Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-15
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

Cleveland is to celebrate the next
Fourth Of July by opening her new
federal building. 1t is a sensible sort
of celebration.
The king and queen of England have
consented to- allow the twin towers of
the cathedral at Truro to be named for
them.
Cleveland is boasting because John
d. Rockefeller has decided to stay
there for another month. He always
was fond of the country.
An English court has handed down
the opinion that there is no game
which is as likely to put one out of
humor as croquet. How about golf?
4 New York professor says that
pawning jewelry is disease. He
should prove that it is not contagious.
1t would make lot of people happier.
Health Commissioner Ritchic of Bos-
ton says that pneumonia is the most
fatal disease in his jurisdiction, that
heart disease is second and tuberculo-
sis third.
All attempts to grow tobacco on
Prince Edward island have been aban-
doned as Improbable. Most of the
Canadian tobacco is now grown in
Quebec and ontario.
Someone now claims to have invented
an automatic pistol that can be car
ried in the vest pocket, and that will
shoot through half an inch of steel
plate at 1000 yards.
The st. Louis Republic has started q
century club for newspapers. A paper
to belong has to have been published
for more than 100 years. There are
now 2S members.
The Cleveland Leader says that it
was not at all necessary for the geo.
graphic society to decide that Mr.
Peary reached the pole because he ac-
knoWledges himself that he did.
It's getting so there is a machine for
about everything. One has just been
invented which wraps telephone and
telegraph poles with wire so that hors-
es cannot chew them.
| The demand for automobiles in Mex
| leo is steadily increasing. The taxicab
service in Mexico City appears to be
popular, as the company which runs it
| is going to buy more machines.
There are so many snakes at Brag-
| ulia, Servia, that especial care has to
| be taken whenever train stops there.
If the train people are careless the lit
| tie snakes crawl all over the train.
1t is said that three schoolboys at
South Bend, Ind. have built an aero
plane that runs by clockwork, and that
it has actually risen from the ground
| under its own motive power.
Senator Depew appears to think that
| the best way to stop the drinking habit
| is to let people drink nothing but
| champagne. But all the people cans
| belong to the Senate and afford to do
| it.
Now that Germany has had a sham
| battle in the air all that England can
| do is to have one of her Dreadnoughts
| ram a liner and so prove how danger
Gus she is on the sea.
The car owns map of France that
is made of jewels. Paris is represent
| ed by huge diamond, Marseilles by an
! opal and so on. Each province is rep,
| resented by certain stones and the
| Whole map is worth a huge sum.
A British gunboat which has Just re-
turned from Boring sea reports chang
es in the Bogoslov islands which were
created five years ago by a volcanic
| upheaval off the Alaskan coast. Two
of the islands have now been joined by
the rising of the ocean floor between
| them. Vegetation is beginning to ap-
pear on all the islands.