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

GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.
A man in the middle West. who adj
mits fear of being considered eligible
for the Ananias club, but avows he is
not entitled to that distinction, reports
that a plum tree which was planted II
years ago yielded this year PIP quarts
or is bushels. He regrets that sew
erdi branches have been broken for he
thinks that 10 bushels would have been
the full yield.
The Chinese do not want watches in
nickel cases. They prefer silver cases
to gun metal or imitation gold. A large
trade is done in imported silver wat
ches costing 81 to So
German statistics of industrial i1Sur-
ance show that disease seek it victim
chiefly in the more poorly paid classes
of wage earners-the lower the wage
the higher the number of victims.
Last year, Also persons eInigrated
to America from Harvre, and nineteen
thousand returned. The greatest num-
Der of emigrants passing through
Havre for America are Italians The
Italian state railroad runs special emil
grant trains from all parts of northern
Italy, coEverging on Modane, and then
proceeding TO Havre in two weekly sec
tons. arriving every Saturday morn
ing. soon after midnight.
Canton is being modernized by the
construction of many new buildings.
Norway's herring catch in the STAY
anger district is greater than ever be-
fore.
Owing to the cheap electric power,
olpotric 1inpc Snrinpnp in
all parts of northern Italy.
The public debt of New Zealand
to $372.000.o0O. The revenue
for 1909 was the highest yet recorded,
while expenditures were below the
estimate.
The rice production of Japan exceeds
in quantity two hundred and sixty mil
lion bushels a year; tea nearly sixty
million pounds year, and silk more
than twenty-five million pounds a
year.
Dressed as workingman and car
rying a basket filled with mysterious
a Paris burglar has been
in the habit of calling at flats, saying
that re had come by the landlords or
ders to disinfect the place. During the
operation such an unpleasant smell
was emitted that the tenant hastily
decamped to the room farthest re-
moved from the scene of "disinfection,"
leaving the coast clear for the burglar.
The latter at length presented himself
at the flat which happened to be occu-
pied by the landlord himself and few
afterwards he was handed
over to the police.
A most commendable movement i'm the
anthracite region of northeastern Penn
Sylvania, says the Scientific American. is
the Introduction of mine schools. In
former days, the English-speaking and
Teutonic races, skilled in mining, pre-
dominated in this district but today
work Is done by class of Europeans
whose traditions and experience have
nothing to do with mines. Several of
the mining companies have established
schols for the benefit of these employees,
one of the first of which was that estab-
Hished by the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron Company. Here, in at
tendance, are found the apprentices and
Journeymen employed in the shops, and
the mine workers. The course. which
includes mathematics and drawing, has
special reference to the particular class
of work in which the employees are en-
gagged.
The death of L. III. Hartman has not
halted in the least the elaborate plans
winch he made for the extension and the
peautlfylng of his vast estate in Orange
county. While Mrs. Hartman has plac-
ed In the hands of her daughter, now
Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, the man
agement of the estate, she, of course.
still retains the final say concerning the
expenditure of money or the purchase of
property. Mrs. Hartman has MANY
agents working through Orange county
buying up one farm after another and
since the death of her husband she has
ADDED thousands of acres to the estate
me entire property owned by the Harri-
mans now is estimated at 5000 acres.
1900 acres having been given to the
state Mrs. Hartman is expending al
most $o0O,OOO year on the estate at
present, and not counting the cost of
land, it is estimated that at least $4,000
oOo has been spent there. More than
six hundred men are kept busy building
roads through the property.
After forty years the Lake Shore rail-
road tracks are to be laid in a straight
line on the Oil City branch between Ray
milton and Polk in venango county. and
dangerous reverse curve will be elimi-
mated. The tracks will be moved in sew
eral places for distance of about twen-