Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-17
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Sea kale is used as food in some
parts of China, and is secured as Sag
halien. where it averages about a foot
in width and 40 feet in length
London's police force is the best in
the world, hut evidently far from be-
ing the most healthy. The sick list
contains on an average of 500 names
day.
The observations Of H. \. Thompson
conseryator of forests for southern Nj
gera. indicate that the mahogany tree
grows much more rapidly than the
number of so-called annual rings sug-
gests Mr.. Thompson thinks that they
show three or four wellmarked zones |
of growth each year corresponding to |
the four seasons. Both forest trees and |
those grown in the botanical garden
exhibit the same phenomenon. On the
site of the town of ljaye, destroyed 80
years ago, forest has grown up con-
tanning mahogany trees with trunks
exceeding 10 feet in girth.
A French grocer recently got into a
good deal of trouble and had to pay a
heavy fine because he advertised for
sale eggs laid today" AS he confessed
that they were shipped to Paris from
Russia the authorities thought they
might possible be q little older.
\ serious attempt is to be made to
develop Russia's mercantile marine.
The ministry of trade has laid before /
the Duma of the empire a proposal to |
allow iron built ships to be imported TO
Russia free of import duty for the next
10 years, and also to grant govern
Ia IN vessels |
built in Russia.
Someone has not invented q mlhia- A
ture billiard table that is SAID 10 pe
uuitc as good as those or resui''.io
size If is three feet long by one foot
six inches wide. but the difference Is IN
tba balls. steel balls TX inches IN diam
eter being used in place OF the ua
ivory They are so much heIEi-
~ tb,+ thav offer the same resist
&c the large ivory ball and take +.
the same force to play
r,o f,mous Lena collection of &rt OBJ
iects and antiquities was recently solo
at auction in Berlin and ire top prlcc 4
was brought by a bumper maze Oh
,,a,,mered tim which sold for
$4,000. 1t is known to the collectors OF
~ world as the Breslau tin bumper
and is supposed to have been made IN
preslau in 1850 It is octagonal in
shane and on its sides are scenes from
the lives of the evanGelsts.
A coodly number of people appear to ,
binl, that the continual increase of
he salt water fishing industry will
;oon decrease The supply of fish, and it
$ hard not to believe that there are
rood grounds for their fears. yet the
steam trawlers which work in the
North sea, and catch many more hsh
han the old fashioned boats. appear to
ave no harmful effect. The fishing is fr
.etting better there. in fact. q,
Following an ancient city custom the
orroration has recently made presents
f what is called Livery cloth to GER ~
ain high officers of state and pubic 90
ficials The custom is thus explained: -
n the carly periods of history the re- n
aincrs of great lords wearing thelr a.
veries were 50 numerous as to De dan n
erous both to the king and the laws, y
nd the disorders in which they took a
art required all the vigor OF the KING g:
nd the Legislature to restrain Many Fl
tatutes for that purpose were passed e
etween 1877 and 1904. In these prohi- e;
itions and exemptions were many IN =.
avnr of the members of guilds and
rate~nties in cities and boroughs.
his probably explains the creation OF
livervmen'' i'll the various companies,
nd is supposed to be the origin OF this f.
rnual gift of ''livery cloth. London |
>aily News.
Counterfeiting is still considerable II
ldustry in Calabria. 1t is good form Go
/ Naples to bite all silver coin before fH
cceptirg it in payment or in change.
The Philadelphia rapid transit com
anv is putting piano into each OF its 4
ar barns for the amusement Of en- N
loves who have to wait about for as 3
ignments.
You never know how MANY figures n.
an be carried in the head until yoni,, a
car a life insurance solicitor talk, or
oar a woman give out recipes Tor