Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-09
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS

Moving picture men have followed
stanley's footsteps through Africa.
| The Wakambas, a Bantu tribe, isl
the most highly civilized tribe of
Africa. They understand iron-work
ing, make use of decimal system OF
calculation and have a good systenlI
of music.
Pessimistic figures showing that
Michigan pays more for insane hos
pitfalls than for the state university, !
brings from Wisconsin only a weary
envy of Michigan for having so cheap
a university.
| That microbes are not essential to,
life has been shown by an experiment.
with guinea pigs in France. TheI
little animals. supplied with sterlizedI
| food and purified air, grew 80 peri
cent faster than others.
The experiment is being tried I'M
Kansas of irrigation by means of al
great battery of windmills, which
pump the water from the interior of
the earth and deposit it in dirt reser-I
voirs, where 1t Is stored until wanted
Arkansas gold boom is fast sub
siding. Prospecting was most activeI
in the district south of Button and
Gravelly, two small towns on theI
Fourche river. Several hundred
claims have been staked in this dis
trict, although on only about a dozenI
has any development work been at
tempted,
| An interesting feature of the pro-
duction of anthracite coal in Penn
sylvania is the comparatively recent
utilization of the smaller sizes of coal.
Since the first washery was construct
ed in 1890, the total recovery of useful
fuel shipped from the waste heaps orr
culm banks has amounted to 1899, 376|
long tons.
Two men were recently brought into
a London police court on the charged
Of fighting on Brook Green common.
"Ah," said the magistrate. with diff
Guilty supprAssing his sympathy and
| admiration you went to q public
common to settle your differences I'M
way Englishmen used to do more
frequently than now-mores the pity!
You were not interfering with any
one or obstructing people, and shall
| discharge you"
| While Westminster abbey in Lon
don's most beautiful shrine and the
burial place Of the illustrious, the
most celebrated of her great men are
buried elsewhere. Shakespeare rests
at the church at Stratford, Milton
lies in the Church OF st. Giles. Both
Nelson and Wellington are buried at
st. Paul's cathedral, in London. as is
also Sir John Moore, whose memory
is SO dear to the English. He fell at
| Corona, Spain, while fighting the
| forces of Napoleon. At st. Pauls Is
also inferred DR.. Samuel Johnson, the
author of Rasselas.
A revolution in coal mining was
foreshadowed at a recent meeting In
London of scientists and representa-
tives of mine owners and miners,
Alfred Williams gave demonstration
with his invention, the "methano-
meter or firedamp indicator, which
was hailed by the president OF the
miners federation of Great Britain
and Ireland as heralding the day when
miners will work in comparative safe
ty. 1t was explained that the appar-
atus. by an ingenious and simple use
of the property known as platinum
black, would indicate the presence
of firedamp in a mine. Installed In a
colliery, the system would register,
say, in the managers office. the ex4
istence of firedamp in any part of tho
workings by the ringing of bell long
before the actual danger point was.
reached