Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-12
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

The Scranton. PaD street railway COM
raDy has recently given each employe
who has served it for year one share OF
the stock.
fereG prizes to the boys of the country
for excellence in craftsmanship. 1t is
hoped that the prizes will attract boys to
rife shooting.
The southern woods yielded no less than
36,50G,000 gallons of turpentine last year.
The output of rosin was 100000 barrels.
The two products were worth 600
Employees at wholesale houses and
ware houses in London will have four
days holiday at Christmas this year.
This extended holiday was procured by
the early closing association of the day,
Sir H. II. CoZens-Hardy. master of tn"
as a friend Of the classics. He said that
in his opinion the teaching of the classics
did more to cultivate true gentlemaniy
manners and to improve the whole condi.
strdy.
There is in the cathedral of the Assum-
ption in the Kremlin at Moscow Bible
of so great size that one man alone can
and studded with precious stones. There
is LOG hundredweight of gold in the yes
sells and furnishings of the cathedral l.
and the jewels in the ikonostas are val
ued at about $4,000.
Cincinnati woman who clipped an
article from a newspaper file in the pub
lie library of that city was arrested for
the offense has sued the library trus-
tees and the librarian for $4,000 damages
She admits clipping the paper but says
she was agtated over the contents and
did not realize what she was doing.-ln-
diarapols Star.
There have been filed with the proper
authorities in New York city plans for
a hotel which will be 10 stories higher
than any hotel in that city, and the high
est hotel in the world. Its height will be
376 feet and it will have 81 stories. 1t is
purposed to erect this building at the cor
ner of Madison avenue and FOrty-second
street. opposite the Hotel Manhattan
One of the municipalities in greater Der.
lin, Schoenberg. has bank book issued
by the municipal savings institution in
the name of every child whose birth is
reported to the authorities. Also one
mark 90 cents) is deposited for the child
The theory of the practice is that with
the small as a starter parents will be en-
courage to make deposits for their child
rem. The original deposit may not be
withdrawn by either parent within two
years of the date of the beginning of the
account.
The three kinds of Havana cigars"
that actually come from Havana have
been enumerated as follows: First, gen.
uine Havanas. made of tobacco grown.
cured and rolled in the island of Cuba !:
States or European tobacco imported in
to Cuba. with an outside wrapper of
Havana leaf: third. cigars brought ready
made from Europe, mostly from Bremen
and Switzerland. and re-eXported from
Havana to Europe. where they pay duty
and are sold to the unwary as "Havanas."
India. Russia, Brazil and Egypt add on
~ a mite to the worlds supply of cotton
which is dependent upon our south. From
those former sources there has not been a
large increase in recent years. Egypt
shipped $4,000 bales. average weight 80
pounds, in 1901: 900 in 1913. India's
yield went up from 3!s96.0O bales 400
pounds EACH in 1901 to 4445 900 last year.
Russia. growing in -Asiatic Provinces.
CARED from $4,000 of 500 pounds each. to
100000 Brazil's exports fell from $4,000