Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-05
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

The worlds supply OF TIN Wds ~
creased 1868 tons last year, OF WHICH
more than half came from the STRAITS
Settlements.
Practically all the important coal
mining states have inspection laws oe-
signed to prevent death and disaster
among the mine workers.
Several French schools are using ma
chimes which suck dust from the leaves
of books, spray them with disintectaht,
and dry them With hot air.
Wild bears still abound in region
which can be reached by railway in two
hours from Smyrna. Near Samsouh
some sportsmen have shot as many as
so wild bears in a single year.
At TurCOing, France five couples or
working people celebrated their golden
wedding the other day. Great festlVI-
ties were provided for the occasion by
the municipal authorities.
one. of the requests for q patent re-
ceived in the patent office of Germany
was for a device for making ones own
matches With the aid Of it any one
can, by fivc-hours' work, save SIX or
seven cents!
Much comment was caused by the
nlanv The American agricultural ma
chimes, while holding their own other
wise. did not compare favOrably with
the German matches in finish and gen.
eral appearance.
Fatigue Of the eyes and more or loss
persistent ocular troubles are produced
by the rapid and brief excitatlons of
the rerina by the cincmatograph a
French physician has given the name
of cinematophthalmia to affections of
this character. The troubles are not
very serious and generally yield easily
to simple remedies.
"'Tain't much use o arguin',' said
Uncle Ehen. IF you's talkin' to man
dat has mo sense dan you has, de beS'
thing you kin do is to keep quiet an
listen. An if you's talliin' to one dat
amt got as much serSe as you has,
you's wastin' yoh time tryin' to pass
around amachure education. wash
in2ton Star.
The new marriage law now under
consideration in Victoria, Australia, has
AS its object the prevention of chandeS-
tine marriages. 1t provides that no
clergyman shall perform the ceremony
unless the couple applying shall have
obtained q license. An exception is
made, however, for reasons unknown,
in the case Of Quakers, who are not
obliged to come before the marrying
authority armed with permit.
The government is going into the ho-
tel business, having agreed, through its
ne dar branch in the Philippines, to
take $500, 600 at par of the bonds to pro-
vide money for new hotel at Hanila,
which, with its working capital. is to
represent an investment of $450,000.
When the Philippines have a. centen-
NAL. or some other big celebration, will
| the iEsular government put up its hotel
| rates on the visiting publc?-New York
| Press.
One of the latest ideas for killing
! rats is 4 trap into which the animal
walks attracted by an electric light and
| a display of food. Once in he cannot
get out and an electric current kills
him in 80 or GO seconds. The appar&t us
i can be so arranged that the electrocut-
ed animal itself signals it's fate to any
| desired place advising the Waterman
| by an electric bell or the lighting of an
electric lamp that thcre is a dead rat
| to be removed.
| Music natcnS were first used in Eng
| land about 1920. 1t was not until 10 or
| - years later. however, that the baton
came into general use A German con-
ductor who welded one produced such
wonderful results with his orchestra
| that it was thought there must be some
magic.