Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-20
GLEANIhs AND GOSSIP.

A good manyeople are wondering II
that Fairview ace in Nebraska has
really gotten int the Esopus class. II
has not been hear from in a long time
An Indiana mai ays that it is best
to always get up RIM the table hun
cry. It may be in Mia, but in Massa-
chusetts the food so good you sim
ply can't.
| The linen indust is the greatest
manufacturing indury in Ireland, and
about 10000 people re given employ
ment through it, vile s75,O0O,0O is in
| vested.
The courts have ecided that the
| Fifth-avenue stages iLew York must
not carry advertising siss any more
This will allow them to ack in more
passengers.
There were 100000 perres coined at
the minis last year. anilt's safe to
say that you've had ever ne of them
cars since then.
The potato was Introduce into Eng
land in 1855 by the Sp&ards, who
found it in Chilli. The Egish them
selves found it a little lts in this
country where the Indian cultivated
it.
Experts hold that the eat pi the an
cient Greeks and Romans wsreally a
weasel. The animal which is iund in
the Egyptian mummies, howevr, is a
close relative to our domestic q.
Only so years ago coal dust wa con-
sdered useless, but now in Renish
WestPhalia 100000 tons of hauets
are produced each year. Up to tlHpres-
ent time coal tar pitch has been Iad in
making these briquets. u
The law liberating the slaves libra
iii was passed in 1871 and it elscted
that every child born after that de of
slave parents should be free and falso
freed all slaves belonging to the site
and imperial household. M
Booth Harrington wanted to be In
Ell fist and is very clever with his nl-
Gil But when he found that the MAJ
zines turned down his pictures ocs.
sionaily. he took to writing stories aat
succeeded. Now he is turning PLY
wright.
An association has been formed It
Atlanta. Ga, to buy the farm of IT,
late Joel Chandler Harris and to prt
serve the house upon it as a memoria
to Uncle Remus.' who did to max
known the sunny side of the South.
Mrs Nora Stanton De Forest. tn
granddaughter of Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton. is building factory at Newark
n. J., for the manufacture of electri
condenscrs. She is a graduate OF Cor
nell and has been studying electricft.
ever since her marriage.
The $4,000 prize which was offered b.
2 Frenchman three years ago to tn
first man who should succeed in com
with another planet ha
never heen claimed. Next year it is t
be given to the astronomer making thu
rnost important discovery.
A bill has been introduced into tn,
Georgia Legislature making it obliga
tory for a man who carries concealed
weapons to wear badge. This is al
most good enough to appeal TO some o
our Massachusetts, salons.
A man died at Logansport, Ind, tn
other day after very short illness
during which he suffered terribly
post-mortem showed that rusty nee
die had pierced his sheart. The doctors
decided that he must have swallowed i
at some time during his boyhood.
During the early part of the 1911
century Messina furnished new wore
for the German language, for it wa.
then that oranges were first sent L
Germany from Sicily and were calico
APPEL aus Messina. Later they wer,
Known as APPEL Messina and now the,
are called apfelsine.
In Jamaica there is tree called II
[.olite society the Daphne Largetto, ant
from it's branches peculiarly strong ane
excellent whips are made, having the
lash and handle in ore piece. The han.
ale consists Of a part OF the stem re.
tanning the bark and for the lash the
bark is removed and the wood split into
strips which are woven together for siS