Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-26
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

| Alpine flowers, and the winter sports
killed Il. Seventy nine deaths were
reported as the result of foolhardy
| climbing.
| Reports from Chicago tend to show
| that many of the citizens wish that
| the bill posters strike would become
permanent. The city has never looked
better than since the bills have dis
appeared.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
bought a Shetland pony for little
Princess Juliana. The royal baby is
| cided that she must begin to learn the
| love of animals at an early age.
Amsterdam now has automatic doc
! .orS. If you have a pain You go to
one of the manikins and drop small
| coin in the slot over the home OF
| your own pain and a little package
of medicine comes out and cures you
right off quick.
The women in New York who have
begun a long fast have received several
olfrS of marriage. A number OF men
think that a wife who doesn't have to
eat but once in 20 DAYS or SO would be
an ideal helpmate.
The merchants in some o fthe South
ern cities are trying to develop rural
telephone service. They claim that il
there We're telephones on the outlying
plantations business in the stores
would be increased greatly.
One of the chief drawbacks of Seattle
is its steep hills, but many of these
are being rapidly cut down. Hydraulic
sluicing is being employed and the
proposed work calls for the removal
of 34,000000 cubic yards of earth and
rock.
| Now comes the announcement that
cologne has no odor in itself, but that
the smell comes from the vapor aris-
ing from the liquid. If a bit of cologne
is poured into the nose the odor would
not be noticeable. But there would be
enough else happen to keep you
amused.
one of the English papers says that
a new word coloriculture, must be
added to the gardening dictionary. 1t
is the name of a new system of hOrti-
culture which has recently been in
troduced into England and bids fair
to replace the now popular intensive
culture of the French school.
The weather bureau in Texas is
now giving weather reports to farmers
by telephone every day. The farms are
called up as near noon as possible and
| the forecast for the next "a hours given.
People in the cities can get the fore
cast by asking the central telephone
Office to read it to them.
II met a new variety of panhandler
on Park row the other day." said
man. He approached me and with
a marked Teutonic accent said, DO
you speak German Much 1attered
that he should have picked me out as
a particularly intelligent person
answered, ia. Ich spreche Deutsch.
Say, give me a nickel. he said. He
got it."-New York Sun.
News has been received of fighting
in the Kagoro and Attakka districts OF
northern Nigeria. Bees play an i'm
portant part in warfare with these
Nigeran tribes The villagers on re-
and let them loose, and woe betide the
man who is attacked by them in the
labyrinths of cactus which surrounded
the villages.-LondOn Daily Mail.
The pine is the greatest American
| :,
is most in demand, and has enriched
its tens of thousands of men. The
most fashionable tourist and health
resorts in the South are in the "piney
woods regions-vide Aiken S. c.,
Pinehurst. n. c., Thomasville, Ga,
and others. IT is the resinous quality
of the ozone that attracts the health
and pleasure seekers. Also the pincy
|
fruits. vegetables and melons Living
is cheap among the pines, health good
and the people well fed.-Dallas CTex.)
| News.
Forty-three automobile accidents
| were reported to the police of Chicago
in the last two weeks. according to
figures gathered by Chief of Police
Steward. The mishaps resulted in 3S
persons being injured. Thirty of the
accidents We're collisions between au-
tomobiles. This, Chief Steward as
serts, shows the carelessness of chaur
feurs and the need of better legisla-
| ton to regulate them. "The automo-
| bile problem is a serious one said
| Chief Steward. Most of the accidents
| either are caused by negligence or
careless driving. There is need of
! better legislation to regulate the au-
| tomobile and the chauffeur
Gadebusch. in the grand duchy of
Mecklenburg Schwerin, in celebration
| of the birth of the grand ducal heir
| decided to fire the regulation salute
| of 101 guns. An ancient cannon was
| hauled out for the purpose, and the
| firing began. Unfortunately. the pow
| der ran short after the 93d shot, and
there was no means of obtaining any
| more in the town. The burgomaster
was in despair. especially as SO shots
indicated that the grand ducal baby
| was girl. At this moment the mu-
nicipal bandmaster came forward with
a luminous proposal, which was eager
ly accepted. He dispatched his big
drum major to the market place, where