Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-11
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

quarter of Paris during the worst of the
flood has been named Moses.
The last cocoa crop of Ecuador was
worth s4,3S3OOO, and they say that the in
dustry is only in it's infancy there
Corn grows in 10 days from the time of
it's planting and in the corn belt last year
the farmers are said to have made $4,000
900 day for each of these 40 days.
An English undertaken in one of the
small town near London has tomb
stone in his window and hanging on it is
a sign which reads: You may telephone
from here.
In Russia it is the custom for peasant
women to have their wedding rings COW
cred with black crepe upon the death of
their husbands and to wear it SO decorat-
cd for six months.
An Englishman has offered a prize of
$500 to the aeroplanist who can remain
stationary in the air for 60 seconds. The
laws of gravitation rather tend to make
his offer fairly safe.
Now that Prince Henry has been made
a British admiral, some people seem to
be troubled about which side he would
fight on in case of a war between Eng
land and Germany.
A young Frenchman has been in north
western China and Chinese Turkestan
for number of years and has now re-
| turned to Paris with 10000 volumes. man
uscripts and books all said to be more
than 1900 years old
! 1t is reported from London that society
women have taken up smoking pipes:
| not the handy briar. but the Japanese
| kisseru. the dainty little pipe that holds
a pinch of tobacco and from which only
| three or four puffs can be taken.
New York City manufactures more fine
goods than all the other cities in the coun-
try put together and this industry gives
employment to about 5000 people all the
year around and last year it was said
that the output was worth s14.4O00O0
The diamond industry. which suffered
severely in 1908. as a result of the 1901
panic in this country. is bracing up rap
idly. We now absorb about 60 per cent.
of the output of the South African mines
and now the diamond cutting shops in
Amsterdam are running on full time
again.
No coal is mined in this country at
depth of more than 200 feet, while sew
eral of the Welsh and English mines are
more than 500 feet in depth Belgium
has some mines that are 1000 feet deep
Eight-inch seams of coal are mined
abroad but here few are mined CONNER
cially that are less than a.
Word comes from London that the
horse is coming back into fashion again
and that society women are using car
riages to make afternoon calls in. The
reason for this is said to be that motors
conceal handsome clothes too much as
well as now being no longer a fashiona-
bic luxury
Meat eating is on the increase in Japan
and the government, under direction OF
the emperor has for some time been try
ing to improve the condition of cattle
raising. Experts have peen sent to Eng
land and this country TO buy cattle, SO
that the Japanese beef breeds may be I'M
proved
The rcproach that England is not
musical nation will be no longer heard
after the Army Pageant" is produced
next June. Christopher Wilson Will scat
ter the illusion. He is going to reproduce
the music of the Stone Age by means of
''marrowbones struck with flints. the hol-
low bone giving out a curiously resonant
note" The same instruments struck with
knives will produce a 'mclodious con-
cord representative Of the iron age
Westminster Gazette.
Prof. David of the University of sgd
ncy, who went to the Antarctic with Sir
Ernest Shacklcton. has been lecturng on
the fossil woods he found there. he says
that they show that pine forests had
nourished in the vicinity of the pole in a
remote geological epoch and the coal
seams he discovered bear out his theory.
He thinks that at that time there was
more or less continuous land from Aus
tralia to the pole and that the climate
all over the world was much milder than
it is now.
Official statistics in Germany gathered
in connection with compulsory insurance,
show a constantly increasing rate of
wages among the working classes. Divl-
ded into five categories. out of every 1900
workers in 1900 1888 were in the first dow
esD. 342 in the second. 23S in the third. 15S
in the fourth 70 in the fifth, thghest).
In 1908 the divisions had c--anged as fol-
lows: First. 0owesU, IA: second. 263;
third, 243: fourth 179: fifth, (highesD. POI.
The average weekly wage of A.95 In 1900
had become Sc in 1908. AS their condition
improves Berman wage earners are emf