Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-12
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GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

the fire department. fOWerIui Seiet'iii
of water at high pressure remove dust
spider webs, insects of all kinds, bras
nests and other foreign substances
! from the many crevices.
| The archaeological society has maze
| five excavations around the walls OF
| the amphitheater in KING Arthur
round-table field in Monmouthshlre.
Eng. and the searchers found the mann
entrance, and sand which formed the
| bed of the arena, and corner stone.
| From inscriptions on this stone they
trace the date of the theater back To
| 10 A. D.. or 1900 years.-Popular Me-
| chanics
The Chinese are a Superstltlous peo-
ple. and think it a bounden duty TO
keep the body intact, and If by any
misfortune they are compelled to lose
a limb by amputation they invariably
ask for the severed member and keep
it in a box, to be buried in due time
with the owner. Sometimes they Will
actually eat it, thinking it only right
that that which has been taken from
the body should be returned to it. On
this same principle an extracted tooth
will be carefully preserved or ground
to powder and swallowed in water.
close study of the water supply
for the operation of the locks under
present plans shows that the avaiIa BILE
amount of water on the isthmus is not
sufficient to maintain, at all times in
the canal, the 40 feet of depth stipula-
ted for by the law. In dry years the
modern Dreadnought of the navy. the
large carriers of freight and the army
transports will not be able to use the
canal-Julio F. SorZano, in Van Nor
den magazine.
The worlds market for rice, measur-
ing this market merely by the imports
of the principal countries of the world,
amounts to from $150000,000 to 10000,
600 per annum. The imports of rice
into the principal countries of Europe
in the latest available year amounted
to about $4,000, 900 value; into Asia and
Oceania, $SS.000,000; into North and
South America, exclusive of the Unit
ed States, $13,OOOO0O and into Africa,
Sc, 100000.
In i French village a citizen had
upon his land a part of an old build
ing containing two very beautiful win
dows. He was in debt and embar
raised and eagerly closed with the Of
IL
them. Thereupon the government in
spector, hearing of the bargain. arrived
lust in time to stop the masons from
disloging the windows. You cannot"
he said. to the villager, 'sell antiqui-
ties, my man. But, eXcellency, I
have used the money and paid my
creditors" The villager was in de-
spair. but the official was untouched.
That's all right" he said, "the money
is safe; the windows are no longer
yours. But the buyer can't move
stone of them. He can, however, come
with a campstool and sit down and
look at his property as much as he
likes"
The death of trout with a history
has taken place at Inverness. The fish
mad been landed at Milburn by the son
of a Mr.. Mcdonald, engine driver, was
kept alive. and soon became a great
pet Upward of 10 years ago the en-
gine-driver had it transferred to the
tank of three separate railway engines.
The trout was so tame that it would
freed from the engine drivers hand and
when pail was dropped into the tank
to take it out would flop into 1t at
once. Occasionally the driver took his
pet home with him, and on the last
occasion that he did so an accident
happened-a box of matches had raj
len into the tank, with the result that
the trout was poisoned. The trout is
larnented by all the railwaymen. 1t
Travelled in the engine tank thousands
of miles-London Field.
According to the legends, the Span
iard's inn, still in existence, was rem
devious of Dick Turpin, and it is said
that in the stable there he stalled his
Black Bess But the Spaniard'S has
other associations. It's tea garden was
certainly the spot that Dickens chase
for Mrs. Bardell and her party to take
tea in Jack Straw's Castle is quite as
well known Washington Irving men
tions it in 1.-The Sketch Book" In ''The
Tales of a Traveller" Irving makes
Dribhle, the poor scribbler of Grub
street. say that during his rambles he
visited Hampstead and occasionally
took his dinner at the castle. 1t is
with Dickens, John Forster Maclise
and their friends, however, that Jack
Straw's Castle is most intimately as
ISOLATED. In the bedroom which Dick
ems occupied may still be seen the
Yves. minister Gazette.
Mr. Essen of Aberdeen, captured a
new moth on q fir tree in July last.
| It is q moth of considerable size, not
only new to the British list and appar-
emily to science, but belonging to no
known genus, so that a new genus will
have to he formed for it. though in ex
ternal appearance it closely resembles
some of what are known as the Agro-
tidae--the common white underlying"
moths of which the turnip moth. the
| caterpillar of which is 50 destructive
| to root crops. is the best and most I'M
pleasantly known representative. The
| specimen has been brought by n c.
| Rothschld, and by him presented to
the natural history museum. The
| chances are that next July there will
| be a rush of collectors to Aberdeen
and the trunks of the frs for miles
around will be sticky with sugaring
misunderstanding Life.
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