Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-13

| Concrete, when brought into contact
with water, steadily acquires COM
| pactness and resistant power until it
attalns its maximum in those qualities,
which it retains indefinitely and with
out deterioration.
Whalebone cost only 35 cents a pound
half century ago. Today it costs
about S. a pound. The total product
landed from the American fisheries
during the nineteenth century exceeded
9OMO,O0O pounds. A single whale may
yield up to 1000 pounds.
| Mt. Washington is the highest point
| in the New England states. Its hight
is 6,279 feet. Mt. Mitchell is the high
est point in North Carolina, 6,710 feet,
and a number of other peaks in the
Black mountains of that state are
over $500 feet above the sea. Mt.
Guyot, in Tennessee is $685. feet high.
The cog road up Pixies Peak is So.
miles IN length.
The United States navy contains
twenty-nine battleships as follows:
Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Oregon,
Kearsarge, Kentucky. Illinois, Ala
bama, Wisconsin, Maine, Missouri,
Ohio, Virginia, Nebraska. Georgia,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, Louisiana, Vermont, Kansas, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Idaho, New Hamp-.
shire, South Carolina, Michigan, Della,
ware and North Dakota
This college professor like many
other men of erudition. was fond of
Lewis Carroll. While visiting his sis
| ter he asked his niece, miss of fif-
IN
Glass for him from the public Ii
| brary. She evidently did not like the
| task, and he asked her the reason.
With some hesitation she replied: oh.
I'll get it if you really want it. But I
don't like to have the librarian think
that l read children's books"
The making of tin plate originated
in Bohemia, according to a recent pa
per by William E. Gray, hammered
iron plates having been coated with tin
in that country some time before the
year 1900 Tin plate making was in
troduced in England in 1868, the art
being brought there from Saxony. In
France the first commercial manufac-
ture Of tin plate in the United States
was at Pittsburg, in 1872.
The Erie canal was begun in 1917
and completed in 1925 and cost S7.2O0,-
900. Its construction was due chiefly
to De Witt Clinton, who was Governor
IF New York during nearly all of the
period covered by it's construction. AT
! the present time the canal is seventy
feet wide at the surface. ffty-six feet
wide at the bottom and has a general
1epth of seven feet. There are fifty
81 p,rJa
| 10 feet long and eighteen feet wide.
| It is 563 miles in length.
The owners of a St Abs (England)
fishing boat have made the important
discovery that a net dyed as nearly
Us possible the hue of the sea. instead
If the traditional brown. yields much
larger results in the matter of fish
caught. The discovery was, says the
Western Morning News. put to the test
? short time ago, when, one of fleet
Of siXty-five boats, the boat with it's
nets dyed blue made far and away the
largest catch. The dye used is blue
stone. The discovery has aroused
much interest among the fishermen.
Fifty more colonies in Georgia. fifty
more uniforms. fifty more notable citi-
zenS march. fifty more follow the
lorns. Fifty more colonies in Georgia.
that makes ten thousand and one:
fifty more fellows to strut and have
un, fifty more Georgia big guns.
They're thicker than "skeeters'' in Jer-
'ey. they're thicker than crabs in the
| bay, until the whole state of old Georg-
| q is getting to be one ''Hooray." But
l Georgia is dry as a boneyard-oh, list
20 the mournful nd!-with fifty
| more colonies in Georgia, and not
l enough drinks to go roun6.-Baltimore
| Sun.