Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-27
GLEANINes AND GOSSIP.

IN diameter.
Even if it was 100 years ago that the
first steamboat went up the Hudson
river there are still more than $1,000
sailing vessels on the high seas.
In the last year Client, Belgium, eX-
ported to the United States rabbit
skins valued at nearly million and a
half. All kinds of furs for my lady.
In recent trials of the Pollak-Virag
high-speed telegraph between Berlin
and Konigsberg, a distance of 43O miles
2SCO distinctly recorded words were
transmitted in five minutes.
There is the promise of much cheap
er ice in New York city next summer,
no matter what the natural crop may
be, for there will be many more artifi-
ciaI plants in operation than ever be-
fore.
Stones which are used by the litho-
graphers all over the world in making
colored pictures are found in little
district not more than four or five
miles long by two or three broad near
Nuremberg.
According to Messrs. Henriet and
Bonyssy ozone is produced by the I'LL
traviolet rays of the sun in the upper
atmosphere and the amount contained
in the air near the ground increases
when air currents descend from the
upper regions.
Denmark accepts DIR. Cooks story
and makes a great Dane of him-St.
Paul Dispatch. Yes, and if Newfound-
land backs Peary, think of the dog this
insures him.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Both have proved themselves huskiers
for sliding already.
The people Of Bavaria appear to be
still drinking quite a bit of beer. Last
year 4Sa,26 1863 gallons were brewed
there. and only 73,2S9,000 gallons were
exported. The home consumption was
24S quarts to every man, woman and
child in the kingdom.
Miss Sophie Wright, founder of the
first night school in New Orleans, is
one of the few women who have re-
ceived the loving cup which is annu-
ally presented to the citizen who has
done the greatest public good for the
city during the year. In this cup was
check for $4,000, which had been
subscribed by the citizens of New Or
leans to pay the debt Miss Wright had
et''ootii'~N III Niiihi SINS liCi night SCIiOol
to make room for the pupils who We're
clamoring for admission.
Senator Dollver in a recent cam
paign told This story to illustrate the
logic of an opponent: Did you ever
hear about the young woman in Fort
Dodge? One spring morning she sat on
the piazza of her pretty little home
sewing a button on her husbands coat.
The husband himself appeared, and
she said fretfu!ly, IT'S a perfect shame
the careless way the tailor sewed this
button on. This is the fifth TIME I've
had to sew it on again for you
In spite of the reputation for latitu-
dinarianism he gained from his early
trial for heresy, the late Prof Jowett of
Oxford was intaierant Of prctentious-
ness and shallow conceit. One self
satisfied undergraduate met the mas
ter one day. Master he said, II
have searched everywhere in all phila,
where do 1 find the evidence of Cod
Mr." replied the master, after a
shorter pause than usual, "if you don't
find a God -oy 5 O'clock this afternoon
you must leave this college,
Adelaide Smith, native of Boone, Ia.
has been elected to the chair of math-
ematics in the university of California
She is looked on as one of the foremost
of American mathematicians, and her
work has been recognized by several
universities in Europe. Miss Smith
formerly occupied the chair of nathe-
MATES in the university of Johannes
burg, South Africa. Miss Smith is
firm believer in the higher education
for women, but is in doubt as to the
wisdom Of granding the ballot to wo-
men. Many attempts have been made
to have her cast her lot with the suf-
fragets, but she steadfastly has re-
fused to commit herself.
Jenny Toll Sawyer writes to the Out
look from Monroe. Mich; "It was my
great uncle, John l. DeGraff. who
made the victory on Lake Champlain
possible. I quote from a letter of
Commodore Macdonougs written to
Mr.. DeGraff, and still preserve in the
family: The aid I obtained through
your influence and responsibility ena-
bled ME to get the fleet ION Champlain)
ready. When I go to Washington,
which will he, I hope soon, 1 shall not
fail to represent to the secretary your
Kindness BY his advance of money
to fit out the fleet. Mr.. DeGraff lost
100000 in the depreciation of United
States treasury notes. only $4,000 of
which was ever paid to his heirs
At the beginning of the year there were
1874 2OS telephones in London.
One of the two observatories on the
sumit of Mont Blanc has been given up
because of the violence of the storms.
Electric laundries are being installed on
the big ocean liners, where all the wash
ing, drying and ironing is done by cleo
tricity.
Iowa ships approximately 600
pounds Of butter outside of it's borders
every year, the surplus product over and
above the home consumption.
On account of the notable success of the
wireless system as installed on vessels
an effort is being made to get lower
insurance rate on vessels thus equipped.
Tinplate making was introduced into
from SaXony in 1865, and the first
tnplate factory in France was established
in TIA. Tin plates were first made on a
commercial basis in the United States at
Pitt Shurer in 1879