Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-10
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Emperor Nicolas has signed an order
abolishing the use Of drums in the Rus
sian army in time of war.
| The best American potatoes are said to
be much inferior to certain varieties
raised in the Rhin country.
No carrots, turnps other edible roots
were produced in England until the reign
of Henry VIII.
The university of Heidelburg has re-
ceived of over $4,000 toward the
| foundation of a photographic institute.
The Maine central railroad has followed
the New York Central in placing in SER
| vice oil-burning locomotives on branches
that run through forest regions.
Two pipe lines several hundred miles
long are to be built from the California
oil fields over the mountain range to the
coast.
The university of Leipsic will celebrate
it's 5OOth anniversary in July. The pro-
gram will include service in the univer
sity church, the Pauliner krche, a meet
ing in the new theater with an address by
Prince Frederick August of SaXony, a
fete champetre at the Palmengarten, a
historic procession, gala performances in
all the theaters, and 'commers' at
WHICH lu,VVV Will ne pltstHt. Lie al 'ieS7
ments are in the hands of the rector and
professors. assisted by the various STU
dent societies.
For a year or more the Nottingham
(Eng) school authorities have provided
meals for pupils whose parents were too
poor to feed them sufficiently. About 800
children, representing some 200 families.
are now being fed. Arrangements are
made with several restaurants to supply
breakfasts, dinners, or both, to children
showing proper vouchers. Each month
approximately 5000 meals, about equally
divided between breakfasts and dinners,
are supplied, costing roundly S65o-about
four cents a meal
In Great Britain and France, where
there have been numerous inventions OF
processes for bleaching flour, infringe
ment suits have kept the courts busy for
years. In a case beginning before the
tribunal at Lille. between the owners OF
an electrical process and those of chem
ical process, the court of appeals, IN de-
Gliding the rights of the litigants, also at
firmed that the bleaching was an inn
provement, not an injury, to health.-NeW
York Press.
Settlers in Douglass county. Minnesota,
are said to have found rock bearing an
inscription which has been translated as
follows: Eight Goths and % Norsemen
upon a voyage of discovery from N1nland
westward. We had a camp by two Skier
ries one days journey north from this
stone We were fishing one day. When
we returned we found 10 men. red with
blood and dead. Save from evil. We
have 10 men by the sea to look after our
vessel Al days journey from this island.
Year 1852
The sisterhood of Emanuel has just
opened a new branch in the form OF
| home for Jewish girls in East Sxty-first
street New York. The institution is pri-
marily intended to provide for girls I'M
der 16 whom a first offense has brought TO
the attention of the juvenile courts, as
| we'll as for girls who have been tried Tor
| minor offenses in the court of general
sessions. The building is we'll equipped,
and it is intended to give the girls all the
comforts of well-regulated home and TO
| train them in sewing, cooking and other
household duties
| Consul Southland p. Warner of Leipsic
| makes the following report on the move
ment to combat malaria: So many cases
of malaria have recently occurred in
those sections Of Leipsic which are ad-
jacent to any one of the four riVulets
| which flow through the city that the city
| council has decided to adopt stringent
measures to exterminate the mosquitoes
that spread the disease. In order that the
work Of determination may be thorough
Nv and systematically carried out the city
council has notified all housekeepers In
the infected sections of the city to care
fully examine their houses or apartments
for mosquitoes, and to destroy any that
may be found. Every household in the
district concerned has been furnished by
the city council with large circular.
| which, in addition to information as to
| the cause and spreading of malaria, con-
tains advice as to the best means of de-
stroying the malaria mosquitoes. Certain
dates have been specified between which
the houses are to be searched and the
mosquitoes destroyed