Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-09
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

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Kingdom for North America.
Austria is the country most lenient
to murdereds. A very small percent
age of those convicted are executed.
No one can set up wireless tclc-
graph instrument in England now
without permit from the post office
1t is said that about 100000 UNI
brcllas are used in London each year
and that d large share OF them are
made outside of England.
With President Taft a visitor to the
old slave market in New Orleans ii
seems that the time is about ripe Cor
a revival OF Uncle Toms Cabin"
Senator Gore, although blind, has
been present at a number of aeroplane
flights. He says that he cannot
watch" them as weH as he can ball
game.
Election day must have been rather
d sorry time at Saratoga. The tw"
parties made an agreement that they
would spend but $40 apiece for elec-
ton expenses.
Gov. Curry of New Mexico, who was
orce a rough rider, has resigned. The
Buffalo Express says that there is 2
good job open for some skilful golf
player.
A New Jersey man says that the
winter will be hard because there IS a
shortage of the chestnut crop. He
should go to vaudeville show and
become an optimist.
Now southern bishop has come out
strong against Rockefeller's gift OF
81 100000 to put an end to the hook
worm. Probably thinks tainted
money" would not harm the worms.
A yacht has hard time of it in the
way of names when she changes
owners one Of the big ones started
life as the Isolde, next she was listed
as the Duffer and now she bears the
proud title Of Poodle
The largest room in the world under
one roof and unbrollen by pillars is in
81. Petersburg. 1t is $40 feet long pE
$50 wide 1t is used for a drill shed
and a whole battalion can mancuver
in it, The roof is a single arch Of iron.
Last year the Red Cross society
Noted $4,000 from its Christmas
stamps, and this year is planning to
again issue them in aid of its tuber-
cuosis fund. 1t should become the
custom for Il Red Cross stamp to APP
pear on every Christmas present. No
object is more worthy.
L. that Springfield bunch of amateur
balloonists really want to do sone-
thing for their country, they could
volunteer to go up in the balloons at
which soldiers are to shoot from the
Sandy Hook proving grounds.-Buffalo
Express. Or any other old balloon, for
that matter
Capt Charles f. Shillaber, who is
building q canal from Tampico to
Tuxpan for the Mexican government
is 10 years old. He was a sailor in his
younger days and his great-grand-
father was on the Bon Homme Richard
with John Paul Jones when he fought
the Scraps.
When the late Gen. Edward NJ. Nc
Cook lived in Pixies Peak he once
presided at a dinner in honor of a
famous Indian fighter, says the St.
Louis Globe Democrat. Mr. McCook,
as he then was, cOnsluded his intro
duction of the Indian fighter with tn
words: Il can find but one fault with
the colonies methods. l allude to his
we'll known custom of enlisting in his
regiment only bald-headed men. To
aggravate the Indians feelings so
cruelty as that is carrying war too
far"
Lombroso in his article on The soul
of the North American millionaire. :
published recently in Lettara. after
describing the physiognomy Of tho
American men of great wealth. said
that only a few Of them had the
characteristics which are usually the
accompaniment of genius. He added
that they were small Of stature and
that in some casess the American
millionaire was found to be inches
shorter than his wife" AS to the
children, the crminologist pronounced
them generally weak in body and
soul" attributing this deficiency not
to degeneracy so much as to forced
isolation
1t is reported from France that it is
proposed to manufacture fuel from peat
under a new patented process in the peaty
district on the borders of the Charente
Infericure and Deux departments. The
fuel produced 'eXperimentally is said to be
of good quality.
An expert in mechanics who comes in
frequent contact with inventors says that
there are not fewer than four hundred
men in New York city experimenting with
flying machines, and that while most of
them are working on impossible projects
some of them are likely to develop valua-
BILE ideas.
There is a large demand in Germany for
American apples, and it can be increased
by intelligent effort on the part of Ameri-
can packers and shippers. There is also
a considerable demand in Denmark, Nor
way and SW eden, now satisfied by the
Wholesale importers at Hamburg, where
practically the whole of the business is
centered.
One of the biggest flag factories in the
world is in the Brooklyn navy yard. Be
tween eighty and one hundred women
work there all the year round making
flags for the use of Uncle Sans fighting
ships. They use up 10000 yards of bunt-
ing a year and fashion AIS different kinds
of official flags. The flags cost 100000 q
year.