Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-30
GLEANINGS AND GOSSIP.

The admission of Oklahoma as Il
state means an increase in the author
lied number of midshipmen at the ma
} val academy of II, or from 9S5 to 931
The number of cadets at West Point
will be increased only six. The APP
pointment to the vacancies at both
academies will be made this spring.
when the congressman will designate
their appontees.
Having been fined for neglect % duty
postal subordinate in India addressed
his chief in the following terms. Your
honor may he right. I may be wrong;
| may be right and honor wrong, let
honor give me hack the fine, and then
at day of resurrection, when all hearts
will he open. if I am wrong, l will
| most gladly. sir. return your honor the
money"
Public streets in the towns of Java
are daily swept and kept clean by ma
tiveS cOnVictS. They go to work
chained together in parties of 20 or 30,
under the superintendent of barefoot
ed native soldiers clad in ill-fitting uni
forms. who would instantly shoot
their charges down if they tried to es-
cape during their working time, when
| they are unclaimed.
| Justice q. w. Holmes of the United
| States supreme court has purchased
tho home of his father. the famous poet
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, known as the
| Marshall estate. in Beverly Farms,
owing to the deep and abiding affection
he has for the beautiful spot. because
| Of the tender associations that have
| clung to It from the time the "Autocrat
| of the breakfast Table made it his
| summer home.
The "aXle-light" system is in use on
the trains of the Atchison. Topeka ard
Santa Fe railroad on an extensive
| scale. Each car has its own storage
batteries supplied with electricity gen.
Grated by the axles of the wheels, and
the locomotive headlights derive their
| illumination from the same source. 1t
| is estimated that each full train. ex-
| elusive of the locomotive, develops
nearly 5000 candle-power light.
Mandy was u young colored girl
fresh from the cotton fields of the
South. One afternoon she came to her
mistress and handed her a visiting
! card. de lady wha' glib me dis is in
de pa'lor,'' she explained. "Dey's
anodder lady on de do step" era
cious. Mandy" exclaimed the mistress
"Why didn't you ask both of them to
| come in "Kase. maam." grinned
the girl. ode one on de do step done
forgit her ticket"
The production of oxygen and hydro
gen on an industrial scale by the de.
| composition of water with electrolytiC
apparatus in Germany has led to thu
| suggestion that hydrogen thus pro-
duced may find q wide field of employ
ment as a lighting agent 1t is nov
used for initiating military balloons
For lighting purposes it is compressed
in steel cylinders. With proper
burner it is said to a be cheaper illu
minant than acetvlene, the relative
cost for equal Illuminating power be
ing % for hydrogen to so for acetylene
French engineers have lately mad
successful tests of wireless telegraph!
between the lofty observatorieS on TIL
crown of Mount Blanc and the vale,
of Chamonix. 1t had been feared tina
the absence of moisture in the frozel
surface might interfere with the eartl
connection, but no such trouble wa
experienced. The only difficulty aros
when the alternating current dynamo
Of the electric light system in Chamo
nix were at work. At such times tn
wireless messages could not be trans
mitted or received.