Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-25
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

the house Why qualify?
| DIR. Wiley says that a chicken can be
| kent for nine months. 1t depends
| good deal on the neighbors.
The Cleveland Leader says that the
| best poets are in the South. The poor
things have. got to keep warm some
| how.
Some one has figured it out that
there is enough horsepower wasted in
the rivers between Austin and San An
| tonic to run all the mills in Texas.
| Reports from the American consuls
| at Ragdad and BaSsorah say that the
natives are taking great deal of in
terest in motor boats, but that they
will not buy them by merely reading
| about them in catalogs. Evidently
they have been educated in the cata-
| logue business.
| The Moffat road which is now being
built in Colorado is proving a great
factor in the development of the state
1t has taken seven years to build 124
miles of track and this has cost S12-
500, 900, which makes it the most ex-
pensve piece of railroad constructed in
| the country.
| Thomas Edison, quite satisfied with
his storage battery, mas gone to Florida
| for some fishing. He has big orange
and lemon grove down there and will
| put in a few odd moments looking af-
ter his trees. He may develop into a
| second Burbank, if he stays down
| there long enough.
| The state income of Prussia last year
from public properties amounted to
| more than the total income from taxa
ton and from borrowings. The rail-
| roads were the largest source of income
and brought in $l49. 10000, or about s
per cent From crown forests, farms,
mines, factories and other industries
about S26,S00.06 was realized.
The annual report of the New York
state water commissionl says that
| about 1,500,000 horse power can be
| developed on the interior streams of
| the state which is equal to nearly
third of the water-power now used
| in the country. New Workers. are talk
| ing good deal of pride in this and say
that it promises great industrial de-
| velopment of state.
Industrial insurance against loss
| through strikes is growing rapidly in
favor in Germany. There are now IS
|
there, &c employees associations for
! strike insurance and nine in which in
demnity is granted occasionally. AS
sistance in strikes and lockouts is SUBJ
| iect to fixed conditions, the most i'm
portant of which is that the employer is
| not responsible for the strike.
| At a diplomatic reception in Wash
ington Mrs. Taft on being compliment
| ed on her French, told a little story
about a senator whose French acquired
| in y photographic lessons-is by no
| means exquisite. The senator, fresh
from one of his photographic recitals,
pounced upon an under-secretary of
| the French legation at a dinner" Mon
| sieur,' he said a-ah--eska-vcO
| esk voo-ly ma voo-ly ma dummy
| My dear senator" the secretary in
| terrupied, do, l beg of you stop speak
| ing French. You speak it SO Well-ah,
so very very well,-it makes me home
sick'
| New inventions necessitate new Vo-
| cabularies, and one of the latest words
| to be added to technical if not popu-
lar linguistic use, says lions Herald,
is that of ''teleViSiOn.' Ernst Runner
a young Berlin engineer has perfected
a working model of a televisior appar-
atus, in order, it would seem, to remove
himself ont of the class animadverted
upon in scripture who cannot see afar
| off" So marked is the inventive pro-
| gress 50 far made by Herr Hummer
| that the Belgian government is con-
! Sdering the construction of an elabo-
| rate television plant at the cost OF 81
| 250,o00 as the chief attraction of the
| BRUSSELS exposition Of 1910.
George f. Nicholson, who it is report
ed is to marry Mrs. Anderson. a stem
ographer at the Planters hotel in st.
Louis, has a remarkable business ca
rcer. Ten years ago he was a day la
borcr at lola, Kan. Two years ago,
whom he left Kansas to make his home
in Kansas City. he was rcputcd to be
the WeathicSt man in the SuntloWer
state. He is now rated at $4,000 00 Ne
sides carrying $30O0,o0o life insurance.
Last November when he applied for
81, 100000 in a lump, it was said to be
the largest application for insurance
ever made at one time. Nicholson re-
Gently started a movement to merge |
fl, int Of