Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-06
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Ceylon furnishes one-thiTd of the
worlds annual output of graphite-A-
900 tons.
There were 942.570,721 pounds OF COP
per produced in this country in 1904
greater amount than ever before.
A coach is being run between Denver
and Colorado Springs to satisfy those
| who would have something besides the
common or garden varieties of locono-
ton.
The physicians of q small town In
Burgundy met and voted to raise their
fees 80 per cent, whereupOn the NATIVES
met ana voted to employ no physician
when they were i'll.
1t is said that nearly 100000 worth
of rat sins are used annually in LOndsa
in the binding of books, the manufae-
ture of photograph frames and PURSE
and making the thumbs of gloves.
Texas now has a law prohibiting
gambling at race tracks. There are va
rying penalties for "bookmaking" and
for betting, those for TIE former Of
Tense ranging from 5000 to $500, and for
The latter from $25 to 800.
An English temperance society has
chosen this subject for prize essay
competition: "a statistical review of
the variations during the last 90 years
in the consumption of intoxicating
drinks and in convictions for the often
ses connected with intOXication, and
discussion of the causes to which these
variations may be ascribed"
one natural gas well at Clarsburg,
w. Va, supplies the inhabitants of the
city with all the gas they need. And
the price is only four cents per 1900
feet. This well has been, supplying over
5000, 900 cubic feet daily for 10 years.
Natural gas abounds in the vicinity of
Clarksb,rg. Within radius of rs miles
the total product is about 1,00O,000,00
feet daily.
A sophomore at a New England col
lege was enjoying a conversation with
senior who had a wide knowledge OF
music. The sophomore, young man
anxious for to shine in the high es-
thctic line as Bunthorne phrases 1t in
Patience" was contributing apprecia-
tionS of various composers and various
musical forms. The senior remarked
that he liked fugues "Fugues," said
the sophomore, puzzled, what did he
write?''
1t is possible that if the lumber need
ed in the making of matches should
give out a grass that grows in India
could be made use of in this country
with good results. Already at Shola-
pur, India, there is factory where the
grass, known as surya, is used for the
sticks of matches. The blade is cut
into two-inch lengths, which are boiled
in paraffin and dried. They are then
ready to be dipped. The whole process
is inexpensive, and the materials are
of the smallest cost.
The Ojibway Indians, living on the
White Earth reservation in Minnesota,
celebrate June Is and Is of every year,
the anniversary of the days in 1868
when they occupied the reservation.
Their development has been remarka-
BILE. Barbaric and improvident a half
century ago, they are now prosperous
tillefs of the soil, and their social or
ganiZation is of an advanced order.
Their continuing to observe their own
tribal holidays. instead, of the holidays
of the nation. shows that they apprecl-
ate their good fortune.
Beveridge Webster, principal OF the
Pittsburg conservatory of music, mas
begun proceedings to enjoin Miss Mary
I. Johnson from teaching music WITHIN
800 miles of Pittsburg. Webster, in ms
bill of complaint, declared that Miss
Johnson, in contract she had entereu
into with the conservatory, agreed not
to teach music in Pittsburg or WITHIN
300 miles of Pittsburg within three
years. after the termination of her en-
gagement at the conservatory. MISS
Johnson admits singing such CONTRACT
but ayers that she formally notifleo
Webster that she would not obey TINS
restriction. And she proceeds to speci-
fly several grievances against Webster.
An English statistician has lately llg-
ured the amount of British capital IN
vested abroad as E2,70o,0OO,ooo. and the
annual income from these investments
as f140,0o0,0o0 The average rate oiIe
turn is So per cent He found thar ~
foreign companies. for which uie
Britain supplied the capital. yield 1so
600 900 From Indian, colonial ana III
eign securities, from railways ana gov
eminent bonds, G79560,116. according
to his computation, is received as com
pared with an income of 944,5oSVcs ue7
rived from these sources ~ years aso.
The statistical society in LONDON wa.
OF the opinion that Britain's increase VI
trade was namely owing to the invest
ment of British CAPITAL in other coun-
tries.