Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-24
Odd Items of Interest


to be the coolest city in the world. 1t
is the great commercial emporium of
eastern Siberia and the capital of the
province of Yakutsk, which in most
of it's area of 1,517,O63 square miles is
a bare desert, the soil of which is
frozen to great depth. Yakutsk con-
sists of about four hundred houses of
European structure, standing apart.
The intervening spaces are occupied
by winter yoorts, or huts of the north
ern nomads, with earthen roofs. The
doors are covered with hairy hides and
the windows are OF ice.
ST Edmund's Hall, Oxford, the inde-
pendence of which seems threatened
by neighboring Queens College, is now
the sole survivor of the original halls
from which university life arose al
Oxford. 1t bears the name not of the
martyred Saxon monarch but Of Arch
bishop Edmund Rich, who possibly
about 1919 delivered near this spot thu
first oxford lectures on Aristotle This
legend once enabled the present
principal to retort that if Dante really
visited Oxford he might cOnceivablJ
have studied at st. Edmund's Hall
lbut not at Queens College, which did
not then Observation-Disclosures Gazette
The little village of Buckland the
Moor has many claims to distinction
1t has population of fewer than one
hundred, and entirely belongs to tn"
Rev. W. p. Bastard who lives at
auckland Court and who has just cele-
brated his golden wedding by enter
ltaining his tenants. Time was when
the big house" was looked upon az
comprising half the population. Buck
land is also unique inasmuch as it has
no public house, no policeman, no
physician, no clergyman and no
pauper 1t is in the Ashburton church
living, and all old people there are
pensioned by the estate owner
London Standard.
| All navigators will be Interested in
the news which comes from Liverpool
that Sir oliver Lodge recently sue
ceeded in completely clearing away for
Ia radius of sixty feet a thick fog by
means of electrical discharges. The
Marine Journal states that the Lodge
system consists of driving electricity
into a fog Laden atmosphere at a very
high voltage from a series of disks at
the tons of poles The current acts
directly upon the constituents OF the
fog the electric influence WhlrlinG
these hither and thither, causing them
gradually to fall to the ground. A test
is soon to be made of the apparatus IN
London.
"The planting of trees in streets ana
public spaces is a sure means OF IN
creasing the healthfulness of a town
as well as adding to it's beauty But,
saws a writer in Building World, mol
all trees are suitable for town plant
ing: and in order to insure success,
nursery in which to grow the selected
trees should be established in tins
neighborhood. London appears to bt
well provided in this respect. IN.
London County Council maintains Its
own nurseries, and large tracts OF
ground at Avery Hill are reserved fol
the rearing of young trees, whose ultl-
mate destinations are the various
PARKS and public gardens of the
metropolis"
Underground passages for pedcstrl-
ans are to be built at various points
beneath the Champs Elysees. PARIS
2 which the constant stream of motor
cars now renders impossible IRON
! morning till evening. The congcstl''1
|
to an alarming extent and all through
, fares round the Opera are blocked VIII.
the traffic for hours morning and al
ternoon. If the Champs Elysees tun-
, nels prove a success others will BIZ
exeayated in the center of Paris ano
foot Messengers will in the future cross
not over the streets, but under them
II had been hoped to build the APP
~ II,
| ground passages in inclined planes
: down which preambulators could nave
l been rolled easily. But this mas peer
: found too costly and only stalrcases
will be provided.
} Mrs. r. II. Tucker. of Spokane
Wash, is said to be the first woma'
wireless operator in the world. "A
, present she is in charge of the statloi
, on the steamship Indianapolis, plying
between Seattle and Tacoma. Speak
ing of wireless tclegraphy as bust
ness for women, Mrs. Tucker said tina
the ONLY reason she could think of VIII.
women do not go into this service i:
that they are afraid of the instruments
The people of Eschweg think Svel
Hedin a good business man. The mer
chants association of that place in
vited him to deliver lecture tnere
and in reply received letter from thu
, explorer in which he said he would b.
delighted to comply with the request
but expected to receive in return 4,5O
marks. The secretary of the organiza
ton answered that the price was no.
in keeping with their modest means
ard that the explorer probably fanciet
that the invitation emanated from {
colony of American gold mine owners
| In a manifesto to Jewish undergrad
yates at oxford, Cambridge and Lon
don universities, Leopole de Rothschild
Professor Israel GOlloncz, Arthur Co
hen X. c., and other graduates reply t.
the suggestion that the Jewish stu.
dents can not be English in thought
"While we may hold different concep
tons of Judaism" it is stated, Eve al
agree in regulating the suggestion
that Judaism does not alloy it's adher-
ents to become entirely English in
thought We regard it as dangerous