Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-19
eLEANlNcs AND GOSSIP.

vice insure their lives.
Men who work in salt mines and salt
works are said to be immune to scar
let fever or cholera.
Lightning strikes oak trees more Of
tent than it does any other species and
hits fewer NAPLES than any other kind.
Some people seem to forget mat
Pope Calixtus III publicly excommuni-
Gated the comet which. Is now here in
the heavens
A man in New Jersey who Is 80
years old figures it out that he has
saved $4,000 by never going to bar
Der shop to be shaved.
The new king of England has one of
the finest collections of postage stamps
in the world. 1t has been his pet
hobby for number OF years
Two East Haven (Vt) boys. Dale
Donahue and Bernard Campion.
caught hawk that measured five feet
eight inches from tip to tip of wings
New Jersey judge has given boy
permission to play truant from school
two days month. But that takes all
the spice out of it FOR the lad
The town of Odebolt, O., claims the
honor of being the popcorn center Of
the world. The towns yearly ship
ment of popcorn is 100000 pounds.
On retiring from the position Of as
sistant postmaster at Carson City
New, Mrs. Ira Ward presented each Of
the rural mail carriers with a lock of
her hair.
Someone has now made bath tub
on wheels for hospital use. They
should be made for the home. too. 1t
would be a great boom to be able to
roll out of bed directly into the tub
Some people will learn some time
| that it is not safe to. monkey with the
buzz saw. The elephant which nearly
upset Uncle JOe's home town a month
ago has been choked to death.
After having been for 1O4 years in
the same offices in New York city,
large soap concern is being forced to
vacate. The old building will be
torn down and a modern one erected.
Canadian clergyman has invented
a machine which will pull fax from
the ground and throw it directly into
the binder. 1t is said that flax so
pulled has much longer fiber than
flax that has been cut
An eagle has been observed to rise
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the sky within three minutes. Eagles
sometimes soar to heights Of more
than $1,000 feet
]. p. Webster of Lyndonville, VT,
set two hens, each one IA eggs, and %
chickens Matched out. Frank r.
Powers Of the same town says he set
hen on 16 eggs, and when all were
Matched he found 16 chickens
Mrs. Emma w. Mckenzie has Just
resigned the position of organist and
choir director of the Warren Or. ~
Methodist church after a continuous
service of 38 years. She was absent
from but two services in that time.
Perhaps the reason the English are
so far behind in flying is because they
worked the whole thing out long ago,
and are sick and tired of it, for John
Milton. in Britain to the Conquest"
says that the youth King Harold. last
OF the Saxons, strangely aspiring, had
made and fitted wings to his hands
and feet. With these, on the top of
tower, spread out to gather air, he flew
more than a furlong; but. the wind be-
ing too high, he came f1uttering to the
ground, manning all his limbs: yet so
conceited was he of his art that the
cause of his fall was attributed to the
want OF tail, as birds have, which he
forgot to make.
Some Germans have established a
farm for the breeding of offers, foxes,
sables, martens and other fur bearing
animals of the same character. The
farm embraces 1920 acres. which is
leased al a very low rental, but it was
found necessary to build around the
establishment, and as this had to be
very secure it was covered with sheet
metal, and the cost is said to have
been about $4,000. This figure will
be still further; increased by the fact
that it has now been found necessary
to continue it underground for a depth
of several feet on account of the bur-
rowing propensities of the animals
which it is desired to confine.
The editor was absent from the Of
flee last week and the proof was read
~ inexperienced hands, consequently
numerous typographical errors crept
into the paper. One of the most con-
spicuous was an item in the A. H..
school notes, which referred to Senator
Bilbo as affiliating with the Saloons"
at Jackson. when the word used should
have been "solons." - Poplarville
(Miss) Free Press.