Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-01
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP

been taking temperatures in them and
report that at 500 meters it is rs de-
grees centigrade, at 1000. 40 degrees
and at 2240. "a degrees. There is nice
little problem in putting this into feet
and Fahrenheit.
An agricultural freak is shown in an
illustration in the current number or
"Haus Hof and Garden" in the shape
of two potatoes held together by
seven-linked chain. The chain must
have been dropped and remained I'M
noticed ON the field and potato form
ed in both of the end links. They
grew through the iron rings and are
now held there firmly, the iron bands
having depressed them at the points of
contact. They were picked up at Shoe
now, near Bernau, Germany.
The executive committee of the
Woodstock, (Vt) county club has is
sued it's 18th annual report in attrac-
tive form this year. 1t is quite of the
usual run of club annual and is bound
in red paper with a design in brown
and gold. The usual lists of officers
and members are given, the regular re-
port of the executive committee show
ing the healthy condition of the club.
laws and house rules. and these are
followed by the list of winners in the
various 1909 tournaments. and sched-
ule of the events for this year.
Our idea of bum humorists includes
those baseball fans who imagine
they are doing something clever and
original when they show their displeas-
ure at the umpire by yelling Strike"
every time a perceptibly bad ball is
pitched, and Safe" every time Wis
ting player is thrown out bv city
block These jOkers are on par with
the theatergoerS who invariably APP
plaud the boy who sweeps up the jig
sand and carries out the preceding
performers props" This sort of hu-
NOR must become exceedingly monoto-
nous and fiat to umpires and stage
hands.-Detroit Free Press.
The plucking of ST. Johns wort. or
devil s. flight, on June "a, which is both
midsummer day and the feast of st.
John the Baptist. is ceremony still
observed by the peasantry of France
and Germany, who hang 1t in their
windows as a charm against storms.
thunder and evil spirits. At Oxford
university, st. Johns day was until
quite recently, the occasion of a curl
ous ceremony. The university sermon
for the day was delivered from the old
stone pulpit on the west front OF Mag
dalen college. which together with the
surroundings was decked with green
boughs in commemoration of the Bap'
lists preaching in the Wilderness
London Chronicle.
The charms of Babu English bid fair
to be eclipsed by the men who write
the advertisements of the Swiss hotels.
Travel and Exploration collects few
recent examples: "Artful executed Ma
uric dining saloon-sight tower with
see-and- Alpine panorama" A game
pare with numerous beasts in the ut
most idillic small valley" "Carbonic
acid baths odoriforous baths, and
baths recommended by physicians"
Most ideal spring and autumn resort
for those who seek recover and quiet
ness. Unrvaled stand-quarter for the
most charming excursions" Rooms
provided almost with balconies"
"Moderust hotel in the place directly
lain at the port railway station"
The campaign for the extension of
our knowledge of the magnetism of the
earth is to be extended into the Arctic |
regions during Capt Amundsen's north
pole expedition, which is to start from
Norway this summer in Nansen's for
mer ship, the Fran. An American OBJ |
server DR. Harry Edmonds, has been
selected to accompany the expedition |
TO rthis special purpose. Amundsens
plan is to enter the polar basin by way |
of Boring strait, and then drift with
the ice. While it is not his special OBJ |
iect to attain the pole, he hopes the |
course Of his drift may take him across |
or close to it. The increase of geogra- |
phical knowledge is his aim, and he |
expects to be absent about four years |
John d. Rockefeller spent his birth |
day at the dentists. but it is not |
thought that there is anything serious |
the matter with his eye-teeth.
A Philadelphia man claims to have |
made a record by swimming % miles in |
a river the other day. This sounds like |
a story from the banks of the Kaw.
One of the New York state papers |
says it's midwinter down in Chilli now. |
Probably it is, but some way or other |
it doesn't do much good TO think about |
it. |
A United states marshal mas SelZed |
a bit over 100000 ice cream cones in |
New York as an infringement of the |
pure food law. Rather driving pto- |
maine out of business.
man who last January was howl |
ing because it wasn't July, was humor- |
Gus enough yesterday to complain be- |
cause the weather did not warrant his |
wearing a fur coat.
Jean Flint, one of the leading French |
editors, says that the goth century is |
to be wOman's century, and that not
only will they soon be given the right |
to vote. but will fill more important |
part in public activity than ever.
New Mexico claims that her most |
valuable mineral product is coal and |
that she is now mining about $500, 900 |
tons year. Last year her gold out |
nut was valued at 1878, 300, and the sill |
yer at $171. 200, while the copper output |
is estimated as high as $1,5OO.000.
There seems to be some sorrow in the |
District of Columbia because in future |
the District employees will have to de- |
duct from their vacations the time they |
lose from illness. 1t is the general i'm I
preston that this may affect the atten-