Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-09-13
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Inc Tag IS u relic ol NapoiO'h' ~
| was used By him during his soJourh
at Elba.
Mr. and Mrs John Miller of Hazie-
| ton, Pa, have just celebrated tleir
silver wedding. During the festivities
peaches We're served which had peeh
canned before they We're married. Inc
peaches were we'll preserved, accord
| ing 10 the report and had even, me
| wine improved with age.
| The Chicago Banker calls the hVe-
| cent piece the most necessary com Oh
| the realm. It's discontinuance, says
| this paper, would cause the increase
in price OF countless articles winch the
dealers will otherwise continue 70 sell
| for a nickel" according to rlVeted
custom
| A colliery at Plains Pa, has bath
| ing pool for It's mules. The anlmais
work hard, but on being turned loose
at night they all make for the pool
| with as much eagerness as if they had
| been "out on pasture for six months
as one witness expresses it.
About 200 unemployed men took pos
| session of a disused church at Man
| chester. Eng, one Sunday recently ana
occupied it until they were elected by
the police the following day one ol
| the men was arrested on charge OF
obstructing the street, as great
| crowd had gathered to see the excite
| ment.
1t has been reported that the Eng
lish government intends to bulld
motor driven battleship equipped WIN
| an internal combustion gas engine
| Such a vessel would have no boilers OF
| smokestacks. and the cost of operation
| would be much less. and as there would
be less weight the type might develop
| high rate of speed.
The Tooth anniversary of the lnde-
| pendence of Chill is to be celebrated IN
| London September 90 by an elaborate
banquet. Lord Aldenham, one OF Lon
don's merchant princes, has peen
chosen to preside at the banquet. He
is a member of the firm of Anthony.
Gibbs & Co. which has been engaged
| in the South American trade for loo
| years or more
The champagne crop in France Is
| a failure and it is even said that tll@
| growers have not received enough LOT
| their product to cover expenses. me
| normal yield is about 100000 gallons,
but it is not believed that the amount
| this year will exceed l,5OO,0 900. Ihe
| Ruffalo Commercial remarks that IN
! spite of this there will be just as mucl
| "eenuine imported champagne" sold
| i'm this country as before
! Seventy-five of the $50 schools IN chi
| cago in which cooking is taught nave
| been provided with kitchens, and the
rest ara to be provided. The practice
of having a piano played while the
| yOunp girls We're at work in the Kitten
| ems has been stopped, as it was found
| announcement to have pianos Installed
| in all the homes where the mothers
| permitted or required their daughters
| to test in practical way the inStruc-
| tion they had been receiving in school
| The board Of guardians of Shetfleld
| Eng. rented a farm to furnish sup
| plies for the paupers. and also to give
work to such as We're able-bodled.
| Nearly $1,000 was lost in the operation
| of the farm last year, and the farm
| was given up because it Gid not pay,
after being worked IA years The loss
| during that time was over S6O0o
| There are New England towns that
have found their farms turn out to
be elephants on their hands.
| There are motion pictures which
| show the growth of a flower, and IT
| has been stated that the department
of agricultur" has assisted in their
production. If the plant grows quick
lv a film is exposed once each day
from the time the plant emerges from
the soil until it reaches its blossom
| ing stage. If the growth is slow.
picture is taken once week When
| Of n
| the films are fastened together. ana
the process of growth can be shown
as though it We're taking place before
the spectators eyes 1t is only the
matter of a minute from seedtime to
| harvest. 50 to say.
Mavor Fitzgerald may not belong to
| Roston's "Brahmin caste but it has
remained for him to recall the city
to its puritan virtues" According to
a New York theatrical paper he has
! sent the managers of the theaters
! letter. a part of which is as follows:
| 81 desire to remind you that sugScS-
| tive and sensational posters. such as
lave in the past incurred the censure
of religious and ethical societies. viii
not be tolerated in this city. but on
the contrary may. under certain cir
|
| adequate cause for the revocation or
| YOUR license" Also. according to the
same source, profanity and the use OF
! cxpletives that would not be counten-
;.nced in the home are not to be toll
| Grated on the stage. The Jealous may
| or is not likely to try to revive the
| blue" laws so long as he has humbly
| to ask his fellow citizens for their
| votes.
| John Baptist Dante. an Italian mathe-
matican. according to tradition, invented
wings by the aid of which he made a
| flight across across Lake Trasimenus
some centuries ago He started upon a
second fight and, the apparatus failing, he
| fell upon "A church and broke his thigh
| 1t is proba BILE that the bone was not
| properly set for the science of surgery
| was little understood but the aviator
| recovered. He became a professor Of
| mathematics in Venice.
| The telephone bill of the city of New
| York is close to $250,000 annually. The
| amount of appropriations for telephone
| service in the budget was $3.50, $50. which
| is not the total cost, as some depart
| ments had classified their telephone rem
| talc CONTINGENT The of