Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-08
GLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

| A Philadelphia girl married chauf-
feur the other day, thinking he was a
baron. She builded better than she
knew.
The Buffalo Commercial wisely says
| that the best thing to do with Carrie
| Nation is to turn her over to the
| Hague Tribunal.
Two noblemen fought a duel in Paris
the other day and one Of them was Sc
| riously injured. Such duels should be
stopped.
The city of Halifax has no mechan-
| ical street sweepers or road machines.
All the cleaning and road making IS
| done by hand.
Chicago motorman who figured in
bad accident the other day has been
forced to take a vacation until he re-
| covers his nerve.
Eleven different languages are spok-
en- in new Turkish Parliament. This is
a larger number of dialects that is
used in our Congress.
Calcutta is soon to put up a big
steel water tank which will cost $780,
900. The Indian city is struggling to
improve its water supply.
Kansas has just sent home nine car
loads of Oklahomians she has been en-
PERTAINING in one of her institutions
much against their will.
A man in Virginia has found a 5000
diamond in a SQUAD the other day. IT
he had only let the little bird grow up
he might have found diamond neck
lace.
The livery men at Christiania are TAX
ing to the automobile. Many are now
in public use and in spite Of the mar
row streets no serious accidents have
happened.
The dentists in rural Pennsylvania
have settled upon schedule of prices
for their work. Fifty cents will be
charged for the first tooth pulled and
rs cents for each succeeding one.
| The American consul-general at
| Shanghai has made report to the
state department in which he bemoans
| the fact that the American flag is now
| but seldom seen in Chinese waters.
One of the Mexican papers says that
| there are coal mines in that country
which have never been worked. but
which are big enough to produce S.0Oo.-
900 tons of coal for the next 100 years.
A surgeon in the navy has been
contaminated for giving the wrong
treatment to midshipman. It's a
fortunate thing that all physicians are
not open to such things-at least for
tunate for the physicians.
The French courts have sentenced a
man who said he could make diamonds
to ten years in Jail. The sentence is a
good one, but the court doesn't happen
| to Lnow 1yhara the man is to make him
serve his sentence.
| The Philadelphia Ledger seems to be
some worried over this business of
sleeping in the open air. 1t says that
physicians say it is healthy. yet all
birds bury their heads under their
wings and many animals sleep in caves
and hollow trees. .iu
| The Chinese in the country are slow
to discard Oriental drugs and quack-
cry. 1t is about the last thing they
| give up in their assimilation. But
when they do get our ways they be-
come great eaters of quinine. taking
it on all possible occasions and for all
| Ills
Hobson is in trouble again. He finds
that the United States is rs years be-
hind the world in aerial navigation, ev-
| identity forgetting the Wrights. and
that our navy has only SO up-to-date
| torpedoes. Still he might be given a
commission again in case of war, and
could sink a few more ships where
| they wouldn't do any good.