Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-07

The United States exported more
than 3.50Oo 900 long tons af anthracite
and more than 1880, 600 long tons of
bituminous coal last year.
one years supply of coal for New
York, loaded into fifty-ton ears. would
make a train reaching from that city
to Salt Lake City.
Pay-as- you-e cars, just coming
into general use in many cities, were
tried in Brooklyn, n. Y, half a CEN
fury ago and discarded.
A simple attachment for piano to
prevent pages of music book being
blown about by a breeze has been
patented by an Ohioan. Aa
There are twenty thousand people in
one district eff Argentina able to af-
ford automobiles, but only per cent.
of that number have purchased cars.
The harbor of Port Jackson, at sgd
ney New South Wales, with a water
frontage of two hundred miles, Is said
TO besthe finest harbor in the World =
Tomatoes, melons, eucumbers,
squashes have in Paris become lux
uries beyond the reach of the vast
multitude of working people, whose
daily earnings do not exceed so cents
or 81
Welsh gold mines, in one of which
rich vein is reported to have been
struck, have been Systematically
worked for over sixty years. Gold
was first discovered in the principality
in 1915. in Il lode on the Clogan noun
tain.
rhe ordinary fiction story of news
paper life is amusing to those in the
profession, chiefly for it's fidelity to
traditions which obtained in the bust
ness half a century ago, but which
have long since passed out. This is
peculiarly true with regard to news
paper work on the great metropolitan
daiiies where duties are constantly
becoming more specialized in line with
the trend of all other business. This
fact has recently received striking
recognition through the action OF an
uptown hotel which has established n
press room in the house. This room
IS on the second floor. ana easily ac-
cessible to newspaper men at all hours
of the day and night. 1t is provided
with desks paper and pencils. free
telephone service typew1iters and all
the accessories of n newspaper Office.
New York Tribune. -t
A group Of tourists stood in front of
the new building of the department of
education 1T Albany scaffold over
the imposing eolonnade hid the name
Of the structure. and there was no one
near to furnish Information. Regard
less of the no admittance' sign, they
mounted the broad stairway and soon
stopped under the DOME in the space
from which the great reading room
and two other spacious apartments
radiate. This tells the story" said
one of the party, pointing to a series
of inscriptions forming "A friczc about
the space, and which read Here shall
be gathered the best books of all lands
and ages" "A system of free schools,
where all the children of the state may
be educated" This library aims to
uplift the state and serve every citi-
zen" Yes. said one of the visitors, 1t
must be Carnegie library.
York Tribune.
A German musician has invented /
machine which, he states, aptomau-
cally registers the notes emitted Dy
the piano. The new machine has the
same object as one invented by an
Italian and used by MascaSni in writ
ing his operas. but it is larger IN
strument and is operated by electric
ity. Into the machine is inserted
roll of paper, and the composer seats
himself before the piano and executes
the composition that he desires to give
to the public. The machine faithfully
registers every note produced, so ina.
the musician does not have to depend
upon his memory.
All hail the United States as the
land of destiny of the grape Stimulus
is the only thing needed to make THIS
country the leading grape grower OF
the world, and the department OF
agriculture is about to commence
campaign to supply this. The bureaus
in charge-plant industry, entomology
and soils-point out that the grape
may be grown where other fruits can
not possibly be raised, in back yard
and garden, hillside and rocky soil.
The advantages of the grape vine are
these: 1t furnishes shade when there
is no room for trees. requires little at-
tention, is long lived and gives de-
,icious and wholesome fruit far great