Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-14
GlEANINCS AND GOSSIP.

Judge Clifford of the superior court at
Tacoma, Wash, has declared the state
anti-cigarette law unconstitutional. Sew
eral visitors to the exposition in Seattle
have been arrested for smoking cigarettes
or having them in their possession.
Carl Schmelz of Pittsburg has invented
gun which may make useless all the
armor plate yet produced. 1t is a little
affair mounted on wheels standing about
two feet high, and is not much longer
than a mans arm. Its power comes from
an arrangement of the breech and a pecu-
liar construction of the rified barrel
Schmelz tested his gun before some naval
|experts Tuesday and put clean hole
through a seven-inch steel armor plate
He says the gun can be fired 100 times in
rapid succession without becoming
heated
If you live in noisy part of the town
you canot reasonably object to any par
ticular noise that is not measurably
greater than other noises in the neighbor-
hood. This is the law laid down by Su-
preme Court Justice Hendrick in New
York in refusing an injunction to stop
the use of pasteurizing machinery in a
IL was diC6cu tuut thO y
was noisy. Justice Hendrick did not deny
the allegation. He merely called atten-
ton to the fact that in the neighborhood
of the dairy were New York Central
trains, trolley cars. livery stables, sa-
looms, tenement houses, a wheelwright's
shop, blacksmith shop a steam laun-
dry and a piano factory. The dairy ma
chinery was not so noisy as to be excep-
tional
The badges given to the members OF
the late army of pacitication' in Cuba
have made some of the ''old" fellows
| who served there in 1S98-19O2 jealous
One of them has written a letter to the
Army and Navy journal on the subject
'"They remember WE'LL" he says, 1.-THE
arduous service they were called upon tc
perform upon their arrival in Cuba, hav-
| ing been ordered there with PRACTICAL,
| no preparation for the tropical climate
and meeting with the strenuous obstacles
| in their path, such as >tropical rains, yes-
| low fever and numerous other disea scs
peculiar to the country, wet to the skin
during the rainy season and constantly
lodging snakes, taruntuias, centipedes
etc, to say nothing of the swarms of rec
| ants and sand f1eas, that made life mis-
cradle for officers and enlisted men alike
While William Irvine of Williamsburg
a wealthy New York tea merchant, was
at the seashore last Sunday with hi.
family, burglars entered lis house ant
made a thorough search for plumber
Carpets were ripped up and a dresse
sideboard and other furniture overhau:ed
In the icebox the burglars found a bottl,
of Milk, some cold ha n, beer and sever.
boxes Of sardines, and proceeded to hav
a meal They had a. flask of whiskey
and made milk punches. From the thor
ough search of the house the police be
lieve the burglars expacted 10 find money
They carefully examined the drawers in
chiffonier. but failed 70 look under
where shoe box containing $500 in none
had been left Mr.. Irving thinks sho
box In an unexpected location Is bett !
place of deposit than house safe.
Here are host of the things that the,
put into ice cream" Water. condense
milk, skinned milk. whole milk, fish gel
attn, soft suet, oleomargarine. flour o
sea moss, eggs. cornstarch. sugar sac
charine. extract Of VANILLA" aniline dyes
vanillin, chocolate. burnt sugar molasses
extract OF tonka bean.-New York Press.