Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-30

its nest.-The Field.
| The battlefield at Waterloo, writes an
American tourist from Brussels, is rapid
J ly being Invested of all it's interesting
| features. The houses which sheltered
men who helped to make history there
are being torn down, the roads and paths
are being obliterated and soon there will
be nothing left to remind one of Napo-
Icons last stand but the great mound
capped by the Waterloo lion. The mu-
scum, where all the battlefield trophies
are on view, uniforms arms, drawings
and pictures, was never a pretentious in
lstitution, but no visitor failed to look
with interest at the many exhibits behind
the glass doors. This also is to be dis
mantled and the articles which have been
| carefully kept for years will be distri-
buted among the provincial museums of
| Belgium, where as individual exhibits
they will lose much in value.
| Cecile Caricu, age nineteen years. living
| at Molene, France, is in an awkward
predicament On going to the marie to
have her marriage banns published, she
was told that legally she has no existence.
| Her parents had forgotten to have her in
scribed at her birth.
The State Federation of Women's Clubs
in Kentucky three years ago began a
campaign against illiteracy. 1t formed 10S
school improvement leagues in the 119
counties of the state and offered $500 as
prize to the rural school that did the most
to make itself a model public school.
The prize has just been awarded to the
Buckhorn school in Owsley county.
The only Roman Catholic priest who
ever was in Congress was Father Gabriel
Richard. who sat from a Michigan dis
trict and who impressed his colleagues
with his character and ability. He has
been recalled recently by the centenary
OF the setting up of the first printing
press in the middle west. Father Rich
ard issued, in 1909, from press set up in
Detroit the Essai .du Michigan.
How a water supply was Furnished Ft.
! Greble, on the Dutch island. in Nara
| gansett bay, is explained in Popular Me-
chanics. A submerged pipeline, AGO feet
| long, was laid from the Rhode Island
mainland, the average depth in water be-
ling thirty-five feet. AS may be imagined
this feat attended with numerous
difficulties, all of which were successfully
overcome.
| Both the French and Italian Govern
ments maintain national pawnshops
| People with an average income of
| from $1,000 to $4,000 a year live in far
more convenient houses in America
than in England.
| The first discovery that was made
| of coffee in Mexico by the early Span
ish settlers was through the action of
| the natives and mountain goats about
the plants
| 1t has been reported that the disease
known as trachoma, or granular eye
lids, has been spreading rapidly among
| the Indians. To check this trouble
Congress appropriated $4,000.
| On one of the Thousand Islands an
enterprising American has started a
pheasant farm. He expects in time to
have 1000 to 5000 English golden pleas
ants on his island.
| Jules Verne, author of Twenty
| Thousand Leagues Under the Sea-" re-
quired no legislative enactment to make
| him get up early. He rose at 1 in
the morning in the summer.
| The coffee plant or tree is little
different from most berry producers.
Instead of planting the seed the cof-
fee plant is grated from the old tree
| and set out in hotbeds until it has be-
| come rooted.
1t has been demonstrated by numer-
Gus experiments in Europe as well as
| in America that the pulp possessing
the best fiber for paper, and the most
practicable to make, is that derived
from the wood of the spruce and fir.
The Army and Navy Journal states
that new explosive recently invented
to, Of lisrl,{ AierI,f 1,n
ticularly adapted to aerial apparatus.
and, together with the soundless gun
and smokeless powder, combination
could be made which would be a most
subtle weapon of warfare.
Every German army corps possesses
six balloons for observation and sig
mailing purposes.
OF the 1928 miles of single-track
railways in 1890, only 15.5 per cent.
were operated by electricity.
At the beginning of last year there
were 34,304 miles of street railway.
$4,000 miles, or 90 per cent. of, which
were electrically operated.
A successful mechanical process for
the sterilization of books has been re-
Gently devised in France, and sug-
gestion is being considered providing
for the establishment of plants in diff
ferent parts of the city for the regu-
lar treatment of the volumes used in
the schools.
Lack of employment is not new
question. Says the Liverpool Mercury
of February IA, 1872: ut is of the
highest importance that committee
of the Legislature should Immediately
, inquire into the causes of the present
want of employment among the labor
ing classes"
An Australian has patented an m
! venticn by which, he claims, books ana
, newspaper printing will be placed on
} an entirely new basis. BY the use Oh
! a large number of keys provision ~
! made for producing the more common
syllables and word examinations Dy
the touch of a key, so that one man can
write from $4,000 to 10000 letters in an
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