Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-18
Meat and Fish
Department.
Curious condensailens
Fire engines are mentioned by

Fire engines are mentioned by Pliny.
Lucifer matches came into use about
1884.
Montreal is restoring its Nelson
monument.
Ether was known to the earliest
scientists.
There are II metals more valuable
than gold.
The feast OF the Epiphany was in.
stituted in 1893.
The number of Buddhists is COM
puted to be 455,OOO,OO0.
Copper is said to have been first dis
covered in Cyprus.
The Lutherans have 20 congregations
in Milwaukee, Wis.
Out Of 6573 new books published last
year, 2677 were novels.
OF the earth's surface 100000 acres
are devoted to tobacco culture.
The choral service was first used in
England at Canterbury in GIT.
The touch of mercury at 40 degrees
is like that of red-hot iron.
Chrysanthemums were introduced in
to England from China about 100.
California has club of left-handed
persons with over 1000 members.
Under a new assessment law in
Maryland parsonages are exempt from
taxation.
The Byzantine princes played game
which differed very little from our
modern polo.
Butter and bacon are declared by
medical writer to be the most nourish-
ing of all foods.
Quoits was first played by the Greeks
at the Olympian games 423 years be-
fore Christ.
The consumption of calico in the
United States is greater than in any
other country.
The manufacture of quinine was be
gun in Philadelphia by John Farf IN
1920. the year of Its discovery
a university IN Carlo is said to have
l10eQ students mote than sttead ans
ether No universities in the world.
The wages of maid of honor for
Queen Victoria We're formerly $500
year. but the pay is now raised to $4,000
During the summer of 1929 the Valley
Forge. the first boat Of iron that navi- ]
gated the Western rivers. was launched /
at Pittsburg.
Pistols were first used by the Eng
fish cavalry in 1874. They are said to
have been invented in the small italian /
town of Pistoria.
In portion of Hanover. Germany, I
a local decree requires each farmer to |
deliver to the high authorities II SPAR
rows or sparrow heads between Octo-
her and December or pay a fine.
Greek and Roman doors invariably
open outward; a person passing out of
the house was therefore obliged to
knock on the door before opening it to
avoid collision with passer by.
It is believed in Norway that wolves |
are frightened away by telegraph lines. |
On one occasion a village voted money |
to help in the construction Of line |
passing near them for this reason |
alone.
There is one Christian minister for |
every 900 Of the population in Great |
Britain, one in every 114,000 in Japan,
one in 165,0S0 in India. one in 222. 900 in
and one in $4,000 in the
Chinese empire.
Women cyclists find progress difficult
in the streets of Cairo, unless they are
preceded on foot by a dragoman, who
clears a way by the aid of very SER
stick. which is used freely and
Unfortunately on the obstructing |
donkeys, dogs and children.
In Havana now many people are
with English. Formerly the
walters said CAN right" to every COM
plant; latterly, they have learned to
ask. What's wrong, sir?" Cab drivers
are all picking up the language Of the
But they ask ITO where?"
instead of Where to-" and sometimes
they put it, (Which where?''
Mark Twain's opinion of the Spanish
war is shown in a letter to Mr.. Allen
Simpson, of Adelaide, N. z. He says:
1T is a great pleasure to me to know
that in Australia the feeling Of kinship
moves the people to sympathy with us.
and that Dewey's-and now, no doubt,
-British-like performance I
stirs them. The Austrians used to tell
me the Spaniards would whip us few
times at the start, because we were
ignorant of war; but l said, We are
merely Britishers under another name,
and, ignorant or not, you will see the
blood show up.
The suggestion is made to the Bir-
mingham Post that Major Marchand
be invited to lecture in London. HE
has accomplished truly remarkable
Journey" it says, "over ground much
Of which had never before been visited
by white man; and there is no doubt
that if he came to London in his capac-
ty of African explorer he would be ac-
corded an enthusiastic welcome. The
admiration entertained in Travelled cir
cles for his work in that direction Is
very marked, and If the gold medal o.
the Royal Geographical Society were
awarded to him it is believed that
would be done to ally GER
cain susceptibilities which have been
keenly aroused by recent events"