Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-12-27
Curious Condensa!ions.

The United States produces 2,220
pounds of grain for each inhabitant;
England $50 pounds.
Hamburg is one of the wealthest
cities in Germany, yet it has only 299
persons who pay taxes on an income OF
over $4,000 a year
The average number of horses killed
in Spanish bull fights every year eX-
ceeds five thousand, while from Loco to
l 2O0 bulls are sacrificed.
There is to be no saloon open in
Massachusetts between the hours Of II
F. NJ and E A. NJ. Such is the decision
of the full bench of the Supreme court
of that state.
American excelsior is exported to
Central America. to the West Indies. 20
England and other foreign countries,
several thousand tons of the fiber be
ing shipped yearly.
In Germany 5000 persons, or one
thirty-ninth of the total number of
those dying each year between the
ages of Is and 60 years lose their lives
because of tuberculosis.
Since the treaty of peace was signed
in 1871 Germany has not extended her
territory by a single acre on the con-
| tinent of Europe. but she has in
creased her popula ton by l6,000.o0O.
Scottish exiles in Liverpool are dis
satisfied with the brand of Scotch
music purveyed by the Sassenach
vocalsts, and they are now busy ar
ranging for the formation of Scot
| fish choir.
In 1891 the total length of the New
York Central & Hudson River Rail
road the first of the New York Cen
| trial lines to be constructed, was Il
miles. on January /. 1900. the mileage
of the New York Central lines aSgre-
gated 10. 439 miles of railway.
At the coming session of the Massa-
| chusetts Legislature n bill will be
offered giving to each city and town
| the privilege of raising money for
municipal purposes by such methods
as the town or city may deem best.
] This is the single tax proposal which
was defeated in the last Bay state
Legislature.
| The foreman of the laboratory of a
firm of manufacturing chemists in De-
| trOit reports that when he opened a
! cask of white powder arsenic con-
| signed to his employers recently he
! found within a number of worms
which resemblcd caterpillars, and
which seemed to be thriving upon the
deadly poison.
! Outside of the farms and ranches
there are 2.177, 491 horses in the United
! States The largest number is found
in New York state, 302.211: Illinois
being second with 233.S07; Pennsyl-
wanna. 215.977; Ohio, 1856, $50; Iowa, 49,
2T5: Massachusetts. 132016;. Missouri,
| 124.952; Indiana, 124.072; TEXAS, 1O6S13,
and Michigan. 100, 40.
| Nearly all articles formerly in leath-
err are now made of paper--such as
! successful is the imitation that a man
who had himself been in the paper
| business for nine years bought an
) article of this kind in London recently
i under the full conviction that it was
+ leather he was purchasing.
The city of Birmingham, Ala. has
already begun to make preparations
for a metallic exposition" to be
opened there November L. 1904. and
continue until May Is, 1905. Its char
ter name is to be the International
Metallic and Industrial Exposition.
The state is expected to contribute
100000 toward the expense and Con-
gress is to be asked to give $500 900
The cottage where Peter the Great