Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-02
GLEANlNes AND GOSSIP.


ALREADY planted in their respective forest
sites thousands OF catalpu, black locust,
red OAK, pin oak and chestnut. One road
has selected the eucalyptus because of
It's rapid growth and adaptability to the
climate of California New Mexico and
Texas.
AN electric spark is the luminous ef-
iect produced when ii sudden descriptive
electrical discharges takes place between
two charged conductors, or between two
conductors at different electrical potcn-
tials. The length of the spark depends
primarily upon the difference of poten-
tlal OF the two charged bodies; it is.
hence, Iii general a conspicuous pheno-
lnenon with high potential FRACTIONAL
electricity, and not with ordinary vol.
taic currents
In western China European travellers
recently found a simple method Of set
Ting disputes. One of them writes:
While we called the midday halt at
Tacha-de dc asked the villagers con-
corning some new graves which we no
ticed in i field close by. They answered
Our head man ana two others were
killed three months ago in a feud with
u village higher up the hills Is it
settled now Yes Did you report the
matter to Lao-wo?' No. What would
have been the use? We just settled the
matter ourselves How oh. we kill
ed eight of til" other party
Japans first school for the education
of actresses has been formally opened
at Toxic. under the direction Of Sada
Yokka. OF the young women who pre-
scented themselves for admission about
20 were accepted and they will take 4
two-yearS' course. More than twice that
number, all having the education re-
quiremcnts. applied for admission. but
could not be accepted because. as the
head of the school explained, their small
stature precluded their assuming tho
heroine parts which belong to the dra-
matte literature of Europe"
In New Zealand the native Polyne-
sian race, crowded by E;uropeana is be-
coming extinct. Many of the imported
animals run wild and multiply rapidly
ut the expense of the native species even
the streams being filled with European
and American trout, which grow to
great size. Introduced plants thrive
quite as remarkably. New forests are
being created designed because the ma
tive trees, though yielding excellent tim
Der. grow very slowly, and already many
millions of larches, oaks. spruces, Doug
las Grs and eucalyptus have been plant
ed. while seedlings from them are be-
ing continually added
OF the swans on the upper Thames the
London Times says: L. Abnett of East
Molesey. the kings swan master. on Sat
urday completed the marking of the
young swans on the Thames between
Southwark bridge and Henry. There are
between 500 and 900 swans on the
Thames, and in the course of the swan
marking about 700 cysnets were dis
covered, each of which had mark
placed on its beak to denote ownership
Those belonging to the king, who owns
about a third of the swans on the
Thames. have a diamond-shaped mark
scratched on the upper beak with "a
knife. Those belonging to the Nintuers
and the Dyers companies, who own the
other two thirds, have been respectively
marked. IN November d number OF
these cygnets viii be fattened for the
kings table at Christmas.
Down in Reeves county, Tex, man
named Riggs killed a friend named Nc
Cruchcon. He claimed McCrutcheon had
hit him with a switch. and in fear of his
life he shot him. y switch is not a
deadly weapon in Reeves county. 50
Riggs got the case transferred to Tar
rant county on d charge of venue. The
records showed that in Tarrant county
switches were used in the schools and
considered innocuouS: and Riggs thought
he was up against it and got the case
transferred back to Reeves county
About this time Rigfs's lawyer heard
of El Paso county. where a hard Word
is considered deadly weapon, and got
the case transferred to that county.
Riggs was tried last week and was ac-
u,ittcd. (Okl) Liberal.
OF the possibilities of extreme north
ern Canada traveller writes: ne
country that one passes through from
Atbabasca Landing down to the Arctic
Red river is full of vegetation, and VIII
in nv opinion, one day be settled. In
all the mission gardens at the different
posts that I passed | saw wheat and bar
lev growing, potatoes, lettuce. turnips.
carrots and every kind of vegetable that
grows in ones own garden at home.
The country is thickly timbered near
the banks of the river and there are few
places in which you do not find large
matches of prairie. You pass a great
outr,1sh Of natural gas. aud oil is oozing
out for miles along :he river banks.