Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-19
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

Someone has figured it out that III
one bee got busy and was ambitious
enough to make a pound Of honey by
it's lonesome it would have to make |
5000 trips.
The last section of the Kyushu rail- |
road in Japan has been opened from
Sapporo to kajoshima, distance OF
300 miles. The Toxic Yokohama sec
ton of this line has been open since
1872.
Philadelphia boasts of having two OF
the Oldest skaters in the country. One
is II and the other 70, and they can
do all sorts Of fancy stunts on the ice.
The Philadelphia papers might use
little story about E. H. Barney.
Logging by electricity, it is said, will
soon become the common practice in
British Columbia, where electricity can
be readily obtained from water-power.
With the disappearance of the steam
engines in the woods will go 95 per
cent. of the annual forest fires
Miss Jean Gordon, Lousiana's only
woman factory inspector. is vigorously
opposing the effort which is being
made by the owners of theaters in
New Orleans to exempt first-class
child labor law Miss Gordon is
backed by the New Era Club, which is
said to include every woman of infiu-
ence in the city. They declare that
late hours and excitement are bad for
children, without regard to the class
of the theater in which they work.
A Durham farmer was travelling to
London to consult lawyer when the
f.,,, l.. L. va
tain important papers behind. He
made hurried search of his bag. IF
l did leave those papers he remarked,
I'm a fool" Just as he was examin-
ing the last bundle of papers he ex-
claimed, We'll, I'll bet l am a fool"
man on the other side of the COM
partment lowered his newspaper for
moment. and said slowly and delib
erately, "Obige me, sir, by laying a
little money that same way for me-"
The announcement that the Royal
Geographical Society of Copenhagen is
lifting out an expedition to explore
the countries around the Persian
gulf" will surprise many who imagine
that there is little of the earth OUT
side of the polar regions which now
needs exploring AZ matter of
fact, the interior of the great Arabian
peninsula is still waiting to be dis
covered, and not even the poles offer
such almost insurmountable obstacles
to those who seek them as the I'M
known land lying around the Persian
gulf. Some portions are, doubtless.
as void of human beings as the frozen
apexcs of the earth, and will probably
always remain so, for the heat expert
enced there is fatal to almost all life.
Westminster Gazette.
Alaska contains the only first-class
bituminous and anthracite coal on the
Pacific coast; from the Boring river
district railroads can be built to the
sea. not more than 10 miles long. over
perfectly level country; and, accord
ing to a published statement by Alfred
II. Brooks, head of the governments
geological survey work in Alaska.
there are six billion tons of it in both
hclds-more than ~ times all the
coal that has ever been taken out of
PENNSYLVANIA. Two-thirds of this has
been filed upon by claimants-that is.
as much coal as has so far come from
the mines of Pennsylvania Mr..
Brooks estimates to be worth 81 q ton
as it lies; that is. he estimates the
coal in the two fields at six billion dol
lars.-McClure's