Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-26
GLEANlNGS AND GOSSIP.

Someone should sit on the Cleveland
Plain Dealer quickly and hard. 1t is
trying to start those awful lmericlis
about Man" again. They're not due
for 10 years yet.
The retail butchers in Cleveland say
that they are not responsible for the
high price of meat out there and that
they only figure SO as to make a pal
try two cents a pound.
A New York man has been fined 81
for hitting a physician in the subway.
The Philadelphia Inquire wonders
what the fine would have been had the
doctor been hit in the elevated.
1t doesn't look now as ii there would
be any good excuse for charging a
high price fer ice next summer. But
one will be found all right before the
flowers really get blooming.
In English cities which have a pop
ulation of 100000 or more the average
rate of fare for street travel IS IL
cents a passenger mile. This is quite
a bit higher than on the continent.
A man in New York state died re-
Gently who used to keep 30 alarm
clocks in his bedroom so that he could
be sure to wake up. 1t is pleasant to
know that at last there is some rest
for tie weary
Ed Howe OF the AtchiSon Globe has
discovered that a woman can wear an
automobile veil and look as if she had
just stepped from a $4,000 car when
she never had $40 to her name at the
same time.
Twin brothers have recently been
divorced from twin sisters in New
York. The Euffalo Express has come
to the conclusion that they must have
decided that four of kind beat two
pair. Looks mere like a busted flush.
The first hospital built in America
was erected in the City of Mexico by
Cortez in 1922, and endowed with rev
onues obtained from the properties
conferred on him for his wars The
endowment still exists and a supervi-
sor of the fund is named by lineal
descendant of Cortez today.
1t is estimated that the loss to the
state from forest fires in Massachu-
setts in 1908 amounts to $236,47S. There
Were 1881 different fires. and the num-
Der of acres burned over was AZ, sos.
Analysing these figures, the state for
ester finds that the careless smoker
who persists in the habit when in
woodlands or passing through the
country during the dry time, is the
greatest menace to future forestry in
Massachusetts.
Uncle Sans campaign for moral
uplift' among the vast army of Indi-
an wards has been chiefly significant
because of the almost total suppress
sion of the sale and use of "firewater"
among the braves, ana the consequent
dimlnution of warlike outbreaks on the
reservations. Washington officials
evinced much interest in the report to
Assistant Indian Commissioner Abbott
that 100 Navajo Indians went recently
to their white father" superintendent
and, surrendering an enormous stock
of gambling paraphernalia, enrolled
their names alongside those of the
simple life" opponents. These gam
bling devices of various sorts and de-
scriptions were shipped here and have
been placed on exhibition with the
immense collection of relics and tro-
plies at the Indian bureau.-Washing-
ton star.
Gordon castle is an immense building
with huge, square tower and a from
tage of 800 feet. The gardens are elab-
orately laid out and the park contains
large herds of fallow and roe deer. The
Spey flows through the domain and
affords some of the best salmon fish
ing in Scotland. The dukes deer for
est and grouse moors are Is miles away
MP in the hills at Glenfiddich. where
there is a fine shooting lodge, at which
the late duke and duchess once enter
tanned Queen Victoria. At Gordon
castle a custom prevails that if any
distinguished guest has special sus-
cess with his rod on the waters of the
estate, model should be made of the
biggest catch and picture of it paint
ed and hung over the model. The
weight of the fish, the datesof his cap
ture and the name of it's captor are
also indicated, and many of these in
teres ted re Entrances, appear in diff
ferent rooms of the castle.-W estern
Scot. 6 4.