Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-04-25
eLEANlNes AND GOSSIP.

against DeinS put down IN tne ccHS"' -
idlers when all they have to do is 10
keep house.
| This sort of weather reminds one that
| the interim between the rule or the
| snow shovel and the lawn mower is not
| so long as it might be.
| Algebra may be dropped from the
public schols in Chicago 1t might be
elsewhere and a course in spelling intro
duced with good results.
The crude rate of mortality last year
IN the 10 largest English towns, having
an estimated population of 16,50O,000,
ana not exceed 14.1 a thousand.
1t is rather unfortunate for the
comet that it should have made it's APP
| pearance just as the baseball season
| opened and attracted all the attention.
| Now learned judge in Chicago has
roled that prunes are not pastry. Most
people thought that they were fish,
| inns sets wears of error Alright
A man in the middle West has been
gwen I'VE wears in prison for putting
| dynamite on a railroad track lust for
run He got off mighty easy
Fer use in manual training schools, a
Wisconsin man has patented a tool chest
| when may be converted INFO q work
bench by clamping il TO the ton of TWO
desks
NOW that they are blasting out rocks
in Pennsylvania in order 20 nlant mach
| orchardS, one must suppose thar the
| popular peach down there WIN no ,ho
| clingstone.
| me cleveland Plain Dealer is puiltv
OF the remark that tho man who com.
| NV
! hry evidently chose the death which
| sooted him.
Mining has always been the leadin.
'''"H'iN OF Mexico until few years
ago when people awoke TO the fact tha,
''i,i' was more ana Sur"r money in aeri-
culture.
| "'h'y appears TO be advancing ran
'uis. me minister of war has inst is
sued a supply of forks to be used by The
| Hoio'trS when they are eating in bar
racks.
Heat docs not appear to make warri
oiS' even though our Indians nsea Ia
I'VE almost entirely on it, The Esli.
| mos eat an equal amount, vet ara noooo
| iui ana timid. The Hindus of Pe,a,,
VINO are as good fighters as there are on
| ''r.h' I'VE on rice. as do the japanese
| hoSpltal nurses, when assisting at
deHcate operation, have their own u,.,
OF Surpressing cough or n sneeze ,rho
"pri"'or attention must not be distrac-
yea for moment. Coughs and snaazas
| 100 spread germs on surfaces carefully,
| rendered antiseptic. SO every ,,rso
| soon learns to press her finger hard on
! 'he upper lip. Immediately below the
HoSe' When she feels a cough or -
| sneeze coming on.
| some one has figured it out that Fri
| Jay ii not an unlucky day in American
| history. 1T was on Friday that Colum.
| mus sailed from Palos, on Friday that
| ~ Augustine, the Oldest town in the
| e"1htfV' was founded, on Friday that
! 'ne hdy1ioWer landed her passengers If
| FlEmCuth, on Friday washington wac
porn and the Declaration of Indenen-
oehcc signed, and on q Friday that
| buFgoyne surrendered at Saratoga and
| CornWallis ct Yorktown.
Dean Stanley's handwriting was atro-
| ciouS, The late Lord Lyttleton ,and.d
IN IN amendment 10 the tory reform hi,
or Lord Derby. The clerk al tho t.h,a
| could not read it, nor could anyona elsa
AT last Lord Lyttleton-a rare scholar
y
was asked to read it himself He ex-
planned that, though he could not nre-
| tcnd TO read the text, it's purpose was
- enact mat no man should be admitted
I" the poll unless he could sign his own
name in legible handwriting.
y bird expert has returned to E,,rono
| ~" me west indies with over 200 cap
| ives lie boiled down tree sap into a
'"ick' sticky mess and put it on shrubs
ana branches at places where BIRDS took
| ioo" ana drink. Once they grasped the
STICKY perches they We're fast and conl6
| h'' hN away, says the expert Some
We're caught by tying to a string LARGO
| grams, which birds swallowed. and
| there thcy were. Among the CAPTURES
are starilngs, tinches, pigeons, doves.
ierons and canaries-New York Press.
| one OF the big locomotive manufac-
turing plants made 1922 engines last
| year, and 1877 of them were electric.
Steel is now being used in the man.
| fracture of many toys which were
formerly made of tin and cast iron.
A woman in Wilkes Barre. Pa.
burned up her husbands wooden leg
the other day to keep him from going
| to the saloon
Western physician says that we
have IL things inside of us thai we
do not need. He should sion eating
in the lunch carts.
Marse Henry" appears to have for
gotten all about Newport and society.
as the Courier journal is asking
What is a fresh egg"
over 100000 cgarrets are made in
Alden each year. The profits are large
in the manufacture, as labor only
costs l6 cents a day.
A man in South Carolina claims
that he killed a snake with horn on
its tail last week. And South Caro-
lima is now out of the snake column
too.