Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-09

lead scientific expedition that will
soon start for Java to carry on the
work started by Selenka. 1t will be
supported by the Dutch government
and the Berlin academy of science
Scientists at Washington are now
trying to upset the old belief that a
fire of hard wood gives out more heat
than one of soft, and they say that
linden, one of the softest of woods.
gives the most heat. A fire OF fir is
almost equally hot and then comes
pine. Hard oak possesses per cent.
less heating capacity than linden and
red beech 10 per cent. less.
Since the opening of the railroad
from Giarri to Catania 10 years ago
Mt. Etna has become the most Access
sibie of volcanoes. The miniature
line makes complete circuit of the
mountain, rising at one point $50
feet above sea level. The first class
carriages are fitted with glass sides
so that the passengers get a wonder
full view of the beautiful scenery.
His horse went dead. and his mule
went lame and he lost six cows in Il
poker game; then hurricane came on
a summers day and blew the house
where he lived away, and the earth
quake came when that was gone and
swallowed the land that the house
was on; then the tax collector came
around and charged him up with the
hole in the ground.--Upson (Ga) Par
rot.
1t is said that enough horse power
goes to waste in the rivers and streams
y,ct ts,,a 80
to run all the industries in the state
Owing TO the rapidly growing popu-
lation of Germany, especially in the
industrial cities and towns, and tha
relative scarcity of productive land.
the ration becomes each year more
dependant upon foreign countries for
its food supply.
If the alarm We're not quite familiar
one by this time. $4,000 physically de-
fective school children out of 323,OOo
examined would be enough to send
even a mild magazine editor into n.y.
sterics. New York's population, how
ever, is not going so rapidly to the
dogs as hasty glance at the figures
would seem to indicate. Defective
teeth claimed no less than $4,000 VIC
| Tins nasal trouble accounted for fS,-
600 and poor eyesight for $4,000 we
| would not minimize the important work
| that is being done i'm calling the den-
| list and the surgeon to the aid OF ine
school teacher But, as a precautloh
| against the professional alarmst'
| is we'll to point out that it Is our
standards of public health that are De
| ing raised and not our children are
Observation-Disclosures York Evening
Post. .-
| Grippe was first described in Ehs'
land i'm 1173, since when there nave
been more than one hundred epidem.
| les. It's first appeared in the uhiteu
states in 1927 and went all over INC
| western hemisphere. The last epldeh
| ic started in BOkhara in May. 1883, anu
reached the United States in the m'o-
| die of December. It's rate OF spreau 70
| exactly as rapid as travel. Since 1000
there have been grippe epidemics :"
| most American cities every wih'e'
just as there are many mild cases y,
"cholerine" during deadly epidemics =,
cholera. so there are many cases OF pau
cases of bad colds in the head '.
"gripine,'' false influenza. when "u'
| grippe Is aDOut.-NeW 1OTk Tio"''
| Big Ben. the clock at Westmihs'e..
has never been more than three seco.'us
away from the correct time But ".
three best clocks in the world are -
| the naval observatory at Wasnihss
| and the observatories at Greenwlcn az
: Berlin The two former are the
and show a. mean deviation of .0lS Oh
| second day ,.a.
The white truffie Of the Italian r.J
me Mt is rapidly crOwding the p'as
truff1e of PerigOd out Of popular ~
with the epicures. Ii is said thal M
pope had much to do with the popu's
ity of the white truffie. Some peasa assam,
sent him lot of them and. as Spec. spec
honor. he gave some to a French p's,,sp
| who called them the "pope's trume.
A New York physician says tna' ~
uary is no longer the month most -
feared. He claims that his books 49,
that he is buster In March than ou''''
any other month in the year. NJ.