Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-22
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.
Steel needles were first made in Eng
land in 1915. NsE&il


CLAWS and Ballnger are rapidly
putting jackson and Jeffries and Cook
and Peary in the shade.
The municipality of Peterborough,
Eng, has made a lot of money this
year by raising celery.
Eggs are now 50 a dozen in Havana,
and even at that price you may get
more than you bargain for.
Mark Twain is now rs, and is suffer-
ing with a tobacco heart, yet he him.
self says that he never smoked more
than one cigar at a time.
a college professor of English says
that the way he rests his mind in the
summer is by using the worst English
he can think of.
The japanese government has voted
| to spend $1,600,000 on the Anglo-Japa-
| nese exposition which is to be held in
London next summer.
Chicago health authorities are much
worried over the icrease of pneumonia
in that city. 1t is said that there are
now three times the average number
of cases.
Prof. j. B. Miner Of the university of
Minnesota says that four fifths of the
backward students in that institution
| are members of WelltO-do families.
Isn't this true of any college?
A couple of pickpockets had been
| following richlooking man for some
minutes when they saw him enter a
lawyers office. What shall we do
now?" asked one. Wait for the law
| yer" replied the other.
For more than 200 years Canton and
| Fatshan supplied all China with print
| ing and writing paper, but of late for
eign paper had crowded the Chinese
| output, made or rice straw or bamboo,
almost out of the market
The Washington Star says that Vice
| President Sherman, in addition to 9TH
er responsibilities. finds himself almost
single handed in the task Of perpetual
| ing side whiskers in American politics.
How about Senator Depew?
The Buffalo Express thinks that as
| long as Lincolns head has been put on
the new penny and Washington's is to
be on the new nickel, Cannon's should
be on 23-cent piece. But Uncle Joe
| is far from being dead one" yet.
Manufacturers of rubber goods are
becoming interested in what is known
| as balata gum that is grown in
Venezuela. A process has been dis
covered by which the brittle gum can
be made into good rubber, and as there
are millions of balata trees in the
Venezuelan forests the industry looks
promising.
1t is probable that the late F.. III.
Hartman disposed of more money in
fewer words than any man ever did
before. but there have been some short
wills in England. Lord Mansfield took
nail sheet OF note paper to dispose of
ms large fortune, and Sir James Ste
phen used Just 13 words in his will
Lord Russell left $1,OOO,OOO with a doz-
en- lines, and Lord Brampton disposed
of much more with 400 words.
| On January IS every year. the ami
versary of the battle OF Waterloo, the
duke of Wellington is bound to present
TO the sovereign small flag, which is
the annual rent in petit sargeanty" by
which the estate of Strathfieldsaye is
held of the crown The flag must be n
miniature tricolor or eagle of the
Napoleonic army, fringed with gold.
with gilded eagle on the head of the
stan and the number of the year en-
broldered at the top corner Of the flag
near the eagle.
Rev. DR.. Henry Marsh Warren, who
marrles those who wish to marry in
haste once ran across a bride-elect
who could not bear the thought of not
being given away. says the New Yorl,
Press. The hour was very late.
There were no friends of anybody in
the bridal party within reach. But
the lady was insistent Somebody
must give her away. About this time
the Janitor came in sight and she
seized upon him. will you give me
away she pleaded. Sure 1 will"
Salu .ne lord of the apartment house.
Dr warren took him aside and
coached him carefully. when say
Who gives this bride away?' Won an
swer I do" When it came to the
question in the ceremony the replv
was: Me, the jantor."