Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-12
GLEANlNGS' AND GOSSIP.


the straps in street cars are loaded
with microbes never saw one of our
cars. There is never room for a mi
crobe on stray.
Kansas City is improving and can
now teach the East a few things. She
has Just made a Salome dancer do her
disgusting gyrations in shoes and
stockings.
South to honor the memory of Joel
Chandler Harris. 1t should spread to
the North, too, for Uncle Remus be-
longs to us all.
Another experimenter with the X
ray has met with an accident in Lon
don. He lost three fingers on his right
hand. Not long ago he lost finger
on his left hand in the same sort OF
work.
1t is reported that out of the III
school superintendent in Virginia only
II give their entire time to their work.
The rest are devoting at least part
of their time to business or farming.
Mr. Jusserand, the French embassa-
dor at Washington, has almost given
up his desire to bring his literary his
tory of the English people up to date,
It now includes the life of Shakespeare.
The biggest map in the world is to
be made in New York for the opening
Of the greensboro bridge 1t will stand
near the bridge and be 3724 feet long
and 50 feet high. On it the principle
towns and cities benefited by the
bridge will be represented by green
lamps, and anyone on the East river
will be able to read the map.
Canada has a DR.. Wiley-the Do
minion analyst-who has been testing
samples '"pure apple cider" His re-
port is calculated to raise something
of stir among drinkers of so-called
"apple juice OF 81 camples examined
the chemist finds that many contain
salicylic acid, others are colored with
aniline dyes and contain chlorides
and sulphates. while some are not ci-
der at all, although sold under that
name.
Benvenuto Cellini d5OO-157D tells of
early italian surgery. He had got a
bit of Clipped steel in his eye, $50 far
into the pupil that it was impossible to
get it out. SO that I was in very great
danger of losing that eye" But tine
surgeon came to the rescue with the
upon my back, with a little knife open
ed . vein in each of their wings. so
that the blood ran into my eye, and l
was thereby greatly relieved. In the
space Of two days the bit of steel is
sued from my eye, and ! found that l
had received considerable ease. and
IL a great measure recovered by sight
Grievances of the present-day jury
men are mild compared with those in
liictcd on them in the past. Until the
passing of an act Of Parliament in 1870
British jurymcn were prohibited from
having meat, drink or fire Candle
light only exccrteO while considering
their verdict. In some ancient courts
they were even subject to physical
violence. Thcy We're told to LAY their
heads together" as an indispensable
preliminary to finding verdict. NO
sooner did the jury dive beneath the
level of their boxes than an usher,
armed with a willow wand. took up a
position near them. If any Juryman
presumed tn come to the surface be
fore the verdict was arrived at down
came tho wand on the head Of the Of
fender.
Old Putnam, the 1S-year-old pet
horse Of battery G. 9Th United States
artillery died at Fort William Mckin-
ley, near Manila, December II. Old
Putnam. who had been enjoying we'll
earned ease on the retired list, after
his useful life, first went to the Pull
ippinc Islands in 1898 with the Astor
battery. He was later assigned to Cap
tain Reilley's battery in China. When
the allied armies arrived at Pekin.
Putnam and another horse by the
name Of Corregdor We're pulling the
first of the American light field guns.
Just as they had started up hill to
gain one of the positions overlooking
the city, Corregidor's traces broke. and
moment later. after that horse had
been cut away from the gun. Putnam.
straining every muscle, started up the
hill. arriving there in time for the
American gun to open the first fire IN
the storming of Pekin.