Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-28
Odd Items of Interest.

In 1903 the Canadian Pacific railroad
| couver to Eastern markets. Each car
represented about $4,000 pounds.
BY the report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission for 1902 the passen-
ger receipts of all the railroads for that
year We're $685.. 100000. The receipts for
| Carrying the mails We're $39, OO6. 900.
Florence Nightingale, the world-fa-
nous English nurse, lives at the home
of Sir T.. Verney, in London. She Is
in feeble health at the age Of seventy
three. She was one of the advisers of
the organization Of the International
Red Cross Society.
The smelters of Colorado are receiv-
ing large shipments of ore from Chile.
mostly from the Guggenheim properties
in that South American country. Over
LOO tons of silver and lead ores were
| received in one week, recently, from
Chile, for refining purposes.
grocer in Liverpool, England. was
recently fined $25 and costs for selling
marnalade containing over five grains
of salicyclic acid a pound. The Offense
was held to be aggravated by the fact
that properly made marmalade will
keep for years without the addition Of
a preservative.
Peru is one of the richest countries of
the world in minerals of all kinds
sCld, silver, copper, mercury, iron, lead,
sulphur, coal, salt, petroleum., ETC., be-
ing found in great abundance-and it
only requires the action of capital and
labor to make the republic as renowned
for it's wealth as California, Australia
or South Africa, says the United States
consul at CallaO.
TOrpedOes for the destruction of yes
sells were first used in the spring of
1861 by the Confederates in the James
river. In 1865 the Secretary of the
Navy reported that more ships had
been lost by tOrpedoing than from all
other causes. General Rains, chief of
the Confederate torpedo service, put the
number at fifty-eight, a greater num-
Der than has been destroyed in all the
wars since.
The General Electric Company Of St
Louis is building the largest search
light made. 1t is to take 300 amperes,
and the lens is seven feet in diameter.
1t will be used on top of a tower which
is being built adjoining the Worlds
Fair grounds. 1t is not unlikely that
experiments with telephony over this
searchlight beam will be made during
the progress of the fair.
From s12,652. 900 to s15,573. 600 worth OF
butter is now exported from Siberia. or
more than twice the value of the wheat
export of 1900, the last favorable har-
vest year. The Siberian COW yields lit
tie milk. but the quality is notable for
richness. About nineteen pounds OF
milk in winter and twenty-five pounds
in summer are sufficient to make q
pound of butter, while In Denmark
twenty-eight pounds are needed.
A French company of wireless teleg-
raphy Is arranging to provide the Rus
sian government with wireless sys-
tenn which will enable 1t to commune
cate between stations thirty miles
apart. The Japanese vessels We're 50
fitted out before hostiities began, and
they were using a wireless apparatus
between Korea and Japan. an inter-
mediate station having been placed
upon an island in the Korean strait.
The idea that fish nourishes the brain
is a popular fallacy, says the Lancet,
London. 1t is doubtful whether any
given food in common use contains
constituents which have a selective
action. or the property of ministering
70 any one part of the body more than
another. 1t is often said that fish is a
1000 which ministers particularly to the
needs of the brain because it contains
phosphorus. AS matter of fact.
nsn does not contain it in the free
state. The notion that fish contains
phosphorus had. no doubt, it's origin in
the glowing or phOsphorescence in the
dark. This phOsphorescence is due
not TO phosphorus at all, but to micro
organisms.
me French National Society Of Ag-