Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-03
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.


DR.. Osler now comes out in favor OF
the sour milk diet. 1t is doubtless good
for people beyond the Osler limit.
More than 10000 japanese pilgrims
climb the 1885 feet of Fujiyama, the
sacred mountain of Japan, every year
The prince of Montenegro is going to
publish a book of poems. 1t may be
the forerunner of another Balkan war
cloud.
Someone wants to know whether or
not King Menelik is still dead. He was
before Christmas but he usually comes
to life on Tuesdays.
The Cleveland Leader says that the
whiskers Of Leopold are no more but
that those of Uncle Sam, Santa Claus
and Gov Hughes still remain.
Germany fOrbidS the use of boric acid
in curing meats and requires that all
meat picked in salt or brine must
contain at least per cent. salt in it's
innermost part.
Scotland Yard has found the finger
print valuable thing in tracing and
identifying criminals It's report says
that last year the method was used
with success in 9440 cases.
Reports from Chill say that near
Conception there is coal field which
is about 80 square miles in extent and
which contains S0,000,000 cubic meters
of soft coal. The vein is about liz
feet thick
1t seems to be hard for California to
decide whether she will make more
money from her bumper orange crop or
from the prize fight which will be held
there en- the birthday of George Conan
and America.
A number of western papers, like a
good many of those in the East, cam
not quite bring themselves to take
Worcester seriously. Some of them
have suggested that the City of Fried
Steak submit her aeroplane claims to
Copenhagen.
Excellent natural pottery is manu-
featured by Nature in the case Of a
certain cactus. Woodpeckers are apt
to eXcavate nests in the trunks and
branches, and. in order that it may
protect itself against these incursions,
the plant eXudes a sticky juice, which
hardens. forming a woody lining to the
hole made by the birds. Eventually
the cactus dies and withers, but the
wooden bowl remains.
Dining as honored guest with the
governors was. Private John Allen Of
Mississippi. whose very whimsical way
of saying things make people smile. He
himself told what happened. Il got up
and said" explained Private Allen,
that | came with the understanding
that 1 was not to speak during this
trip. Then someone cried from the
other end of the room. Yes. and l came
with the same understanding
There is in the constellation Pegasus
a little variable star that may reason
ably be said to wink Two or three
times in the course of single night
this curious star can be seen to fade
and then to brighten like a signal light.
For about "a hours it becomes fainter
and fainter; then comes a change, and
at the end of 2A hours more it is as
bright as at the beginning. Unfortu-
nately it can be seen only with tele-
scope Yet it ranks as a sun.-Har-
pers Weekly.
In 1901 there were in Europe only %
cities which had more than 100000 in
habitants. These were London, Dublin,
Paris, Marseilles, Lyons. Amsterdam,
Berlin. Hamburg, Vienna. Naples,
Rome, Milan, Venice, st. Petersburg,
Moscow. Warsaw, Copenhagen and
Two only of these cit
les had more than O00O-London, $50
600. and Paris, 100000. Naples came
third. with $4,000. and Vienna fourth,
with $4,000.
Queen Marguerite has weakness for
the books of America and English
novelists She also reads English and
American magazines and ii is her
opinion that the American school OF
short story writer's at present is the
best in the world. The queen gives
over several hours every day to fiction.
She reads extensively in Italian, OF
course. but her especial fondness is for
books in English. She talks and writes
English fuently, and in all literature
likes nothing so much as tales of west
ern American life. whether of the min
ing camp or the ranch. She has read
almost everything that has been writ
ten about the cowboy.
LIGHT AND AIRY.