Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-31
GLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

What is the best place in which
| to keen fresh milk in hot weather.
asked the teacher. "Please, teacher in
the cow" answered the small boy who
had just returned from country holt
| day.
! DIR. Karl Peters at recent public
| meeting in Berlin declared emphatically
| that the historic land of Ophir is locat-
ed between the Zambesi and Limpopo
rivers in Africa. He has discovered
many shafts of ancient gold mines.
500 temples, Notifications and other
ruins Of Phoenician origin. DR. Peters
affirms that the coins recently I'M
earthed in Mashonaland belong un-
doubtedly to the time of King Solomon.
In consequence Of the severe and
provocative criticisms which have been
appearing in the native papers rela-
tive to the proposed foreign loan for
the SOochow, Hongchow and Ningpo
railway and the Tibetan negotiations
the Pekin government has instructed
the government of kiangsu and the
viceroy of the Liangkiang to order the
editors of the papers to obey the Chi
neSe press laws, otherwise the editors
will be arrested and punished.
Not having fitted himself to become
the owner of the big educational in
stitution. ]. c. FELTON,. brick mason
of Des Moines. Ia. discovered last week
that he had an elephant on his hands
in Shurtleff college of Upper Alton, Ill.
to which he is heir One of his wealthy
ancestors, to spite his Immediate heirs
n IL.
college, provided that after II certain
number of years it should revert to his
lineal descendants. The time has ell
apsed.
In accounting for the rumblinS Or
rolling of thunder. which has hereto
fore been explained by the echo theory,
it is now stated that a Hash Of light
ming is made up of innumerable small
er flashes. which go to make up the
whole. The rolling thunder is duo to
the primary sounds of successive dis
charges OF flashes. When we see i
q relatively prolonged lightning flash
we witness in reality Il numbr of dia-
continuous discharges following down
the same path. and the sounds of these
successive explosions come to us like
the rattle of rapid-fire gun. only les;
rhythmically. This discontinuity is
quite different from oscillation
Scientific American.
Fireiess stoves, or Aalf-cookers, as
they are variously known have been i'll
use in Germany for a number OF years
The earlier types We're merely boxes
constructed with double wallis or by
secret processes built SO as 20 retain
heat when sealed. These cookers arc
used as follows: After a thorough heat
ing the food to be stewed or boiled is
placed inside the box. sealed and left
Tor sufficient time, when it is open
ed and the food, cooked by the retained
heat, is ready to serve. Recently
Berlin company has improved upon the
apparatus and produced fireless
stove that not only cooks but fries and
roasts. Frying and roasting are ac-
Conplished by the use of heated
stone.
y South African diamond mine or
pipe is the crater of an extinct VOL
cano, and the diamondiferou5 ground
forms the filing of that crater. 1t is
generally conceded by biologists that
the diamond ground has been forced
up from unknown depths in The form
of liquid EIud. that is to say. it was
volcano that threw out boiling mud
instead of motion igneous rock. In
some respects. therefore. it would more
closely resemble q geyser than a vol
cano Where the diamond ground is
found within 50 or 100 feet of the sur
face it is greenish yellow in color,
crumbles to the touch. and is known as
yellow ground At depths below
atmospheric influences it changes to a
greenish blue color. becomes much
harder and is known as blue ground"
or merely blue Mines and Minerals.