Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-22
eLEAN,Nes AND GOSSIP.

The Yarmouth herring season recently
closed and it is reported that the catch
amounted TO nearly SOo,O0o000 fish.
The postoffice department seems bit
peyish because some people in Guatemala
have been stealing our mail bags to make |
clothes of.
IT really had to come and the Buffalo
Express is the guilty party. 1t says that
the operagoer in New York really had to
be Elelltracuted.
Fletcher says that in 10 years there
will be no people eating meat. Doubt
less he means that they will be sui
chewing the meat they are eating now
John d. now appears to be taking
pile of interest in IA scheme to drain Hol-
land. Doubtless thinks he has drained
this country pretty thoroughly.
A woman died in Arizona recently who
was 1l6 years old and who always
claimed that she had smoked cigarets
from the time she was six. Cigarets are
very injurious affairs.
| January in Colorado Springs, showed
an average of 50 per cent of sunshine.
| There were - clear days, 13 partly
cloudy and only three cloudy. The tenn
perature for the month was slightly
| above the normal
| The ministers in one of the counties IN
Ohio have voted to drop the title of rev.
| erend They say that the title does not
occur in the Bible and that they can see
no good reason why they should use it.
| A man at Camden, n j., has been
| fined S25 for loaning his hunting license
| to friend. He would have not been
caught had not the friend frozen to
death while hunting and the license been
| discovered in his pocket.
| A temple of the Sun has just been dis
covered the upper Nile, according to
reports. But it may be false report.
| Perhaps it is just a mistake made by
| some one who has taken the smile now
coming up out of darkest Africa for the
sun.
| Ed Howe's office boy, who is trying to
do the humor of the Atchison Globe
while the editor is seeing Europe again,
saws that you will succeed in life if you
resist doing things you know you
shouldn't do. 1t seems as if some one
had said this before.
The Canadian camp and cooperating
sportsmen's clubs are planning a dinner
| for Robert +. Peary to be held at the
|
large number of prominent men will be
secured as speakers and the chief topic
of the evening will be Big Game With
| in the Arctic Circle
| Queen Lii appears to be loyal to Ha-
| waii in spite Of the hard blow it gave
| her. She has left her entire fortune of
| $500, 900 to the territorial government to
establish an orphan asylum for children
| of Hawaiian blood, and w. o. Smith, the
leader of the movement that deprived
| her of her throne. has been named as
| trustee.
A systematic opposition to socialism
| has been set on foot in England in the
form of the antisocialsm union. Among
| it's members are 400 young men who nave
| been trained as spellbnders to oppose the
| socialist party. More than $4,000 has
| been raised to carry on the work. and it
| can be devoted to the same cause.
| Business and church men or Colorado
| Springs have united in making prepara-
| tions for the convention of the laymen' $
| missionary movement to be held there
! March 1-3. This convention will draw
| from southern and western Colorado
| and arrangements are being made to seat
between 500 and 1000 men at the opening
banquet Twenty speakers of interna-
| tional reputation will be on the program.
| One of the curosities of the bank of
| England is note for $1,000, the sum
| Lord Cochrane paid as a fine for his
| connection with a fraud upon the public,
| a connection which really did not exist
| The note bears this endorsement: My
| health having suffered by long and close
| confinement and my oppressors having
| resolved to deprive me of property or life
| | submit to robbery to protect myself
| from murder in the hope that | shall
| live to bring the delinquents to Justice
| Cochrane"
| An American woman has been selected
| to perfect the plans for the instllation of
! a modern heating system in the palace OF
Turkey Miss Anna Barber, formerly of
| Colorado Springs. Co, who for the last
| several years has been connected with
large London firm engaged in the manu-
facture of heating apparatus, is the wo-
man, word of her appointment having
| just been received by her brothers in Col
| orado Springs. AS an architect Miss
| Barber years ago determined to become
| specialist in the study and science of
| heating large buildings, and she was
| chosen for this work after the sultan
| had caused inquiries to be made through
out the world. The plan of the palace IN
| Constantinople is exceedingly intricate
| as it is one of the largest ana most mag
nificent buildings in the world contain
| ing hundreds of halls and apartments
|
| 800. nLl nCnDAN