Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-05-28
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

Norway uses many OF Tile cOnNlctS
in her prisons as work hands on farms
1t is said that nails cut from a SOL
id sheet of zinc are practically inde-
structible.
Skaneatelas, n. Y, reports a sea
serpent in it's lake. 1t has a name
which is ideal for the report.
The Boston Transcript has made
one of its great news discoveries. This
one is that beauty is a passing thing
There are some few people who do
not think astronomy the same exact
science they did before the comet got
loose.
Now report has it that John d.
Rockefeller is wearing paper waist
coats. The poor old chap must save
what pennies he can.
The highest paid workmen i'm Turin,
the chief manufacturing city in Italy.
are the smiths, who get 79 cents to
s1.35 a day
The Kentucky papers say that the
last hanging in the state took place
last week. Are they going to lynch
by electricity in the future?
The price of hay has gone down in
the middle West. Strawberries are
evidently cutting into the regular
winter breakfast food market.
ST. Louis now has d concrete build
| ing 81 feet high which hasn't single
window. 1t is Illuminated in the day
| time by means of a skylight in the
roof
The Albany Journal wants to know
| if it is a violation of the Fourth of
July ordinance to fire off a motor
cycle in the streets. 1t should be
| against all ordinances.
The English aviator who was fined
| for speeding his automobile last week
showed good sense in going to his
| trial in his aeroplane. He didn't take
any chances of a double fine.
A physician in Indianapolis has sue
ceeded in making a nose from a piece
| of mans leg. The operation is said
to be entirely successful except for the
| minor facts that the patient can't
smell and limps badly.
The Cleveland Leader is much wor
red because the best story emanating
from Winsted. CT, so far this season
is about four legged duck. The Ohio
paper seems to feel that the Connecti-
cut town is losing it's speed.
Victor Emmanuel is considered. and
rightly so. All exceedingly clever num-
ismatist. A rather interesting story
is told of the manner in which the
king, while still little more than
child, acquired a taste for the science
of numismatics. One day he received
a soldo bearing the head of Pope Plus
TX. A little later. finding another, he
added it to the first, and in this way
he collected Is. Meanwhile, his father.
King Humbert. presented him with
about 80 pieces of old copper money.
and thus was formed the nucleus of his
coilection.-June McClure's.
The queen of Italy is one of the
finest shots in Europe. not only among
women but against all comers. AS a.
girl she spent much of her time hunt
ing. but has given it up entirely in
late years because she does not like
to kill animals or birds. She shoots
only clay pigeons now.
The Tooth anniversary OF the Sweden
borg society of London. founded In
1910, will be the occasion of a gathering
from all parts of the world of an in
ternational congress of the students
and admirers of Emanuel Swedenbora,
to be held in the city of London-J July
not an ecclesiastical or sectarian one,
but meeting to be devoted to the
consideration of Swedenborg's contri-
buttons in science. philosophy and
psychology as well as in theology to
the higher thought and investigation
of the world of today.
The work at the Roosevelt dam.
near Phoenix, Ariz., will develop &c.
600 horsepower. Part of this will be
used to irrigate $4,000 acres which are
above the level of the gravity canal,
recurring that the water shall be
lifted. Another portion Of the avail
able energy will be utilized to pump
water. from wells for the Pima res
ervation. In addition there is sur
plus, which has already been leased
under contract to light the city OF
Phoenix; and more power will soon
be available. from the same source, for
supplying light and power to farm
houses throughout the valley.-Tech-
nical World Magazine.