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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
FRENCH EARNINes-INcoMEs.
Scale of Revenue Of Different Glasses
in Paris.

Consul c. p. n. Mason Of Greenoble
submits some statistics concerning the
earnings and incomes of certain classes
of the French people in Paris. as recent
" published by NJ Andre Leicvrn. the
president of Paris municipal council. The
consul writes:
The annual income of the average
Paris household is placed ut about $50.
In the fashionable quarter of the Champs
ElySces, the annual average household
revenue is said to be about $500; in the
nearby Faubourg Saint Honore, $500:
while in the Madeleine district it falls to
$500.
AS to the incomes of certain profess
Sional men in France it was aScertained
that out of 1000 advocates practiring
at the Paris bar only about 200 earn over
s2G0 year. and only about fifty receive
above $4,000.
The number of physicians practicirg in
Paris is placed at 250O. but only ahout
one-half G20O) of these make more than
$3.50 a year. Dentists do somewhat let
ter: a fashionable one can easily earn
sGGGf. while in some classes this figure is
greatly exceeded
In French families of the humber class
the living expenses in many instances
are met only by the wife contributing to
the common fund out of her marriage
portion. Oftentimes this portion or dot
of a French girl is used in part to estab-
fish the husband in business.
Sa!eswomen in the largest department
stores earn $50 a month Male and fe-
male house servants receive respectively
in the neighborhood of $40 to IS month
The bottom of the scale seems to be
reached with the Door saamstress who
children's clothes. One cent ar hour is
indicated as their stipend, but if excep-
tionally clever they earn IS cents for
twelve hours work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
Interesting Sketches From Choice Literary Sources.
PHOSPHATE IN SOUTH SEAS.
Largest Known Deposits of High
Grade Phosphate.

Consul Julius d. Dreher of Tahiti
furnishes the following information
concerning the phosphate deposits in
the islands Of the South seas:
The islands Of the Pacific ocean con-
tain the largest known deposits of
high-grade phosphates. A London
company controls the deposits i'll
Ocean and Pleasant islands, in the Gill
bert group. The deposits on these
islands are estimated at 50,000,GO tons,
Of which scarcely a million tons have
been marketed. BY the employment
of a large number of Chinese, Japa
nese and natives the company is now
marketing $50, 900 to 300, 900 tons a year.
Of which 100000 tons go to Japan, So
600 to Australia and the remainder to
Europe. Europe also receives yearly
10000 tons Of high grade phosphates
from Christmas island and more than
900 tons of lower grade phosphates
from Tunis and Algeria.
Notwithstanding the very large de-
posts owned by the London company,
the mining of phOsphates pays so well
that not only that company but va
rious other investors have been and
are making constant efforts to discover
other phosphate deposits, and in many
islands deposits, small in quantity and
poor in quality, have been discovered
as in the Fijis. Recently, however,
phosphate of good quality has been
discovered on three islands in the
French colony of Tahiti and depen-
denotes. These islands, Makatea,
Matahiva and Niau lie in the north
western part of the Tua motu archi-
pelago of so atoll islands. 1T is also
probable that deposits exist On other
Islands of this group. The deposits in
Matahiva and Niau are small, but the
high grade deposits in Makatea are
estimated at 100000 tons, with many
million more tons of an inferior quality.
The quality of this deposit ranges
from 73 to so per cent. The island has
an elevation Of go feet--the highest of
the group-and an area of six to eight
square miles. Although many others
are interested in these deposits, they
will be worked by a French company
just formed in Paris for that purpose.
AS Makatea is surrounded by coral
reefs and has no harbor, the phosphate
will have to be loaded at deep-sea
mornings outside the reefs On ac-
cOuHl VI lHe expense lIlClueIll luelclo,
it will be some time before the COM
pany can make any considerable ship
ments. but in the course Of a few
years it is considered that the capacity
of the works will be 100000 tons per
annum.
AS Makatea is so near Panaete. the
commercial center of this colony, the
working of the phosphate deposits on
that island will add largely to the
business and prosperity of the colony.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
Physical Tests for EMPLOYEES.

One of the leading railroad COM
panies in the Fast has decided to es-
tablish a rule for physical tests before
employing men which will be as severe
as that required for entering the
army or navy. This decision is based
on the new Federal employers liability
act, passed by the last Congress, the
railroad taking the position that in or
der TO avoid the payment of heavy
damages it will be necessary to re-
Guire a higher degree of efficiency
among employees than heretofore
The travling public will be pleased to
learn of the new rule. AS general
proposition. railroad men are a rugged
lot. out the reports of the interstate
commerce commission show that many
accidents are traced to the physical in
efficiency of railway trainmen. 1t will
be better for mankind if employees
charged with the transportation and
care of human lives are required to
show clean bill of mental and moral
health before they secure or are al
lowed to retain their rositions.-Omaha
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
MOTORING ABROAD.
The canny Foreigner Has Many
Tricks Which Make Trouble.

In Paris stories are circulated con-
corning some of the French garages
which have a neat trick of emptylng,
by means of suction pumps, the gaSo-
lene and cylinder oil tanks of the cars
that have been run in for the night,
leaving just enough fuel to get the ma
chine we'll under way before the loss Is
discovered
Again it is in Paris that one hears
all about hte watered and dirty gaso-
lene that is sold in Italy and which,
bad as it is, costs all sorts of prices,
sometimes reaching as high as a dollar
and a quarter a gallon. The dirty gaso-
lene. which even straining through
chamois, will not clarity, is one of the
Italy.
1t is on these foreign trips that the
American, according to a writer in
Leslie's Weekly, becomes patriotic and
longs for the clean gasolene produced
by the much abused standard Oil Com
pany. The matter Of gasolene is the
most serious financial proposition with
which automobilists abroad have to
contend. In France it is only half a
dollar or SO a gallon, but even at that
rate the fuel bill runs up at an alarm
ing pace.
In both France and Italy the peas
ants confine themselves to fleeing the
pleasure seekers who whiZ along the
perfect roads. 1t is in Switzerland
that the country folk still practice
their little habits of hurting rocks and
clods at passing automobiles.
Last year when the Partisan papers
were teeming with the little grievances
of Americans abroad, the following IN
teresting complaint, which had been
carried to the government authorities,
created a sensation. The case was
that of party travelling over the
country in a large touring car, which
one evening ran foremost against a
steel wire stretched across the road at
a height calculated to catch the neck
of the driver and of the person oc-
cupying the front seat with him.
Fortunately the car was equipped
with a cover supported by two stout
iron rods These caught and held the
wire, and thereby saved the lives OF
the two men and their party.
A matter of constant surprise to
Americans is the lax observance OF
road etiquette between drivers IN
France. The far famed polish of the
French seems to disappear the mo-
ment they step into an automobiles
fact which is provokingly noticeable
when breakdownS occur. In America
a certain etiquette exists with auto
mobilists-a code which prompts
chauffeurs, whether owners or hlfed
drivers. to slow down at the scene OF
a breakdown and to proffer assistance.
The ''divvying' of gasolene from
half filled tank to an empty one, con-
trihutions of dry cells to one so un-
fortunate as to have his batteries give
out when miles from a source OF sup
ply. and numerous other little
courtesies, including practical and
genuine labor in coaXing a stubborn
engine to resume it's revolutions, are
everyday occurrences 1r America
which have come within the experience
of all who drive or ride in this coun-
try. In France a breakdown attracts
no more attention than can be given
from a car speeding past at 40 miles an
hour.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
PASSING OF PRAIRIE CHICKENS.
Wise Bird That Knows Too Much to
Make Nest in Harvest Fields.

If a Jury Of students of nature from
the Kansas prairies is ever gathered
together and the question put to them:
What is causing the disappearance OF
the prairie chicken?' they would not
all answer, "Hunters.'
Very probably there would be a
hung Jury and the unexpected verdict
of that part of the jury refusing to lay
the blame on the gunners would De:
THE passing of the wild prairie hay"
A prairie chicken is pretty wise bird.
She will not lay eggs in tame nay.
Somehow she knows that a mean
looking machine with big cutting
blades will soon come along and sweep
the field of it's mantle of green glory
and expose her nest to the elements
robbers and other devastators. she
shuns the tame grass but seeks the
prairie hay. If a prairie hen. say men
who claim to know. cannot find Wild
hay fields in which to build her nest
she will go dry"
But the pheasant is not so wise.
This bird is being planted in Kansas
by the state game warden. 1T is an
imported bird and does not yet know
the kansas language" Strange to
say. it is alfalfa that proves the
pheasant's chief enemy. She VIII
build her nest in the alfalfa fields and
then later shrek like blazes because
the mower has swept her nice. shady
home away. The frequent cutting OF
alfalfa does not even give the
pheasant mother a chance to fix up
one good setting and get them good
and warm-Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
A STRANGE CONTRACT.
Entered Into by New England Town
and One of Its Citizens.

Because of one Of the strangest con-
tracts ever entered into by the town
fathers of a New England community
and one of its citizens, Mrs. Lyman
Jennings and her daughter Mrs. Her.
bert l.. Stratton, both Of Orange, Mass,
will receive an annuity from the town
of Athol as long as they live. Each
year when this pension is set aside by
the selection Of Athol the latter have
occasion to lament the bargain ar
ranged between the town and Lyman
Jennings 81 years ago.
The Jennings annuity as the gift
is now known, has become the source
of much interest and discussion among
the financial experts of the State.
Thirty years ago Lyman Jen-
nings, then SO years old, went to the
selectmen of Athol where he then re-
sided, and proposed to give $4,000 out
right to the town on the condition that
Athol pay him 6 per cent interest as
long as he lived, and continue after his
death to pay his widow $50 a year, and
each of his three children $120 a year,
an amount equal to that which Jen-
nings would receive yearly during his
lifetime.
The town fathers agreed to the bar
gain, their decision being based upon
the figures of an insurance table as tC
the average longevity of the five bene-
ficiares. |
But much to the surprise Of the
shrewd selectmen. instead of iVHg |
only 14.7 years. according to their tahe
of statistics, Jennings continued 70
draw the annuity Of $40 until last
year. when he had exceeded the avr-
age insurance longevity by 16 years
The town had returned to the I'D
man during his lifetime for the $1,000
loaned the sum Of $4,000, and his
year the sum of $500 had to be set
aside for the widow and his one re-
naming child, now 80 years Of ageand
in the best of health.
Still bound by the contract, thol
will be hereafter compelled to continue
to pay $500 per year in addition the
$1,000 already paid as long as Mrs.
Jennings and Mrs Stratton liVe-'Bos-
ton Correspondence of PittsburS un.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
LIGHTNING STRIKES SHIPS
Much More Often Than is Supnosso-
Conductors For Electric Currents

IN spite OF the popular impression to
the contrary ships remote from ,ba
land are seldom damaged by lightning
although some Of the most awe ins,,ir'
ing displays of atmospheric eIectricit,.
are frequently witnessed by those an
board of them.
Standing rigging and even parts Of
the running gear are now made of steel
wire. and this substitute for the old
fashioned hemp serves the PURPOSE AZ
lightning conductor when tn. shin i,
not fitted with such an aid IL safety
The electric current is conveyed durn
the Wire rigging and reaches tn. sea
through the vessels metal HIM
Damage occurs only if the current h,
Interrupted on its way to earth. In
comparatively large Proportion Of in
stances the foreroyal truck is struck
by lightning, that Of the main less
frequently and the mizzen least of the
three
Very serious casualties under thi;
head occurred to warshipS and moreh-
ant vessels in the days of wooden hulIs
and hemrcn rigging . I'm Julv
1902. as - sail Of the East India Com
pany were trying to round the cape
in the vicinity of Agoa Bay. homewa,
bound. two of them. the Britannia and
The Bombay Castle We're struck bv
lightning. The foremost of each was
soon enveloped i'm flames and the ma&ts
rad to be cut away in order to save the
ships and their cumbustible cargues.
y heavy gale was blowing. the night
was dark, and the other ships of the
fleet, which We're here To- at the time.
We're witnesses OF this thrilling
incident
Many vessels are now fitted with
lightning conductors of approved types,
lest the wire rigging should fail to
carry off the electric current. In May
1896. shortly after a severe thunder
storm, accompanied by lightning and
ain in 3 degrees south, 81 degrees east,
he +. and q. steamship Victoria had
sudden increase of deviation.
To- six degrees in both the
standard and the Wheelhuuse COM
passes ana later it was discovered that
he lightning conductor on the fore mad
used. III" ship must have been
truck by lightning during the storm
Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
Who Was Jack Robinson?

Jack Robinson has long been favorite
synonym for rapidity of speech or action,
but possibly few people who use the
phrase are aware that Jack Robinson
was real live person,
As a politician says Lady Dorothy
Nevill in her "Reminiscences John
Robinson was great favorjte with
George III. His political career was long,
for he was mem Der for Barwich dur
ing 26 years. being on one occasion bit
terly attacked by Sheridan, who, de-
piled to the cries of Name, Name" by
pointing to Robinson on the treasury
bench. eXclaiming at the same time, Yes,
could name his as soon as I could say
Jack Robinson and thus originated the
saying still current at the present day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02

Tn South America the dream Of tinan-
ciers and railroad builders is that. at
some future time. travellers may land at
Pernamhuco and he taken across the
continent to Valparaiso in less than -four
DAYS, and without change of carriage
1t is estimated that London the2ter
managers have lost during the season
iust ended no less thar 100000 in tho
production of plays that have been I'M
successful, and much Of this amount on
dramatic enterprises imported from the
United States
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
Coppee and His Cats.

FrancNis Coppec. says the Matin. Ike
many artists ard actors. was exceeding
ly coni of cats ard Cor years he had in
his house il the Rue OuGinot and in
the beautiful rose garden lack of the
house Il number of line specimens, in
GLIDING several valuable natives OF
Persia
When Coprec died, to be followed soon
my his devoted sister. who was his nurse
the Paris Animal Protection Society felt
called on to look out for the cats. which
were supposed to have Deen left in the
deserted Coppee hone to starve Inves-
ter had anticipated the erd. He had CIV
en- all his pets 70 friends. except two. and
these nc intirsted to the care Of his
nephew. Nontreuiel. the director of the
Salpetrie,e. and 20 4 woman servant on
the day before his death.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
Snaiis as Table Delicacy.

"paubit' order of snails IL the shell
Ti,iS naN soon hc shouted L. TN kitCh-
ems of fashionable restaurants throughout
Chicago. if the succulent oyster Is super
seeded 10y the no less retiring snal.
That snails should take the nlaCa of
oysters ON the American bill Of fare is
the belief of Frank {. RuYer. curator of
the Chicago Acado:ny Of Science. l.iur"lh
Park. who recently returned from Nnlth-
ern Wisconsin. where he completed the
greatest collections Of snailS in the world.
soon to be on exhibition at the academy.
''Snai's as Il table dclicacv are almost
unknown III ATeriCa,' Re SAID TO-DAY.
''Or.ly here ANA there 4 French .Staurant
offers them to an unSuspecting public.
They are grown for the market in only
one place H. this country. a farm mar
New Orleans. which supplies the cl'nle
snails are little honored here. they have
been eatnn in F.urone for centuries They
are me ntioned in the Bible as an article
of i1iet.
"AS. to the healthfulnesS of slails and
oysters there is no comparison. oysters
are fattrlled at the mouths of rivers.
They live on whatever the river brings
them which is too often only sewage;
con TIE ether hand. snails whether
living on land or in the water are purely
vegetarian " their tastes. Their flesh
is as clean as a mlk-fed chickens Down
in the marshes of the Calumet Rivor they
grow as large as the largest oyster.
II suppose it would he difficult to fdn-
cate Chicago to eat snails. but if scientific
persons would start the fashion. everyone
would doubtless follow. It would be worth
trying. Chicago Journal
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-02
LIGHTNING AND SHIPS
Vessels Are Struck More Otter Than
Is Supposed.

In spite of the popular impression to
the contrary, ships remote from he land
are seldom damaged by lighting, Al
though some of the most aWeiiSpifihS
displays of atmosphere elecultv are
frequently Witnessed by those board
of them.
Standing rigging, and even pas OF me
running gear, are Cow madCoI Steel
wire. and this substitute for tHe Old
fashioned hemp serves the r. pose OF
lightning conductor when the mp is not
fitted with such an AID to IclE. Ine
electric current is conveyed down the
wire rigging and reaches the "a through
the vessels metal hull. DANCE occurs
ONLY of the current be interrupted on It's
way TO earth. In a comparatively large
proportion of instances the tore royal
truck is struck by lightning that of The
main less frequently, and the nhZZcn
least of the three.
Vciv serious casualties unar this head
occurred to warships and r+rchant yes
sells in tie days of woodl hulls and
hcmnen rigging In My 1902. as
thirteen sail of the East Eiia company
were. trying I" round thccape IN the
vicinity of Algoa bay, horWard bound.
two Of Thorn. the Britanniaind the Bonn
bay castle. We're struck ~ lightning
The foremost Of each W, soon enNel-
oDed i'm flames. and the nFts had to be
cut away in order to SaNihe SHIPS and
their "omhustibln cargocsiA heavy gale
was blowing. the night ias dark. and
the other ships of the TT which We're
hove to at the time. We witnesses of
this thrilling incident.
Many vessels are now ted with light
ming conductors of appFed types. lest
the wire rigging should all 10 carry off
the electric current. In ay. 1895. shortly
after Il severe thunderSrm. accon'pan-
led by lightning and 1h1. in degrees
south, 81 degrees eastthc T. and Q.
STEAMSHIPS Victoria had tsudden increas"
Of deviation arrountin}to degrees in
both the standard ami Wheclhouse
cOmpasseS. and later 1 was discovered |
that the lightning corftor on the fore |
had fused Tho shiyfnCst have been |
struck by lightning jfns the storm.-
knowledge Magazine /
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-14
TROOPS TO EXPLORE
NAVAJO RESERVATION
Detachment Of Fifth Cavalry to Leave
Soon on Two Months Prac.
tice March.

First Lieutenant Rawson Warren,
Fifth L. S. Cavalry, recently married
in this city, went west last evening
to Fort Wingate, his station, in ac-
cordance with telegram summoning
him TO the post. A column of five
tiAnsss CT the Fifth Cavalry, five troops
oi infantry battery of machine guns
and train carrying two months pro-
visions and fodder for the horses is
now being organized at Fort Wingate
for practice march to the northern
and northwestern parts of the Navajo
Indian reservation. The column may
be absent from Fort Wingate two
months. 1t will travel through some
sections of the Navajo reservation
that are not well known and have not
been thoroughly explored There is
no truth in the report that the ex-
pedition is to have a brush with war
like Navajos There are no Navajos
these days who care to go on the war
path.
Lieutenant Warren's troop is a
part of the expedition.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-14
BONANZA GOLD
STRIKE REPORTED
Prospector Arrives at 81 Paso From
Hachita, Grant County, With Tale
Of 100000 Ore.

Ell Paso, Tex, July 14.-T G. Harris
arrived here today from the Hachita
gold field in Grant county, New Mex
leo. where he is interested in seven
claims and reports that two OF the
richest strikes he ever saw in his life
were made there Saturday.
The strikes were made in the
claims of Clark and Bennett. and are
in quartz, up on the mountainside
above the placers, which first attract
ed the miners to the region.
Mr.. Harris states that one-third OF
the rock is pure gold and that per-
son can stand off several feet and see
the gold in the rock with the naked
eye. He is positive that the ore will
assay from $4,000 to 100000 ton.
The extent of the deposit has not
been ascertained, but the find has
caused great excitement he says.
Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-07-14
SLAYER OF DEPUTY
SHERIFF ACQUITTED
Byron Parrish Found Not Guilty OF
Murder Of W. E. Tipton-Jury Out
Nineteen Minutes.

Portales, July IA special term of
district court was held here last week
to try the case Of the territory Of New
Mexico versus Byron B. Parrish, on
the charge of the murder of w. r. Tip
ton, which occurred at Texico on April
rs, 1907. The jury in the case return
ed a verdict of acquittal after being
out nineteen minutes.
On account of poor health, Judge
Pope called Judge Frank w. Parker
Of Las Cruces to preside over the
trial in this case. Judge Parker made
good impression in the handling Of
the case and gave the best of satisfac.
ton.
The murdered man, w. e. Upton,
was deputy sheriff at Texico. He was
a typical frontiersman and had par
ticipated in all kinds Of shooting af-
trays and fights dating from the days
of the life of the "cowpunchers' on
the plains At one time he particpat
Cu III Il DdlIlC III WlliCIl i've COWDUyo .
were killed and Upton was the only
one alive at the close of the fight.
Upton carried the scars Of many bat.
ties, having several fingers missing
and numberless scars on his body
Parrish was constable at Portales.
On April "a he went to Texico, hav-
ing warrant in his possession for a
man wanted in Oklahoma for
horse stealing and was looking for
him. While on the streets, Upton de-
manded that he put up his gun, claim.
ing Parrish had no right to carry a
gun outside of his own precinct. Tip
top took Parish into saloon and
there again ordered him to put up
his gun. Parrish drew his gun and
struck Upton over the head. The bar
keeper snatched the gun from Parrish
and a struggle ensued in which Tip
ton was shot with his own gun in the
left eye and death resulted within an
hour afterwards.