Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-15
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

A minister in New Jersey has given
up his profession and says that he is
going into the chicken business.
The New York post-office 20 years
ago issued money orders for SOL 1884,
173, and last year for $423. 543,S60.
Bishop Anderson of Chicago says
that there are 40 towns in one section
of Illinois that have no churches.
Germans figure that they have $780,
900, 900 worth of diamonds yet unmined
in their South African possessions.
Reports from Mexico are to the eff
feet that house rents have doubled in
the cities there during the past 10
years.
A minister in Ohio has advised peo
pie not to make a vulgar display of
wealth. Easy advice for most of us
to follow.
A plumbers wife in Chicago has
fallen heir to 100000. But what's a
paltry sum like that to plumber af-
ter such winter as this?
A Maryland town has just had d
hot local election over whether or not
hogs should be kept within the town
limits. The hogs stay.
One of the scientific papers is dis
cussing dew as beverage. 1t has
been one in the South for many years,
the mountain dew sort.
The town of Vermillion in Louisiana
voted dry recently. Probably
thought it would be wasted energy
for anyone to try to paint it red.
A New Hampshire woman wants e.
divorce on the grounds that her hus-
ha nj l. that fha we iS
over. Evidently it isn't quite yet.
The Houston Post says that the
only reason that there are not a mil
lion cherry trees blooming in Texas
is because there are not million
cherry trees there. The Post knows.
Now there is report that the
minor poets in New York are consid-
ering organizing. Probably want
something more artistic sent back
with their stuff than the usual blue
slip.
A woman in Chicago society says
that it would be an excellent thing
for the men of that city and New
York to spend a little time reading
Lord Chesterfield's letters. She thinks
it would improve their manners.
new sect has been formed at
Ti1s. which is called the half
week.-mrs." and their creed is that a
man should only work 31a days a week.
This is nothing new. The society
could find many willing recruits in
this country.
The ex-empress Eugene was in
Paris during the recent flood and re-
fused to leave her hotel in spite of
the fact that it's first floor was under
water. She went out several times to
see the water. but few Parisians knew
she was in the city.
The Buffalo Express appears to
think that the trust magnate who be-
gan life on a So a week job and the
farmer who began with a pocket OF
free seeds sent by his congressman
are in the same class. The farmer
took the sporting chance. however.
Turkish women are now allowed to
attend some of the court functions
and many of them now retain their
fortunes after marriage and manage
their own property. They have all
the legal rights men enjoy and APP
pear to be much happier than ever be-
fore
change has passed rule that all
telephone girls must be at least five
feet tall 50 that they can reach the
switchboards easily. 1t was general
ly supposed that one of the chief re-
uuiSites of an operator was to be able
to say cline busy in monotone.
A plausible clew to the origin of
"humbug" is that which credits the
rubbishy coin made for Ireland by
James II as the origin. The people
talked of this base stuff as 'um bog"
(soft copper. 50 that one frequently
heard the phrase. Don't think of
passing your uim bog off upon me.
AS backing up this Irish ancestry one
need only think of sterling coin and
sterling worth. But the most pop
ular claimant is Prof. Humbog, who
ran dancing academy in Dublin in
lit. His advertisements in the Free
mans Journal of that year were mas
terpieces of appeal to the young
ladies of the city. and their blarncy
would easilr account for the popularity
of the word.
Brooklyn expects, if 1t can Keep up
its present rate of growth. to have a
population Oh S.3lD.UUD III ~ StttiS. me
borough now has 100000.
The government maintains Il fleet Of
60 steamboats, and spends 100000 q
year to keep the rivers of the country
free from snags and other impede
mentS.
A Chicago poet has written d beau
tiful verse which begins. I'm ready for
the roses" The Cleveland Leader is
mean enough to suggest immortellcs.
An Ohio paper in describing funcr-
al the other day said: The procession
was quite long one. and commenced.
as it passed by, 10 be the largest for
quite a while"
With all this talk about abolishing
the House of Lords it is mighty slow
i'm some of the papers not to have Sc
cured w. w. Astor's opinion on the
matter. If he has an opinion
A good many are seemingly bothered
about how Africa is going to be able to
worry along as the dark continent
hereafter She'll do just as Esopus,
Beverly ard Oyster Bay do.
During the last three years there has
been a fairly steady increase in the