Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-24
Much in Little.

! The Boston government is setting Ir
ice water tanks throughout the city.
and by the middle of this month VIII
have 40 for public use. The ice IL
taken from the municipal ice plants
connected with the water works sys-
1 TEN.
10. the first time in its history Nil
waukee had a colored jury summoned
last week. 1t was a coroners jury, and
was called together to hold an INQUEST
over the body of one negro supposed
| to have been killed by another.
An expedition consisting entirely Of
women has been formed in Australia to
explore the Solomon islands. the home
OF the fiercest cannibals known.
Hitherto white men have been able -
penetrate only q few miles inland
Nuremberg has optical and electrical
works which started on a very small
scale in 1882, but which now employ
over 1000 men, besides a large scientific
staff. and which had in 1897 uncxecutef
orders on hand aggregatinS $4,000 900.
The Filipinos wrap their CARTRIDGES
to make them fit various rifle barrels.
This crude adaptation of means to
ends must amuse the old Indian fight
crs in General Otis army. to Uilom tin
principle is by no means new one
The same trick has long been used by
our own Indians, who wr1p Winches-
ter cartridges with rawhide. and shoot
tn"ni from their old 50-calibl" Martins
and Sharp's carbincs.
Reports from Algeria indicate tn,t
standing crops will be serious , dam
u MI IN,
the clouds of grasshoppers now moving
in a northerly direction. Ten thousand
francs ($19S0) have already been placed
~ the disposal OF thc general of the
division for the first expenses incurred
in fighting against the invasion. ans
steps have been taken to secure S3S, 500
additional for the same purpose.
To maintain extremely low temporal
lures BY means of freezing substances
requires careful insulation. Prof w.
Hcmpcl finds that eiderdown is the best
insulator, carefully dried wool being
nearly az good and cheaper, and that
both are much better than the special
~ devised vacuum acketcd tube of
Prof. DeWar. Starting at about 10
degrees below zero Fahrenheit. the rise
in temperature, under protection of the
ciIcrdown, was only - degrees in SS
hours, while in the Dewar tubes the in
crease was 20 degrees to Ia degrees.
Edwin Markham. the author of the
poem The Man with the Hoe" says of
himself, For the past 10 years ] have
been head master of the Tompkins OBJ
Scrvation School Of Oakland This
school is connected with the California
State University. and is devoted to
child study. | have lived in California
for 40 years, and was born April 25.
1872, in Oregon City, ore. When l was
five years old my mother removed 20
Salina county, Cal, and engaged in the
sheep and cattle business. she being a
widow at this time. | was put to work
hcrdinS sheep, and when only seven
years old was practically head of the
family. When II years old | felt my
self a full-fedgcd vlquero. and when
II was working as blacksmith's ar
prentice.
Recent experiments have shown that
the best protector of iron in buildings
IS acid-frcc cement, applied closely 81
IS to prevent rusting. In fire tests nr
ANA cast iron and timber br
the municipal government of Ham
burg, the conditions of a great con-
Migration were initiated by the use of
4 gas furnace and the application Of
hydra ulic pressure up to about 1900
pounds per square inch. Upprotcctad
ron supports lost their carrying power
y IL to 80 minutes, according to the
"a pidity Of the combustion. Supports
illcd with mortar We're little better,
ma an oaken support without casing
similar pressure in the fire
or but one hour and twenty-one min
ltes, but iron supports encased with
such materials as plaster of Paris.
stone. wood, asbestos and cement re-
aimed their carrying power for as long
Is three hours and fiftysix minutes.