Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19
eLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

Germany now has IA dirigible bal
looms of six different models and five
aeroplanes, while France has seven di-
rigle and 90 aeroplanes
With every one SO busy looking for
DR.. Cook it really seems a pity that
some one won't take an hour or so OIL
and hunt up good old Matt Henson.
The rumor is about that Count Boni
is going to marry another American
girl. 1t doesn't seem possible that he
can find one supplemented enough
Now comes the cheerful news that
the price of diamonds is to go up $40 a
carat This. added to the price of eggs
ard meat, won't make life worth liv-
ing.
1t is said that a New York woman
who died recently made no distinction
between her husband and her lap dog
in her will Probably didn't in her ire
either
THE government now owns more than
5000 OOO.0 900 worth of buildings and is
spanding about S20.000.000 a year on
new ones but none of them are insur-
ed.
One of the big Chicago packers has
inst bough: q ranch of 100000 acres IN
Mexico. about IS miles from the line at
HI Paso. and is going to raise cattle
on it.
Missouri is always out after some
recorf4 or other One of her citizens
now claims to have eaten 40 eggs IN SIN
minuts. Talk about the extravaganza
of Pittshurg nillicnaires! ~
The Houston Post is always dong us
hest 20 nut it all over the rest OF the
country. and it looks as if it might sue
coed now. 1t says that the Hous' Oh
hens are beginning to lay
oklahoma now has II more weather
stations than Kansas, and Kansas IS
60 sore bout it that the Kansas papers
COW that it is only because Oklahoma
has ID more kinds of weather than
Kansas.
There is a report in the middle West
that the university Of Missouri has
offered a prize of 800 for 1.-The best
poem." This will be the cause OF
LOT of good white paper going into the
waste basket.
# is now said that the treasury de-
partment IS saving $1,000 year by
sending it's daily statement on post
cards instead of in envelopes. The
saving is equal to the salary of the
clerk who suggested the reform.
One of the members of the Maryland
House has introduced a bill limiting
the size of a woman's hat to 10 inches
in diameter He has a fine chance OF
being elected anything if woman SUI
frage ever comes in.
1t is said that each policeman at Ber-
kelley, Cal. has to carry little TIN
hank while on duty and he has to drop
a penny into it every time he cusses
The fund 50 collected is devoted to the
policeman's relief fund.
Within the last month the two old
est schoClhouses in Colorado Springs
have been torn down to make way for
business blocks One of these. erected
in 1872, was used as the first public
school building, the enrolment at that
time being II pupils. Today the public
schools in Colorado Springs nave an
enrolment of 600 pupils. This building
is to be replaced by a $2o0,OO0 'theater-
The other building. which gives way
to a brick business block, was the f!fsl
buiIding used by Colorado college, the
oldest institution for higher learning IN
Colorado, founded in 1874. This build
ing was used until 1880 when the col
Iere moved to it's present campus, Kew.
Edward P Tenney, now OF Nahaht'
was president and Winthrop d. Shell
don. now vice-president of Girard col
lege of Philadelphia, was head OIL 'he
faculty.