Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-19
GLEANiNGs AND GOSSIP.


must be remembered that knot, OF
lautical mile. is a very different thing
from land mile. A mile is $3.50 feet.
while a knot is Il fraction over $3.50 feet.
There was Il dance in Cincinnati re-
Gently and a scarcity of men caused
the women to pull in fire alarm.
When the lircncn arrived Oh the Scene
the situation was explained to them
HnG they were invited to remain ana
dance.
Accommodating evidence shows that
lightning flashes may have much
more varied structure than was for
merly supposed. Photographs by "A.
Larsen a Danish photographer, indicate
that FLASHES may be made up of small
discharges, or rushes of which 40 may
follow along nearly the same path in
half {, minute.
The Oldest letter carrier in Uncle
Sans employ. Charles f. West OF Bos
ton. recently celebrated the 50th ami
versary of his service. Although he Is
Eow IS wears old. West still puts i'll tie
required eight hours every day. dellv-
cring his batch of mail promptly. His
associate letter carriers. on Washing
tons birthday. marked his anniversary
Dy giving Il dinner in his honor.
AT the battle of Fleuris. June 2G, 1874.
in the French revolutionary period, the
balloon was for the first time used in
the service of the army. The AuStrians
Stupefied, saw the captive airship En-
trcprcnant above their heads at a hight
Of 300 meters. This apparition great
ly angered the Austrian, Gen. Cobough,
I,., II. thnrn anxyfhinp the ~
scoundrcls will not invent?'-Le De
Dion BoutOn.
The Floyd county commissioners, it is
reported. "ilavc ordered 10 dozen suits
of pajamas for the county's convicts."
Is there another county in Georgia Or
another penal institution in the United
States that provides its prisoners with
the fashionable 'nghtieS?" Who
wouldn't rather be a pajamaed pri5-
oner in the Floyd county chain gang
than a no-nightshirt freeman on the
plains of windy Kansas?-Savannah
News.
The postal authorities of England
paid a high compliment to the stamp
collectors of the world when they pro-
vided i; special canceling stamp for usn
in Manchester on the three DAYS of the
stamp exposition in that city rccentl:,.
The csncelling mark was circular in
design and about an inch in diameter,
md around it's borders were tha
words international stamp exposition
Manchester. 1909" Thus, for once,
were the philateists officially reco5-
niZed.
The Mexican academy of medicine
has appropriated $4,000 for the purpose
Of discovering the cause of typhus, AM:
to develop cure for the fever. or the
amount $4,000 will be awarded to the
person or persons discovering the cure
A like amount will be given to the per-
son or persons discovering serum,
which will kill the typhus germ in the
BLOOD. In the event of any one person
solving both problems an effort will be
made to have the government give i
proper reward. Five thousand dolla -
will b. distributed among the persons
who have most efficiently helped in
solving the problem.
Sir Richard BurtonS association OF
clean shaving with effeminacy and lux
ury would not have stood against a his
torlcai appeal to ancient Greece. If the
Athenians and most of the other cher
Ished the mustache as a manly o1na
| ment. the Spartans. the ideal o. frugs
manliness. took another line. Thei.
| cphors, it is recorded by Plutarch
| made a proclamation when enterin.
| upon Office ordering the people to shaw
their mustaches and obey the laws
| The purpose of this command is SUB
| ject Of conjecture. Alexander the
great abolished the boards Of MS Ma
| cedonian troops because they offered g
convenient handle to an enemy il
hand-to-hand battle; but a Spartan
| .nustache could hardly have done that
| The two cabmen authors who have
| just been brought to light deserve &
place beside the erudite driver discov-
| cred by Sir Frederick Bridge. I'his cab.
| man often drove Sir Frederick home
from the Albert Hall after the per-