Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-26

Germany, will be permanently eida6f&
in April. These mines have "a
going back upward Of I,9oQs n
fhe first thalers, from which e
the word dollar, were coined iron
silver from these ancient Saxon !
mines, and for centuries the German /
traders, called easterlings, from whose !
merchants and bankers I'M ENGLAND
the word sterling as applied to pounds
sterling came into use, derived thela
bar and coined silver for trading
the great fairs Of all parts Of Eun
from these Saxon mines. Many ~
was fought in order to get contfot
the silver mines at Freiberg.-Finan&
l think myself that what, as much .
as anything else, laid the foundation
of the American voice was the
nervous illhealth, lasting over three or
four generations, of the American
woman. Up to the middle of the 4
nineteenth century, and even beyond
foreigners were surprised when they
came across a healthy looking woman
The isolation of frontier life, the gen.
eral tension of the American climate.
malaria, bad diet and worse santa |
ton, combined to turn one-half the .
nation into ssemi-invalids; and the
thin, sharp, solvenly, staccato tones OF |
the American women were as often az
not the result of physical and nervous |
depression. I do not say that Ill
health was the sole cause, but it is |
undoubtedly the fact that as the
health of Americans has improved so
have their voices.-London Chronicle.
iah I'd
of Frankfort, reports that asQermaai
publication. the Practical AsdNt4af31
Fruit Raising and Gardening
that a new method for keeping - ~
toes and preventing sprouting conatsf
in placing them on a layerTdf COKE
DR.. Schiller, Of Brunswick, who has
published the method, Is OF tina
opinion that the improved ventilation
by means of coke is not alone re-
sponsible for the result, but believes
that it is due to the oxidation of the
coke, which, however, is a very slow
one. Coke always contains sulphur
and it is very possible that the minute
quantities of oxides of carbon and
sulphur, which result from the oxida-
ton, mising with the air and pene.
trating among the potatoes are SUI
ficient to retard sprouting. Potatoes
so treated are said to keep in good
condition until the following July
The envelope was invented in 1858
and was in disfavor for a long time.
The average elevator in large Of
flee building travels about 20 miles
an hour.
The voice of a man has been known
~ fhrnnOh DO.1OOl
trumpet.
A new method for welding steel pipes
at high speed, a German invention, mas
been adopted by the japanese navy ior
forming masts. and an English nlln
has scured the right to use the process
in that country.
The continued and growing prosper
ity Of the Argentine Republic ana nee
neigilbors is inducing several European
countries to expand their trade IN tha1
direction. Sweden, Denmark, Holiano'
Austria and Russia are all planning
new steamship lines to South America'
The potato, which was already cur
tivated in America when the continent
was discovered, Is spontaneous IN Chi'e'
Tt was introduced to Europe in 1880 anu
1885 by the Spaniards. and almost ~
the same time by the English, VINO
brought it from Virginia, where IL hau
appeared about 1850.
Judge Robertson of Chandler stopped
little newsboy at the Denver con-
yention and asked for an Oklahoma
paper. where is Oklahoma?" asker
another newsboy who stood by.
don't know where 1t is," answered tne
first hopeful, "but it's where all 'i''
convention came FROM"
Isaac Charles Johnson, the inventor
of Portland cement, is still living !"
Gravesend, England, and active 81 .n'
age of SO. He was born in the year lelS
when George II was King and JeneI
son was President, and when NepoieoA
was at the zenith of his power. MI
Johnson won an education under oin-
cu'ties, as his parents were poor.
In the last half-dozen years the earn
ings of the cable lines between Europs
and India show an annual profit OF ~
OoO, 900 to 100000.
A lOOO-horsepower vertical gas englns'
said to be the largest of its kind. was r.
Gently put into operation at Runcorh
driving an electric generator.
A rootless cactus is to be found IN tns
deserts of California It is q round. COM
pact growth and rolls about the lew
floor of the desert for eight or mn
months Of the year.
Someone asked MAX Nordau to DEM.
the difference between genius and insar
Ity. WELL" said the author Of 'Desen
Grafton THE lunatic is, at least sure =
his board and clothes"
Headwear made OF straw was already Y
use among the ancient Greeks, but stIs~
hats. like those we wear. did NOT 60
into use in Europe until half censa'A