Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-20
cLEANiNas AND GOSSIP.

In Linc0lnSnife II girl Is SMiuthd
with the agle she cuts off lock Of per
hair and ties it to an aspen tree, implor-
ing the latter to shake in her stead In
good old Rosshire, where every once IN a
while a rooster is buried alive as rem
edy for epilepsy-not in the rooster, aft
in the person who does the buryIre,~~1
some of the hair of the patient is gen.
orally added to the offering.-Chicago
Tribune.
Marks of Indian days may be found
under many old oak trees in southern
California, particularly in the mountain
districts 1t is not uncommon to discover
a large stone or bowlder with one fiat
side showing a little above the surface
Of the ground and with a hole as large
as a quart saucepan in the center. In
such holes the squaws crushed the acorns
which were thereby ground into meal for
food for the redmen.
The population O.: Russia is actually
growing at rate of 11a per cent. year,
not equaled in any important country on
the globe; not even in France does so
large proportion of tht population be-
long to the land-owning class, providing
necessary condition for the agricultural
prosperity of the coming generation.
Since 1877 the amount of arabic land held
by the nobility has diminished by third ;
yet the price of land has risen in every
part of the empire. of Reviews.
John Daniel, Jr., whose home is at
| Irvingto n-on-Hudson has determined to
perpetuate the now familiar HudsonFu
| ton celebration flag by flying it at his
| home each Sunday. His place occupies
one of the highest points of land in West
| chester county, and he has had flag
| pole l02 feet high erected there. On week
days the national ensign is flown, but
every Sunday the orange, white and
| blue is broken out Mr.. Daniel is trying
to induce other owners of estates alo- &
| the Hudson and masters of vessels ply
| ing the stream to follow his example.
| The high prices which our farmers have
run up for wheat have stimulat d the
| cultivation of the grain wherever it is
possible to raise it. Last Year Chill
produced 100000 bushels, and was
| encouraged by the results to SOW
| many more acres this year. Expert
mental stations of the CHILEAN gov
eminent are distributing the best varie-
| ties of seeds among the farmers. If
| American farmers keep down their pro-
duction to hold up prices they may find
| they had such good thing that they
| tempted all the world into it and broke
up the snap.-New York Press
| One of the novelties of the vaudeville
stage in Europe is a drove-six in num-
| ber-of performing pigs. They have
| been in various places on the grand cir
cult" says a Berlin paper, land since
| their arrival in this city have been much
| spoken about. OF course they are Amer
| lean, and the man who drives the six
| animals harnessed to a miniature racing
| wagon is also an American. We have
| seen the inanimate hog in barrels and
| the animate elsewhere, but the animal
| never before interested us as much as do
these because of their remarkable train
| ing"
China's government proposes to adopt
| the metric system and count in tens. But
| it will probably be many years before
the bewildering Chinese weights and
measures are abandoned. A hundred
years and more have not induced France
to abandon the old forms. Sous are
more frequent than centimes in the re-
public and France-the country France
still insists on the nal es of the old meas
ures. Wine is sold in barriques and chop
ines, beer in canettes, milk in pinteS and
firewood in cordes while in the smaller
shops the livre is the unit, not the kilo-
gram.
One of tho attractions at the forthcom-
ing international hunt and field sports
exposition in Vienna will be a moving
picture so large that its exhibition will
occupy about so minutes. 1t will show
King Edward and his friends shooting
pheasants at the Shooting preserve near
Sandringham. The principal features of
the picture will be: The start to the
hunt by automobile, the arrival, the king
mounting his horse, while the guests,
led by the prince of Wales, follow on foot.
Then will come the shooting, showing the
king to be fine marksman. The whole
party is seen to enter the refreshment
tent where the queen, with the queen of
Norway and other women of the royal
family awaits the hunters. Inspection of
the 1000 pheasants killed by the party
and a review of the dogs end the scene.