Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-07
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.


lutely illiterate." "Grads?"
A woman in New York claims to be.
500 years old. She is the first of her
sex, who ever boosted about her age. i
judge in Pennsylvania refused tol
give woman a divorce the other day
on the ground that she had had four
The Brooklyn Standard Union says
that Manila cigars are now free Of
duty, including that of smoking them.
Electric power is used on 1886 miles
of street railways in Great Britain to
AS miles operated by other means.
1t is said that the king OF Spain has
shaved his whiskers as the queen
thought they made him look like but.
ler.
Theodore Reginald Buttinski of Chi
cago has applied to have the courts
change his name. Probably wants il
ButtoutAli.
1t is said that the mayor of Atlantic
City has refused to enforce the Sunday
laws on the ground that such action
would kill the place as resort.
The university of California is going
to try raising grapefruit from trees
imported from Annoy, China. This
Chinese fruit is said to be the best in
the world.
A man in Philadelphia has given up
his finance SO that he can inherit
legacy of $4,000 from a brother who
left it to him on the condition that he
remain single.
Italy leyies a graduated income tax
as well as a direct tax on land and
houses. Small incomes are exempt
from taxation. The minister of finance
estimates that the income tax for this
year will amount to about $500 900,
while the land tax will bring in s36,OOO-
900.
A bachelor out in Ohio has solved the
race suicide problem, to his satisfac-
ton at least. He claims that women
don't want to bother with bringing up
children, and suggests that the state
start home where all children be
taken as soon as they are born and
kept until they are Is.
London buys glacier ice from Nor.
way, and much of it has to be skidded
20 miles down to the coast. Now a
New Yorker has secured an ice con-
cession from the CHILEAN government
and is planning to mine an ice noun
tain which stands in an inlet to the
straits of Magellan, and sell the ice to
the cities in the Argentine.
To President Hadley of Yale is ac-
credited the following: IAN evangelist
at church in a western town was ex-
horting his hearers to flee from the
wrath to come. Il warn you" be
Numbered, that in the language Of
the scriptures, there will be weeping
and wailing and gnashing of teeth
At this point an old woman in the gal
lery stood up. ''Sir, l have no teeth
Madam" returned the evangelist, Sc"
verely, teeth will be provided"
According to the Saturday Evening
Post a Washington negro thought he
was a priZe-fighter, so some of the To-
cal sporting men matched him. de
couldn't fight, as was soon shown. In
the first round his antagonist swung
on the negro and knocked him sprawl
ing. The negro remained perfectly
still. zone! two! threen began the re-
fierce, and then he noticed there was
nothing the matter with the negro but
fright 'Ain't you goin' to fight no
more?" he shouted. "Yassir,' replied
the negro, I'm goin' to fight some
more, but not tonight"
The Intellectuals' is the name by
which a number of commuters who
travel daily between their summer
homes and New York are known BY
their fellow travellers. They make
what they call "a white horse pool
every morning. They sit with then
faces close to the windows, looking 1or
white horses along the line of the roau
The man who guesses nearest to inc
number encountered gets the poo! Inc
news of the day and other subjects
which, interest the ordinary mortal
have no claim on them. and they seem
to derive much entertainment from
their style of gambling.--New YORK
Tribune.
A capitalist says he has obtaneu
concession from the CHILEAN govern
ment and is negotiating a deal Tor
feet of tramp steamers to get ice lh'o
the Argentine cities from measure
l,ss ,n.antain mine of Durest Ice ~
discovered some years ago. Beasis
channel an inlet into the straits u
Magellan, has inexhaustible glaciers
with great natural ice docks, foes anu
fiords ready for the docking and loae-
ing of it's ancient icy stores. The wa
tiers are alive with the Magelianic
crabs. great whoppers, all big, JUICY
legs and small bodies, one OF inc
worlds sweetest meats. These WIN ~
frozen to European markets. Lohuon
gets a lot of glacier ice from NORWAY,
most of which has to be skidded any
Gumed for 30 miles.-New York Press
A phamplet published in England ~
distribution among people who may =,
asked to give financial aid to Russia =
purchasing the state bonds of that cou''
try" saws: 1.-The financial conditioi
the empire is abnormal, according 70 ~
statement of Tcherewansly, OF tne -
perial Finance Commission. Exports =.
continually falling off and Imports :
creasing. Never since the famine yea
1S92-has the breadstuff report peen
poor. The hope of the empire lies IN -. -,
alton, and it is a grave question wis.,
this will be adequate to meet the na'i0l
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