Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-27
GIL EANINGs AND GOSSIP.

GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.
Alfred Austin might write a poem
to the comet. No one could say any
worse things about him if he did
Ten different dyes have been used
by the decorators of Easter eggs and
now four of them have been found
to be poisonous.
Life insurance returns show that
more suicides take place on Tuesday
and Thursday than on any other days
of the year
discovered bacteria in coal and trac-
ing back from this comes to the con-
cluson that bacteria were probably
coeval with the first appearance of
organic life.
Now Pittsburg wants to get son
of the composer Wagner to conduct
her orchestra. Her success with her
ball player of that name has evident
ly led her to play Wagner across
the board.
Copenhagen has a plague of rats,
but it has been found that some men
have been breeding them in order to
secure the bounty offered for rat
tail The breeding of rats has now
been made a criminal offense
Butte. Mont, claims that it has far
more men than women and Boston
that it has more women than men.
These will give Chicago an excellent
opportunity to prove she is just right
because she is between the two.
The shah of Persia is said 10 have
the most valuable pipe in the world.
1t is one of the water pipes used in
the East and he only smokes it on
state occasions. 1t is encrusted with
precious stones and worth about $780,
900.
A girl in New York ran away from
her home the other day because she
wanted to visit Chicago and San
Francisco and then go on the stage
This is crowding a good deal of ex-
c1tement into short space of time.
The Pennsylvania railroad has
number of men in its employ who are
called ''grasshOppers.' Their bust
ness is to look after the gardens
around the stations and they hop from
one to another looking after the
lawns and flowers.
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that he has succeeded in breeding
blue rabbit. In New York. and es-
| pecially along Broadway. some men
| claim to have seen pink rabbits with
yellow ears and olive spots. But New
York has no semicolon law.
| A candidate for a school teacher
| ship in New York recently told an.
examiner that the alimentary canal
was somewhere out in Kansas But
the really funny part of it is that
Kansas is much pleased over the idea
of being considered on the map by
| someone.
| Chicago university has claimed its
| own again. as was expected, and gone
| Harvard one better by having one
| of its professors say that eating is
merely a habit. Harvard will have to
do better than saying we are three
| years behind the calendar to keep
| ahead of the Rockefeller university.
| There are only two great cod banks
in the worlds oceans as far as is
| known. OF coure the one we know
best is off Newfoundland, but the
other is off Cape Agulhas on the
/ southern tip of Africa 1t Is said to
| De euuuHy Tlti III ISL Dut II Is SO liT
| away from any market that it will
be a long time before fisher people
! use it much.
| One of the great English railways
is installing railway ticket print
| ing machine. When ticket for
certain is required. the clerk touches
an indicator. which carries the name
of the station slips a blank into a
| slot, turns q handle. and the COM
pleted ticket drops out. AT the same
| time a record of the sale is printed on
a continuous strip of paper together
with the fare and all information re-
quired for bookkeeping
When Illinois sent Dick Richardson
! to the Senate vacancy was created
in the old Quincy congressional dis
| trict that included Hancock county
A Democratic farmer. named Jake
Davis. from Hancock county, got the
| nomination. The Republicans raised
| the cry against him that he was "A
Shareholder: this was ''befo' the wah."
| This was Jake's defense. Fellow
citizens they say | am a stakeholder
Well. fellow citizens. the facts are
these: | married woman in Mis-
SOuii WHO Ildu JU slaves anu, IeilDW-
citizens. my love for that woman was
so strong that | would have married
her il she had owned hundred
slaves. From Norman E. Macks
National Monthly.
The mother of Karl Luft, the aero
naut who was fatally injured by the
collapse of his balloon at Reichen-
sachsen, has published a letter dated
at Btterfield. thanking the people
who condoled with her because of her
bereavement. knowing that the
last year of my sons life." she says,
was his happiest, and that sailing
in the air was his greatest enjoyment,
gives me strength in my affiiction.
He used to leave his home enthusiasts
ticalIy and return as one in triumph
when another flight had been accom-
plished, and he thanked his mother
for humoring him in his passion and
not giving way to fear. The con-
seriousness that this early death
closed fully rounded life, and that
1t was my privilege to make 1t hap
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