Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-27
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

Some careful scientist who wants to
do the world much good has found out
that a caterpillar eats 5000 times its
own weight in a month
Yale may drop Greek as an entrance
requirement But if she does fresh
men may be required to bat over .275
or run the 100 in 10A.
A farmer in New York state has
asked the authorities to remember him
for S45 worth of cherries he claims
the robins stole from his trees.
The number of violent deaths among
the miners of European countries is
decreasing each year while over here
| it appears to be increasing.
Constantinople is soon to have an up
to~date telephone system, the Turkish
government having given a foreign
company a 30-year franchise.
Mr.. Corbett says now that Mr.. jeff
res was defeated because he has some
htch blood in his veins. Here's
about where the roof blows off the
outlook office.
"A London surgeon says that the
toothbrush is the cause of many cases
of appendicitis, the loose bristles being
swallowed and lodged in the appendix.
The Harvard lad who wants to fight
Mr.. Johnson may be trying to bear
out the Rooseveltian ideals of the Cam
bridge institution rather than keep
ing alive old traditions.
In Germany magazine is published
for the benefit of butchers and in one
of the recent numbers the editor naive
ly advised any of his readers who
ojNe np9t
Ex-President Roosevelt dresses in a
suit of white duck when going into the
bayfield,. 1t is pretty custom. but
the average New England farmer will
not adopt the fashion this season, at
least.
Canada is growing more rapidly than
most people in the country realize.
Last month more building permits
were granted in Winnipeg than in
San Francisco. and more in Toronto
than in st. Louis.
Russia is now building four Dread
noughts which will be of $4,000 tons
each and have a speed of % knots
They will be 500 feet over all and
have engines that will develop $4,000
horse power. F'5r3lt,'
A woman i'm South Dakota has given
a big corn field to the woman suffrage
committee and the roasting ears raised
in it will be sold to make money for
the campaign being carried on to give
women a vote in that state.
The expression, dead as a door
nail" comes from the old door knock
ers. The knocl<er used to hit nail
and. if it was used much. the nail was
soon supposed to become dead. or to
lose it power of giving out clear
cut sound.
The chief of police of Liverpool in
his annual report says that in every
walk of life dishonesty appears to be
increasing. He also says that while
the number of great crimes appears
to be decreasing in England, minor
crime is increasing rapidly.
The French papers say that man
1903 years old has been found in Mos
COW who wildly remembers the entry
of Napoleon into the Russian city.
He has described the scenes wildly
to officers in the Russian army, who
say that he is in full possession of his
mental faculties.
Thirty years ago an Englishwoman
Johns wort send out to her from home
and planted them in her garden. Now
the weed has spread over something
like 10000 acres of land and the govern
ment is spending much money trying
to stamp it out.
Rice is kept in the huslS in the East
and threshed out as it is needed for
daily use. 1t is too rough in it's nat
ural form to be attractive in the
market and so is polished with French
chalk in revolving cylinders. In Jap
an the polished rice is considered poi
son, as it is known now to be the
cause of beri-ber.
couple of Indians were in court
at Oklohoma City the other day and
their s1uaws came along with them
to see the trial. The women were
dressed in blankets, but each had on
a new pair of highheeled shoes. These
seem to become uncomfortable as the
trial progressed, and as the whole af-
fair evidently bored the squaws. they
sat down on the floor, took off their
shoes. rolled themselves up in their
blankets and went to sleep.