Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-23
cLEANlNcs AND GOSSIP.

ST. J0hn, N. Il.
Now an Indiana man makes biu Tor
fame By suing his wife for divorce on
the ground that she chews tobacco.
There will be a Friday, the 18TH
this month to- add bit TO the worries
Iof those who are afraid of the comet.
New York tailors have decreed that
the froek coat must be banished from
polite society But they will never sue
|ceed in taking it out Of politics.
Queer things sometimes happen in
lrailroading Frank Seidler is the big
gest engineer on the Philadelphia and
Reading system, weighing 800 pounds,
but he runs the smallest engine owned
by the road.
The increased spirit duties under the
British budget are said to have revived
illicit distilation OF liquor in rural Ire
land and increased the use of spirits or
ether as Il beverage in the cities or
England.
A never again" club has been formed
at Joplin, Mo-, by graduates of the re-
form schol. The boys are pledged to re-
port all misdcmeanors of their fellows
and do their best to make them live
straight and clean life.
Prof. Sargent of the Harvard gymna-
Isium says that the female figure is i'm
Iproving much more notably than the
male. This is due to the fact that wo-
men are taking more and more exercise,
while men slave more and more in their
offices.
| The London Lancet quotes a case
where it was supposed that a man was
about to be buried alive. A knocking
was heard in the coffin as it was being
lowered into the grave 1t was quickly
IOpened and then a hammer, left there
lby mis- take. was discovered
| Liverpool is trying to clean up her
sIums and with this end in view has
demolished $4,000 unsanitary houses and
Twill pull down 1000 more. The munich
lpality has taken down 1000 of them
and tie rest have been removed to
MAIZE way for modern business blocks.
| Sharks lay five eggs, and lay them
separately and not in IL mass, as the
lother fish do. They are dark colored
ami have leathery sort of covering
(which is covered with tendrils that hold
the egg in the seaweed and prevent it's
heinS smashed or moved 10y the waves.
n fortune teller at Trieste has made
a pot of money by telling women who
sought her advice that something dread
fui was about to happen to Them as
they owned hoodoo jewel The only
way to avert disaster was to give the
Je"ei away at once. She usually got
the jewel.
Harpers Weekly owns up that il do,
not know yet to what group, If any, the
sun belongs but says Delauncy has pre-
schtod reasons for thinking that those
stars whose distances have been meas
red group themselves around the dog
star In similar manner to that in
which The inner planets are grouped
around the sun, of which our sun is a
ldlstant satellite.
| me diamond industry, which in 1908
suffered severely from the effect Of the
1917 financial crisis i'm the United
Estates, began to show decided improve
ment III the beginning of 1909. The
RAPIDLY increasing prosperity of the
tinted States. which absorbs 60 per
cent. OF the diamond production of the
word. caused renewed purchases. so
'hat III the early spring all the diamond
Stops of Amsterdam were at work in
lull force to supply the demand
Get out the old fashioned household
remedy book ard scratch out two
remedies. one advising raw beefsteak
spread on bruise and the other ad-
Fising bacon for felon. We can't
waste beefsteak and bacon on bruises
and felons these days.-Atchison
Globe.
New York city had more transpor-
tation facilities with its stages of sew
"nty years ago than it has with all OF
us surface. elevated and subway lines
OK today. The outlook is that the pom
uiatlon Will continue to grow faster
than the means. of transportation.
Joseph Mardust came to this coun-
try IRON the north of Europe worked
eight years for Sc a week, married
When Ii was raised to SO. and four
years later departed for 'home" Will
, his family and a draft for $1,000 on n
foreign bank. thenceforth to lead a
country gentlemans lifc.--World's
. Work.
III Statistics published in the Imperial
Labou" Gazette show that there were
l,S47 strikes in Germany in 1908 alone
against 1893 in England. France and
Austria had. respectively, 1903 anf
III. Germany, too had Ear more
strikes than any other country i'm Flu
rope in 1909. Of 1,419 German strikes
for higher wages, 255 were successful
1888 partly so and SIC failed. The Ger.
. man trade unions dsbursed on ar.
count of strikes in 1907 the sum OF
s3,500,0O0.
a French newspaper publishes som,
statistics showing the causes of dealt
: in the medical profession. The figure,
are impressive, but there is no indica
ton to the source of the information
We read that A per cent. die of hear
disease, 20 per cent, from nervous az.
fections. &c per cent. from the morphis
, habit. and per cent from tubercu.
.osis. The prevalence of morphia /,
, ascribed to the fact that a doctor
knows when his malady is incurabIe
and morphia is sought to soothe tn.
mind.-'London Globe. e
: An orange vcnder. intent on forcin,
trade has been doing a novel business.
III tho residential part Of the city fol
the last few days. He rings the bel
ana tells the servant who answers tina
nc has box of oranges to deliver