Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-08
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

In an English village an Official no
ice reads as follows. The public are
warned against using the well for DO
nestle purposes unless previously boil
ed
Chicago has started a vigorous cru
sadr to compel physicians TO, report
contagious diseases, and as salutary
lesson two physicians have been muic-
ted so each for failing to record cases
Of diphtheria. ri
At a service of thanksgiving for the
harvest of the sea at Port Isaac Church
Cornwall, Eng, the walls from end to
end were draped with tishing nets,
while lobster pots and packing barrels
occupied the window spaces
The largest friction saws in the
world are used in one Of Chicago's
huge construction plants. says Popular
Mechanics. They cut through 10
inch steel I-beam in IA seconds. These
saws or discs arc 50 made that they
generate enough heat at the point OF
contact literally to melt their way
through the metal being cut. Tho cut
ting edge of til" discs is roughened by
simply hacking with fish-tali chSc!.
There is one place you Can control
your bedroom. Nentilate that" is the
warning of a recent Chicago health de-
partment bulletin. The bulletin urges
the need of fresh air in the winter to
combat consumption and pneumonia. 1t
advises riding on the platforms of
street cars and warm clothes, but no
holstering of ntcks, and as much avoid
ance as possible of places where the
air circulation is poor.
no bnI f n a
most generally adopted in Panama mas
been to dig a trench about so feet in
length, two feet wide and one FOOT deep
with perpendicular sides in which the
locust are driven by men beating the
grass ana trees with switches. In this
way millions are collected and are de-
stroyed with a solution of strong I've
soapsuds The trench is then refilled
with earth so as to allay the odor.
Sir Henry MaXim's prophecy as to
the use OF airships in war is a serious
parallel to Horace Walpo1e's facetious
speculation. made in 1884 after Blan-
ohards first ascent-in England-in a
hydrogen-fillcd balloon. 1.-The sea-
ports" he said, "will become deserted
villages. and Salisbury plain, Newman
ket heath and the Sussex downs Will be
utilized as dockyards for aerial vessels;
there Will be fights in the air with
wind guns and there will be a prodi-
gicus increase of land for tilage by the
breaking up of all public roads as USE
less
The Westcheslcr County Magazine is
urging the purchase by the city of the
Edgar Allan Poe cottage ut Fordham
N. ", as d repository for Poe relics
THAT little house." says the magazine.
was Poc's home from June, 1916. until
his death. in Baltimore. on October Z,
1S43. In the little cottage of Fordham
his wife, Virginia. died. There he wrote
such of his poems as Annabel Lee
'Eldorado, For Annie 'Ulalume AN
Enigma. TO My Mother and the first
draft of The Bells This house is east
ly the most famous literary landmark
of Greater New York
Lincoln had four sons. They We're
Robert Todd Lincoln, born on August
!, 1913; Edward Eaker Lincoln, born on
March 10. 1916: William Wallace Lin
coin, born on December II. 1850; Thorn
as Lincoln, born on April 1. 1858 Rob
ert Todd Lincoln is the only living son
of the martyr president. He is the head
of the Pullman car company in Chicago.
Edward Baker Lincoln died in infancy.
William Wallace died at the White
House during the first wear Of Lincoln'S
presidency. Thomas. the fourth son,
survived his father, dying at the fami-
ly home in Springfield, H., at the age
of 49,
Rev. James T.. CaSSiday OF St Mary's
Catholic church, Fall River, who was
one of the leaders of the successful no
license fight in that city, has served
notice that in his parish at least the
new prohibitory law is not going 20 be
dead letter. if he has anything to say
in the matter. "Already the newsoa-
pers are discussing ways and means
for practically multiplying the verdict
he recently told his congregation. II
serve this notice that, so far as ST. Ma
rvs parish is concerned, liquors will
not be sold contrary to law Neither
myself nor my priests will enter a
house with the blessed sacrament
where liquor is sold in any tenement.
This is a far warning"
rheumatism is not the only aiIment
for which the possession of a rabbits
foot or hare's foot has been a specific.
Pepys, the 18th century diarist, had one
as Cnafm against the collie. But he
was never quite sure whether he ought
to be grateful to it. AS the end of
| 1864. noting his ahnormally good health
for Some months. he remarked: but
[ am at a great loss to know whether
it be my hare's foot or taking every
morning Of pill of turpentIne, or my
having left off the wearing of a gown"
Three weeks later a friend showed him
that his hare's foot was defective not
having ''the joint to it. And it is a
strange thing how fancy works." writes
Pepys, for / no sooner handled his
foot but | became very wen. and so
continue" Pepys got another hare's
foot. and throvc again, but in March
he was still wondering whether this
was due to the charm or to the turpen-
tine pill.