Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-19

tive that last August record OF us
deaths of babies under two years old
will not be repeated The city will be
mapped into twenty-four districts, each
under the particular supervision of
some organization. There will be TWEEN
tv-one free milk stations, numerous
lay nurseries and five tent hospitals
for babies.
That the earth must shine on the
moon even as the moon on the earth
is obvious. To detect this light from
the earth on the lunar surface and sci
entificaliy prove it's existence is anoth-
er matter. 1t IS interesting to find that
recent number of French astrono-
mcal paper contains two photographs
Of parts of the moon illuminated by
earth light They were taken by M.
Que nisset at the Juvisy observatory.
The kOrriganS, superstitious peasants
believe. are the black dwarfs of Brit
tany who dwell in the sacred Druidic
circles of the menhirs and count their
cash in the moOnshine When mere
mortals encounter them by night the
korrigans force their visitors to dance
with them around and around, singing
monotonously the names of the days of
the week from Monday to Sunday.
This is the theme Of the best-known
tradition dealing with them the story
of Lao and the korrigans.
An extensive dealer in potatoes in
Bermuda has shipped to Avoca, Steu-
ben county, New York, 125 bushels of a
choice variety of this years crop, to
be grown in that locality, the crop to
he shipped back to Bermuda to use as
seed for next seasons planting. This
method is adopted to obtain hardy and
vigorous seed and in case the expert
ment is successful as it is believed it
will he it is probable that it will be re-
peatcd on a much larger scale in sue
ceeding seasons. Most Of the seed
has already been placed among leading
growers, who have contracted TO grow
it for AZ cents a bushel. Last year a
Bermuda grower put this method to
trial at Waterville. Long Island. and
the idea is evidently gaining favor.
While 10000 volts was considered a max
imum tension for transmission lines a few
years ago, they are now using I2OO. An
SO,OO0-volt line thirteen and one-half miles
long is now building, and a line has been
designed for 100000 volts.
Africa produces the worlds supply of
ivory. Its elephants are mammoths, diff
ferent in shape from 1ndia's tuskless be-
hemoth, and with ancestors which are
found and preserved in arctic ice, pre-
historically true to today's African type.
The Indian animal has never been quite
the same structurally, has never grown
tusks worthy of the name, and is a plain
beast of burden, more valuable alive than
dead.
Worcester, Mass. has under considera-
tnon an ordinance against whistling. One
Of the features of it is that if a man
thinks he can't get along without MAX
ing alleged music he can indulge himself
by taking out license. The Boston
Journal, jeering at the proposed enact
ment, says that a tax for sidewalk con-
versation will be the next on the list. 1t
also suggests a fine for all persons who
dc not wear rubber heels.
According to the report for 1907-0S
of the London county council educa-
ton committee, there were in the
schools SS2,S34 elementary scholars-a
decrease on the year of 1853. The cost
of building schools has decreased from
SIC 12s Cd in 1901 to G12 lis Cd a schol
ar in 1J07-0S. To insure attendance
4,250,n00 visits were made by school at
tendance officers during the year. The
number of summonSeS decreased from
20,5S4 in 1902-03, to 1867 in 1907-0S.
A worlds record for long distance
telegraphy was established on January
23, when the direct transmission of
messages between London and India
was begun. The extreme distance over
which a message was flashed without
interruption and repetition. was about
1000 miles. The line OF wires that car
ricd these messages was recently COM
pleted by the filling up of the gap be-
tween Teheran and karachi. The
Wheatstone system of automatic trans
mission is used throughout the line.
The decision of the presiding judge
in the Vienna children's court in the
"Twclve Cigarettes Case has. accord
ing to the Wiener Tageblatt, created
20 co omeni A slxteen-year-old
servant girl took from a dresser In
her mlstresS's boudoir box containing
twelve cigarettes. Regretting the pill
ferinr. she fastened back to the room
and threw the little box on her mis-
treSs'S bed, where it was found, ana
no complaint was made. Some weeks
later. however, the girl was discharged
for trifling cause and the cigarette
incident came to the knowledge of the
police. The girl was arraigned, and,
although she insisted that she never
smoked and had no friends for whom
she might have taken the cigarettes,
that the act was prompted by sudden
impulse and Immediately regretted, she
was convicted and sentenced to TWEEN
ty-four hours confinement in prison.
From Cleveland comes the wall OF
an old fashioned man who longs for
the things that were. Desiring to get
bootjack, he visited six stores in his
search, but at none of them was the
article kept in stock. In half the
places the spruce young clerks had
never heard of such a thing, and one
bright youth of a later generation
brought out a shoe horn in the conf
dent belief that that was the thing de-
Sired Not even i'm the souvenir shops
could the object Of search be dis
covered.