Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-10
GLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

The railroads of the world are valued
at $27, IT'S. 100000.
| Since 1903 there have been no imports
of live cattle to England from Argentina.
OH account of the foot and mouth disease.
but the imports of frozen beef from that
country amounted last year to 632
pounds. valued at $29,696S23.
Six hundred incorporated towns of
Indiana that are affected by an act
passed by the state Assembly this
year do not know how to set about
complying with the law for the reason
that the law is so obscure in it's phras-
ing as to need Interpretation by the
supreme court. The law concerns the
electing of town trustees.
A wireless station to be built at
Washington, D. c.. if present plans are
carried out, will be the largest in the
world. The apparatus will be at the
top of concrete tower of so great
height that it is to believed messages
can be sent 300 miles. The cost of the
tower will be 100000. it is said
At Cloudersport. Pa. Judge Omerod
was approached by a man who wished to
have liquor license transferred to him.
The judge explained that he would have
to bring to the court certificate of good
character. Later the man thrust a big
roll of bills into the judges hand, whis-
pering: There. put that in your pocket
and say nothing about it," Judge
Omerod threw the man and his money
into the street. The would-be briber got
away. but he will not get his liquor IL
cense.
The state of Pennsylvania has a
nursery for forest trees in Tioga coun-
ty. 1t was started two years ago. and
this spring $4,000 trees were trans
planted on the state reserves. In the
fall 100000 trees will have grown suf-
ficiently to be transplanted. The trees
planted this spring. were mainly white
pine. variety of wood practically ex-
tinct in Pennsylvania but the state
purposes to supply other varieties as
well.
Fourteen young women have been in
stalled as ticket sellers in the subway
stations of the McAdoo Hudson river
tunnel system. and they are giving good
satisfaction to the company and the pub
lie. This is the first appearance of wo-
men in such capacity in the city. General
Manager Munger says: They are
quicker than men at giving change and
more courteous. We pay them at the
same rate as men and get better results
1t is possible to get higher grade women
than men,"
Boston in England has been celebra-
ting it's 6O0th birthday this summer, and
the Bishop of London was one of the in
vited guests. He told those English
Bostonians about Boston. Mass. He also
said this: Il shall never forget the two
congregations of 1000 young men which
addressed at Harvard and at Yale. II
would be impossible to bring up before
your mind a more representative picture
of the new world-young. vigorous. un.
| conventional. modern. they held in Their
hands the future of the new world"
The first of the week Representative
Smith of Michigan asked the chairman Of
the appropriation committee whether any
money had been appropriated-directly
or indirectly-for the benefit of the treas
ury cats. Whether there is any money
Expended for that purpose out of the con
tingent appropriation do not know" re-
piled Chairman Tawney. I will say thai
there is an expenditure made for RAJ
traps. and, if they construe cat to be
rat trap. possibly they are ,expendins
money for the care of cats"
That mans home is his castle ha.
long been held as good law, and it is no
likely to be reversed in any court In SUI
preme court at Pittsburg on Friday
Judge Evans decided that the picking O
a lock by misrepresentation of a prop
erty owner in order to get in and levy o,
goods of rentor made the owner a tres
passer and was called an illegal action
From the opinion it appears that ]. B
Ewald was in default in his rent, ant
while he was absent from his home rep
resentatives of the David Kirk estate at
tempted to make levy on his property
The house being closed, they picked tn,
lock.
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