Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-21
GLEANiNGs AND GOSSIP.

Washington has swimming pool and
shower baths
A German professor says that hell
UNI is the ideal gas for balloons. 1t is
| far too expensive for common use,
however.
A man at Hutchinson, Kan, says he
is glad of one thing, and that is that
| ice cream cannot be used over again as
hash.
The naval apprentices at Newport
are now being taught how to sing the
national hymns. 1t will be fine to have
some one know them.
A druggist has invented a machine
that measures or weighs medicine and
can fill eight capsules in the time TAX
en- to fill one by hand.
The Baltimore American says that
Baltimore is good place to spend the
summer in. Key West and Galveston
papers will now be heard from.
ChaO PinSChun, the vice. president
of the Chinese ministry of interior, is
said to have been retired into private
life because of his love for opium
The president of Colorado college is
out with the statement that college
athletics are degrading. 1t will help
the attendance at his institution some.
AS long as Congress has to stay in
session through the hot weather it is
rather pity that the Washington ball
nine can't do a little more toward Of
ferng good amusement.
The school authorities at CholOtten-
burg, near Berlin, have appointed
number of women sisters of the ele-
| mentary schools" Their duty is to look
after the health of the children.
Florida seems to be out after the, lau-
rels of Kansas and Texas. A man
down there claims that he has a toma-
to plant that spreads along a river
bank for more than 100 yards.
Paris now has school where young
women are taught how to SMILE We
have had institutions in this country
for years where young men. have been
| taught how to take smile.
The wine production of the world is
decreasing. while the consumption of
beer is increasing. In 1897 the wine
production was over 1000, 100000 gallons
| and last year it was 3,S66.0 900.
A Canadian man says that he is will
| ing to be rolled over Niagara Falls in a
rubber ball if some one will give him
$3.50. He would do we'll to get the
money first 1t might be of more use
| to him.
| Russian convicts who have escaped
from Siberia into Alaska are not treat
| ing their new-found liberty very we'll.
They have murdered a number of ma
tives who refused to give them dogs
and reindeer.
In the early days of the Victorian era
a London belle thought she was much
in society if she attended six or seven
| a ilebutante is not in it unless she has
Invitations for that many parties a
night.
The first Turkish airship, the Osman-
Ii, has just taken it's trial flight near
Paris. The airship was ordered by the
old government, but it is to be taken
over by the new, and it's arrival in Tur-
key is eagerly awaited. as aeronautics
has always been a forbidden sport
there.
A Chicago judge in addressing jury
after it had been sworn in the other
day, said that jury duty is not onerous
and that the idea that it was so is
false. He thought that no man who
had served on a jury for two weeks
would exchange his experience for any
thing. Some disagree with him.
A Chicago man went out to "buy a
cigar the other night and forgot thad
his wife was going to a party. When
he got home at p. M. he found her
lwaiting for him. She couldn't unlock
her dress, and had to sit up until he
had found cigar to suit him and could
come home to unorison her.
Lord Wemyss is keen golfer in spite
of his 80 years. 1t was he who started
the Wimbledon golf club In 1862, but
when a bylaw was passed making 1t
! necessary for every player to wear
red coat Wemyss tied up a set of clubs
nut them in his locker and has never
slugged ball on that field since.
In an article on the Natal govern
ment railways eating department, the
South African Railway magazine says:
"The Natal railway administration
like the Natal people. are frequently
accused of being lethargic, slow and
inert, but that this is certainly a fall
lacy so far as the railways are con-
cerned can be proved by the fact that
the Chinese repatriates conveyed from
johannesburg to Durham are fed al
lightning speed on the stations al
. which they halt for refreshments. Each
train conveys about AGO coolies, who are
in charge of one European conductor
Every passenger is supplied with hot
meal, consisting of two courses. and q
pint of tea, during the stop of six min
utes which is allowed for refresh
ments.'' ~ifSNSsF4vSU
Meunier's bust Of Lola has been de-
MED a place in the museum at Brus-
sells. As an important work of Meuni.
er's, "The Defense of the Peasantry II
1897" is the property of the museum
and, Furthermore, is regarded by the
directors and the public as one OF Its
most valuable works. Tt is believed
| that the refusal to accept the bust o.
& lola IS because Of hostility to Zols
rather than to the sculptor.
| The Pennsylvania railroad employee