Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-09
eLEANlNcs AND GOSSIP.


same. OF course, both are Injuries n
.ltsAont be a great while before the
baseball box scores will be attracting
more attention than the price of eggs
ON the business page.
One man in the Southwest claims
that he has killed 100000 prairie dogs
in the past few years. He must be an
ardent hunter OF big game.
A st. Louis judge says that the man
In the lower fiat must keep TIE snow
off the sidewalk Another reason why
you should live high up in the air.
An Italian at Niagara Falls has been
snoveling snow in his bare feet this
winter. Most people jump over the
falls and get it over with quickly.
A Turkish merchant recently bought
six merchant vessels for trade in the
Mediterranean sea and he has named
them after six Of the United States.
At the average price charged for
electricity in this country cents
worth of it will raise 10 tons II feet il
d crane is used and do it in less than
a minute.
Even the wife of the Canadian pre-
nier appears to have her troubles.
Lady Laurier was recently fined $50
at Ottawa for exceeding the speed limit
in her automobile.
During the first nine months of 1909
there were 104,536,000 feet of lumber
shipped from Tacoma. and during the
same period $780,, 900 were shipped
from Portland, Ore.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer seems to
think that if Nine. Mazarin studied
the role of "Elektra" in an insane asy-
lum that Strauss must have written
the score in a boiler shop.
81 The whole Edison family appears to
be given to inventing. The daughter of
Thomas has just invented an automo-
bile wrap to wear in the car driven by
fathers storage battery.
Prof. Camel of the Rockefeller Insti-
tHte saws that he can keep flesh alive
for weeks in cold storage and that it
can he successfully grated upon liv-
ing animals after being taken out.
The Cleveland Leader says that be-
fore the winter is over we are going
to take the ski championships away
from Norway, the curling champion
ship from Scotland and the skating
prize from Canada. After that we will
probably find time to give little at :
tention to baseball.
One may read in a guide book OF
Venice. compiled for the benefit of
strangers, this notice: "Wlren visit
ing this palace strangers should show
themselves especially generous in their
tips, as the prince who occupies this
palace has no other means of support
than to share in the money given to
l,jc 1n,Opcticc n Cri Do ri
Few people. l fear. nowadays, read
Maria Edgeworth; it is pity. She
is one of the finest novelists that ever
adorned English literature. 1t was
her tales. it must always be remem-
bered, that inspired Sir Walter Scott
to the composition of the "Waverley
Novels" He cried aloud ard every
where his admiration for her and his
Indebtedness to her. Her writings
have, however. high value as his
torical pictures altogether apart from
their merits as literature: and of all
her novels her best is Castle Rack
rent. IT. p. O'Connor in r. P.'s
Weekly, London. ..
The Introduction of tungsten lamps
is doing much to advance the use of
electricity on farms. 1t is possible
for the farmer with a small plant.
driven either by gasoline engine or
by damning a small stream. to obtain
sufficient current to light his house
and barn with this economical type of
incandescent lamp. The use of cleo
tricity on the farm by the way, is
growing and. as pointed out by the
Electrical World, farmers will in time
come to consider electricity as neces-
sity. Then it will be found profitable
to establish central generating sta
tons for farming districts to take the
place of the small individual plants
now being installed.