Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-13
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

A canal nine miles long, 60 feet wide
and IA feet deep has just been completed
in Arkansas which drains 10000 acres
of land near Arkansas City.
1t is beginning to look more and more
as if Zelaya is about due on the boule-
wards of Paris.
Jeff Davis says that there are some
rotten potatoes in the Senate. Senator
Davis always was a modest chap.
Five Americans have been arrested for
cheating Paris jewelers.. But the balance
is still way down on the French side.
Now a scientist claims that he is about
to succeed in developing a coreless apple.
This won't make any nit with the school
children.
A North Dakota judge says that all nat
ural born criminals should be put to
death at once He includes insane peo-
pie in the same list.
There won't be near as many books sent
into Maine by express now that all liquor
sent by that method of transportation
has to be plainly labeled.
Aliensts are recommending open-air
treatment for the insane If Harry Thaw
hears of this there will be more excite
menC. ne cure Will appear Slioi45iy ~
him.
A Baltimore woman has brought suit
| for damages against a soap company be-
cause she tore her hand on a nail con-
cealed in a cake of the company's soap.
She only wants $4,000
\ New York family has kept its cook
| for five years and never paid her cent.
Lots of women would be perfectly salts
fled if they could keep a cook five months
and pay her wages regularly to boot.
A Nebraska court has ruled that bar
Der is not a professor. Now if another
court will only rule that the piano player
in a vaudeville theater is not a profess
sor either it will help whole lot.
The prisoners of the Missouri prison
were allowed to vote on what they would
have for a Thanksgiving dinner, and
frankfurters, saurkraut and boiled cab
bage won. Yet some people say the Ger
mans are law-abiding.
A Nova Scotian fisherman has been
making a series of Investigations of
skates and their lives, and has found
that these fish, which every deep-sea fish
erman hates, are far from harmless. He
claims that they eat many young lob
sterS.
There is no such thing as forest of
mahogany. The mahogany tree lives by
itself and stands surrounded by dense
undergrowth in the tropic forests. Two
trees to the acre is a liberal estimate OF
the number of trees in a forest.
A man at Parkersburg, w. Va. who died
recently left a bequest that he be buried
in long robe and tLat a pair of wings
be fastened to his shoulders SO that he
could be all ready for the resurrection.
Even at this he didn't have much faith.
The wife of New Jersey editor wanted
to advertise for servant and as she
had heard much talk about the money
saved by cutting out unnecessary words
from advertisements she handed in this
| one: Wanted, a white semi-green maid
servant
This one comes from Missouri, where
one editor showed" them why: IAN
evangelist asked all the men present who
| were honest and paid their debts to stand
up. All rose but one. He said he was
| the local editor and couldn't pay his debts
| because the men standing We're his delin7
quent subscribers. - Atlanta Constitu-
| ton.
Canada's legal gold coinage is that of
| the United States. If a man goes to a
Canadian bank to demand gold for notes
| the law says he shall be paid in United
States gold. If Canadian gold from a
Canadian mine is to be sold it must go to
| United States mint There is no place
! in the Dominion where it can be essayed
and stamped with an official estimate of
| its value.
| Richard Watson Glider had a dry wit of
| his own. He once received call from a
young woman who wished to secure ma
terial for an article of 5000 words on
Young Women in Literature" 1T was
a fetching subject, full of meat" eX-
| planned the young woman afterward
land I saw not only 5000 words in the
story, but at least 6OOO But never got
| any further than the first question. Mr.
elders answer took the very life out of
| mel I asked him, Now. Mr.. Glider, what
would you say was they first, the chief
! the all-essential requisite for young
woman entering the literary field? l
waited with bated breath, when he an
swered, Postage stamps"