Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-27
Odd Items Of Interest.

|. Odd Items Of Interest.
| There are 5000 lepers in the TransvaaI.
King Alfonso is the best of the royal
| riders Of Europe.
The dowager Duchess of Abercorn, age
ninety-two, has 80 descendants.
The "Bobs'' of Japan, Field Marshal va
| magata, is sixty-seven years OF age.
| A Paris dentist who committed suicide,
| left instructions that his body was to be
stuffed.
Appendicitis has caused the death of a
| chmpanzee at the Pasteur Institute in
Paris. says the Petit Journal.
Nine. ROstand. wife OF the famous
| French author and playwright, is about
| to issue a volume of her own poems.
volume of sonnets has won the Sully
Irudhomme prize. lives in an attic.
When General kodama started for the
front the other day from Toxic the Mi
| kado presented his favorite horse to him.
Two men have just commenced 1880
mile voyage to Australia from LoWeStoft
England, in a fourteen-ton ketch-rigSed
boat.
Ernst Possart celebrated recently the
fortieth anniversary of his first appear
ance in Berlin as Franz in Schiller's
Robbers"
Emile Robin, the aged vice president
OF the French Society Tor the Saving of
In other countries.
The Earl of Halsbury has completed the
ninth anniversary of his third appoint
eighty years of age.
Prince Hohenlohe. who has been tour
ing the Rocky mountains, says he is
compelled to admit that such scenery
does not exist in any other part of the
world.
The British medical profession will in
troduce bill in Parliament next year
making it crime for even qualilied
medical practitioner, unregistered, to at
tend patient.
In India the power given off by a motor
Is sometimes expressed in elephant equiv
alents: twenty-two-horse motor. says
Motoring Illustrated. being described as
three elephant-power vehicle
Actors belonging to the Court Theater,
Vienna, are not allowed to perform for
charitable purposes except in payment of
certain fixed fee which is handed over
to the pension fund of their theater.
The National Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Children estimates that of
the 40. 900 or 10000 cases that come under
its notice yearly one-half are caused di-
rectly py drunkenness and consequent
neglect by parents.
Bennett Burleigh, writing In the Lon
don Telegraph says: "A day or two ago
| saw a parade of big battalion Of Japa-
better set up. handler. more truculent.
looking body of sea bulldogs l have never
seem"
The other day the Duchess of Albany.
WIDOW OF one of Queen Victoria's sons.
visited one of the London Almshouses. An
inmate, a veteran of the Crimean war
of 1896, presented to her a beautifully
embroidered table cover. that he had
made. She accepted it with thanks
Experiments are being made by the Ger
man army with a newly discovered meth
90 OF wireless telegraphy by means of
Kites: The kites are raised to great
copper wires. and it is said messages can
be sent to the greatest distances without
affecting any wireless telegraph station
"A European inventor has converted the
spokeS of an automobile into whistles
which are operated by the air action
Inc Whistles are controlled by a series of
small rubber balls in connection with the
SEAT sea their release opening the valve in
tne SpokeS and producing peculiar
sound of traffic '-'e
Before Chinese bandits are executed in
Mukden they are suspended for a week
toes SO that their knees just touch the
Sr0und Just before the torture Woujd
HI XII them n their heads are cut off All
thiS Is done by the Chinese courts Ia
which the Cossacks turn over the bandits
or alleged bandits; after arrest
The Hot Weather Test
Makes people better acquainted with
their resources of strength and endur-
ance.
Many find that they are not so vell
OIL as they thought and that they are
easily enervated and depressed by the
heat
what they need is the tonic effect Of
Hoods Sarsaparilla which strengthens
the blood. promotes refreshing sleep.
oVercomes that tired feeling, creates
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