Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-25
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A New Jersey woman says that the
frying pan is the cause of many dlvor-
ces How about the broiler.
A big chimney was recently built OF
concrete in Germany and no scaffold-
ing was used. This meant great re-
duction of cost.
1t is said that the merry So-round is
failure in South America. 1t seems
impossible. Anything revolutionary
ought to succeed there.
A distinguished traveller reports that
Chinese cockroaches have wings and
can sing The American has no wings
at all, but (etc).-Cleveland Leader.
The average man is put in rather a
quandary by Carnegie and Upton. One
says it's a disgrace to die rich, and the
other that it's glorious to be- born poor.
When "Ulysses'' was being played in
London a couple of matinee girls went
to see it. Before the curtain rose one
told the other that she knew the play
was going to be funny because OF its
comical name.
A man claims that he has invented a
billiard table that can be used OH a
ship in the toughest weather 1t is
some sort of a self-locking affair, but
just how the players can keep their
balance is another question.
England is counting on the Argentine
more and more for her meat supply,
and there is a plan on foot to start a
line of refrigerator ships from London
to River La Plata, which will mean a
beef ship a week at least
A mining expert says that Alaska
has three times the placer area that
California had California produced
| 81, 400, 100000 in gold in SO years, and
this expert says that Alaska will pro-
duce more than three times that
amount in the same period.
DIR. Neff, the director of public health
in Philadelphia, says that pneumonia
and consumption frequently follow i'll
the wake of a neglected cold. He says
that if colds We're less commonly ne
elected there would be q great deal less
serious illness.
Mining in Korea gives employment
to about 5000 Koreans. One OF the cop
per mines, which is now owned by an
American company, is said to be very
rich. There are many coal deposits
there. but most of them are so far
away from transportation facilities
that it does not pay to develop them.
Emily Fiero was introduced into Chi
cago society with much pomp year
ago, but now she says she is through
with it ALL She has formed a Chicago
settlement house and is teaching kin
dergarten classes. She says that she
| enjoys society but has come to the CON
cluSion that it is not worth the trouble.
one of the southern railroads has de-
cided to try to eXterminate the china
| berry tree, as it's directors think this
| tree is a breeder of the white fly. The
road has ordered that every chinaber-
| ry tree along its line be cut down. Gov
| eminent experts agree with it in its
theory as to the danger arising from
| the tree.
Teeth are decorated in many ways in
various parts of the world. Some of
| the Japanese women still gid theirs.
| But this IS by no means the only form,
| of decoration women indulge in. In
Arabia they stain their fingers and toes
| red. in Greenland they paint their IA.
ces red or blue, and in BorneO wome,
| dye their hair pink or green.
The central conference of American
| rahbis sitting in New York declined to
| sanction the proposal to ask the gov
eminent for the appointment of Jew
ish chaplains in the army, on the
ground that Congress should not be ex-
pectec to do sectarian act. 1t was
resolved. however, to ask for the ap-
pointment of more chaplains in the
army, put not specifying their religious
belief The object of this resolve can
be suspected