Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-12
GLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

Switzerland, in proportion to its
size, has more hotels than any other
| country.
| Almost l2,0o0.O00 pounds of rubber
| are produced within the bounds of
the British empire annually.
In Germany merchant was recent
ly heavily fined for using quotation
| from the Bible at the head of an ad-
| vertisement
The manufacture of rattan furniture
is beginning to attract attention in
the Philippines.
The founder of the limburger cheese
industry in this country is dead. 1t
Is known that he was at the head of
a strong company.
A Brooklyn man has made that
Cornell professor look like a mere
| amateur by keeping a five-cent cigar
going for two awful hours.
| So large is the Italian population
of Rhode Island that all important
| official documents in that state are
printed in English and Italian.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
that any one who would walk as far
as Weston did to get to New York
deserves TO be treated as hero
A Kansas paper boasts that Kansas
stands at the head in raising mules.
Still even Kansas wouldn't care TO
| stand at the heels of Missouri mule.
Now the Pottowatamie Indians are
making a claim for the Chicago lake
front. But the real Chicago Indians
may be trusted to look after their own.
The fact that our great hunter will
| arrive in New York on the anniversary
of Waterloo isn't worrying him in the
| least. He is thinking some of one
Wellington.
3. G. Robbins. while digging near
| his house in Teaticket, Falmouth,
found petrified sharks tooth which
he thinks was used by the Indians as
8 spear or arrow head.
Agriculture is the main occupation
of Hayti, but neither ploWs nor
| spades are used. For 100 years or
mere the ground has been titled by
scratching the surface soil with
knife.
Three years ago a bicycle of any
kind was a rarity in Aleppo. Asiatic
| Turkey: today they are quite numer-
our and rapidly increasing in number.
50 far American bicycle exporters
have not paid any attention to this
| trade.
The fish catch in the Arctic ocean
| along the siberian coast amounts, each
year. to about 40,000.000 pounds, worth
| about 81 500, COO The yield of the
Amnr district is So,000,000 pounds,
worth 1iOO,0OO. These figures do not
| include the millions of pounds con-
suned by the local population and
their dogs. All told, the annual fish
catch of Asatic Russia is l56,OOo,00o
pounds. worth $4.oo0,oOo.
| Tic fishing fleets of Canada's mari
time provinces consist of 26.3l5 boats
and 1852 vessels. Within the next few
| years this entire fleet will be supplied
| with gasoline motors, the use of which
is growing. ON the farms also IN
these provinces the gasoline motor
has commenced to displace the wind
mill, animal power and the steam en-
CINE The superiority of American
makes is generally conceded.
French theater managers in the 18th
century had worse evils than picture
hats to contend against. Marie An
toinette. who was short, even accord
ing &c French standards, set the fash
ion of high coiflures, and ultra-fash-
ionahle women prided themselves on
measuring four feet from their chins
to the tops of their heads. These
structures took about six hours to
erect the hairdresser mounting lad
der IN the process.
Mr.. Fisher of the United States geo.
logical survey says: Few Goals less
than IA inches thick are mined IN
commercial way in the United STATES
but Goals only eight inches thick are
mined commercially abroad. Inc hrst
| English royal commission on coal sup
| plies, in 1871. fixed II incheS as the
| minimum workable thickness; now
| ever, many separate beds ana !"
inches thick are now worked CONNER
ciallv in England"
one of the favorite pastimes OF En-
pe1or Menelik of Abysslnla Is 70
mount a tower of observation. when
he has constructed for the purpose
and watch his subjects going about
| their duties in the streets and open
| spaces, through a powerful telescope.
one disadvantage of this method of
| snying is that it is perfectly well
| known to the people themselves. who
consequently do not give their liking
| of kings" much opportunity for dis
| covering anv deed worthy OF punish
mcnt
| At the university of Upsala there is a
sound-proof room. BY building it on
platforms of thick lead and cement and
by constructing its walls of many
Ithicknesses of felt cork, asbestos and
other conductors of sound vibrations
ell sounds from outside have been elm
Iinated The room is so quiet That the
heating of ones heart or the creaking of
Ione,s muscles is at once heard on talk
ling no a position within its closed
doors and windows. and the only defect
lof il as a laboratory for acoustic ex-
perinents is mat ventilation is absent
| and no one can remain in it for more
| than an hour at time.
| Daring the French Revolution a thief
land q marquis jolted in a tumbril side
lby side through the wild STREETS of Paris.
| on the way to the gullotine, while
| venerable prie"t tried to console their
| terrible last ride with moral reflections.
"A has Ia rohleese Down with the
|aristocratS. shouted the redcapped