
| raised on it and they brought So bar
rel.
II can't find what this customer
wants." said the drug clerk. i've
looked through our whole list, from al
falfa 70 Omega oil, and we haven't got
w
the proprietor. Extract of pemmcan."
/ Give him a nickel's worth of gum
drops for Il cents, and he'll be boast
ing OF his bargain before he gets to the
| next corner."-Cleveland Leader.
The recent observations of Comet
| Morehouse are not clearly decisive for
or against the theory of light pressure.
| Barnard finds that the motion of lumi-
nous knots along the tail is unaccele-
rated. The development of comets
| tail takes place at the rate OF some-
| thing like 100 kilometers a second, and
is maintained unaltered through dis
| tances comparable to that separating
the sun from the earth. This result
was obtained in a vague way many
years ago by Oilers and others, but
| from observations which rested on the
very uncertain limit of the visibility Of
| the extremity Of a comets tail. Barn.
ards observation is more precise, and
is in agreement with the hypothesis of
force whose acceleration diminishes
as a result of the motion impaired by
it's own action.-Science.
A large number of money prizes are
| awaiting winning in England by aerial
| flights of different distances and under
| different conditions, but the one great
| condition attending nearly all the
prizes is that either the machine or the
| aviator or both, must be English. The
| most important prize is the $4,000 offer
of the Daily Mail for an aeroplane
| flight from London to Manchester The
| same newspaper also offers a $4,000
prize for the first circular mile flight
! on an all-British aeroplane. Other
prizes are: Baron de Forests prize of
| 0,OOO for a flight across the English
channel by an Englishman in an Eng
| list built aeroplant; Sir William Hart
| ley's $4,000 prize for fight from Man
chester to Liverpool; a prize for the
| winner of the London to Manchester
prize if he uses British engine, and a
prize of $3.50 for 15-mile flight near
| OrpingtOn. The Daily Mail also offers
| n $500 cup for the second cross-channel
| flight by an aerOplane of any country.
November Popular Mechanics.
| Gov. Wilson of Kentucky had the
misfortune some time since to strain
tendon in his leg, necessitating the
TEMPORARY removal of his office to the
| mansion, where business was transact
ed and visitors received. Here he was
attended by Jim, a dafky, VINO nad
been general factotum to many COVER
| nors and had often been the cause of
much fun. According to an article in
Lppinrott's magazine. on one occasion
| Mrs Wilson had waited luncheon for
| 90 minutes and she told his eXcellency
| that he must come down and eat with
her. MY dear" said Mr.. Wilson, Just
| as soon as see that delegation of men
| downstairs I'll be with you Mrs.
Wilson was determined and said:
jim you go down and tell them to
wait" "Jim,' frowned the governor,
| as that worthy started off to obey the
mistress of the mansiOn-''Jim. you
know who is governor, don't you?"
"Yas, SIR grinned Jim with seeming
innocence. "yas. sir. I'll go down AND
tell the gemmen to wait, sir