Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-05
CLEANING AND GOSSIP.

| Some OF the women WIZ DeloHS "
the Boston labor unions have formed
a choral society so that there may be
good singing at the labor meetings.
| Mrs. Russell Sage gave $4,000 to
Syracuse university on her last birth
day. The money is to be used as an
endowment fund for the teachers
college.
Bleriot the man who crossed the En-
gllsh channel in his monoplanc, has
| met with an even 80 smash ups during
I the course of his airship experiences
Rhodesia is rapidly being opened up
to commerce and when the line from
Zambesi to the Congo border is COM
p!eted she will have the service Of $500
miles of railways.
A woman in Joplin, Mo, wanted to
come East this fall, but she did not
know what she could do with her son
while she was away from home. she
went to judge and asked that the boy
be put in Jail, but the judge refused to
listen to her.
The highest garden in the world is
on the Petit ST. Bernard pass in the
Alps and is 5000 feet in the air. 1t was
started on a small scale about 10 years
ago under the patronage OF Queen
Margherita of Italy and has now grown
to considerable size. All sorts of
mountain flowers from all over the
world are grown there.
One of the officials of the Dutch
government in Java advocates killing
rats, which are a pest there, by using
carbon dsulphide. All the rat holes
which can be found inhabited are
treated with little dose of the
chemical, and then the vapor resulting
from it's evaporation is ignited. The
! explosion which results fills the hole
with poisonous gas that kills the rats
almost instantly.
Each of our new Dreadnought type
of battleShips is to be equipped with
three electrical elevators. This is not
to make the life Of the sailormen more
luxurious and to save them from walk
ing up and down stairs. The elevators
will be for the watch officers, who
have to go from fireroOm to frcroom
and are necessary because there are no
doors between these rooms on the
ships The first of our ships to have
an elevator was the Solace, and it was
installed as part of her hospital
equipment during the Spanish war.
Shortly after the restoration of the
Stuarts to the throne of England, some
| Royalist brought out q book to throw
ridcule on the late usurper," Oliver
Cromwell, for the simplicity of his
household. When alone with his wife
Cromwell was said to have dined on
eggs and Stops" Only $1,000 ($5000)
IN, n,t1 min
| ambassador, OF which Mistress Joan
Cromwell managed to save 6 200
$4,000. For all that, some excellent
dishes, such as warden pie. sack posset
and Dutch pudding. were known in the
| Cromwell household, and all the
remnants were given to the poor after
| each meal.
| In view OF the serious delays oc-
casioned in the ordinary telegraph SER
vice during the severe magnetic storm
| on September 25. says the Engineer, it
| is interesting to find W. H. Eccles
writing to the Electrician to say that
| although he was working a wireless
telegraphy station in Surrey between
the hours of 2.3O and p. NJ. on that
| day he did not kknow that a storm was
| in progress. so entirely absent was any
| sign of unusual disturbance The dis
| turbances set up in ordinary wire tele-
graphs are, of course, due to induction
caused by the fluctuations of the
magnetic field inclosed by the tele-
graph circuit. which consists of the
overhead wire and the earth return
In wireless biography there is no such
circuit. the message being transmitted
by waves in the ether, and. apparently
these are not affected by magnetic
| storms.
| Capt. Barclay was the great English
athlete OF the early 10Th century On
July II. 1909. the Newmarket bells rang
a peal in honor of his completed walk OF
a mile in each Of 1000 successive hours