Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-10
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e4pt Samuel BROOKS, Of IN ArissA, IN
made 600 trips across the Atlantis, md ~
tailed |, go 600 nautical mflAR
An endless railway train, consulting At
toC platform cars, Is 70 be ons Of tbs attrae-
tions ct the Paris exposition
A track Of land coutainging loo 600 acre.
In Aroostook county, Ne, has been sold for
81. 10000 Ths deed recorded contains IS
600 words
There died In Havana recently, at the age
Of ia years, q negroes, Aercelina Conpos
She leaves 9oyear-old son, and R-yesr
old great-sreatrgreatgrandson
Ezra French, engineer on the northern
Adirondacs. left h-s engine for an hour one
day on q recent trip, and on returning
jrou-ht fine deer, which he had shot
There are 80 Eteam and sailing vessels,
lggregating so, 600 tons, being built In the
United Kingdom, as compared with 90 YES
sels OF 81, 90 toas at this time last year.
The grand vizier at Constantiinople has -
sued decree forbidding the publication OF
the morning papers in that city, and hereaf-
ter only evening newspapers will 10 allowed
70 DC published
Il has teen found that q goose can stand
the weather until the Thermometer goes 70
"a de.s. below zero. Then her feathers won't
save her. Wild ducks can 60 IL dsgh lower
AID eoEle out on Top.
Aun, Til Ruley, colored woman, who
lives in Marion county, KY, is said TO be III
years old she recently walked from her
home to Lebanon and back, twenty eight
ulIcs, to attend q circus.
The discovery and utilization Of natural
gas has proved q powerful stimulus to the
manufacture Of iron pipes and tubes In this
country. There are no~ 800 miles OF mains
in the United States for conveying natural
gas
Tho Oldest Incorporated business concern in
the world is the Hudson Bay company, which
has had on existence Of rs years The head
quarters Of the company are at Winnipeg,
Man, and tho bulk Of the stock IL held IN
Eng land
Drawing room cars from the United States
have beeu placed on the CHILEAN railway be
tween Valparaiso and Santiago. II Is found
10 be very difficult 10 prevent passengers
from smoking in them, although . smoking
car has been added
II. Jovls, q French aeronaut, IL said to 10
building an air SHIP in which he proposes to
attempt to cross the Atlantic to New York
this fall II ia to be called the Atlantic, and
will DO 200 feet high, with cubic measure
ment Of nearly 100, 90 feet
An envelope that cannot be opened and re-
sealed without showing that it has been tam
pered with has been Invented in Enga The
Zap il cut SO long that it laps over on TO the
front side, and after being sealed, the post
age stamp is put over the end Of the Gap.
The Chinese are making such large de-
mands upon soap that in time they may rank
among the clean nations. The importation
Of foreign soap has increased 1873 per cent. In
Eve years and $40 per cent more Is wanted
now than was sought after ten years ago.
A novel electric railway has been com
pieted, running from the shore Of Lake Lu-
cerue over "a bed cut in the solid rock to the
summit OF tho Burgenstock, /, $50 feet up. 1t
has q gradient Of from 81 to IS per cent. The
electricity is generated by water wheel in
the River Aar.
DR. Donald C. Hood has collected many
facts relating to the use OF sahcylic acid for
rheumatism. or 723 patients treated with
salicylntes 523 were relieved OF their pains
within seven days, whereas Of 6l3 patients
treated by other methods only l4O wers re-
heved within the same tins.
Quill toothpicks como largely from France,
which possesses the largest factory IN the
world. This factory, which Is located near
Paris, was originally started 70 make quill
pens, but when tAese went out Of use the pro-
pretor turned 1t into a toothpic. mill, the
present annual output Of which is 2000J, 600
quiIls.
!, rfn ,,.,it, -,
rologcal observations are made appears to
be in tue Andes in Peru, at q height of a.
800 feet Harvard college has a weather OBJ
servatory on Mount Lincoln in Colorado, at
n height of II, -97 feet; and part way up the
mountain Is another station, 1850 feet
above sea level.
In cleaning out the lower levels Of the caves
at Dordosue, in France there were found o
great many oyster shells piled in such a man
ner us to show that the Nenuderthal man used
tue bivalve as q common article OF food
The oyster Is thus demonstrated to he the
oldest domesticated delicacy known to man
These re les arc estimated to DO over 70, 900
years old
Tho average watch is composed Of Us dif-
fercnt pieces, comprising upward Of 400
separate and distinct operations IN its manu-
f2cturo Tho balance has II 600 beats or
vibrations per hour, T., 800, 0So ia thirty days,
lo1,G9,C3J IN one year; 1t travels - 100
inches with each vibration, which is equal to
W miles IA twenty -four hours, 2J21t miles
III thirty days, or 3,1ao}. miles IN one year
There were l9,vl2 patents issued last year,
and Of tneso bu, ,Oo5 were granted to south
eiuerS IcSas led the southern states, a
patent beng granted for every COOS Texans,
Fiogida came next Mlssisslppis ratio was
one patent Tor every y. 1916 Of her population
Alabama, ia spite OF the recent great me-
chaI.ical development Of the state, was
cred. ted with but 81 inventions in the year
Lariors Smith, who recently died in Yer
mont ut the nse CT ~, Is thought there to-
have Leeu the Oldest soldier III the civil war
in 1868 he enlisted in company /. Twelfth
Vermont volunteers, bong u, that time u.
years cid Ie didn't look like 1t, beng re
m4raab.y strong and vigorous. and at the
time of his death didn't appear to be over "
years Old. he Iowa Gray boards had some
pretty Old men in tie ranks, but it's doubtful
II any was Old US LarIous.