Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-22

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tire a t3-inch gun is fired. If Uncle
Sam would omit just one shot and
| give us the cash what nice vacation
we could enjoy-Portland Express.
| The movement for the abolition OF
| common public drinking cups is
spreading through many states and is
| doubtless a good thing; but We hope il
| will be conducted with such discretion
as not To leave the public drinkless in
| the dog days.-N. Y. Tribune
| The crowd of summer students at
Columbia and the swarms taking adj
vantage of the vacation facilities of
the public schools raise an apt ques-
ton as To why universities and schools
should not continue their regular
courses of instruction through the
summer. The long" vacation involves
period of enforced idleness not con-
sistent with aodern ideas of economy
of time-N Y. World.
Germany has invented a gun with
which 10 lombard aeroplanes Thus
does one change in warfare necessitate
others.-Boston Herald.
American granite is being shipped TO
Europe. Not long ago $50 tons of blue
granite from South Carolina We're sent
to Aberdeen, Scotland. Ii required
eleven cars to transport the stone to
Charleston, S. c., from the quarries
1t will be manufactured into monu-
ments.--Sehenectad IN. " Union.
AS we understand the matter the
imperative need of the day is that be
fore the engineer of an express train
drives his train over grade crossing,
he should stop, look, listen" There
may be an automobile coming down
the road.-Roehester. y. Y, Herald.
The amount of rain which falls upon
the United States in the course Of a
year Is equal TO the water in ten Mis-
sissippi rivers -Aroostook Pioneer.
man out in Wisconsin discovered
the other day that angling with a steel
rod behind an electric power house is
dangerous business. 1t IS an inpor-
tant discovery, although incidentally
the bystanders had to work over the
discoverer quite length of time be-
fore he was in condition to know
what he had discovered -Pittsburg
Dispatch.
II the Germ crop still remains in some
doubt. the wheat crop is secure and
the cotton WELD record breaker,
while every day indicates that these
conditions are lending to the steady
increase of the iron and steel trade
Philadelphia Press.
Bud Mars, the aviator. fell into
hole in the air and was almost killed
IL the aviators who run automobiles
fall into holes in the ground. they look
around for someone to sue for dam
ageS-f they escape breaking their
necks-Rachester IN. V Herald.
All Ireland is singing Come Back
to Erin" to King George.-Bridgeport
Telegram.
The French government is to spend
Sl6,000.000 for dock extensions and
harbor Improvements which will place
the port of Havre in the first rank
among the great shipping centers of
the world Perhaps after the proposed
SO. 100000. and a few millions more.
have been spent in improving Boston g
harbor facilities, we shall have di-
rect Boston Havre transatlantic line
N. Y. Globe.
That is the real reason-the liquor
interests desire to sell more rum. both
in Maine and elsewhere. They don't
care how much poverty and wretched-
ness and crime their traffic unloads
upon our people, so long as the rum
sellers pockets are lined with money.
I-Rockiand Courier Gazette,
A man arrested in Washington for
trying to get to the president to give
the government $500 is thought to be
demented Any man is regarded in
Washington as crazy who tries to give
the government something instead OF
trying to get something from it
Kansas City Journal
The Kennebec Journal calls the M.
N. p. l.. $. G.. l.. the Make No Prom
ises Let suckers Get Left league! How
about calling it the Medford, New
buryport. Portsmouth, Lemon, Sugar,
Gin ue,-Lewiston Journal.
The Portland Argus ought to get out
two editions during the next seven weeks
one for the Maine Non Partisan Local
SelfGovernment League, and one for its
readers.-Ossipee Valley Herald.
Fifty Against Two.
1t is not reasonable to expect two
weeks of outing to overcome the eff
fects of fifty weeks of confinement.
Take a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparilla
along with you. Three doses, daily,
of this great tonic will do more than
anything else to refresh your blood
overcome your tired feeling, improve
your appetite, and make your sleep
easy and restful.
Happiest Girl in Lincoln.
Lincoln, Neb., girl writes ''I had
been ailing for some time with chronic
constipation and stomach trouble. be-
gan taking Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets and in three days I was
able to be uD and got beffer right along