Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-11
GLEANiNGS AND GOSSIP.

The first automobile made its appear
ance in Shanghai in 1902 and was an
American car After six years there
are but l40 cars there. and only five Of
them are owned by natives.
Stockings made from human hair are
worn by Chinese fishermen as the best
preventive of wet feet. They arc
drawn over ordinary cotton stockings
being too rough for putting near the
skin
Louisiana is estimated to waste 75.
00C, 900 cubic feet of natural gas daily
more than 1-20 of that consumed in the
United States, and the secretary Of
tt e interior has withdrawn from entry
600 acres of natural gas fields.
The largest single filtration plant in
the world is said to be the one re-
Gently completed for Fittsburg. The
sedimentation basins have a capacity
of 120,OO0.OOO gallons. and the filtered
water reservoir room for 50,0000OO gal
lois.
A permanent national exposition at
Madrid. for the promotion of which an
organization has been formed in Spain.
will have for one of its chief objects
the stimulation of scientific methods in
A new stop watch has been brought
out for use of physicians and nurses
in counting pulse beats. The pressure
Of q button starts it and when given
number of beats have been counted.
South Russia has among its valuable
minerals rock salt, coal, coprolites,
kaolin. sands for glassmaking and
other purposes. manganese and iron
ores. the latter being easily first in
Importance. free of phosphorus and
with little sulphur.
The copper bath in which Marat was
slain by Charlotte Corday is for sale
ir Paris. it vas sold once to q mu-
scum ior $500. but it is for sale again.
1t is described as an old tub, shaped
like wooden shoe and scared from
ancient usage
The number Of physicians practicing
in Paris is placed at $500, but only
about one-half of these make moro
than $500 a year. Dentists do some
what better; Il fashionable one can
easily earn $4,000. while in some cases
this figure is greatly exceeded.
British automobiles exports now
amount 20 a value of $225O0,000 q year.
Factories are full or orders as q re-
suit OF the recent automobile show at
the Olympia in London. About SO per
cent. of the orders are for closed cars.
usually of the landaulet style.
A spring at Bad Centnerbrunn, ST.
lesia about q miles from Breslau. has
been found to possess n distinctly
marked radioctivity, leading to the
conclusion that before appearing at the
surface the water flows through strata
containing radium in considerable
quality.
The Vanderbilt fortune, once the
| greatest financial power in the United
States. probably amounts. at the pres
ent moment, to not far from $500, 900 :
orc. Of this, William Nissan Wander
blt. who controls the majority of the
family properties, holds in the neigh
| Eorhood Of S1oO.0M,0O0 while II or l.,
| descendants of the commodore share
among themselves the remaining $500
| 000 .00U.-McClure's magazine for No
vember. 4EYM6V
Considerable anxiety has been felt in
Paris since the telephone system was
| burned out as to the danger from fire
| to the invaluable collections at the
| Louvre. ODDLY enough, one of the
chief dangers comes from the flat oc-
cupied in the Louvre building by the
curator, NJ. Homolle. H. Momolle lives
| underneath the gallery where there are
pictures by Rubens, Murillo, Velasquez
and Holhein. His kitchen is immedia-
ately underneath the finest specimens
of the Flemish, Spanish. German and
| English schools Of painting
| Lady Wilfrid Laurier, wife of the
premier of Canada, reported in re-
cent speech to clubwomen that quite a
rambler of women had recently gained
recognition in the higher institutions
of learning.in Canada Among the wo-
men lecturers who were given special
satisfaction by their college work she
Mentioned one woman lecturer Of Nc