Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-29
Odd Items of Interest

1t is estimated that the earthquake $
speed is from 40 to $50 feet a second.
Last years purchase Of ties by the
countrys railroads were only two
thirds as large as those of 1907.
Silk and mixed cotton and silk indus
tries in France are said to employ al
together upward of half a million
workers.
There are definite evidences of i'm
provement reported from the Scotch
shipbuilding yards. Mays new ton
mage was heaviest of the year.
In the five completed months of the
year the output of the Scotch shipyards
has been $4,000 tons, nearly $4,000 tons
more than the corresponding period
last year
The freak photograph is the popular
fad in Paris at present. Several pro-
tographers are making it speciality
and turn out the humorous, grOtesque
and grewsome in large quantities.
The Apaches, who for many years
were the SOURCE of Arizona and New
Mexico, probably never numbered more
than 10000 The present number is
about 5000, and most of them live in
the White Mountain reservation, Ari-
Zona
The students of the University OF
Chicago have decided to put the sub
iect of whether or not the honor sys-
TEN shall govern all examinations t.
popular vote. All indications point
toward the adoption of the plan by 9
large majority.
In fifteen years we have imported
IS, 600, 900 bushels of potatoes, or al
told, about one twelfth of a single
years crop in this country. The value
of the imports has been $12,0O0,0O0 fol-
the fifteen years; the duties paid have
| been 6,00O.0O.-New York Press
One Of the most important needs Of
China today is wireless telegraphy. II
| is considered practically Impossible tc
establish the ordinary land lines across
the great deserts between Pekin and
the extreme northwest, but the natur.
al difficulties could be surmounted b!
the use of wireless.
In a lecture at the Royal institution
| recently, Professor Sir James Thomp
| son said that matter is neither con-
| tinuous or homogeneous. He showed
| by an experiment that hydrogen car
| be passed into a vacuum bulb. In {
similar way sodium passes through
glass.
The Henry Watson Children's Aif
Society of Boston has adopted G new
system of caring temporarily for chill
dren committed to its charge. Hereto
fore the children have been cared fol
1 = No
plan the children are to be boarded il
private families until permanent home!
are found for them by the society.
| A white tigress s feet s inches II
length has been shot in Dhenkana
state, Orissa. The ground color wa.
pure white and the stripes were of ;
deep reddish black. The skin has beer
presented to the rajah of Dhenkanal
who has had it mounted and placed il
his palace. The shikaris (hunters) o
| this country say that it is the onl!
white tiger they have seen.-Londol
Evening Standard,
| AS Alexandra Dumas has dined will
a state minister somebody asked hin
if he mad enjoyed himself. He replied
eff it had not been for me I would
have been bored" Dumas was in tn
habit of giving francs Gao cents) to +;
Ne"ear whenever he met him. Once h,
had only 10 confines e cents). whicl
he save. "Oh, NJ Mumas!' exclaimed
the begear. rerrovingly. "Give them t
a beggar." Dumas replied.
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett is tn
only woman who has ever been asket
to address the University Debatin:
Society at Oxford. At the request o
the students she took woman suffrag
as her subject. At the end Of ne
speech a resolution in favor of. woman
suffrage was put and lost by
majority of sixteen. There is a rumo
that Mrs Julia Ward Howe will in tn
near future receive a similar invita-
ton from Harvard. Those who pre-
ltend to be informed assert tina
Harvard's majority against woma1
suffrage would be many times create
than OxfOrd's.
Prof. Kirsopp Lake, who holds tn
chair of New Testament exegesis in tn
University of Leyden. has complete
the work of photographing the Code
Sinaiticus," one of the three oldest Ney
Testament manuscripts. The manu-
schipt, which is written on vellum i
capital letters, four columns Of writin
to the page, was discovered b
Tischendorf in a monastery on Noun
Athos some sixty years ago and is sur
passed in age only by the Vatica
manuscript. The third of thes
velum manuscripts of the New Tesla
lment is the "Codex Alexandrinus" Il
the British Museum.
DR.. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson