Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-15
q EANINcs AND GOSSIP.

United States over $51 ,OO6, 900 last year.
(. Death valley. Cal, Is 27S feet below
the sea level and is the lowest point OF
dry land in the country
King Edward won 11S races with the
horses In the royal stud, and ms VIM
nings amounted to 100000.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests
that the famous code signal OF distress,
C. @. D., be shortened to 7. r.
A man in Washington claims that he
has succeeded in raising 1873 bushels
Of wheat on two acres of land.
One of the big moving picture COM
panies in France has just spent w.
600 to have a picture taken OF an oper-
attic production.
The Japanese drink great deal OF
saki but they cannot begin to stand
It's effects as well as men from this
country or Europe.
The story of the MiddletOwn (Ct)
man who had used a $50 bill as pof-
Gus plaster on his back as If IT emen-
ated from Winsted.
Some of the French are again ad !
yancing the theory held by BalZac that
chocolate is far more dangerous
stimulant than coffee or tea.
Missouri is out with the figures for
her meerschaum industry for the past
wear. Over 81, 500 900 corn cob pipes
were turned loose.
A good many lead pencils are maze
in Nuremberg, Ger. every year and the
factories there use up over 1OOOoO tons
of American cedar annually.
When Mr.. Taft was told of the pass
age Of the railroad bill by the Senate
he is said to have exclaimed Bully!
That comes rather close to some Oh
MY policies"
A New York taxicab driver is making
a lot of noise because he claims pas
senger hit him with a blackjack. He
should remember that it's poor worm
which won't turn in time.
One of the big meat concerns in Mexi-
co has built a crematory in connec-
ton with it's abattoir and now all AMI
ais condemned are burned instead OIL
heinp turned into soap and other by
products.
One Of the wine merchants in Paris
has lust been given six months IN
prison for selling adulterated sauterne.
Maybe before long some art dealer
over there will be picked out by 1ate
and justice.
The report is current that the Gus
tom officials at New York have seized
81. 900. 900 worth of Panama hats. EVl-
IDENTIFY some well-dressed man tried to
get a couple of the lids through the
line.
Bleriot had spent his entire fortune
before he started on his famous cham
mel fight and few years ago he hao
an income of $4,000. 1t all went on
his aeroplane experiments and only ms
wife, of all his relatives. had faith IN
him. Now he is rich again and 1t
isn't anything for him to clear S2o,ooo
a week.
A New York shoe dealer has adopted
a scheme which will prevent customers
with a scant conception of honor from
cheating him by claiming their shoes
have not worn we'll and demanding
they be replaced. Each pair of shoes
which leaves the store is now secret
ly marked with the date so the CUSTOM
er has no chance to cheat.
"Marse Henry is now worrying the
country by suggesting things like N
America had laureate" Why not
get down to the impossible and say.
If a Kentucky colonel refused a
drink
Russia has developed young wo-
man who promises to be something
out of the ordinary in the way of an
engineer. She is Mile. Baudurin, and
now has charge of the building of the
big bridge across the Neva at Peters,
burg.
The latest fad from Paris is for a
woman to have her summer gowns
trimmed with fur. Many women seem
to think that it makes them at least
look cool. Doubtless comparison has
a great deal to do with it.
One of the big New York hospitals
has asked people to send wishbones to
the children's ward. They are used
by the little patients to make houses
and dolls furniture from, and pass
away much time for the sufferers.
The Albany Journal seems to think
that some magazine could make big
popular hit by printing one number
without an article about Roosevelt in
it. Still, it doesn't look as if any one
would ever find out whether this
would be the case or not.
The South seems bound to cling to
the use of silver dollars rather than to
use greenbacks. The reason for this
is said to be the fear many of the
poorly educated have of being cheated
with bills. They can take the silver
and bury it to keep it safely.
The Tacoma High school is said to
be the only institution of the sort that
has a stadium of it's own. 1t is built
of concrete and steel in gulch near
the school building which is so shaped
that very little excavating had to be
done. The stadium seats $4,000 peo-
pie and cost 100000.
One of the political clubs in Mexico
has hit upon the idea of bringing four
Indians from each tribe in the repub-
lie into the city to give them an object
lesson in the progress of arts. The
best specimens in each tribe are to be
selected for the lesson, and it is hoped
that they will educate their tribesmen
after their return to their homes.
Cnssack girl has started to ride
from Hardin to st. Petersburg, a dis
= nee of bit more than 5,400 miles,
Her mount is a small gray Monaghan
pony and she is riding on an ordinary
Cossack saddle. The girl is accom-
panied by huge ST. Bernard dog.