Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-04
rubber in elasticity and other

rubber in elasticity and other pro,..
| ties.
| Preparations are being made al IA,
pers Ferry to move the old Lob.
| Brown fort from the Murphy farm
mile or two from town, to the cam,
at Storer college. The old buildias
to be taken down carefully and
erected in exactly the same sizes
shape as was the original. 1t vim
J Used by the college as a library
| museum.
| DIR. William Tell Kudlich n
| brought to the notice of the board "a
health Of HoLollen, n. j., plant fo,j
DISCRIMINATING the mosquito, wbictI
consists in planting mosquito-infestsj
tracts with arzoila. The plant is a ns
tive of Africa. In short time if Gov.
ers marshy lard with layer three in.
| @hes thick. thus 10th suffocating mos.
| quito larvae and preventing the liyine
Insects from depositing their eggs n
| the water -
Ten years ago it was estimated that
while, during the preceding half cen.
fury, the British merchant tonnage
had almost trebled, the number O,
| British seamen engaged in the mer.
camille marine had decreased by % Der
| cent, and the boys and young men BY
50 per cent. In 1857 there Were 9ssll
| petty officers and sailors, not includ.
ing Lascars, employed in the mercan.
| tile marine of the United Kingdom.
| in 1875 it was estimated thar Their
| were $1,000; in 1899 the estimated mum.
Der had fallen to 60,109, while in 1sa
there were only 44,290 -Fortnightb
Review.
1t is understood that a majority bod
of the Canadian and American com
missioners of the international water.
ways commission will recommend that
a dam be built on the Niagara river
opposite Buffalo and Fl. Erie, for thsI
purpose OF raising the level of Laks|
Erie. In the autumn of every yeaiI
there is a fall of about two feet in thu
level of the lake. This reduction 81
available navigation depth seriouskI
affects the shipping interests, and viii |
the increase in the size of vessels 1t b
becoming IA menace to navigation
The estimated cost of the dam is about
S., 100000.
A powerful autobiography plan
has been contracted for by the navy
department. This plant will be at
Washington, u. c., and will be guar.
anteed to transmit messages three
thousand miles across seas. The aerial
rroy iS,Si St.Sn will ho CIR
by 600-foot steel tower. The llant ID
guaranteed to be operative under all
atmospheric conditions and to be proof
against all Interference from all pres.
ent interchangeable apparatus in use
anywhere. 1t is reported that the ma
Wy operators unsuccessfully tried for
four days to interfere with the opera.
ton of a preliminary arrangement Of
the type of apparatus to be used. Ths
cost of the plant is stated as slS2d0'
The German mile is four times Longer
han the English.
Great Britain, in 1908, sold 500 O0M |
worth of coal to foreign nations.
A steam collier built entirely of cement
is being constructed by the Italian gov
ernment.
In order to construct the Manchesta
ship canal over 51,OO0,O0O cubic yards nag
be eXcavated.
Single-room dwellings for the use .
the poor are being experimental win
the city of Newcastle, England.
1t is proposed to transform tine
torious Blackwells Island in the ksA
river, New York, into the greatest tupe''
culosis hospital in the world
The success of the electrically ilunr
mated baseball grounds ConcinnatL "
has been so pronounced that it IS hos
proposed to have football games as wen
on the Illuminated field.
Salt is becoming one of the most iinpv.
tant minor industries of the sta'e
South Australia. The output this yea'
estimated at 10000 tons. Over LOW ~
is exported weekly to other Aus''sA.-
states and to New Zealand.
Brazilian exports in the first W.
months of 1909 totalled value Oh -
702, 900, an increase of $24900,oOo over =.
same months of 1905. Coffee and ruw's
enjoyed 80 per cent Of the increase =
ports decreased 1445 per cent.
The Gunnison tunnel, which is par. !"
great irrigation project in western W.
RADIO, is rapidly approaching cohp'sa
and will be the largest unders.V
waterway in the world. 1t is SIX li''s
length and will carry thirteen mum. "a,
cubic feet of water second It's y
will be over $2,5OO,OO0.
Mrs. Asher Richardson, of Asheiu.,
Tex, has been appointed assistant ss cas
superintendent of the Ashertown "a
railroad. Thirty-two miles OF the M
has been completed, and it IS now p,cs
extended sixty miles more MIS- ond
ardson has charge of the employment