Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-07

There are fiye times as many earth
quake shocks recorded on the Pacific
coast OF the United States as on the
Atlantic coast
A horse hitching strap invented by
an Illinois man can be unfastened By
pun on the reins from within a VI.
hicle, avoiding the danger of a ner-
vous horse boiling.
BY the use of devices that retard the
draft of heating tubes of their boilers
two German transa tlantie liners have
saved 10 per cent. in fuel without inn
pairing their required speed,
Ages ago, scientists assert, before the
melting of the Okanogon glacier in the
state of Washington, the Columbia
river made Niagara insignificant BE-
comparison. 1t plunged from the up
per To the lower valley in the Grand
couiee, a sheer fall or four hundred
feet
Rutland. Vt, has had for ten years
a summer school for pupils who fail Of
promotion in the regular classes
Eighty per cent. of the pupils have
made up deficiencies and been pro
NOTED, and nearly all those promoted
the year that followed.
The children of Kansas City have
cen in the habit of buying candy, Ice
cream cones. lemonade and sandwiches
from street vendors, and after several
of the children had made themselves
i'll the city council voted to allow no
vendor 10 sell his wares within i've
hundred feet of "a schoolhouse.
The recent Italian census has estah-
lisl1ed the fact that there are still her
nits in Italy who live solitary lives in
mountain caves. and that they num-
Der no fewer than 800. Among these
refuses there are sixteen who are
more than ninety-five years Of age ana
three centenarians, while all the oth-
ers have passed the age of fifty.
| 1t is expected that the electrical fur
naces of the American Iron and Steel
Company. at Lebanon, Pa. will be Ia
| full opera ton in the course of a year
| The furnaces viii be of from twenty 10
| twenty five tons capacity, and VIII bs
| the largest plant of the kind in TINS.
country There will also be standard
blooming and billet mills, with an an
nual ca paeity of eighty thousand tons
The new Sacre-Coeur cathedral re
Gently built on the hight of Mont
martre. which is the most famous OF
the chalk hills of Paris, has one OF the
largest church bells in that city. THIS
i, bell, which is a handsome example OF
modern bell work. is covered with ar
tistc scrolls and lettering. The weight
of the bell itself is twenty tons. and
with the heavy clapper and aceesso-
ries, the entire weight suspended in
l Al. t..txr
fourteen-vear- old Liverpool lad
| has become an actor IN romantic
way. He went to London to find EN-
| ployment One day he touched the
| arm of a man standing beside him AMI
asked for work. The man was the
producer of Galsworthy's Strife,
which was then in rehearsal. All Ia
parts had been assigned but that of a
boy. Jan. The manager said he would
give the lad u trial for the part, took
| him along to the theater and FOUND
! that he would do
In the. cooperaee industry the use OF
elm wood is still in the lead. but the
figures seem to indicate that spruce
Will soon displaee it. and the mdica
tons are that at no distant date the
use of elm will be restricted to the
1
eminently superior. The supply OF elm
will soon be exhausted at the present
rate of consumption. but if il is made
use of only for the hops it will last
considerab BILE length OF time Yet. Bireh
has many points in its favor fof
cooperage and will ultimately be the
| successor Of elm
London's water supply formerly
/ t@andan nina@ The
were of the simplest construction.
| formed of the stems of small elm trees.
drilled through the center and cut In
lengths of about six feet, one end be
ing tapered so as to fit into the a /
| joining pipe. The wooden pipes, 81
which at one time more than four hun
bred miles were in use, leaked eensii-
erably, decayed rapidly. burst during
frosts and were always troublesome.
1t was not until 1880 that they began
TO be superseded by cast iron. and
quarter of a century later some OF tae
old wooden pipes were still in use.
Perhaps the most important of WASTE
fuels in the United States has been
spent .tanhark rough estimate
would Indicate that this material gen
Grated a few years ago an amount OF
steam that would have otherwise re-
CURED the yearly consumption of about
two million tons of highgrade coal. Yet
this valuable fuel was at one time re
edrded as a mere detriment and an eA
pense to the leather industry. III Wa
disposed of by dumping it into rivers.
Milling in waste ground. and by makins
roads with it,. often making necessary
the paying out of large sums for lis
disposition This strikingly illustrates
a case of how the Improvement OF
| furnace converted a hitherto supposed
eombustible into a valuable waste fuel
of the auto combustihle class. and
shows how an enormous waste was
converted into an equally great econ
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