Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-05
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Zelaya says that he is still president
of Nicaragua. He probably means that
| he is a still president.
The Cleveland Leader says that a
| lot of men boast that they are self
made when their wives are really to
blame.
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph asks if
gold is 4 curse, and asks in way that
gives the idea it expects newspaper
men to answer it.
The people of this country are the
greatest coffee drinkers in the world.
and the coffee consumption is now Il
pounds per capita year.
The good kaiser is always thinking
of the welfare of his people. He has
now designed a fine uniform for the
use of the imperial aeroplane club.
The Houston Post can always be
counted upon to do just the right thing
at the right time. 1t has read DR.. Cook
out of the Democratic party.
The Cincinnati BARRIERS are threaten
ing to put up the price of shave be-
cause so many men now shave them
selves. It is rather hard to see the
argument.
Russia had 20 give the southern half
of the island of Saghalien to Japan at
the close of the recent war, and now
wants to sell the other half. She also
wants the United States to bid for it.
A man at San Diego, Cal, has re-
Gently built a business block which has
resting places for birds under the
caves. The birds have already dis
covered it and are building their nests
there in large numbers
Cleveland is throwing all sorts of
bouquets at itself because it's death
rate is low 1t thinks this is one rea-
son why people like to live there. It
may be because they are ashamed to
die there, after all.
There was So, 06S,S51 expended on the
public schools of the II southern states
last year, and only IA per cent. of that
was used on the schools for negro chill
dren, although they number Al per cent
of the scholars.
The musical young woman who
dropped her peokaboo waist in the pia-
no player and turned out Beethoven
sonata. has her equal in the lady who
stood in front of a five-bar fence and
sang all the dots on her Veil.-Every-
body's magazine.
Casey's wife was at the hospital.
where she had undergone serious OPP
Grafton a few days before. Mrs. kel-
ley called to inquire as to Mrs. Casey's
condition. rs she restin' quietly?"
Mrs. Kelley asked. mo. but I am"
said Casey--Cleveland Leader.
I'D hate to be a millionaire" Gosh
Whyo" "Well millonaires are always
getting letters threatening them with
all sorts of horrible facts unless they
Immediately pay the writer's large
sums Of money" That's nothing. /
get just such letters on the first of
every month '-Cleveland Leader
A number of motor cars for the sub
urban service of the New Haven rail-
road are now being completed at the
Westinghouse shops. They are 20 feet
long; weigh sc tons, and seat y per-
sons. The cars are equipped with mo-
tors of 200 horsepower, and each is
guaranteed to haul two 50-ton trailers
at a normal acceleration of o. mile an
hour per second They are designed to
operate on both the 11,000-volt alternat-
ing current of the New Haven. and the
6OO-volt direct current of the New
York Central railroad.
have large lake formed by q huge
dam built across the Colorado river.
This dam was 1915 feet long and 67 feet
high above bedrock. A plant placed
lust below the dam converted the wa
ter-power into electricity. which was
used for lighting the city, and operat-
ing the street railways, as well as Tor
a number of industrial plants. In l9o"
the dam and power plant were washed
away by a flood, and the city was too
crippled to replace them. A movement
is on foot now, says the Scientific Am
erican to rebuild this dam, making Il Oh
reinforced concrete. The power OBJ
tainable will probably attract many
manufacturing industries, which would
undoubtedly contribute materially 10
the development and growth OF the
city.