Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-23
eLEANlNes AND GOSSIP.

The Rochester Herald is talking ABOUT
the last panic on Wall street. There Is
a good deal of optimism in this.
Water thrown on sheet of ice in the
Arctic regions will crack the ice just as
here boiling water will crack glass.
Fred Lane of Tilton, n. H., who IS TO-
tally blind, has sawed and split all the
wood for two families this winter.
Salt manufacturing is now govern
ment monopoly in Ceylon, and last year
it brought the government over $5S5,oVo
There seems to be some feeling against
the rural Pennsylvania storekeeper who
put a steel trap in his cracker barrel.
The Cleveland Leader appears to have
the tip that Congress is to adjourn on
Nav l. Probably a typographical error.
April / was meant.
If people make a city, then New YORK
is the newest city on the continent, for
only one New Yorker out of five had
American ancestors three generations
back.
Jessie Corinne Lanouette, a Somers-
worth IN. h little girl, can boast of five
srandmothers and three srandfathers'
She has also a sreat-sreat-aunt and
great sreat-uncle.
When Rev. William Muir of Alton, n.
H.. visited the Alton opera house for the
first time he saw on the drop curtain a
picture of Boutwell, Brigg," which Is
four miles from, his old home in Scotland.
The pelt of gray wolf killed at Prime
Vile. Or, was 6la fet long, with part OF
the brush gone, and seven feet in grim
The animal which weighed l20 pounds,
had killed stock valued at more than So"'
An apple tree 10 years old and sun
bearing fruit stands in the yard of VIII
liam c. Barley at Springwood, Pa. Some
years ago the tree was bearing five
varieties of apples, but for the past rev
years it has borne but three kinds.
There are p states in the Union whose
combined post-office business does not
equal that done by the general post-offlce
of Manhattan island This post-oftice has
done more business than the offices OF
Philadelphia and Chicago combined.
The Atlanta Constitution thinks that
one of the best ways to get even with the
meat trust and do a good work at the
same time is to kill the English sparroWa
and make them into pies. It's mighty
good way to get even with yourself for
past sins.
While chopping wood Alexander st.
Peter of Franklin, \. H., found inside a
large maple log a bottle of whiskey which
he thinks must have been placed in the
crotch of the tree many years ago, tine
wood having gradually grown around the
bottle until it had completely covered it.
Koffir women will not pronounce their
husbands names or use the words which
contain the emphatic syllable of those
names. one old woman, being taught t"
say the Lords prayer, changed the word
for come" in Thy kingdom come to
something that made nonsense. The
Kaffr word for come" proved to be the
main syllable of her husbands name.
The heaviest rainfall ever recorded for
a single day on the isthmus Of Panama
occurred during the great flood of last
December, between the hours of 10 \. NJ.
December %, and 10 A. NJ, December %.
when the rain gauge at Porto Bello
showed a fall of 1886 inches. The total
fall for the month was 5S.17 inches, which
is equal to an average rate of nearly two
inches a day.
About this time of the year the red
squirrel begins tapping maple trees for
the sap. The squirrel makes an incision
in the bark and waits until the sap has
trickled a short distance down the trunk
of the tree. He then begins at the bot
tom of the stream and licks up until he
has reached the source of the flow, when
he again waits and repeats the perform
ance until Standardization Globe.
A setting hen belonging to Mrs N1cho-
las States of Hall Meadow, CT. left a
nest of 10 eggs four days before they
were scheduled to match out, Having no
other setting hen in her flock, Mrs. States
placed the eggs in cotton batting about a
stone jug filled with water of the right
temperature When the contents of one
jug began to get cold she substituted
another She Matched out u chickens by
means of the improvised incubator.