Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-26
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.


The last election was rather tame. on
ly one man was killed in Breathitt
county, KY, and the only casualty IN
Philadelphia occurred when voter hit
policeman
The Irish Homestead says that irish
potatoes, like Irishmen, do better ABROAD
than at home. The potatoes grown IN
England from Irish seed are much pet-
ter than those grown in the old sod.
A Dutch financier, now in this coun-
ty, estimates that the Dutch have $780,
100000 invested in American securities.
This seems trife complimentary In
view of Hollands 100000 inhabitants.
one of the most profitable petty gratis
worked in the city is by laundresses VINO
go to houses to wash cloths by the day.
They put oxalic acid in the tubs, which
makes the work very simple and ruins
the clothes after one of two washngs.
D'Annuzio, the Italian dramatist, it a
good bit of a dude, and gives much
thought to his dress. His valet recently
gave out an inventory of his wardrobe,
which included " shirts, IA dozen pairs
of silk socks, AS pairs of street gloves, "A
pairs of evening gloves, three mufilers
Il canes, 10 umbrellas, eight parasols, 20
dozen handkerchiefs. 400 ties and 10 waist
coats. His suits were too numerous to
catalog.
Uncle joe evidently intends to re-
turn to Congress again.H is talking
of buying ball team for his home
town. That is looking after the fences
some
Our great hunter comes back at the
people who calls him a game butcher
by saying he doesn't hit everything he
shoots at. That puts him in wrong
with tho srortsmcn.
The fact that the price of milk has
gone up to nine cents in New York,
and may go to 10, doesn't appear to be
troubling some of the papers down tnat
way half as much as what the price Of
champagne is going to be.
Official statistics for the first SIX
months of 1909 show a continued de-
cline in the population of France. The
marriages decreased 6201 as compared
with 1908, divorces increased by 543,
births decreased 1852 and deaths in
creased by 25019.
The New York Tribune is evidently
hunting a free-for-all fight with the
Chicago papers. 1t says that the fact
that one railroad is running trains a
day from New ork to Chicago is
sign that the lake shore suburb is
growing in importance to New York"
Simply because Benjamin Franklin
associated electricity with lightning,
and that more people are more or less
afraid of lightning, electricity is be-
lievcd to be a dangerous factor in fire
hazards. This is not true, for it has
been proved time and again that cleo
tricity causes fewer fires than num-
Der of other things about the house or
of.cc.
Governments Of the federated states
Of Germany are considering the intro
ductiOn of a land tax of the ''unearned
increment" The measure is expected
to raise S3.0o0000 annually. 1t is held
that such a tax would rest heavily on
spectators and land owners in cities,
but lightly on country districts, where
values increase very slowly if at all.
A rev minister was installed at
Lockport, n. Y, recently, and the min
lister who made the charge said: do
not organize the church into a confed-
acE OF worthy CLUBS ana tfumpefy So
cieties, needing the administrative abil-
ity of railroad president to run them.
The less knowledge and piety a church
has the more clubs, societies, oysters,
ice-cream and fun it takes TIC run it,
and the faster it gets away from God.
Albert, the crown prince of Belgium,
was ordered out of the dining room of
an inn in the Tyrol not long ago and
the waitress who did the ordering made
him go. He was on an automobile tour
and his machine broke down in a rain
storm. He walked several miles to the
inn and was a rather dirty-iooking
man when he arrived The waitress
said he could not eat in her dining
room in such clothes, so he had to
swallow his pride and go to the res
taurant at the railroad station.
man was driving his automobile near
Winchendon the other day when a ruffed
grouse flew into his face. The bird was
killed by the impact and the mans eyes
were blackened and a few Of his teeth
were knocked out