Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-27
Curious Condensations.

Paris gets part ~ it's ice by rail from
a glacier near Briancon.
A proposal il Oh foot to stock the
river Thames with salmon.
For more than five years there has
been scarcity % rain in Arabia,
The public debt Of Canada was re-
duced by 1901. S962i during the month
of June.
The wheat crop in Manitoba and the
Northwest Territories is now in grand
condition.
The productive area Of the klondike
gold field covers from 1000 10 1900
square miles. .r,
At the present rate Of Increase the
United states will have in 1900 about
~, 600 physicians.
\ foul breath may be sweetened by
simple mouth wash Of chrystal per
manganate of potash, in a tumbierful
" water III ''' ,' 'l .ni n'i
The new ST. Paul directory shows an
increase of 1853 names over last year
and is believed to indicate a popula-
ton of 1852.
The latest returns Of the national
banks show that there are 202 fewer of
such institutions than there We're at
the opening of 1894
This years production OF beet sugar
in the United States is estimated at
100 900 tons from $4,000 acres. This is
fourfOd increase in one year.
A missionary paper reports that the
opposition to the Natural Foot Society
in China comes chiefly from the women
who are afraid to so against fashion.
The growing popularity of the Tyro
as summer resort is shown by the
fact that the number of hotels has in
creased from sSS in 1880 to I431 in 1897
The British Museum has presented
10000 documents relating to the French
Revolution, Of which it had duplicates.
to the French national library in Paris.
Among the points dwelt on at the re-
cent tuberculosis congress in Berlin
We're the facts that more than 40 per
cent. of the printers of Berlin who had
died We're phthisical
one of the longest lived birds on
record died recently in London 1t
was a parrot named Ducky, the prop
erty of the Prince of Wales, and was
a century and a quarter old.
In Switzerland a mlkmaid gets bet
ter wages if gifted with good voice
becauSes it has been discovered that a |
COW will yield one-fifth more milk If
soothed during milking by melody.
A statement prepared at the navy
department shows that during the
fiscal year just closed 1928 men en-
icfa IN, hn a
enlisted for war only. There We're 19S
boys under instruction.
A New York NJ. ID. takes occasion to
assert in newspaper communication
that 'if cats We're trained so that
child's throat could be covered over
night with an ordinary house cat, men
in my profession would have less
trouble with membranous Group and
diphtheria."
Official reports issued by the German |
Empire show a surprising increase in |
the number of horses. cattle, swine and !
all other domestic animals generally |
There is no reason why this should not |
DE the case since nearly all the animal
food consumed in Germany comes from
the United States.
nection with some dock extensions at |
Dunkirk, here was found buried under
the sand an ancient man-of-war. 1t is
believed to be one of the ships which
composed the Spanish armeda which
was engaged in the final battle off |
Gravelines in 1888.
PropOrtionately there is no great city
in the civilized world that has so few
morning papers as London This is
due to the large expenditure involved
IN starting a paper in the metropolis.
Anyone contemplating this must be
prepared to lose many thousands of
pounds year for two or three years.
and then, perhaps, to fail.
Bishop Hendrix. in recent lecture.
said: 'Methodism today breaches the
Gospel in more tongues than were
spoken in the whole Roman Empire in
her proudest days; and her children
taken together in all lands out number