Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

New York finds that an electric plant Tor
the execution Of dogs viii cost but sso
The fr+ Chinaman TO receive a pension
mas lust been placed upon the rolls He was
injured while serving on a man Of war.
The canning of shrimp is becoming great
industry in View Orleans. Fully 10000 cans
day are packed there during the season
The government Is trying lobster culture
on the Pacific coast. The first Atlantlc IN
stallrneut has been anchored at Santa cruz
Land in New York city IS so dear that it
does not pay capitalists 10 build houses for
rental. Many houses that sell for siO,Uoo
will not bring s., so a year rent
An effort Is being made by the New YORK
Working Wouen's society 10 have the fac
tory Inspection law amended 50 as 10 give
women power to act as deputy inspectors.
The largest load of spruce lumber shipped
on the Erie canal in many years, II not SINCE
the canals were opened, IS on It's way TO
Brooklyn The load consists Of A5,'s9 feet
For every 1900 inhabitants the United
States runs trains 9, 100 miles annually, while
the train mileage Of Great Britain on the
same basis is 1890; Belgium, i,50O; Franco,
$50, Germany, $3.50
L
he rails from the historic Yale college
fence. presumably with a view Of securing
them as relics, before the whole thing is
taken down by order Of the college author
tiles.
All the life saving stations on the Atlantic
coast of Long Island are 10 be connected with
each other BY telephone, and those Isolated
from the mainland are to be connected by
te ,ephone or telegraph with the nearest VII
lage.
Professor Roberts, Of Cornell, urges the
importance OF a complex diet for man, and
especially the uSe Of concentrated products,
such as beef, milk, butter and cheese Only
on such food is it possible 10 reach the fullest
perfection Of hysical health and intellectual
development.
By the old method the steel wire from
which watch springs are made was heated to
the proper temperature and Immediately
plunged into oil In the new process the
wire is immersed in the oil bath first, and is
then brought. by means of an electric cur
rent, TO the desired degree Of heat.
The largest bunch of grapes supposed to
have been raised in California weighed nine
po6nds, but it is said that much heavier
punches have been gathered in some vine
yards and thrown into the wine press.
Watermelons weighing from fifty TO eighty
pounds ara often sold in the San Francisco
markets and one exhibited last fall weighed
lis pounds,
Thirty thousand dollars wasvoted by con-
gress the other day for firing morning and
evening sautes to the flag which brings out
the curious fact that the powder left over
from the war lasted just twenty-three years.
The last barrel was used early last spring,
since when no salutes have been fired at any
military post except West Point, Fortress
Monroe and Fort Riley
Near the old Indian burying ground at the
mouth of the Waila Wala river has been
found "a medal which was given to Yellepet,
a famous chief, i'll 1906, by the explorers Clark
and Lewis On one side Of the medal is the in
scription. Peace and Friendship" and a
pipe and tomahawk in relief On the other
side the face of jefferson is TO be found, and
the words, IT jefferson, President U. S. A,
lSOlr
The danger of somnambulism is well
known. \ writer in The Century tells of a
piece of good fortune coming from the habit.
A young lady, troubled and anxious about
prize for which she was to compete, involv-
ing the writer of an essay, arose from her
bed in sleep and wrote paper upon a SUD-
ject upon which she had not intended to
write when awake, and this essay secured for
her the prize
A peculiar incident of history is the fact
that two Jews of Bagdad have bought the
entire site of the ancient city of Babel, the
great capital OF Nebuchudnezzar. The pur-
chasers are two brothers Effendi, one of
whom was elected member of the Turkish
parliament which convened in 1873. 1t is re-
markabe that two Jews have become the
heirs of the gardens Of Semiramis and the
palaces OF Nebuchadnezzar, or what is left of
them.
One Of the most thoroughly equipped and
highly accomplished centenarians on record
is reported from San Diego, Cal Jeffrey
Gordon is his name; he is negro, and he
was born in Boone county Va, on June IL,
1913 He is still vigorous, and his memory
so good that he remembers to have seen
Washington when he was president, and also
jefferson, and to have helped build the cot
ton bale fortifcations at New Orleans for
Gen jackson.