Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-18
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.


40 for senators
Our coal shipments to Canada jump
ed 100000 last year over the preced-
ing records.
A baby walrus of six months will
eat about 30 pounds Of goldfish in the
course of a day.
Canada was formally cedcd to Eng
land by the treaty of Paris, signed on
Fei. 10, 17e3.
In one hot day last summer no few
er than 5000 persons made use of one
of New York's public baths.
The Indiana man who lived TO the
age of l05 must have met many au-
thors on the highway to oblivion
| Atlanta Constitution.
Compelling an Indianapolis saloon
| keeper 10 go to church might be class
| ed as cruel and unusual punish
| meut.'-Baltimore Sun.
| Chic and Indiana horse thieves are
said to have organized, but not, we
are led to believe, for the good of the
| people-Toledo Blade.
| A London company has spent $780,
900 in advertising in the last % years.
This great campaign was launched by
the expenditure of $50
In New York during the close times
| in 1867, - per cent. Of the collateral
used as the basis OF clearingh house
| certificates was commercial paper.
Freeman Phelps Of NARROW, n. H.,
! is treating some Of his friends to pie
made from q squash that was raised
| by him in the summer of 1908.
did l understand you to say the
new cook had decided to leave?" Yes.
| She has found out that the bowl she
| broke yesterday wasn't cut glass. -
| Chicago Record Herald.
| Beans are 50 per cent. more nutri-
| tious than beef says the Indianapolis
News. Yes. and 500 per cent. less pal
| atable 10 those born outside New Eng
land-St Paul Dispatch
| An Indiana woman has found her
| husband. who has been missing since
| the Civil War. He certainly had plenty
| of time to think of an excuse for not
| getting home SoOner.-Toledo Blade.
! Since the paper mill at Milton, n.
H. was destroyed by fire last June the
fire in the coal bin has never gone
| out. and. on some days the smoke
| from it may be seen many miles away
| I4oulSldiIct kCit NWIltlI, loIlLtD.
| Nanny surc'N be pleased, She done
said when I came North: You'll neb-
! Der sit no place in New Yawk, chile, -
| an here Use had six places &c fuSt
| month.'-PuclS.
An Indiana university professor
| points to the use Of pigments by the
| Indians as an excuse for modern wom-
| On using face powders. Might have
| gone further back. See III Kings, iX 80.
New York Herald.
Have you had many cases in which
| YOU have given up all hope?" asked
| the Young doctor. mot until nave
| placed them in the hands of a col
| 'ecting agency" replied the old prac-
| titioner.-Philadelph Record.
| The finest gem ever produced in
| Maine is said 20 Re the aquamarire Of
3f1h carats Just found at Topsham.
The gem is light green and about the
| size Of a robins egg. The joWclcr who
! cut it has given il - facets
According to the Pekin Daily News
| the Chinese ministry of the interior
| intends to make investigations con-
| corning the prohibition OF early mar
ria ces. which il considers to be at
tended With evil results. The age may
he fixed at %.
|. Workmen ged in tearing down
an old abandoned icchouse at Green's
| burg, Ind. discovered a place where
more than a gallon of flies were pass
| ing the winter. The flies We're very
weak. though many of them had suf-
| ficent strength to fly.
The largest diamond minc in South
| Africa yields on an average half ton
| of diamonds a year. To the end of 1892
| 10 tons of diamonds had come from
| this mine. valued al $500, 900 600 It
| would take Il LoX five feet square and
six feet high to hold this mass of la-
monds.
Lord Sandwich. when msister of
state. having passed "a hours at a pub
lie gaming table. was 50 absorbed in
play that he had 40 subsistence but a
nit of beef between two slices of bread
Hence the origin of an article Of food
which has entered into the daily life Of
al of us.--London Opinion.
4 sparrow hawk and crow hunt,
which has been in progress in Strong
vile township. Ohio, for a week. has
Just tlititt L lie FARMERS CibSp UP StutS
with "a men on 4 side the losers to
furnish an oyster supper for the win
| ners The hunt has resulted in tie.
| each side making 1912 counts The to
tai cf the weeks hunt is 2O34 spar-
rows. II crows ana one hawk.
\ modern highway 275 miles long.
through the short grass country" in
western Kansas. would not only prove
an illuminating object lesson for tho
entire state hut for all the country as
We'll. The people of western Kansas
have started movement to afford the
world Just that object lesson in road
building. From Newton to the Colorado
line it is proposed to construct a CON
tinuous boulevard along the Arkan-
sas river and call it "the New Santa
Fe Trail. Kansas City Times.