Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-24
eLEANlNcs AND GOSSIP.

center of the limb or tree trunk
Wasps rank next to the higher
classes Of ants in point of insect IN
telligeEce.
An Alabama man, 81 years OF age
says he has eaten hot biscuits regu-
larly all his life.
Life insurance is making rapln
progress in Japan and there are al
ready AZ companies established there.
The rudder of the new transatlah-
tic liner Olympic weighs 100 tons ana
is the heaviest ever built.
Astronomers discover on an average
three comets a year but very few OF
them are visible to the naked eye.
The Royal medical society in Lon
don seems to be down on the use of
radium in the treatment of cancer.
merchant in Germany was re-
Gently heavily fined for using bibli-
cal quotation at the head of his ad-
vertiSement.
1t will cause great mental rellef 10
the multitude to know that the Del
aware peach crop didn't fail after all.
Most people think that watch max
ing is the great Swiss industry. Ii
isn't Switzerland makes $20,000,000 a
year entertaining tourists.
A scientist has figured that the sun
draws 5000 cubic tons of water from
the earth each year. You'll find ali
about a cubic ton in the little old
arithmetic.
One of the professors at Johns Hop
kns calls attention to the fact that
there are 100000 miles of railroad in
this country and that only 1000 miles
of them have been electrified
One of the papers on the circus
route in New York state has
suggested the subject of How many
buckets of water an elephant can
drink" as a popular one for the
youths in the lower grades at this
time of the year.
The Russian city of Riga is plan
ming many municipal improvements.
Among them are a new railroad sta
ton with underground approaches, an
improved custom house quay anu
new wharves and harbor extensions,
A good many people doubtless will
confess to a rsneaking kind of ad-
miration for the man who coolly
picked $1,000 i'm real money from the
desk of bank president. and. after
conversing pleasantly with him. got
away with 1.-THE Financier.
Japan's police force was originally
the most aristocratic body of the
kind in the world, and it's establish
ment was almost cOincident with the
emperor's decree against the wear
ing Of swords. This left the y SAM
urai without much to do, so many
went into the police just for an ex'
TO thnjr old
King Victors decision to pay Sar-
DINA his first visit since his access
sion is reminder that this large
Italian island still belongs to the
Middle Ages 1t is hard to believe
that SARDINIA. known to the ancient
Romans as the granary of the en-
pire and it's mineral treasure house.
should so recently as 1928 have been
entirely without roads. The beautl-
full highways over which. in Augustan
days. golden harvests had been
wheeled to the coast, had been lost
since the fall of the empire. Even
feudalism retained it's hold on the
life of the Sardes till 1856. Pestil-
ence, due to neglected soil and I'M
drained swamps. has no doubt helped
to retard the return to civilization OF
the island which gave the crown to
King Victor's houSe.-L0ndon enron
icle.
A healthy horse eats nine times it's
weight in food during year
A man at Limoges, France. has made
a clock from old newspaper. It's
probably d weekly.
The reoprt that ambassador Roose-
welt will take precedence over Embas-
sador Reid in London won't cause
great deal of surprise.
oven 81, 500. 900 is now being spent on
irrigation bitches and bikes near Bag
dad as part of the great $SO,00O,0OO plan
to improve Mesopotamia.
Some careless person carried safe
and 900 off one of the Brazilian
warships the other day. 1t must make
a country feel safe to be so well guar
ded
The use Of wheat flour has been in
creasing rapidly in Germany during
the past few years. while that of rye
flour has fallen off to an almost equal
extent.
A horse got intoxicated in Chicago
the other dav and it seems to be a
question as to whether the police or
the society with the long name should
take up the matter.
Applicant have a recommendation
from my minister. Employer-Have
you any Inducements from the people
who know you the other six days of
the week?-Chicago Journal.
The largest wooden structure in the
world is the Parliament building in
wellington. n. u. Timber was used in
preference to stone because there was
lss danger from earthquakes.
You should wash your money!" said
the doctor to the wayfarer. That's
wasted on me. doc" quote the other
man. my valuables have all been in
soak for a long time. '-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.