Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-18
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

Over 13p,00o,O0U oysters are shipped to
Liverpool from this country every year.
sZe)dya says that l.e is going to write
a. book lie should have it printed IN
red INK. --H
New u minister says that any wo-
man VINO plays bridge for money is a
thief How about those who lose?
\ big electric power station is being
built in one of the German cities and
peat is going to be used for fuel.
There are 90 students at the un:rer-
sity Of Wisconsin this year ana three
Of them are in the senior class.
The government fish natcherics have
distributed 3.1i7,3O1,o00 fish and fish
| eggs 50 far during the current fiscal
year.
A liquor monopoly for the exclusive
manufacture Of spirits has been or
ganizcd in Sweden with q capital Of
| &,o00.n00.
A boy 10 wears old has been sent to
| prison in New Jersey for debt Finance
is evidently getting particular down
there.
Now they tell us that polorium is
| 5000 times as valuable as radiun. But
an egg is still the height Of cxtrava-
| yauce for some of us.
| In New York state there were CLOSE
more births than deaths last year. ana
| N New York city 1876 mere births
! than deaths.
| The Boston Herald claims that Har-
ward was the first place to discover the
beauties of q porterhouse steak. But
| Worcester still claims the proud honor
| Of being the first city where one was
| fried
Wonder if President Taft has receiv-
ed that beautiful buckskin war shirt
the Crows were to give him. It's
about time he pulled the tail feathers
donned them both.
A dispatch from Teguciagalpa. Hon.
duras. says that Congress has been in
session since January and has done
| nothing but quarrel. Possibly a mis-
take has been made in the date line.
The story certainly fits Washington.
A woman was arrested in New York
the other day for begging and it was
| found that she had a bank book in her
pocket which showed deposits of more
than $4,000. 1t was later learned that
she was also a real estate owner.
The city of Montreal has secured the
Gagnon autograph collection which
contains autograph letters of Mont
calm, Daniel O'COnncll and Wolfes
manuscript orders to his officers writ
ten on the eve of the battle Oh the
plains of Abraham.
Last year Canada had Sc strikes. in
volvine 17,sS1 worknen and causing a
loss of Si2212 days work. Two were
strikes for shorter working hours four
for recognition of unions. five against
conditions Of employment. five against
reduction of wages, eight because OF
obnoxious fellow workmen and the
rest for higher wages.
A ginkgo leaf was found 80 feet be-
meath the surface at Spokane. Wash.
recently and its age is now estimated
at 100 900 years. A scientist says tina,
it's discovery tends to substantiate the
theory that the coast section has beer
formed by successive upheavals of the
carth's crust. occurring since the APP
pcarance of the great sea dyke which
mas now developed into the Rocky
mountain system.
| 4 Turkish newspaper has discover
cd that the late Mr.. Gladstone wa!
born in 1896, and that his father wa:
a Bulgarian. 1t says further that hi!
love for gold made him yellow. that he
was of medium height and that "as &
sign of his satanic spirit his forehead
and upper forehead we're bare and that
mis- evil temper made his hair fall out.
Evidently the great statesman was moi
over popular with the editor.
| Men go down to the sea under bill
lowing canvas in fewer and fewer
numbers. the tin kettle tramp nov
doing tho nldclipper's work, but Nep'
tune still cXacts his toll from the
suuare-rggcd ships that are fatcd tc
float out upon the oceans bound 10000
miles OF more and never again be
heard Of. Ten big sailors thus van
ishcd in 1908; last year eight windjam-
mcrs of large burthcn We're recorded
on the worlds log uf missing slips
One was an American. the four-inas-
ted Fort George Of 100 net tons: and
there are tow enough Of ours left
Most OF them are swallowed on Cape