Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-11
GlEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

In one NOR i a caterpillar will devour
GOO times its own weight In food
man claims to have invented an au-
tomato coupler for the air and steam
hose on a train.
Among the 1850 inmates of the work
houses in Wales not more than l in 100 is
capable of doing days work
Some railroad man has figured out that
an engine should run 1900 miles in 10
wears and earn 100000. Not many OF
them do.
one reason why person feels sleepy
after "a hearty meal is that the blood goes
to the stomach to aid digestion and
leaves the brain poorly supplied.
A farmer at Muncie, Ind. claims that
one of his mares dropped colt the other
day which has cloven hoofs. The colt Is
blind, but is said to be otherwise healthy
and is expected to live.
Marilla Kicker. one year old. of Dover.
n. H.. is thought to have more grand
parents than any other girl in New Eng
three grandfsthers.
Justice of the Peace W. A. Purcell OF
Jersey City will give 1900 trading stamps
to each couple he marrleS between no"
and July l. --e has performed 800 cere-
monies and wants to make 1t - by that
date.
The dredger Leviathan. at work In the
Mersey, is said to be the largest con-
struction of the kind in the world IL has
an overall length of 4S7. beam OF ~
feet and a depth of 30 feet seven inches
with a capacity to carry the enormous
load of $1,000 tons of sand, 1t Is oil the
twn-screw. sclf-propelling, sandpuHip.
hopper -dredger type. provided with IL
hoppers having a net total capacity Oh
$4,000 cubic feet.
"Div-divi'' as an article of ifnportauoh
has been the subject of many jests ny
the humorists during the tariff discus
sons of Congress. though in fact IL ID
an article of considerable Importance Ill
the tanning industry. the product OF q
legumnous tree in the West Indies ana
South America, entering in the form Vi
a pod and amounting in quantfv in Es
to $4,000 pounds, valued at between szVo
and $4,000. The value of tho imports OIL
the last decade has aggregated about
sS5.Oo0.
wealth of the Metropolitan museum, tls
Journal deS Arts of Paris says that WIN
the bequest of NJ Andeon of about z""'
francs the sum now at the disposal VI
the Louvre for purchase purposes exceeos
100000 francs. OF this sum more thah
two-thirds is derived from the income OIL
former requests. This makes the puf'
chasing capacity of the Louvre the great
est in the world. exceeding even that VI
the Metropolitan Museum of New YORK
Dr. Haig Ferguson in a lecture at tiio
Edinburgh Royal infrmary the other Gay
had some severe things to say about th0
clothing of the adult woman. IL was
hampered by fashion and superstltio"
and nothing could be a greater trlpute
to the strong nerves and powerful mus.
cles of women than the fact that tnen
health had survived for centuries then
habits of clothing. A womans clothins
was the despair of the hygienist Chi
dren and girls were more sensibly ciao'
but when girls grew up they were oiteh
clothed in a way which made them una
bic to walk. run or breathe Weighy
skirts, low-necked gowns, "pneumonia
the modern hat. the high-heeled
shoe with it's pointed toe. were all con-
demned. But then women will have
So and so it will Observation-Disclosures
Gazette