Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-11-13
General News.

Mr.. Carter the special timber agent sent South
by the Government. died, and the Pascagouls
Star says: MAY the pines which dis
turbed by his coming, watt the breezes gently
over his grave"
A skunk got into the basement Of Grace Church
at Ysnanoque, Ont, one evening last week while
prayer meeting was iu progress and the congre-
CATION was dismissed without waiting for the ben
ediction.
A Salmon angler on the Tees recently captured
sixteen fish in two days. and the papers are chron-
telling this as wonderful sport. The whole catch
of fish on the Severn two years ago was eight.
Though salmon have largely increased in num-
bers in English waters of late the net-fsher has
reaped all the advantages.
Winter has set in very early 10 England. There
was Q snow storm in London October 80, and
the weather throughout the forenoon bitterly
cold 10 North St&dordshire on the previous
night there was heavy snowfall. In Scotland
the air was piercngly cold and in most districts
the ground was covered with snow.
There's many . man languishng IN prison in
the Fatherland to-day who has been guilty Of
nothing worse than . grim pleasantly. A cab
man at public house a few days after Nobiling's
attempt expressed his opinion that kings aud en-
perors were not much good to anybody. They
cost . deal of money, be said, and nobody was
the better for it. A policeman in plain clothes
pounced upon the csbmsn as soon as be
had uttered his sentiments. and be is now 10 pris-
on and will remain there for two years. About
the came time lad Of sixteen exclaimed, 81 wish
the Emperor had been shot in 1870; then we in
Alsace should not now be Germans" The boy
was condemned to imprisonment for two years and
six months.
At . recent meeting of the New England Cot.
ton Manufacturers' Association, body which, in
spite of its name, embraces in its membership the
Superintendents Of nearly all of the cotton mills
in this country. an interesting paper was read by
Prot. John T. Ordway on the combustible pror.
critics of lubrcating oil. 1t seems that of the ellis
used to prevent friction in machinery. many NAV
be classed Is dangerous, because when heated to
sufficient degree they throw off an inhammsbe
vapor. In this respect it is claimed some of the
animal and vegetable oils are even more hzar-
dous than those which are partially mixed with
earth osDnd that the higher price of an oil 10 BY
no means guarantee of its safety. An account
was given of fire last summer in the Bates
nAittss A<cWissous xao', al which tue names, on
reaching the weaving room, shot across in all di.
rec.ions on level about five feet from the foor,
and with sufficient heat to melt the lead connec-
tions to a gas metre located on the same plane of
height-from winch the gas had fortunately
been shut on-while towel banging two feet
below this level was not SO much as scorched.
This seemed to show that there was body of in.
fammsble vspor hanging in the air, cast off by
the oil used on the machinery. Apart from the
danger of FIRE, the transformation Of oil into Va
por is waste Of material which every manufac.
turer would gladly prevent, and it will therefore
be Of interest to al who have to use lubricating
oils to know that experiments are to be made for
the purpose Of finding out some ready ana sim.
pie means of testing the evaporating properties
of oils, so that any one buying them can qsckly
Judge Of their qualities.