Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-25
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

The Atchison Globe says that now you
will find bunch of wheat roots and an
automobile catalogue in the pocket Of
every Kansas farmer.
With pigs quoted at $1l hundred it
would be a brave man who would try to
tempt the dainty things with anything
as common as pearls.
Mighty few American bank clerks
would take "a position in that new bank
in London which advertises that it
wants only women as patrons Imagine
working in a bank where every ones
account was overdrawn most of the
time.
Electron. the new metal, which is the
lightest known, will probably be of
much use in airships when lightness and
strength are in demand 1t is d mag
nesium alloy, which can be cast pressed,
rolled or drawn. Its specific gravity is
LIS to p and as cast as a tensile
strength of IS Kilograms to the square
millimeter, and Il ductility of per cent
Palmstry in it's modern acceptation is
divided into two branches. chirognomy
and chiromancy. Chirognomy defines
the outward shape OF the hand and Of
its members, the thumb and finger. The
name is derived from the Greek and
means the laws of the hands. Chro-
nancy is also derived from the Greek
and signifies divination by the hand
that is. by the lines mounts and other
marks on the palms of the hand
In the case of a crane fine results are
claimed for broken leg. Its slender limb
is no thicker than a lead pencil. Instead
of destroying the poor bird, an EnSliSh
expert decided to try to save leg ana
life. Linen bandages dipped in gum
were put on. These set satisfactorily
and weighed little or nothing. After this
the intelligent bird kept to itself ana
needed no further attention Tor Few
weeks. When the bandage was cut
away the leg worked as we'll as ever,
slightly deformed. Some naturalists say
that birds breaking their legs set them
themselves, using a sticky mud and
weeds or grass for bandage.-NeW York
Press.
Eccesiastic recognition has been
given the sport of skiing N Norway in
the special short, early services held in
all the churches during the season for
thc convenience of skers. These ser
vices are called skiing prayers, and a
stranger coming into the sacred ed1flces
on such an occas sion might think he had
Numbered into the barracks of ski
CORPS However, the services are much
liked and very we'll attended. and there
is no difference of opinion about the WIS
dom of the church authorities in thus
encouraging a sport making so strongly
for healthy bodies. and therefore going
a long way toward making healthy
substituting.
OF the pigmies Of northwestern Rho
desia modern traveller writes: THE
Batwa stands about four. feet high and
are long-armed. short-legged and ugly.
being usually prognathous. The legs are
disnroportionately short. the feet large
and the body is covered with a sort of
down. Both sexes affect a state of COM
plete nudity They have their own tongue,
but usually know a little of the language
of their big neighbors. No attempt is
made to till the open forest glades; they
depend for food on game and what they
steal from the fields and plantations of
the surrounding tribes
More than 1900 years ago. tiles and
marbles from Nineveh show, splendid
fabrics were being produced for the
adornment of the palaces of the kings
of Assyria. and every oriental rug be-
comes magic carpet when one realizes
how through the long days of the long
centuries these simple people have been
weaving in with the colors of the jewel
and the raibow the sunshine and shadow
of their own lives. How much OF tears
and signing have gone to the tying of
the myriad knots or followed the flying
shuttle on it's journeys to and fro!-NeW
York Press