Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-06
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

walk. Some people can PICK out the
drunkards by the same clew.
Philadelphia unearths new form OF
graft about once a week. 1t mas now
been found that court officials nave
been selling tickets of admission 10
murder trials for 25 cents each. inc
judges have taken up the matter 1or
investigation.
A woman in Missouri went into a
country newspaper office and SAID she
wanted to put an advertisement IN the
paper for her lost husband. She was
told that the advertising rate was ~
an inch, and said that she could never
afford it, as her husband was over SIX
feet tall
Most Of the arsenic is mixed in
Japan, Germany, Italy, Portugal and
Spain AS a poison it has been known
since early times. The women or
Austria consume a good deal of 1t IN
very small quantities as they thlnk II
makes them beautiful, while the men
take it in the belief that it makes them
strong.
Slavery was abolished in the British
colonies in 1888, when bill was passed
giving freedom to all classes and slave
owners $10O,OOO,0O0 to indemnify them
for loss of property. Slavery was to
cease in 1894 by this act, but ex-slaves
were to stay with their former owners
as apprentices for time.
You can't keep this university OF Chi
cago place down. One of the profess
sors there now says that he has no use
for men who make Wallets of their
wives, and adds that he just loves TO
sew buttons on his clothes. II he knew
bit more about Wallets he Wouldn
think of them doing such things as
getting busy with a needle and but
ton.
A new rat exterminator is being
tested in India which consists of an
cutter and inner metal shell, like one
egg within another. In the outer shell
is sulphuric acid and in the inner
cyanide of potash. The whole is put
in a rat hole and the hole sealed up.
Then the chemicals dissolve their
Shells mix and form prussic acid gas,
which kills rats instantly.
Vice President Sherman is complain
ing because of the lack of limelight.
He says that people do not recognize
him as the vice-president on the street,
and that there are some who do not
even know Ills name.
Never mind the baseball season will
be along some day and then every
rooter at the park will know Sunny
Him"
Two Irishmen, bent on robbery, held
up a passing Scotchman. After a long,
fierce fight, in which the Scotchman al
most had the better of it, they succeed
ed in conquering him. A thorough
search of his clothes disclosed one lone
five-cent piece. "Troth, Pat" said Mix"
digustcdly, eff he'd had tin cents in
stead of a nickel he'd have murthered
the two of u.s."
A st. Louis paper printed this story
in it's editorial column as pointed
suggestion that the public required
action of municipal officers. "Are you
a Quaker" demanded the small boy
of the man with the wide brimmed hat
Yes, friend" was the reply. "A
shaking Quaker" pursued the boy
Yes, friend" came the second reply.
"Well. then" said the small boy, 'do
it,
1t is said that the earliest effort to
construct a machine which. according
to present ideas, is entitled to be
called an aerCplane was the work OF
William Heuson in 1912. He was a
London engineer and devised a ma
chine which resembled closely the
present monoplanes. having its sup
porting planes practically forming a
single deck as distinguished from the
box form of the bplane.
A flower from the first chrysanthe-
mum plant ever grown in England is
kept in the herbarium of the British
museum. The plant one of the small
yellow Powered variety, was intro
duced into the Chelsea botanical gar
dens in 1864 by Philip Miller. who pre-
served the bloom now in the museum.
After Miller's death the chrySanthe-
mum was allowed TO die. and it has
only been in recent years that the Eng
fish have taken up it's culture.
1t is said Of Gambetta that once.
when in the heydey of his power. when
he went to some agricultural depart
ment to GUST a reactionary candidate
in favor of one of his friends, he in
uuireCi about the agriculturists' wants.
1--WE are sadly in need of rain.' came
the answer. 'I'll see about it when |
go To PaflS PROMISED biiiipV''e'
And his listeners believed in his
promise The rain came down in tor
rents a day or two after. and when
the rcactionary candidate presented
himself he was hooted at. LET your
party do as much for us as Gambetta
and We'll elect you" they said.
Correspondence school for minister
ial students is an innovation when IS
to be started in connection with the
Chicago theological seminary by the
Congregational church. The especial
aim will be to reach those preachers
already in the field who need more
training. Rev. Ozora S. Davis, presi-
dent of the seminary, has prepared a
correspondence course" says DIR. Da-
Wis ut must be our task to make It
thorough and adequate. 1t must give
satisfactory preparation as a substi-
tute for a seminary diploma. and it
must answer to the needs of ministers
needing more training
LIGHT AND AIRY.