Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-30
GLEANiNGs AND GOSSIP.

academy of 40 immortals, with Al
I,eu Austen left out.
LIE Caffeine says that poet laure-
ate in this country would be an i'm
possible thing. Quite so.
California ships about 100000 worth
of seaweed as fodder for cattle and
hogs.
Java coffee has been successfully in
troduced into Porto Rico, and is
meeting with much favor from me
American trade
A woman &C years of age who lives
near Pleasureville. Pa, has just I'm
isned harvesting 11a acres of wheat
with d sickle.
A Chicago man says that Wagnerian
music played on a monograph. will
stop the yowling of a cat. 1t will
stop most anything.
Word comes from the Cape that the
cranberry crop is 10 be a bumper.
but Rhode Island is still silent about
the turkey crop.
Ann Arbor only grew per cent.
lE the last 10 years. This looks as il
the university of Michigan football
team had been in slump. .-
City employees in Milwaukee are to
prints hereafter. Evidently education
is advancing rapidly in Wisconsin.
Now some engineer says that the
leaning tower of Pisa is showing signs
of structural weakness. Still it won't
pay to hang round waiting for the
crash.
A new method of preserving flour
has recently been successfully adopted
in lnp nd &c tntn
bl icks by hydraulic pressure and the
larval life so destroyed.
The Albany journal, looking about
for something to be thankful for con-
graduates everybody that the fool
who rocks the aeroplane has not ar
rived upon the scene as yet.
The one thing that every one is
eager'v waiting for is an attack on
Bernard Shaw by the Outlook's asso-
clate editor. Then the ensuing dis
play of fireworks would be worth
watching
The expression, go to Halifax
originated in the terror which thieves
used to have for Halifax. Eng. where
they We're condemned first and tried
later If any one had time.
A tramp was arrested at Newcas-
tie, Pa, the other day because he took
bath. The authorities evidently
We're taking no chances as to what
he would take it into his head to take
next.
The Baltimore American thinks that
the old punishment of the treadmill
should be revived for the benefit OF
the automobile speeder. This would
give him exercise and speed enough.
The Canadian maple-sugar crop this
year is estimated at 10000 600 pounds.
over half of it being made in the prov
ince of Quebec and the rest in Nova
Scotia. Ontario and New Brunswick.
The director of public health in
Pittsburg climbed on top of 20
story building there the other day,
and reports that he saw some spots
of clear air This looks like an at
tempt to qualify for the Ananias club
The dentists in convention at Dem
Yer suggest that parents forbid their
small boys eating half an apple and
then giving the other half to another
small boy. This suggestion will meet
with the hearty approval of the av-
erage kid.
A Virginia woman, now living III
England, has formed a society OF
young people for the purpose of FUR
nishing food and water to birds when
they find it hard to get enough to live
on. The organization is called the
Uncle Dick society.
"A Judge in Toledo, O., discharged
chauffeur, charged with speeding. the
other day on the grounds that it was
hard to tell when an automobile is an
automobile. Looks as If he were con-
templating a sequel to "Alice Through
the Looking Glass"
Some of the business men at Van
couver B. c., are planning to import
a number of 'rickshaws from Japan
to put in use in the city's streets IN
place of cabs. A number OF the resi-
dents of Vancouver's Japanese colony
are expert 'rickshaw men and they
are much in favor of the project.
There is no country in the worid
where there are as many toy-shopslas
in Japan. Every hamlet has its cnil-
dren's bazaar and during religious fesA
rivals toy booths are set up near the
temple. Then the grown folks, no
matter how poor. may be seen with
arms full Of toys for their youngsters.