Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-03
CLEANING AND GOSSIP.

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fine point at one end. At the desired
height an electromagnetic device, con-
nected with each tube and operated by
a barometer, breaks off the point of the
tube, admitting the air A few minutes
later second contract sends a current
through a platinum wire around the
broken end, melting the glass and seal
ing the tube. All the samples obtained
show argon and neon, but no helium
was found in air from above six miles.
1.-THE highest village in Europe" is the
Inscription on a post card which shows
a group of wooden cottages on a bleak
hill, with no sign of vegetation III sight
and having as a background range of
ice covered mountains. The name of
the place is CumeaZ, in the Carton
Wallis. 1t lies 2047 meters above the
sea level, "Where Monte Rosa raises its
gigantic head into the Clouds The
village consists of four families. and
the latest census gives it population
of g. 'The storms of spring and fall
and the SHOWS of the winter months"
says the sender of the card, 'make life
a dreary one, and still the people look
happJ, and doubtless they are So"
900 freight cars idle in this country;
now there are said to be less than 3d.
600.
The surgeons in Philadelphia have
just succeeded in cutting half of
mans backbone out without killing the
man.
We should turn around and give the
north pole to England. 1t would be
fine place to send her oversupply of
suffragets.
Austrian women cast their first bal
lot few weeks ago. Single women
and widows in the province OF Voranl-
berk who owned taxable property in
conformity with the new election laws
were allowed to vote for members OF
Parliament.
DR.. Balsiland, the president of the
American electro chemical society,
claims to have invented a new insula-
ton which has been named aukelita.
1t is made through the condensation
of formaldehyde and phenol, and is
said to be an sulator insoluble in all
ordinary dissolvents and does not melt
at high temperature.
A Swiss matchmaker has invented q
watch for the blind and is said to be
sWamped with orders for them. II
has no glass and its face is of enamel,
while the hands are inside the case.
The figures work automatically, APP
eparing little above the face as the
hands pass underneath. This makes
if easy to tell the exact time by the
touch.
A woman at Fresno, Cal, has eyolv-
ed an original plan for helping In the
effort for civic Improvement. She
has a large and unusually beautiful
garden and employs d number of gar
deners to raise plants and shrubs
which she gives to all who ask Tor
them to plant in their front yards. 1t
is said that she gave away number
of thousand plants during the past
summer.
Flocks Of migratory birds are passing
over the city nightly now, going south
from the northern points, where they
have spent the summer. great many
of these birds among them the robin
and the blachbird. come to South Caro-
lima from the Blue Ridge and other
mountains, where they nest in the sum-
mer and other birds are now en- route
to points farther south-Florida and
the islands off the coast. The journey
south is begun about this time each
wear, ard the birds all leave the north
ern points before the severity of winter
there has set in The mild climate or
the South in winter suits them better
and they come here in great droves.-
Anderson Is. O. Mail.
With the extension and development
OF the railroads of the eastern part or
Canada, the prospects grow brighter
fer the establishment OF a new ocean
route between the eastern and Western
continents. The terminus on this side
will be Green bay, Newfoundland, and
the other will be some convenient port
of Great Britain and the protector.
claim that this will possibly shorten
the transatlantic trip by Sc hours be-
tween the United States and England.
Rut little railroad construction is re-
oured to make the Green bay readily
accessible frolo any point A grea,
point in favor of this route is that it is
claimed to be practically free of fog,
and at ell seasons of the year vessels
may ply this water with speed and
safety.
Alma HollingswOrth of Portland, Or,
has made one of the fastest of all as
cents of Mt. Hood. She has far sur
passed the climbing records of other
women who nave gone up the noun
tain, and only three men have beaten
her speed. both on the climb and on the
descent. With three friends and a
guide she raced the snow line in the
afternoon. There part of the night was
spent, and in few hours the party. be-
gan to go through the five miles OF
snow to the summit. The start was
made at go A. NJ. and the crest was
reached at noon. Here an hour was
spent and then the descent began. 1t
was continued all the way down the
mOuntain and on to hotel, reached at
II p. NJ, giving a total distance for the
day of % miles. a dance was in prog
ress in the hotel and Miss Holdings
worth had enough energy left for
lively two-step.
According to the investigation of the
United States geological survey. Vir-
ginia was the pioneer coal producing
state. The occurrence of coal was