Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-03
Odd Items of Interest

Irish agricultural associations are
moving for the Introduction of advanc-
ed farming appliances.
st. Augustine's sermons lasted about
eighteen minutes, but in that ancient
day it was no uncommon thing to have
several at the same service. When
two or more bishops were present it
was usual for them and the presbyters
to preach one after the other, reserving
the last place for the highest dignitary.
Some consolation, however, was to be
found in the fact that applause was
permitted and many of st. Chrysls-
toms sermons were hailed with the
tossing of garments and waving of
handkerchiefs."
An uptown jeweler, in commenting
on the increased diamond importation
in April--S1, s55, S29.55. against $197, 231 .SS
in APRIL last year--said that the dia-
mond trade had shown marked i'm
provement before the importation sta
tistics had been made public. In the
course of the financial panic valuable
pieces were dismantled and paste was
substituted for gems. 1.-The fact that
many of the pieces have been restored
to their original condition is proof that
the diamond business is looking up"
he said.--New York Tribune.
A new method of transmitting pho
tographs to distant has recently been
devised A. gelatine negative is used.
in which the picture is formed in relief.
A stylus travels over the uneven sur
face Of the negative and operates a
rheostat in the main line. At the re-
ceiving station luminous ray plays
over q sensitiZed plate, and the inten-
sity of it's light is varied by the rheo-
stat. The reliefs and hollows of the
original are thus reproduced In light
and shadow on the sensitized medium,
and form the pictures. This method
Of transmitting pictures was recently
tried with success en- the line between
Paris and Lyons.
Time brings revenges, even in the
timber trade, and an humble confer
long treated with contempt seems. lit
orally, to be on the point of getting a
rise in the world. Hitherto the black
spruce" says the Dundee Advertiser,
has been despised by our few British
foresters as of meager commercial val
ne. the yellowish timber being soft and
easily indented, though very light and
long of grain. 1t has lately been dis
covered that. by virtue of the last
named two qualities, this tree furnishes
by far the best wood for aeroplanes.
AS yet the black spruce has rarely
been planted by our sylvicultursts
save for ornament or shelter"
More than 100000 children of school
age are annually laid PROSTATE by the
three preventable diseases of diphthe-
ria, tuberculosis and scarlet fever. and
20. 200 of these illnesses terminate ia
tally. Ir diphtheria and scarlet fever,
the infection generally passes from
pupil to pupil in the early stage Of the
disease, which only medical inspection
can detect Over $1,000 cases of con-
tagious eye diseases were excluded for
various transmissible ailments ranging
from diptheria to whooping cough In
Philadelphia about 10000 of the school
attendants during the year are exclud-
which menace the health of their as
sociates.-Tecllnical World Magazine.
John Milton, DR.. Samuel Johnson
Sir Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shell
ley, John Keats. Thomas Hood, Lau-
| renee Sterne, Thomas de Quincy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry
Thoreau, Moliere, Schiller. Goethe
Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Lanier
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Honore de Balzac, Jane Aus
ten, Samuel Butler. Edward Gibbon
Francis Beaumont, Baruch Spiroza
Emmanuel Kant, John r. Green. Rich
ard Baxter, Marie Bashkirtseff, Jear
Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin
Charles Kingsley. Robert Southey anG
Nine. De Stael are among the confuse:
found by Arthur G. Jacobson. M, d.
who has studied their health records
to have suffered from some form o.
tuberculosis or to have died Of it,
New York Times.