Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-28
cLEANINGs AND GOSSIP.

One county in Missouri exported over
%, 900 900 cornCob pipes last year.
IT is said that a woman in the middle
West dropped $4,000 feet in a parachute
the other day and landed uninJured'
Candidate Taft says that he plays
golf Just as he takes medicine. rms
will make some more willing to vote
for him.
| One writer says that every thifa
man YOU meet in Argentina Is MIL
lionaire. 1t must be the Pittsburg OF
South America.
The ringing Of church bells has be-
come such nuisance in some quarters
of London that the bells are muiiled
during the week.
1t is said that number of Espcran-
to clubs have been started In South
Carolina They may make 1t easier
to understand the dialect there.
There is more heart disease in New
York than ever before, and it is sh""
ing itself among the young children to
a surprising extent.
The population of Fairbanks, Alaska
is over 50 per cent men, and 1t is SAID
that there is a great demand Tor
women who wish to be married there.
Honolulu says that everything in the
CITY is free for the sailors of the bat
tlcship fleet. She is looking for none
of tie advertising which California
got.
Time seems to be of more value IN
New York than in any other city III
the world. There are more pubic
| clocks displayed there than in London
and Paris combined
The city of New York has to pay a
large amount for funerals during a
year. 1t costs the city $32.oO to bury
each unclaimed body which passes
through the morgue and there are
about 94OO of them in the course OF a
year.
The largest steel lighthouse which is
to be erected on Cape Campbell IN
New Zealand was first set up IN the
London yard of it's maker. Then II
was taken down. the pieces NUMBERED
and the whole structure shipped hall
around the world.
An inventor in Algeria has patented
an air tube for supplying ar to tree
roots. The tube is made of ceramic
ware and is almost indestructlple
Placed in the ground beside tree,
with the top slightly above me sur
face to admit the air. the young roofs
find their way through a numpcr 81
holes. Experiments have proved, 80 IL
is claimed, that the growth OF Veoetd-
ton has been greatly advanced by us
use. The August number of Popular
Mechanics contains a picture OF the
device.
An Italian scientist proposes to sup
plv a safety valve for Vesuvius by
boring tunnel in the base or the
mountain and letting the lava escape
into the sea. His idea is to bore the
tunnel while the crater is in state
of coma, and he believes tnat when the
volcano becomes active such chan
mel would be sufficient to carry away
the lava His whole proposal, how
ever is not to let the lava escape al
together but to run it into mods ana
make it into blocks for use in the
streets and quays of Naples.
Zinc is considered to be the most
suitable metal for protecting iron and
steel from corrosion because zinc is
electropositive to iron and in the pres
ence of moisture forms gaiVanic
couple. the zinc dissolving and the
iron remaining free from oxidation.
says Popular Mechanics in an inter
esting article in the August NUMBER
There are now four commercial pro-
cesses for applying zinc to iron and
steel. They are: Hot or molten gal
vanizing, electro or cold galvanlZing
SherardiZing or dry salvanlZing, and
cowperizing or vapor gaiVanlzlng
Sherardizing and cowperiZing are new
processes The article describes
| with illustration. each of these pro-
ceSSeS.