Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-29
cLEANrNcs AND GOSSIP.

habitual drunkard to live in dry
county the other day.
Colorado now claims that she can
raise rs bushels of grasshOppers to the
acre There won't be many wiiilhg
rivals.
London now claims to have l3O,0Vo
foreign walters. Most people DID not
realize that Paris has such an over
A London doctor has invented tele-
scope with which he can look down
persons throat and see what is in the
stomach.
A man in Pennsylvania struck ms
head through looking glass the other
day, and yet some people say men are
not conceited.
Appendicitis has now taken q back
seat in favor Of maso- motorrhitis.
You get the latter from automobillns
and it costs you more money.
Motoring is said to have lowered the
birth rate in Kansas. Trust Kansas
for being novel. 1t increases the death
rate in most states.
Just for the benefit Of few who
have been worrying a good deal or
late. Kermit Roosevelt says that ne
is soon going hunting in the Alps.
Word comes from Kansas that some
of the women out there are planning
to shoot tramps. What's the matter
with the Kansas dOughnut?
man at Niagara Falls, n. Y. was
killed the other night Willie trying to
free dove that had been caught in
an arc light globe.
The kaiser really got ahead OF his
friend, Roosevelt, with that chocolate
poem The Outlook has now got TO
publish a bit of signed verse to save
it's face.
New York is quite excited over the
rumor that buttermilk is being adul-
terated there. Maybe it would be
good thing. 1t might change the taste
of the stuff
There are now 80 dry-docks in the
world that are big enough to hold bat
tleships of the Dreadnought class
England owns II and this country has
nine.
During the past five years only two
cases of yellow fever have originated
at Panama and both have been cared
for on the isthmus without any
spread of the disease.
works owned and operated by Prussia
last year gave employment to ss,723
men and turned out over $4,000 GOO
worth of products.
Cleveland is planning to abolish its
railroad grade crossings. In the course
of the next rs years it will be quite an
up-t o-date city, if all these improve
ments keep on
One of the foremost authorities on
the use of the X-ray is reported to be
dying in a New York hospital as the
result of burns received while expert
mentng with the ray.
Now some of the fault finders are
complaining that the paper on which
the new $1,000 bills are printed is not
what they wanted it to be. Have you
noticed any difference?
A London scientist says that he be-
lieves the spread of pellagra in Italy
is due to a nudge, or black fly. which
is related to the buffalo gnat, so COM
mon on the western plains.
A patent has been granted on pan
for roasting meat. It's novel feature
is a machine which collects the juices
and sprays them over the meat auto
matically basting it in this way.
A good many cities have been boast
ing about how their postal business
has been on the increase but, for some
reason or other. not much has been
heard from that busy little Office at
Oyster Bay.
The Northwest appears to be much
excited over the speed record estab-
lished last week by an Alaskan glacier.
IA
Of ice moves in greater ratio than that
here in the East.
A French jeweler fas devised
scarf pin in the form of bug, which
is connected with little battery the
wearer has in his pocket When the
battery is turned on the bug moves
it's legs and Flaps its wings.
An effort is being made to make the
lot of the Belgian lace makers more
happy. A new lace-making school is
to be established thai will be con-
solidation of all the old ones, and lace
makers will be taught there.
Victoria is planning to send mis-
sion to England to secure 10000 colo
nsts to settle irrigable lands over
there. If these people cannot be Sc
cured in England the report is that the
commission will go to italy and try
to get colonists there.
Now some one says that the humor
of the day will not last so years.
What's the matter? It's been doing
duty for so times so years already.
Pittsburg claims another record. A
man out there hit mule in the hind
legs the other day and the physicians
say they think they can save his life
A London dressmaker says that be-
fore long women will wear gowns
made of snakeskins Some of them
appear to be anticipating the fashion
already.