Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-30
eLEAN,Nes AND GOSSIP.

4 cago now have women to run tHeii
elevators.
Costa RIGA now claims the worlds
earthquake record with 220 qnakes IN
a single month.
The comet highball is said 10 De
the latest drink in the cafes. Has any
one figured out it's orbit
| The fisheries in the country are said
to be worth about $64.0O0,00 a year.
This seems a trifie low.
Meat has dropped half cent q pounu
in Chicago but the rest of the country
is not saving large sums OF money.
Four out of the 10 literary prizes
offered at Cornell are not to be aware
| ed this wear because of lack of compe-
tition.
A Pittsburg woman say that all mar
ried men should wear rings so that
people NAV know their condition OF
| sarvitude.
The time is rapidly approaching
when the eyes of the universe Will be
conferred on the June bride and the
sweet girl graduate.
| Alfred Austin says that he never
reads what the papers say about ms
alleged poems. Perhaps it would De
for the general good if he did.
A man at Schenectady, N. Y, has
built a house without any chimneys,
furnace. or gas fixtures, and is gong
10 use electricity for everything.
good many banks would do well
TO most the little story about the bank
clerk who was left $4,000 by an old
| millionaire because he was polite to
him.
| A man has been declared insane in
| Ohio because he talks baseball all the
| time. At this rate it won't be long
before all the asylums are crowded.
| A scientist has made the remarkable
discovery that the average crow eats
100000 bugs a year. Yet he finds time
to pull up several acres of corn.
over $4,000 bad eggs were seized in
New York the other day. 1t is not
causing a great deal of grief among
the members of the theatrical profess
| sion.
One of the leading papers in the
South is trying to get into dispute
with it's readers over the burning
problem as to whether or not chick
Ell can swim.
China has no laws to prohibit chlid
labor and in some of the big cotton
mills in Shanghai many young girls
are employed who earn from four 10
20 cents a day.
washington now has 5000 more wo-
men than men,
The taxicab has almost driven the
once popular hanson out OF business
in New York.
Harvard is advertising the fact that
one of her students has hved on 81
| worth of food week during the last
wear. This will not be especially gooo
news to the youths who need Dit
of extra money just now to pay ZOE
text books their fathers know all
about.
saloon at Como, N. J.,is advertising
"wines and lickers' for sale. one can
get these at any saloon.
| Reports show that the population OF
Japan is increasing at the rate of nearly
100000 year. This does not INCLUDE
| Korea.
A count has just died in Europe who
left $1SOOO.OOO But this sort don't come
over here very much Before they are
married, anyway.
man who said that he thought that
81 was quite enough for his wife to pay
for an Easter hat is now divorced. HE
lived in Chicago.
A book has just been published under
the title of How to Keep Hens Inc
lneighbor of chicken expert says it's I'M
Ipossible to keep them at home, anyway
Toledo, O., has newsboys' club ano
arrangements have been made to exclude
1.-THE bows from the building between ano
G in the afternoon and turn 1t over te
little girls who will be taught gymnastics
and other healthful things.
The Buffalo Express says that this l:
the time of year when the alumnus, plan
lining to go back to college for commence
ment tries to remember the dear old col
llege yell and gives it up: HOW ABOUT the
, loving old fraternity grip!
A stingy angler was fishing on SCOT
land loch on a pouring wet day. He hat
heen consoling himself from his FLASH
and forgetting his gillie. Presently ne
asked the gillie if there was dry place
in the boat on which to strike match
You might try my throat" said thu
eillie IT'S dry CONTEMPLATING Ga
While in India Lord kitchener visited
an out-of- the-way district where new
fort had been erected. He was astonishet
to find that it was commanded by hill
close by II congratulate you. colonel.
said Kitchener to the officer who had Sc
lected the site What a capital fort! T.
when do you begin to remove the hilf!'
: A deaf but pious English lady, visiting
a small country town in Scotland, WEN
to church armed with an ear trumpet
!, The elders had never seen one. and view
ed it with suspicion and uneasiness. Al
ter short consultation one of then
went up to the lady, just before tn
opening of the service, and. wagging nj
finger at her warningly. whispered
lone toot and ye're ot"-Human Life
A member of one of the richer famiiie
. of France died recently and left none!
to found an orphanage in England.
. number of rules for the institution wer'
, set forth in the will. and among then
were some which prohibit competitive ex
aminations, study hours before breakfast
, no manual work for more than AZ hour
a day. no study In the evening. no vacci
, nation and no arithmetic for children un
der 10 but the multiplication tables.
Il Occasionally the fashionable English
breakfast parties of generation ag'
were not a success from the point o