Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-28
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

Miss Alice NJ. Robertson of Muskogee
Okla, is the only woman in the coun.
try at the head of postoffice Of the
first class. The place is worth be-
tween $500 and $4,000 a year. and
many politicians think it is too
profitable to be wasted on woman
These politicians are said to have ex-
erted their influence to have her dis
placed, but the rule to retain all post
masters with good records prevented
their succeeding. She has just been
reappointed for another four years.
Captain Caldwell, who commanded a
Delaware regiment in the revolution.
was notorious for his love of cock
fighting. He drilled his men admir-
ably, and they We're known in the army
rs "CaldWelrs game cocks" The gal
liant captain held a peculiar theory
that no cock vas really game unless it
came from a blue hen; and this led to
the substitution of Blue Hens
Chickens as a nickname for his regi-
ment After the revolutionary war the
nickname was applied indiscriminately
to all Delawareans.
Lack of employment is not a new
question. Says the Liverpool Mercury
of February IA, 1872: st is of the
highest importance that a committee
Of the legislature should Immediately
inquire into the causes of the present
want of employment among the labor
ing classes, and whether means might
not be found in nation of which
the revenue is immense by which a
succession of public works." etc. There
were at that time, nearly a hundred
years ago, 5000 unemployed in Liver
pool. The same writer, after asking,
rs the war the only employment that
the state has to give the poor?" goes
on to show that the Pyramids of
Egypt and the elegant edifices Of
Greece" were built with the object of
giving continual employment to the
laborer.'
When it was reported two years ago
that Oscar Wilde had been seen alive
at Florence many papers copied the
story. At that time a man who bore
striking resemblance to Wilde, was
seen in the streets of that city. But
it was discovered that the man, whose
name happened to be Wild, was not
even relative OF him who died in
Paris in 1900 THE latest report of
similar nature came from Turin" says
the Matin, but for this there was an
eXcuse-a small one! The man in
Turin was Wilde's son Vivante. and
one can we'll imagine how 'vivant' can
be construed as living If news
paper correspondent should telegraph
from Turin 'Vivant Garibaldi' or Bis
marck' or 'Gladstones false impress
sions might also follow. The name
was the cause this time
Mrs. Jeanette M. Bradley has been
put in charge of the new legislative
headquarters which the suffragists
opened in Washington few weeks ago.
There are rooms for suffrage meetings
and receptions, besides offices which at
present are used in carrying on the
work on the national petition. The
house is being furnished by voluntary
Suffragists all over the
country have declared their intention
to celebrate Miss Anthony's next birth
day by sending some article of furnl-
ture to Mrs. Bradley for the new head
quarters.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg. of Wisconsin
who coined the phrase, I'VE love MN
for the enemies he has made" and USED
it in seconding the nomination OF
Cleveland for the presidency in 1881,
recently celebrated the eighty-second
of his birth. Genera
Bragg was Consul general to Cuba for
a while under President Roosevelt, but
his view of the CuhaFs ina
you Eant make silk
purse out of a saws sear," caused his
transfer to Hong-Kong. That was his
last official post.
An Australian has patented an IN.
vention by which, he claims, book anu
printing will be placed on
an entirely new basis By the use OF =
large number of keys provision u
made for producing the more common
syllables and word examinations by ths
touch of a key, so that one man eau
write from $4,000 to $4,000 letters in an
hour, which is equal to more than ooo
printed lines eighteen centimetels
(centimeter equal to 0,3937 inch) N
length. According to present metnou'
not One-tentn OF lHlS can pe uoiie y!
in an hour.
Barcelona, Spain, where serious RIOT
ing recently took place, was the scen0
in 1912 of fierce republican revolt. AN
army, under the command of Genera
Van Halen, was sent to subdue th'
town, hut the presence of the troop
only added fuel to the flame. ln'
Catalan capital writes Major MarIn
Hume, seemed suddenly stricken VIE
ungovernahle fury. From every pa
cony ard housetop missiles, projeculss
boiling oil and burning combustiDss
were poured down upon the heads Z. &
the government troops" The rls'ns
proved abortive. however, and 8.
the threat of bombardment the civ