Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-05
GLEANiNCS AND GOSSIP.

\ Western hotel man has been ar
rested for robbing his guests while they
were asleep. Evidently the laN only
allows the proprietor to do it while
the guests are awake
1t has been decided that when cattle
are shipped abroad on the hoof AND
slaughtered over there that if the hides
are brought back to this country the
hides are subject to duty.
Lady Constance Lytton wrote on tho
wall Of her cell Thoreau's words: IN
der IL government that inprisuns amy
unJuStly, the true place for q just man
Cor womanl is also in prison"
The Rochester Union says that about
The only excuse that the Iceman can
lind for charging high prices next SUN
mcr is that the cakes will be 80 thick
it will be difficult to handle them.
Some Of the college professors appear
to be of the Opinion that it will be but
a very snort time before there are more
German students in America than there
are American students in Germany.
Grains OF sand are great travellers
ana sand from Calais has been found
IN Brittany, 1870 miles away. while On
the Danish coast chalk dust is found
from the Normandy cliffs.
The police Of Chicago think that a
more strict enforcement Of the liquor
laws in that city would mean the de-
parture Of $1,000 men and women. But
where would they go? No other place
wants that type Of citizen.
y Brooklyn suffraget says that there
is not man in this country who would
not sell his vote for a kiss. But after
taking h;tsty glance at some of the
politicians the conservative ones must
come to the opinion that some would
have hard work finding buyers.
The old question as to whether |
horse of one color will live longer than
a horse Of another has come up again. |
The expert says that Il gray lives tti@
longest with roam next. Blacks. ne
claims. seldom live to De over % and
creams rarely more than - years.
America, even if it We're not for the
circuses. eats more peanuts than any
other country in the world. We do not
seem to be even able to supply our
own demand as during 1907 Japan eN-
ported 11.0U0.000 pounds of peanuts ana
the major portion of them came to
:hiS country
Charles H. Townsend has been study
ing life along the straits of Magellan
and says that the native tribes that
inbahit the shores of the western chan
nels OF the strait are probably the low
est of the existing primitive race. They
60 almost naked and their chief diet is
the shellfish they are able to find along
the shore.
Now that the dukc Of tn" AbruZIl
has l,ce0 made director Of tn" thIrd
Italian uHyai division, he will have his
head.tuur;ers at Venice. and the Ncnc-
tians appcar to he very glad that he
is going to live there He will occupy
apartments in the famous palace Of
The Doccs. which are now being made
ready for his use.
You have heard Of dogs VII" are very
clever at inndin2 sheep. bltt did you
ever hear of ono who. helped to keep
order in school? 4 teacher in Wash
ington has a black cocker spaniel who
goes every dav with her to her school
in a part of the town where there arc
so many people that there is not room
for them to kC'O do"S in their homes.
Hector loves the school children, and
they love Kim, and when he banks at
them to make them stop whispering,
they obey. When they spell dog he
wags his tail Century Path.