Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-12-21
cLEANiNos AND GOSSIP.

1900 feet in IL tidal narDof1
A series of wireless telegraph sta
tons are to be established in Siberia
so that the government in st. Peters,
burg can keep in constant commune
cation with the East.
The total length Of streets cleaned
in Berlin last year was 800 miles, and
2.056 men and boys were employed in
the work. The boys received 90 cents
day and the men SO.
1t is said that year ago at this
time the steel car builders had orders
for $4,000 cars and now they have or
ders for 10000, which will keep the
plants busy until well into June.
A variable stroke petroleum engine
has been designed, intended to over
come the difficulties which prevented
such engines being applied directly to
the shaft Of vehicle, as in the case
Of the steam engine.
Most of the savage animals in the
London 700 have their claws cut and
only recently the director has discov-
cred that chlorofOrm can be admins
tered to them safely so that the opera
ton may be done without danger to
the keepers.
One of the scientific papers says
that an airship or torpedo may be
controlled in its movements by sounds
conveyed through air or water and
caught by number of vibrators at
tached to it. Sounds conveyed
through water are much more effec
lively transmitted than through air.
and a submarine boat can be con-
trolled at a greater distance than an
airship can be.
According to the report of forest
service. Washington Louisiana, Mis-
sissppi, Arkansas and Wisconsin, in
the order named, lead in producing
the country's lumber supply the
valuation of which for the last year
exceeded $500,000,000. Texas, Michi-
gan, Oregon, Minnesota and Pennsyl-
vania come in order after the five
leaders with Utah the lowest on the
list, and Nevada and North Dakota
unmentioned because of their very
small timbered area.
People are very careful about enter
ing room where person is i'll with
Il contagious disease, but NJ Remliger
Of the Pasteur institute says that they
never pay any attention to the pet
animals which go in and out and are a
grave source of danger. A typoid bug
will live for II days in the hair of a
dog, and diphtheria germ for "a
Furry and woolly toys. such as chill
dren play with, are also very danger
Gus things to have in the sick ROOM
Coon meat looks and tastes some
thing like guinea fowl, being dark
and tough unless fixexd up right A
coon is more dainty and precise than
la 'possum about what it eats A
'possum. like a hog, will eat anything,
any sort of carcass Many old
southern darkies hold to the belief
that they must have at least one mess
of coon meat Il winter to keep off old
fashioned negro consumption. which
used to raVage negroes even worse
than it now does the Indians.-New
York Press.
Lieut.. SEaclZleton tells how when in
the Antarctic wastes he and his COM
panions susta med their spirits and
bodies as wen when supplies had to
be cut down to minimum by dwell
ing upon the glorious eating they
would have on returning to headuuar-
ters. The value of such mental sus-
tenance has long been recognized by
up to-date commanders There was
the German officer in the war of 1870
who sustained the tagging spirits
and weary legs Of his men by shout
| ing; There is a brewery inside that
town. Let us get there before any
body else. History relates that the
men did get there with remarkable
speed
1llegible handwriting. which has
given rise to so many comedies. led to
a tragedy in the case of Bacher. a
musical enthusiast of the last century.
who devoted several years to the COM
position of a history of Viennese
music. His task finished, he sub
mltted the manuscript to the Austrian
imperial academy. which he had been
led to believe would defray the cost of
its publication. After three months
MS manuscript was returned: despite
their best efforts the members had
been unable to decipher it. Bacher
then endeavored to have his work
copied: but every professional copyist
VINO undertook the task had to confess
himself baff1ed. He thereupon at
tempted debating the work. only to
ind that even he could not decipher
1T; and, heartbroken at the discovery
that his years Of toll had proved fruit
less, he attempted suicide. and fin
lshed his days in a lunatic asylum.
The climatic conditions of Manchuria
show all gradations from semiariditv
to the humidity of the American corn
belt and tie dry cold of Manitoba. The
most characteristic feature is the
bright sunshine which rivals that of
Colorado. But to offset this there are
often heavy dust storms in the winter
and spring and long and heavy rains in
August.
Col Edward II. r. Green. the son of
Hetty Green. does not need much of
his mothers money to help him along
as ne * one of the richest and most
prominent men in Texas. He is rresi-
dent of one of its largest banks, direc.
tor in three more. big cattle raiser
and the owner and manager of a large
railroad system. AS a side issue he
raises flowers end mas next to the larg-
est set of greenhouses in the cU1rtry