Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-19
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

New York is talking of running spec
ial cars for women on the subway
trains.
Il railroad bridge two miles in length
has recently been completed in the
state of Washington.
There has been an increase of 1900
pupils in attendance at the Chicago
high schools during the past year.
1t seems rather strange that Texas
should be represented by the smallest
battleshirs in the navy and Delaware
by the largest.
A Philadelphia physician says that
all bald headed men are degenerates,
This should stir UP bit of trouble
in the profession.
At least % chambers of commerce,
boards of trade, exchanges, manufac-
turing, merchantile and agricultural
associations, etc, have stood up to be
counted as in favor of adding to the
national outfit permanent expert tar
if commission
The San Francisco Bulletin explains
to its readers why the President has
made TruXtun Beale an assay COM
missioner. For years. he says, Mr..
Beale has been serving the people OF
Bakersfield faithfully in an unofficial
capacity. He has been concerned not
with the political, but rather with the
social development and improvement
Of the community. Out of his private
fortune he has given to the city a
clock, tower, a library, an open-air
thaater. a park and summer school;
and he has done all this without u
thought of gaining political power or
public Office
There is at present an interesting ex-
hibit in No. 6 tank at the Brighton
aquarium, says the London Globe. 1t
is something like a dogfish, only much
larger. while in the matter of sheer
ugliness it stands unrivaled. Its tech
nical name is the topper shark 1t is
six feet long, and weight from so to 80
pounds, while it's mouth looks large
enough to take an elephant single
handed. The shark came into the pos
session of the aquarium in rather a
curious manner A man named Lane.
Of Brighton. was fishing some two
miles off the Palace pier with a long
line, when he felt a vicious tug at his
hook. He quickly "hauled in his
shark" and then the topper came to
and placed the topper in his new home
There was recently introduced in the
House of Representatives. bill for the
purchase of the house in Tenth street,
Washington, in which Abraham Lin
coin. died on April Is. 1865. The bill
proposes the acquisition of the two adj
joining houses and the entire collection
of the Oldroyd relics of Lincoln of
which there are some 1000 pieces in the
building. There is also included a IL
brary of a thousand volumes all relat-
ing to Lincoln and the Civil war. In
one Of the rooms is a "black locust
rail split by Lincoln in 1890, and taken
from a fence around his old home, and
the walnut cradle in which his child
rem were rocked. The bill contefnplates
the purchase also of the two adjoining
buildings on each side, with the under
standing that both are to be torn
down and the ground beautihed by
lawns and shrubbery The Oldroyd
collection of Lincoln relics is the larg-
est in the world.
WI Ting-fang, the Chinese minister,
told a Newark audience the other
night his experience in the Chinese
custom or arranging marriages, 81
never talked to my wife, said he,
until 1 met her. Did I even see her?
I don't know. When l was engaged I
was obstinate Before the matter was
flEally settled asked my parents to
just let me have peek at the girl oh,
no. they said. You know the custom
But said: Can't see her on the sly?
She might be blind, might be very tall,