Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-05-23


223 feet; Panthenon, Rome, z72 feet; great
pyramid Of Cheops. near Ghiz4h, $50 feet;
sure Of Colozne cathedral. Italy. 5z2 feet;
Washington monument, Washington d. c.
j55 feet.
what is q P1rteIxetTie Railroad
/ have seen something in the papers lately
about a porteleeiic railroad. bat DO not IN
ders,and rhat il is II it costs less than the
narro~ zuage and does the business perhEp.
We can get one running from the Capital To
this place. sometime.
LrEEErr. W. IL BRo"s
Possibly. At any rate the say inventions
and discovsriss multiply these days We can
not tell What will happen next. But We are
sure that electric lighting. telephone
AMI possibly the
porteleetric railway will before many
year. eItsnd into all the PRINCIPAL VII
lagos Of the country and connect almost every
home With every other home. The fO't elee
trie railway is an electric tube 80 TO speak
the invention Of Mr. Johu T Williams Of
Boston, an exhibition Of 1t. working having
lately been held Ia that city. Its design J,
to transmit letter. and small parcel, from
place 10 place by electricity IN small closed
portfolios or boGes-hsnce the term port.
electric" Il Is based on the fact that the he
liz or spiral coil Of wire, when charged with
electricity. draws into its embrace bar Of
iron or steel, one end Of which has been
placed near It's centre. Consequently a series
Of these coil. viii draw this bar through them
at almost lightning rapidly. Nov suppose
these bars of iron or steel to be hollow
Presto There is your fast nail and express
service for letters sDd ANAL packages. This
is the poftelecsrie railway, and scientists say
it is thoroughly prs ;ticahle BY its use II =
estimated that two million letters a day could
be transported between B. .ton and New
York for thirty cents, or about the cost OF one
telegfaphic message and that the time re-
CURED would be only one hour
Ought to Know Better.
am dreadfuliy distressed at the way some
Of my companions eat who visit me after
moons, once ia a while and yet | do not feel
like speaking to them about It. II annoy-
me to see them eat with the knife, and some
of them keep opening the lips when chewing,
and they always eat bread and milk or soup
by putting the spoon way into their mouths
and giving fearful "suiching' sound. Oh,
it is terribly Notifying TO Ins. Won't you
tell them better HIGH SoHpoL GIRL.
They ought to know better The first
Engi,h poet told US five hundred years ago
in his delightful Canterbury Tales, of a
vor"1 lady sho in eating never dropped
p .ttun. of food, and always wiped her
n,od o. her napkin before drinking
Ia IL are good points ~ observe at table
mo- by Young or old. The lip, are wiped
be fore drinking 80 as not to soil the glass or
cup. In using the spoon take the liquid
from It's ,.de only. Good form at table Is to
eat slowly o. i qui, t'y, keep the lips closed
sc b lie chewing the food. aud be careful not
to take too large mou,hfuls In snort dc
nothing that viii attract attention If your
Z, lnpAnIols sho visit you Saturday after
rcon % not rsad the journal. mad them =
"-~r co7'aini1g this note. There would be
roth'rg mpoue in that.
Joseph Addison.
This liz gui.hcd English essayist "a.
Dor" Nsy lf72 and died June Il, 1913.
lhat t-iu,rkable classic, The Spectator, the
puL lual-u ID which was commenced in III,
grows in value each wear as the finest colleC-
ton of essays in the Eugli.h language. The
high praise awarded AddisOn's vritli z, by
Dr. johnson will be remembered by many
90 Whoever ~lshesto attain an English style,
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