Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-08
Odd Items of Interest
The Zeppelin l weighed ten tons.

Inc Zeppelin l weighed ten IONS.
Montenegro is about half the size
Of Wales and contains but one rail-
way.
Count Zeppelin made his first ascent
in 1900 and attained q speed of thirteen
feet a second.
Naval guns are fitted with small
electric glow-lamps. so that they can
be utilized at night.
Fines or Imprisonment are the pun
iShmcntS in Prussia for keeping chill
dren away from school.
During the course of his aeronautic
experiments Santos Dumont alto
gcther constructed fourteen airships.
English was spoken by 22,000,0 900 peo-
pie at the beginning of the nineteenth
century. Now more than 100,000,OoO
people speak it,
An eight-track swing bridge across
the main channel of the Chicago drain
age canal, near Thirty first street, will
be operated by electricity.
In Massachusetts tree planting is
Systematically conducted along the
public highways. Fifteen thousand
trees have been planted in few years.
The Italian laborers who are con-
structing the electric railway from the
Engadne to the Italian lakes get only
60 cents a day, and of that they man
age to save something for their fam
lilies.
Lord Strathcona, the veteran high
commissioner of Canada, has returned
home from London. He is eighty
nine years old and holds the record
as a transatlantic passenger, having
crossed and recrossed more than $50
times.
Before sentencing man at the Lon
don sessions to eighteen months i'm
prisonment for stealing a dog the
chairman said if he had stolen the col
lar. which was less valuable, he could
have been sent to penal servitude.
There We're twenty-one previous con-
victions against him, all for stealing
dogs.
John Pollen, president of the British
Esperanto Association, bearing a green
flag with a single star. which is the
emblem of the association and signl-
fies "Brotherhood and Justice Between
Nations" recently arrived from Eu-
rope and will be entertained by the
American devoteeS of that language.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. is erecting
twenty warehouses, factories and ad-
dtionS, eleven schools and education
al institutions, twenty business and Of
flee structures and twenty-five apart
ment houses, several OF the latter cost
ing about 100000. Since the first of
the year about 100 fine residences
have also been erected or are building
in the city.
Students OF the Crustacea often find
the cod a useful assistant collector.
Thus the circular crab seems to be a
favorte food of Gods and rays, and
| it was chiefly from the stomachs of
turalists obtained their specimens
Another hunting ground of the natur-
alst is the sailing ship which has
been in foreign parts.
The oldest newspaper in Belgium is
the Gazette van Gent, which received
the privilege of printing Gendtsche
Post TydingheE on November II. 1866,
and which has existed almost contin-
uously since the first number was
printed on January /, 1867. The oldest
copy preserved is No. 60 of September
8. 1867. The next Oldest newspaper in
Belgium is Independence Beige, in
it's eightieth year.
Professor Charles Richet, of Paris.
has devised a means for purifying the
air in rooms. His apparatus is an air
| filter which mechanically sterilizes air.
Very fine drops of glycerin are scatter
ed along the walls Of cylinder con-
tanning a suction fan. Each particle
of air drawn in by the fan is freighted
with glycerin and hence tends to DROP
thereby carrying with it the germs.
dust and microbes with which it may
be laden.
Twenty years ago J. p Morgan, Jr.,
began working as shipping clerk
with Drexel, Morgan & Co. Later he
became executive head of his fathers
London house. He assisted in organ
izing the London Underground and the
International Mercantile Marine Com
pany-the so-called "ship trust" He
is director of both the above com
panies, of the United States Steel
Corporation. the Northern Pacific
railway, Acadia Coal Company. and
|of the North British Mercantile In
surance Company.