Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
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tion % 5000.
Milk that is delivered to the bones
of New York city each morning comes
from :0,227 dairies
Electrically heated plates, operated
by levers. are the principal feature in
new clothes pressing device.
In new electric device for drying
the tair with ali air blast a resistance
can be switched in for heating the air
At Sholapur, British India, factory
is successfully making matches with
sticks of "a peculiarly stiff form Of ma
tive grass.
An italian physician has discovered
| that carrots act as an intestinal anti
septic. and will cure many forms Of d.
gestive disorders.
A species of ant in Australia builds
| it's nests alongsa north and south line
SO accurately that a traveller may di-
| rect his course by their aid.
In connection with the determination
of rats from Honolulu. an official of
the marine hospital service is prepar-
ing to develop a breed Of cats Of high
rat-catching ability. T.
1t is difficult to estimate the total
loss on the Scottish grain crop of this
season, but if We put the deteriora-
ton at the quite moderate figure of G2
an acre for 80 per cent of the lands
under crop the total is a sum consid-
erahy over G2.000. 900. The winter loss
from using haIf-rotten fodder and from
protracted sales of discolored and
musty grain is not SO easily calculated.
Glasgow Herald
An English scientist gives some in
teresting figure regarding the occur
renee and distribution Of radium in the
earth. Tie total amount of radium in
the ocean is reckoned to be 10000 tons.
Regarding the sediments accommodating
in the sea. it is found that those most
slowly formed exhibit the greatest
radio activity If all the deposits ln
the sea were as rich in radium as the
alobi gerina ocZe the total amount OF
this element in them would be 100000
tons With regard to the rate OF
change of uranimum, by which radlum
is prndncal, it is calculated that the
amount present in the earth 100000
wears a@c was only per cent. more
than now.
If New Yorl, had few thousand cltl-
zers with names as long as that of
child born in ST. Louis recently. the
new "sign your name" registration and
election law would probably "boS
down. completely. The Ghiid'S name
is Marie Helen Observation-Disclosures.
A st. Louis paper. in telling of the
birth of the girl with jaW-break1ng
name. makes the supertuous statement
that her family are Germans. Luck
ily the baby who comes into the world
weighted down with such surname is
cirl-thc legal process of changing it
IS or 30 years from now being simpler
than in the case of a boy. Marriage
laws are not very complex anywhere in
this country.-New York Tribune.
Guam, which is one of the most un-
inviting of our possessions, will be
equipped with an experimental station
through the means of which its re-
sources will be investigated and en-
couraged. DR.. w. H. Evans. of the
Office of experiment stations. has visit
ed the island and selected a site for the
station at Agana. The station will be
conducted under the Immediate super
vision of the office. with H. L. V. Cos
tenpble as an agent in charge.
1t is customary iE Spain when an In
FAINT first begins to notice things to
place before it a silver coin, a sword
silver cross book and some fruit.
The object 70 which the child stretches
his hand indicates. according to &C
ceptcd belief, his future vocation The
coin is for commerce. the sword for the
army, the cross and the hook respec-
lively point to the church and the Jaw
or learning, while the fruit denotes Il
farmer or landowner. 1.-THE English
man
The Fren"i, Publishing firm of Chou
dens rurchascd :omc TING ago the
opera privileges of Arrtr Guimera's $
dra,rn. Marta of the LoWlandS," and
has given this text in Il composer
.la.ird L. B.rnr, who has made an
opera OF it, AS D'Alhert has utilized
the same dramatic book for his "Tic-
fiand" it is impossible to produce
D'Alhert's opera in Paris for the pres
ent There is the drawback to using
modern plays for Opera-thcy give rise
fn all SORTS of conyripht complica ions