Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-28

proved serious impeachment to navs,I
ton on many fthe southern rivers
! this country. A great number of 81
| gestions have been tried, and the sprs
| ing process has been found to be the m
effectual and economical. Two goys
ment boats are engaged in the wo
| Each is equipped with tanks for the b
| ing of a mixture of white arsenic, 8
| soda and water. This is sprayed on III
| plants, and as the latter are about SO D.
cent water there is very little residp
after they wilt down under the action n
the poisonous solution.
Professor Jevons, of Cardiff universal
college Wales, addressed n meeting Of uaH
members of the Cardiff exchange on thu
theory of connection between sunspos p
and trade cycles. The lecture was illnsU
trated by diagrams dealing with prices
falling trade, wages and wheat yields all l.
of which Professor Jevons contended |
went to establish the claim originate
made by his father, the late Professm
| Stanley Jevons, that the periodcity d
sunspots had a direct relation to the peri |
! odicity of trade cycles. In so far as PAD l.
records enabled him to anticipate the IA.
ture of the coal trade. he fixed upon 1911
or possibly 1917, as the great boom year
Travellers and connoisseurs who haWI
| tasted all the fruits of the world are d
one voice and rapt opinion in pronouns
| ing the oranges of Bahia, Brazil, the sa
ereign lord and king of all fruits. Til
dreamed-of apples of .Hesperides no mon
no nd hos
| oranges bring than a crow touches
channel-crosing flying machine. The b.
han orange is not only. a gastronomfX
surprise, but n startling awakening d
the mind to something new and stranga
Like the first touch of loves youns
dream. one can not all at once reair
that life and the world could contain any
thing so deliciously sweet and perfect
New York Press.
A test was recently made in England q
steam engine designed to work al
pressures of as high as one THOUSAND
pounds to the square inch. According to
engineering the tests showed geant
economy of 1875 pounds a brake hbrs
power an hour The engine is of the ID
verified V-type. with sight cylinders, tk
high pressure two inches. low pressun
| five inches in diameter each pair belM
arranged in tandem on two cranks. tn
stroke is four inches; the speed eigh
hundred revolutions a minute. Forced
fabrication is used, the oil being pumped
into the steam on it's way to the cyir
ders. In the test the steam pressure was
five hundred pounds, temperature 40 Dc
grees, the revolutions seven hundred
minute and the brake horse power DE-
veloped 1866
Only 80 per cent of the inhabitants
Cicily are able to read and write.
Whiteboards are being substituted M
| blackboards in some of the Englia
schools.
Miss Gertrude E. Curtis of Bradfon
Pa. is said to be the first negro girl 2
become a dentist in the eastern states
The two Waterside stations of the Nes
York Edison Company, in First ayenN
between Thirty-eigth and Thirty-mni
streets, New York City, are said to max
| together the largest electric light aH
power plant in the world. capable oil sug
plying 100000 horse power of electnca
| installation. tf'stBU
Cuba probably has the smallest nun
| ming bird in the world-Calypte Heitn.
| (named after Princess Christian); bu'
may have a rival in tininess in a ren
Wan species of Acestrura. The Calys.
Helenae is an exquisite little creature ~
quite two and one-half inches long W.
a forked crimson gorget.
| What is to be an important discovu
in the glass industry has been maze
Mr.. Lite, which will tend to reves
| tionize the art of grinding glass.
grinder which he has discovered IS y
from one-half best Portland cement
one-half silica sand. In this stone 'n
are no soft or hard spots and
grind glass without scratching. the y
| of the grindstone is about 10 per "
that of the common grindstone.
Fear has arisen in the breast of ~
Zealander in England caused by inc
nouncement that the Dreadnought W.
his native country is to give to INC
pire will be the thirteenth ship prese''
to the British navy. However, the =
lteenth gift ship is not the Dreadnos
but the hospital ship Maine. winch
fitted up for use in the South Az
war, and has since served prlncipas'
the Mediterranean. The Maine WIZ
gift of Mr. Baker, an American ciu.s
The Birmingham Age-Herald IN ~ 81,
ing for a strong compulsory euu IA
law in Alabama calls attention 10 ~ M
that of $4,000 children of school ae 81,
161, 900 white children and lS'W 81,
children were attending school, ae'v .nss
to the census of 1900 'When az g.
ances are made" says the Aee Y
at is seen that under the volun'M.
tenn one-half of the states chiiu's IN
} sent to school and one-half are penn,
to grow up without learning to rec
} write. ,,rt
The largest electrically controlieu
} tower in the world has just been ~
} service at Providence, f. l., on 81. ~
. York, New Haven & Hartford N
; The tower is equipped with seVen ,ss,vs
switch levers, providing 266 coll'v .,.ssa
Elaborate precautions are 1uiin ~
prevent the giving of "rohe =.
The power used is taken from ...a,t
wires of the railway, but. as = ~ aroyl1
1.-TWO other sources of power are Pc -
(which may be drawn upon =
emergency.