Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-09
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP


grow until they are 65 years old.
The first sulphur matches were made
in 1899 Some people still feel that they
were made elsewhere.
Some people appear to be troubled be-
cause the Roosevelt family is abroad anf
won't figure in the census.
Englishmen eat, on an average, IS eggs
a year. And still Englishmen try to mar
ry onr millionaires' daughters.
Only 10 per cent of the German schoo
boys go in for athletics. In England
about IS per cent of them do
Now, they are trying to make the sec
ond Saturday i'm May Mothers day
Fathers day" is the first day of every
month when the bills come home.
A school inspector says that one reason
why so many children speak indistinctly
is that they stand too close to their
teacher when reciting their lessons.
westerner says that he would rather
be in Hades with his back broken than
in Congress. And still some think there
are no Democrats in the West.
DR.. Pearsons of Chicago says that the
best way to become a millionaire is to
work hard and eat no meat. The latter
half of the advice is good anyway
Mrs Mary Goddard of Durham Mo-,
is said to be the Oldest Quaker preacher
in the world. She is a few weeks over
100, and has been preaching for ~ years.
Costa Rica has now found something
that beats her old revolutions as adver-
Using matter. She is proudly telling of
having experienced 20 earthquakes in a
single day.
Reports received by the navy depart
ment from the fleet show that several of
the new battleships are exceeding their
contract speed right along when given
speed trials.
Baltimore has already announced her
annual campaign against mosquitoes.
The Cleveland Leader is mean enough
to say that she exterminates them en-
tirely every year.
Wealthy Cinnamon appear to be very
fond of finely-adjusted mechanical
things. This is said to be one reason
why so many of the rich men in the
Chinese empire carry two or more
watches.
Georgia, age four, was watching the
circus parade, and just as the elephants
were passing, the calliope began to play
Mother. don't like the way the ele-
plants sing. The Delineator.
Fitzgerald, who translated Omar and
so got famous, did not have much use
for marriage. One day he told friend
that marriage is standing at ones desk
nicely settled for work, when a great big
bonnet pushes in at the door and asks
you to go to walk with it."
When the Brush square at the battle
of Abu Klea, in the Nuban desert was
penetrated by the derviShes one of them
attempted to spear a gunner who was in
the act of ramming home charge The
Briton Drained the Sudanese, but the
rammer head split on the mans hard
Mistaking the reason. and knowing from
experience that soldiers are charged for
government property which they break,
he led off: please, sir I'm very sorry
/ broke the hammer. but l never thought
the fellows head could be so hard. I'll
pay for the hammer so as to hear no
more of the case"
A furniture dealer in Paris is showing
a novelty in the form of a bed, which is
an Improvement on a similar one which
attracted attention at the last Paris eX-
position. 1t is to all appearances an or
binary bed but the weight of the body
upon it sets clockwork in motion, thus
operating music box which gives forth
soothing melodies The lullabies which
it plays are supposed to induce sleep.
BY means of a dial at the head of the
the person who occupies it fixes an
al fnr ba morning This
dnces, when the hour arrives. discordant
sounds, TO which the person in bed must
pay heed, because failure to rise within
five minutes after the noise has begun
will cause the bottom of the bed to fall
out.
Some people are wondering if j. p.
Morgan will build few good roads
after he gets through organizing his
automobile trust.
No one appears TO be Offering any
suggestions as to the census enumera-
tors not earning all the money THAI is
coming to them.
J. NJ. Pickens, editor of the bureau
of animal industry, recently gave out
a list of LA different spellings OF the
word bureau which he had noted in
letters received from farmers.
The Anaconda (Mont.) Standard
must he making a great deal of money
these days. 1t has offered $50 suit
of clothes to the first ball player who
will knock Il ball over the tail of Hal
iayS comet.
IF any one starts out to beat Mis-
souri, they nave got To get up mighty
early i'm the morning. A farmer out
there reports that he has a hen which
lays eggs with picture of Halley's
comet on the shells.
Some experiments with Turkish to-
bacco have been made by the planters
in the Uganda protectorate. 1t is SAID
that it has lost some of it's Turklsh
character in expectation, but devci-
oped new ilavor that is of excellent
quality.
Mrs. Clara S. Folz of Los Angeles
has been appointed a member of the
California state board of charities and
correction. She is the only woman
on the board and was the first woman
to be admitted to the California bar.
France is soon to try the plan OF
raising money by selling advertising
space on match boxes. The match
trade is a government monopoly and