Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-16
GLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

Royal has been laid in England. She
| will be over 700 feet long and the
greatest ship of the line in the world.
This law forbidding the wearing OF
song bird plummage on hats by WON
4 ell will make ii Thanksgiving season
all the year around for the long -taiied
rooster. e
1T seems to be the general opinion
that no matter what the census figures
may show. Chicago will be right OH
hand with one of her famous popula-
ton kicks
A university of Chicago professor
says that sound has color. The noise
i'm Chicago is black and no scientist
is needed to tell it. It's about as bad
as Pttsburg.
| The BOOkman wants to know If all
the old-timc romanticists are dead
More people are Interested as to
whether or not the Ananias club has
been disbanded for good
Someone appears to be making an
| effort to start a Balkan war cloud
again. But there is a little too much
going on in the world just now for It
to attract much attention.
| The convicts in a Georgia prison arc
now wearing Mother Hubbards as a
punishment for INSTRUMENTATION. The
place must look like an English Jail
after a warm suffraget campaign.
| The Chinese prince who has been
visiting in this country doesn't think
| American girls are very attractive.
Yet American girls have never thought
i much of the attractiveness of the
| Chinese.
| Il tt,,t
/ speak Siamese can get along almost
anywhere in the East. 1t is a mixture
of Chinese. Malay, Mon, Cambodian
Sanskrt, Pail and a few odd minor
| dialects.
| Friend-Sir. the drama you are pro-
ducing is simply wonderful-it's class
ic! Are you doing a big business?
| Manager-Oh. yes-we are drawing
nearly as many people as the moving
| picture show next door!-Cleveland
| Leader.
The story comes from New York that
| the managers of certain deaf and
dumb asylums are tattooing the name
and address of inmates on their left
| arm 50 that if they get lost it will
be easy to show people who they arc
and where they belong.
| One of the popular seashore resorts
| is planning to build a submarine res
| taurant. 1t will be we'll out under the
sea. will be reached by d subway and
| built largely of glass. 1t should prove
as popular as it is interesting
A woman who died at White Plains
| y. j., few years ago set aside $4,000
| in her will, the income of which was
| to be devoted to caring for her car
| riage horses for the rest of their lives.
| Some different from her neighbor who
| had her horses shot after she died.
Some one appears to be worrying
| about the length of the reign of George
V. as none of the English kings who
| have had a ) hitched to their names
have been overhappy. incidentally,
! there are now four Georges on thrones
| George of England of Greece. of Sake
Meningen and of Schaumberg Lppe.
with George Cohan yet to put in his
modest claim.
! A Canadian correspondent of the
| London Times that is estimated that
| 10000 men could find immediate EN-.
plOyment in the three prairie provinces
at pay ranging from $3.50 to S215 a
year. The immigration authorities
have positions waiting for 5000 men.
Immigrants are still coming into the
ports of Halifax and st. John by thou
sands. and the movement of Amer-
| can settlers into the west is undated.
There is also continuous exodus
from ontario and the older provinces.
| which exctes real apprehension. A
recent development is the arrival Of
| 400 French Canadians.
| Nearly three and a quarter million
| tons of potatoes were raised in Ire
| land last year.
| The aggregate value of the mineral
| production for British Columbia for
the last eleven years was $350.000, 900.
| SiXty-five hundred inventors were
| too poor to make the final payments
| on their papers during the last year,
| and for this reason forfeited them.
a balanced grand piano has been
invented in England. One side is a
| duplicate of the other and the lid is
| hinged in the center so as to dis
tribute the sound waves evenly.
| The shah of Persia possesses one
| of the finest bedchambers i'm existence.
It's suite of furniture is manufactured
| from ivory and inlaid with gold and
|
curtain hangers are of the finest Brus-
sells net interviewer with silk
| Cocoa imports have grown rapidly
during the decade. those of 1909 hav-
| ing been the largest on record. In
1909 121,325000 pounds, valued at sl3.
100000. were imported. the slightly
lower value in 1909 compared with
1907. being due to a fall In price from
| ~ cents IL pound. in 1907. 90 II cents
! in 1909
| Singapore. Straits Settlements
| (British). is the docking and shipping
base of that part of the world. New
docks. costing s2O.OO0,000 are being
built as a rendezvous for the fleet.
1t is believed that the Australian, In
dian and China British squadrons may
| in the future constitute great east :
ern fleet. with headquarters at Sing
| apOrc.
| In the French state collection of
| furniture there is Masonic bcdstead,
| surmounted by a largo canopy. It is