Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-04
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IWenty-Onc cows were hhie" ~
lightning the other day on farm at
Magomaine, Wis.
M. Tourney, Belgian engineer, has
been commissioned by the committee
for the international exhibition at
Brussels in 1910 to erect tower AT
Ixelles which will be much higher than
the EifTel tower The cost is estimated
at $240,DU0.
Visitors at a Paris hotel were disa-
greeably surprised one morning to ma
that their boots they had left outside
their doors had been stolen by a burg
lar. Only one pair was left, ON which
was a paper with the words: Not good
enough for me-"
The white peril is as threatening
to the east as the yellow danger is
to the west. China and Japan should
agree to stop the Europeans and the
Americans from cOrnering the whole
of the industrial and commercial mar
kets in the far East-The Taiyo, Toxic
The haddock has Il superstition at
tached to it. On each side of the Shout
ders, near the gills, it has a dark spot,
tabled to be the impression made by
the finger and thumb of ST. Peter when
he took il up and found the penny in
Its mouth to pay tribute to Caesar
with.
While q Well-krOwn actor was tour
ing the South not long ago he Went
into enc of the clubs in a South Car
DINA town, where the iiispensary sys-
tenn is in vogue What have YOU in
the shape of periodicals." the player
asked of the duskv attendant. Corn
liquor, sah," promptly answered the
attendant; beer and wine, but mostly
corn liquor, sab.
Dr. Fracnkel of Berlin, in a paper re-
Gently read before the society of medi-
cine of that city. gave striking figures
concerning the war waged by medicine
against consumption. In 1881 the death
rate from this dire disease was 32.o in
every 10000, and the latest return shows
that it has been reduced to 1l.23. This
satisfactory state of things DR.. Fraen-
kel attributes partly to the discoveries
of Koch, and ne divides the honorS
equally between prophylactic methods
and the system of isolation now widely
practiced in Germany.
a novel experiment to demonstrate
the practicablity of {, pneumatic parcel
carrier was recently tried in Chicago.
The parcel shot through a short
length of sample tube was a 13-years
old boy. He travelled at the rate of IS
miles an hour, and was in no way the
worse for the journey. j. NJ. Masten,
superintendent of the railway mail SER
vice, and Postmaster Campbell of Chi
cago, witnessed the experiment, as rep
resentativeS of the poSt-ofiicc depart
ment, which is looking into the device
The inventor declares that with a tube
between New York and Chicago mail
can be shot from one city to the other
in seven hours.
One Of the most potent factors, per-
haps, that should be considered when
| selecting a breed for producing eggs
| for market is the demand of the mar
ket at which the eggs are to be dis
posed Of Some markets. notably New
| York city, and cities Immediately ad-
| iacent, prefer Whte-Sheied eggs and
| the best trade in these markets will ac-
| cept none other. Boston prefers brown
| eggs and pays a substantial premium
| for them: and, taking the country over.
| the preference is for brown eggs, by q
| large majority. However, in many
| markets no preference at all is eN-
pressed: in fact, those just mentioned
are practically the only markets in
which the color of the egg receives at
tcntion to the extent of influencing
prices.-Outing Magazine.
| III the South konsington museum in
London is a curious musical box. 1t
was originally the property of Tipu
Cor Tippoo) Ss,hib. the Tiger of My
sore" who died in 1899, being killed
during the British assault and capture
of sScringapatam, the capital Of Mysorc,
He always hated the British, and to
show his cnmity he had this instrument
constructed. The box is a lifc-sizcd
statuary group showing the symbolic
tiger of India at the throat Of Eng
land, represented by q British officer.
| When Tippoo wished to amuse his
| court. one of his attendants turned q
| handle, when the tiger omitted horrible
groWls and the man raised and lowered
his arms and uttered terrifying shrieks.
Inside the tiger are four rows Of pipes
and a set of ivory KEYS. which arc
either OF French or British manufac-
| ture.
Of the abnormal climate Of Kodiak
| island. Alaska, Il writer says: IN
| spite of its situation in such high lati-
| tudcs we find here what may we'll be
described as the parting of the ways
| between the Arctic and more temperate
regions. For, thanks to the moderat-
| ing influences of the Japanese current
| which flows along its southern coasts
| Kodiak is favored with climate condi-
| tions such as are unknown even in
| places i few miles north or east of il
| on the mainland of Alaska. So pro
nounced is the demarcation line that
even on the island itself a traveller ir
summer will suddenly emerg from
amid forests and vegetation of almost
| tropical luNuriance into a barren, desc
| late land OF silence. where lofty snow
| capped mountains tower alOft, brondine
as it We're, over the past terrors Of ar
Arctic winter. which will soon descend
once more, envcloping them in it's icy
grip.
| June.
Der the hills with morning bright
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