Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-01-24
Gieanings and Gossip.


parents Of Madeline Dow of Mont
pelier, VT, that they have the largest
baby in the world. She is nine
months old and weighs - pounds.
Two western egg statesmen have
been arrested at Terre Haute, Ind. for
selling grocers a carload of eggs that
were partly cooked in a cold storage
warehouse fire az Nation. III.
Statisticians estimate that p acres
Iof land are necessary to sustain one
man on fresh meat. The same lanH II
devoted to wheat culture, would feed
l42 persons; if to oats SO; potatoes.
Indian corn and rice. 176. and if TO the
plantain of bananas, more than 5000
persons.
| James Ludsate, Lee farmer, is also
in the grasshopper business. Last
summer he collected about $4,000
hoppers and placed them in corr.
crib, filled with hay and banked with
leaves. When the fishing season
opens next spring Mr.. Ludgate will sell
the hoppers to fishermen as bait at two
cents apiece.
| In many foreign cities there is 6
marked absence of the gallantry that
in this country habitually characterizes
the attitude of men toward women
Eleanor Gates, young American
writer who has travelled widely in the
| United States, says that Difference
toward her sex decreases with the in
creasing density of population. In
sparsely settled regions of the West
woman stands upon plane tacitly
superior. New York is the most un-
gallant city in the United States
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Thousands of men work all thcil
lives at securing the banks Of the great
Yellow river. in China. Yet every now
opposition. and the loss in human life
is greater than any war ever caused.
Nineteen years ago the river burst it's
bonds. Day after day the torrent
| flowed, 20 miles to the hour, 80 miles
| wide and 10 feet deep. The flood has
| been described as that of five Danubes
pouring from hight for two months
ION end. For 1000 years the Chinese
have been enbanking this river.
Prof. d'Arsonval, one of the most
eminent members of the French
academy of sciences, says the majority
of people die of arterio sclerosis. He
uses a sphygmometer to measure the
tension of the blood in the arteries. If
the mercury Of the instrument marks
Is or 16 centimenters, it shows
normal tension. If the tension Is
higher or lower, Prof. d'Arsonval states
| that six baths of the high frequency
current will bring it to the normal
where it will remain, all danger of
arterio sclerosis being removed. These
baths of 5 or 10 minutes each may be
taken three times week. They give
the patient absolutely no sensation. Ii
this electrical cleansing, continues the
professor, is followed by auxiliary
treatment in expelling from our bodies
the morbid waste caused by electricity.
there is no longer any internal reason
for growing old or even dying.
According to foreign correspondent
of the geological survey at Washing
ton, among the most interesting
features of the small island of Billion
between Sumatra and Borneo, an
island long famous for it's rich tin
mines. controlled by the Dutch govern
ment. are the glass balls of Billion"
found among the tin ore deposits
These natural glass balls are round
with grooved surfaces. Similar
phenomena are occasionally found in
Borneo and Java, as well as in
Australia. The correspondent quoted
thinks they cannot be artificial, and
there are no volcanoes near enough to
support the theory that they are
volcanic bombs. Besides, it is
claimed. the CLASSY rocks produced by
the nearest volcanoes are quite diff
ferent in their nature from the material
OF the balls. 1t is suspected that the
mysterious objects were elected ages
ago from the volcanoes of the moon
and afterward fell upon the earth
London Press.
In six years. with an increase in the
population of about 2,400,O OO or some
thing more than 10 per cent. the South
has increased the value of it's farm
products by s72S.OOo.O0O. or 81 per cent
according to the Manufacturers Re-
cord. and the value of its manufactures
$161,000.000, or So per cent 1t has
added 3.493O0O spindles to it's cotton
mill outfit. an increase Of 55 per cent,
and its mills used in 1906 about 2,375.-
600 bales Of American cotton, or As per
cent more than in 1900. In the six
years the South's annual pig-iron pro-
duction has increased by $685. 900 tons,
or "a per cent: it's coal production by
S4,202,OOO tons, or SO per cent; the
value of exports at its. ports. $177, 0OO.-
600 or 80, per cent. though it furnishes
more merchandise for export than if
handles through it's own ports. and in
that time its railroad mileage has IN
creased by 11,441. or nearly % Der cen,
and the assessed value Of its propertv
by s2.490. 600. 900, or nearly As Der cent