Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-07

err in amount considering fruit bearing
vine, plant or tree.-New York Trib-
une.
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of the
United States public health and ma
rine hospital service, plans to con-
tinue the wood tick fight interrupted
by the recent death of Dr. Thomas r
McClintic, who fell victim to Rocky
mountain spotted fever, which is
transmitted by the wood tick. The
disease has long been known to the
Indians, but only ten years ago did
the medical profession begin investi-
cations as to its causes and methods
of transmission.
The city of Dublin is asking for bids
for furnishing electric lamps for a
period of ten years. Manufacturers
are hesitating to make such a contract
on account of the uncertainty of the
price of copper.
Spain is to follow the example OF
other continental countries and be-
come the owner of its railways As
Spanish railways have been notorious
for delays and poor management, trav-
elers will hope that the change prom
Uses Improvement in service.
Algiers is said to have the largest
European population of any city in
Africa. johannesburg comes next,
then Oran. Will the class in geogra-
ply kindly locate the later town, with
its one hundred thousand Europeans,
without referring to the atlas?
The University of Southern Cali
fornia has instituted chair OF auto
mobile science, being the first uni
Versity in the country to recognize the
Importance of the motor car as a SUBJ
ject of technical study and investiga-
ton from the engineering standpoint.
Hundreds of locomotives on the
Pennsylvania railroad are now equip
ped for service as fire engines, and
during the last four years these en-
gines have assisted at extinguishing
1873 fires. In one instance nine Of the
engines were at fire within seven
minutes.
The state commission on New York
harbor has recommended the building
of eight new piers between Forty
second and Fifty ninth streets In New
York city, these piers to be one thou
sand feet long, for the accommodation
Of the huge express, steamers Of the
future is9i ~ sn' 'S2s
A correspondent Who inquiries as to
where the : famous SUMMARY OF
Websters career by Rufus Choate may
be, found the sentence being omitted
from SOME of the collections which
publish the speech-is referred to Tho
Works of Rufus Choate," by S. C.
Brown. The sentence contains 1853
words.
DR.. Roy c. Adams, curator OF the
American Museum of Natural History,
has lately returned from an expedi-
ton to Japan and Korea. In the lat
ter country he travelled UNEMPLOYED
territory, one of the features of which
was "a great forest of larches and
birches, through which the party tray
eled for three weeks.
Among what may be described as
manufactured jokes the following from
an exchange is an ingenious specimen:
IF Tennyson had lived in my suburb
said paterfamiias the other night as
he ruefully contemplated his gas BILL
he would never have written. Honor
the Light Brigade, honor the charge
they made.' But perhaps gas COM
panes had eonscienees in his day.
A novelty in paper goods that Is
rapidly coming into general use Is tho
tissue paper towel, which is designed
to take the place of linen towels in
public lavatores railway stations, fac
tories. etc. This is a truly sanitary
device. for it furnishes every one with
an individual towel. and, as each towel
is thrown away after use, any possible
communication of disease is prevent
ed.
Few cathedrals had such monu-
mental anachronisms as Rochester. t.
w. Harvey Piper +. S. A, said IN
lecture at the Royal Photographic So
ciety's exhibition in Suffolk street. one
of it's finest statues was of a bishop OF
the thirteenth century. vii was shown
dressed in a cap and gowN OF fash-
ion which did not come into vogue un-
til the sixteenth century, ana there
were similar errors elsewhere. Roch-
ester's standing joke in the shape OF
a head of bearded bishop on female
statue had been rectified in recent
years.-London Evening Standard.
Violet is the mourning color OF