Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-08
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

stepping down ana out IN -FOUR years
must have sounded awful good" in the
faraway jungle
| The newest vessel of the Dreadnought
type which has been added to the English
navy is the Neptune, with displacement
of 20, 80 tons
| A couple Of Cuban cabinet ministers
are scheduled for dual because one criti-
cised the management of the other dur
ing strike of garbage collectors.
| It's very much out of season for yacht
racing yet Sir Thomas Upton appears to
be getting even more space in the papers
than the two anxious heavy weights
1t is said that Roumania could put an
army of $4,000 men in the field within
short time in spite of the fact that she
only has population OF $4,000.
| Chill now takes imports worth about
500 900, 900, of which nearly 90 per cent is
in manufactured goods, but this country
sends less than 990ths Of the total i'm
ports there.
| A man at Jacksonville, Fla, gave his
enemy three hours to leave town. At the
end of that time the man who made the
| threat was carried home with a bullet
hole in him.
why did the policeman let the burglar
escape when he saw all the people pursu-
ing him?" He said he thought it was all
a stunt for moving pictures. "-Cleveland
Leader.
The government of Brazil is making
plans to develop iron smelling and the
iron and steel Industries in general, SO
that the vast iron ore deposits of the
country may be utilized.
"a in a
yukon feet and several more are being
built One costs about $4,000 when ready
for work and can handle from 20O0 to 5000
cubic yards of gravel day.
Chicago stenographer says that
well-run typewriter is just as soothing to
the nerves piano well played And
a boy trying to learn a machine has about
the same effect on the nerves as youth
trying to master cornet.
| Marie Corelli has made the best sug-
gesti0n yet. She thinks the suffragets
might form House of Commons of their
own in England. Then they could talk
all they wanted to without any trouble or
any one being disturbed.
During the last summer extensive eX-
periments We're carried on with anti
staubit to prevent dusty roads in Chem
nitz. The material was bought by the
city from potash works at ASchersleben
and cost $2G.1S metric ton of 20i6 pounds
IT, o. b. ChemntZ. The antistapbit is
lsprinkled over the road by means of the
ordinary street sprnkling cart. After
carefully cleaning the street and moisten-
ing the material with water, it is thus
strewn when first applied, and for each
square meter about one kilo t22 pounds
to 10.S square feeD is required. All subse-
quent sprinkling is done with solution
of so per cent water. According to the
Experience of the ChemnitZ street cleaning
department the dust-preventinS effect of
antistaubit lasted from i to "A days. ac-
cordng to the amount of traffic and the
general condition of the streets-Consu-
lar Reports
A canoe in g wonderful state of pres
ervation has just been unearthed in the
river Anna and is thought to be a
relic CT early Britain. 1t is of the dug
Or type. u feet long and made OF a
trunk of black oak.
A new telegraph cable has just been
laid across the Forth bridge by the
postoffice department of England. 1t
was unwound from six big wagons, and
has replaced an old one that was not
satisfactory.
The big wine storage houses in France
are now using storage tanks made of
cement lined with glass. The glass pre-
vents the bouquet of the wine from es-
Gaping and is said to be much better
than the old wooden cask for storage
purposes.
A woman in a restaurant in Wilkes
| h3r pa har Hav made some |
unfav orahle remarks about a hat worn |
by woman at another table. The We
man had her arrested and the judge |
fined her s25. This appears to be q le-
gal precedent that should worry some |
women bit.
A man in one of the middle-siZed !
| Wisconsin towns drank quite bit |
more than was good for him last week |
and then went to sleep on newly laid |
cement sidewalk He set" nicely dur
ing the night, and the owner of the
walk had all sorts of trouble getting
lin out next morning.
TOO poor to take a home paper? Wei,
| that is a distressing condition. Buy
| hen, feed her from crumbs and waste
| from the kitchen and she will lay eggs
| to pay for years subscription; then
| work her up into potpie and she Will
pay first cost: so the paper Will be clear
profit. Repeat this process year after
| year. meanwhile learn wisdom and
| cease to ne poor.-Bliss Eagle.
| A new kind of piano. the chOralcelo. |
has the ordinary keys 0nd hammers,
| which may be used if desired. but is |
| also provided with electro magnets, ar |
| ranged to viZrate the wires without |
| striking with the hammers. The tones
| when produced by the action of the
| electro magnets are said to resemble |
| those of an organ combined with |
stringed instrument giving more novel
possibilities Of melody.
| Khartum is rather young city, having |
been founded in 1923 by Mulhammed Ali.
but it has known many fluctuations in
prosperity during it's short life. A popu- |
lation of 10000 in 1859 dropped in the sew
| entities to 1900, rose again to 10000 be- |
fore the Mahdis revolt. and in 1901 was |
given 10000 It's Arabic name of "Ele- |