Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-11
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tories which slaughter annually s50oN
pigs.
Letters can now be sent from Men,
Zealand>to the United States for 2 cents
a half ounce instead Of five.
Peat fodder for cattle is made i,
Germany Of the top layer Of peat
mixed with 70.75 per cent. Of molasses
How do Americans pronounce tho
name of their country The head mas.
ter of school in England says it il.
"Ummurruckugh."
Italys state lottery took in $1,000.
900 in a year and gave back in prizes
80 900, 600. Much Of the money came
from the poorest people.
Shall I give you. gas. sir?'' said the
English dentist to his patient from the
country. Ma, ma" was the answer
I'm for name O. thae new-fangled in
vcntions. Just gle me paraffin oil"
In Italy time is reckoned on the
twenty-four hour system. Thus. :
o'clock in the afternoon is there des.
igrated as IL O'Clock. Midnight is 2,
o'clock. The good sense of this plan
should commend its use by all enlight
ened nations.-The Travel Magazine.
In honor Of DR.. Edward Everett Hale.
whose eighty-ftfth birth anniversary
will fall on April 8, a movement has
been started in Boston having as its
object the establishment of a perma.
nent fund which shall place the Lend.
a-Hand Society, founded by DR.. Hale.
| on a sound basis.
| Mrs. Mary Baraby, 103 years old, is
| spoken of as the jolliest woman in
Brockton." She is fond Of fun, loves
young people and likes to recall old
corn husking bees and other good times
Of her youth. She has had twenty chill
dren. forty-two grandchildren, and nine
great = Springfield Re.
publican.
| Among the gifted students at Columbia
University is Toranosuke Furukawa j
young japanese, with millions Of dol
I lars at his command. When he reaches
his majority he will become sole pos.
SCISSOR. manager and director of the
largest mining interests in the Oriental
world. Already his friends are calling
him the Rockefeller of Japan.
| A bridal coach costing $500 has been
! finished by Bridgeport, Comm. man.
ufacturer for a livery man at Pittston,
! Pa. The vehicle is upholstered. silk
curtained, wood carved, gilt trimmed
and has twenty hearts on it. There
are heaTt-shaped windows. two large
hearts for the dash board and the rear
springs are heart-sha ped. Two Cupids
surmount the lamps.
That the women Of East Claridon
have fallen heir to the masculine en-
crgy which built the houses and farms
around this neighborhood is shown by
the fact that when you meet team
/ the women nearly always are driving.
| In this the women excel, and 1t is only
an occasional farmers team which does
not seer! TO be in possession OF some
wornan.-Chicago Tribune.
Dr. Ettore Marchiafava. who succeed
ed the late DR.. Lapponi as private ply
sician to the Pope. was born fifty-two
years ago at Civita Necchia and was
principally educated in Rome. where he
is now professor of pathological ar1at-
omy at the university. He is the dis
coverer of the method by which the
Eternal City has been rendered pract-
cally free from Roman fever.
The two year-old czarovitch of Rus
STA is a pretty child, unenvied by every
intelligent mortal, tenderly commiser-
ated by the whole world. His photo
graphs show him to be the handsomest
of the Gar and Czarina's little flock.
which is often the case with only sons.
He is said to be 2 bright little fellow
and keenly interested in the military
honors with which he is constantly in
vested.
Conversions of Hebrews to Chris
tianity have increased lately in Ger
many. and" says an exchange, the
indications are that the number Of con-
crts will grow A statistician has
discovered that the loss thus sustained
by the Hebrews is counter-b balanced to
some extent by Christians going over
to Judaism. In the year 1906 fifty-two
such cases were recorded, of which
thirty-eight were in Berlin.
The vicar of Eton, England, the Rev.
L. II. Evans. in discussing clerical in
comes III this months parish magazine.
says: The clergy are nearly always
over-housed. as a vicaragc is sure
sooner or later. to lave to accommodate
a large fa miiy. This makes necessary
the enlargement Of the house to pro-
pcFtiOHS WHICH are unnecessary, IL hos
inconveniept, when the incumbent Is
bachelor, Or has no or few children.
Earl Roberts, who has given up his
town house in Portland Place and gone
to live in the country, has transferre1
his large collection of curios to his resi-
dence at Englemere. near Ascot. one
OF the most highly priced is a piece OF
dirty white rag. very much the worse
for wear, and many seeing 1t nave
wondered what on earth it was doing
among other curios. 1t is the "wnte
flag" that Gen. Cronje sent to Lord
Roberts intimating his surrender at
Paardeberg.-Tid- Bits.
Pedestrians along lower Broadway
New York, each day are interestediy
watching the progress of novel race
by building constructors. Each con-
tractor is rushing work on twenty
four story building and each contractor
now has his men at work on tne
twcnty-third story. One Of the bullo
inss is to be occupied by the Unitea
States Express Company and Is III
Rector street, just off Broadway. Ihe