Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-14
GLEANlNGs AND GOSSIP.

1t is reported that ~ per cent VI .nS
punils at the Royal normal college TOT
the blind in London are self-support-
ing.
During the past 10 years the cost Oh
bread all over Europe has increased %
per cent. In Sweden the increase mas
been 81 per cent.
sThe Guatemalan government mas
now assumed direct supervision Oh an
electrical enterprises, and supplies can
only be imported on written PERMISSION
from the war department.
Stanley spoke very highly of the
kindness of Livingstone, saying that
he lived for years among the most cru
81 sayaces in the world, but never fired
Il shot or struck a blow in anger.
More than 80 pes cent of the rail-
roads in Janan are now owned ana
controlled by the imperial railway
hoard. Supplies for these are bought
through tenders, and only the bids of
dealers who for two years or more
have been paying over certain sum
in national taxes are accepted.
Honduras is doing all it can to en-
courage it's cattle industry. The gov
eminent has just decided to aloW
wire fencing to be imported free OF
duty if it is to be used on the ranges.
cuba is now taking notice of her
customs and appears to be copying
New York to some extent. tourists
are finding that their baggage is be
ing very carefully examined on their
arrival at Havana.
The great tunnel through the Andes
between Chill and the Argentine is
nearly completed and there Will be
trains running between Valparaiso, ana
Buenos Ayres over the Cumhre pass IN
a short time.
old salvage methods consisted in
plugging up the holds in vessel ana
them pumping it out Now the snip Is
rid of water by pumping it full OF ar
which causes the ship to float and the
water to run out.
There are 1850 street and interurban
railway companies in America with Il
total Of 35 900 miles of track and 1906
come is $40. 600 and they annually
carry 100000 600 passengers.
Theatcr ticket Spectators in Berlin
appear to have beaten the manager!
who nave tried to drive them out OF
business. The only thing The thcatCl
owners could do was TO get the police
| to keen the SPECTATORS from blocking
! the sidewalks in front of the theatcr.
/ one of the most interesting thinS'
| found by Lieut.. Shackleton in the fal
South was mcroscOpical life on tn
underbrush of the frozen regions. some
| Of this was carried back to London
| where experients were made and j
was found that it would live in tom
perature of 81 degrees below zero, cen
| tsrade.
| A queer superstition cropped out il
| a local house the other day mar
| wanted to make a poor fire burn IN
| CRATE, so put a poker on it, point up
| ward. He seemed to think that it drew
the fire up 1t did something. anyway
The superstition probably came from
the fact that the poker formed a, eros
with the CRATE bars. which in the OLE
times was supposed to quiet the evi
spirits which kept the fire from burn
| irg.
The French war department claims
to have an automobile that can be al
| most instantly converted into q motor
boat. 1t has 4 1l-horse motor, will car
| nv Tour passengers 'tIi'i van Wv - NM
| meters on land and - kilomet"rs AZ
hour in the water.
Moving pictures of the tight OF IN
| scots have been made with exposures
| of $4,000 second. Another phOtogra
| pher has made q kincmatographli
study of the action Of weapons ant
| proiectiles. employing for ILLUMINATION
electric sparks of duration OF one
ten millionth of second. and obtaining
| Dict,lrcs of 400 successive phases o
| the operation of the firing mechanism
of an automatic pistol, although the en-
| tive operation occupied only about one
| tenth of p second.
Money appears to be moro OF a famll
| lar sight in Ireland than It used 10 Do
and the farmers have started mum
| her Of mutual banking associations. IT
| 1895 there was only one of these agrl-
| cultural cooperative banks: in 1901
there were 76 and last year there were
272. The deposits are, as a rule, smal'
Int the members are permitted TO fof-
| row n low rates of interest 1t IS sane
| that no member of any of these socle
| ties has ever lost penny inroug'
| them.
! LIGHT AND AIRY.