Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-07
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

There are 10 men with life insurance
policies for every woman insured.
A California professor says that the
negro race will be extinct within 300
years.
The Americans residing in Smyrna
are hard up for amusement, so they
are erecting theater building cap
able of seating 1900 spectators.
En.igrahts from Hamburg and Bre-
men during the first quarter of the
year numbered 91,sO3. compared with
85,117 in the same period last year.
The city of Hamilton, o., proposes
to cover part of it's main street with
glass canopy and illuminate the in
terror with powerful electric lights.
The Malay peninsula produces about
60 per cent. of the total output of tin
IN the world, which amounts to nearly
$4,000 tons valued at $41,00000O.
Several western railroads are pre-
paing to build long stretches of ce-
ment snowsheds. These are more sub
stantial than timber and are fireproof.
In it's antrat warfare San Francisco
authorities caused the arrest of 400
persons for failing to observe the reg
ulations in this respect.
The city Of Galveston is spending
$1,5OO000 on a projected roadway, a
concrete arch bridge and lift draw
bridge to connect it with the Texas
mainland. ..
Before discounting any paper, the
bank of England requires at least two
good British names, one of which must
be the acceptor 1t seldom holds over
$15O,000,OOO in bills discounted and Sc
curities of all kinds.
Many hand machine hosiery workers
are leaving the Nottingham hosiery
district of England for the United
States, some of them taking their ma
chimes. They have been earning bare
ly S. a week, and hope to earn s25 to
$50 a week here.
What can be done to eliminate OBJ
jectionable out-of-door advertising
was the principal topic discussed by
the associated billposters and distrib-
uters. who held their annual meeting
in Chicago few days ago. The chair
man of the censors' committee said in
his report: Our aim is to eliminate
everything Objectionable from out-of-
door advertising. We are in harmony
with all the organizations which are
working for this end. We have CO.
operated with the Woman's Christian
temperance union. the art leagues and
the civic leagues of the different cities
in which we work.
The wide reaches of waste land on
the island Singapore, which have been
OF no use since the culture of gambler,
coffee and pepper was given up, are
now the scenes of great activity. Rub
Der plants are being set out over these
wastes and seem to do well. In the
suburbs of Singapore city a consider
able area of swamp land has been
drained and converted into nursery
for Para rubber plants, which are sold
at good profit to the planters The
eastern rubber boom has caused the
flotation of Is companies with 35,OOO.-
900 shares. capitalized at nearly $780,
100000 gold
Southey probably deserves to rank as
the most Industrious of authors. In
the greater part of his life he spent
IA hours a day in composition. He
had six tables in his library He wrote
poetry at one, history at another. crit
icism at a third, and so on with the
other subjects upon which he was en-
gagged. He once described to Nine de
'Stael the division of his time: two
hours before breakfast for history.
two hours for reading after, two hours
for the composition of poetry, two
hours for criticism, and so on through
all his working day. "And pray, Mr..
Southey,' asked madame, when do
you thlnk?'-London Chronicle.