Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-07-29
Odd Items Of Interest.

During the first half of the year there
We're 133 new applications for member
ship to the London South Exchange.
w. o. MoXOn. botanist of the SmithsOn-
ian Institution. has returned from ia
malca with a larg" and valuable collection
OF birds and plants.
Mrs. Henry G. Davis, wife of the Demo
cratic yice-presidential nominee, was bon
IN FREDERICK Md. and is a typical South
ern woman in appearance and bearing.
Prof. Wilhelm Pfeffer, professor of bot
any at Leipzig. has won the Otto Wahl-
bruch prize awarded for the mos impor-
tant contribution to science during the
last two years.
After ten years of experience the War
department has decided that the So
called dynamite guns which ut one time
formed a picturesque feature of certain
harhor defenses are obsolete. and is get
ting rid of them as quickly as possible.
The Rev DR.. G. A. Bjork, who has been
reelected president of the Swedish Mis-
sion Convent of America, is noted
churchman and missionary worker He
organized the convent in 1855 with a few
hundred members. and now ii has 2GuA
members and $50 churches, with missions
in Alaska and China.
Colonel Younghusband, says letter
from an officer with the Thibet expedi-
tion, is never tired. never cold. apparent
~ never hungry. This sort of campaign
method of dealing with Asiatics Never
intrigue. he says. They can beat you
there. It is being straight and deter-
mined with them that tells
Astronomers are not usually classed
among hard-working men, yet they often
nave to perform tasks requiring the Sc
verest toll and perseverance, such as oh
serving planet or comet for weeks
ServationS in the most inconvenicnt al
titudes. perhaps lying fiat on the floor in
an ice-cold atmosphere.
King Carlos of Portugal has the reputa
non OF being a great athlete. His skill at
tennis, was recently demonstrated when
he defeated Lieut.. T.. w. Mcintyre. of the
hattleShip Iowa. during the visit of the
North Atlantic fleet. The King also gave
shot for the entertainment of his Ameri-
can visitors. who were astonishrd with
his accuracy of fire.
The port of Havre consists of an outer
harhor iifty acres in extent: there are
also ten docks with haf-tide basin and
Ten locks. having surface of 20 acres
There are 1900 yards of quays and l43
acres of land for the slowing Of mer-
chandiSe. largely covered with eXcellen;
sheds There are six dry docks, three of
which are capable of taking i'm all hui
the largest mail steamers.-I-ondon En-
Eireer.
chine is extremely simple. The cylinders
are heated by steam to 2 surface tenn
peratilre of about e50 degrees Fahrenheit
Ihey are separated from each other about
one-eiShth OF an inch and revolVe in
versely. making about six revolutions n
minute The milk to be dried is fed con
tlhuously. upon the revolving cylinders
and passing between them. is spread in
thin uniform layer upon the surface Of
each cylinder. The milk solids are then
removed in continuous sheets. as the cyl
inders revolve. by stripping knives held
IN contact with the cylinders By this
process milk is reduced to dryness in
less than thirty seconds. The sheets Of
dry milk are afterwards pulyerized Nv
being Passed through sieve