Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-28
Odd Items of Interest

| A dental college has recently been added
| to the University of Madrid
Walter Broadbelt of Williston. Pa,
| claims to have a hen that last year laid
247 eggs, of which ten were double-yoked.
Work is going on steadily to deepen
| and widen the SueZ canal, and ere long
| the biggest merchant vessels with a
| depth of twelve meters will be able to
use it.
Neither boiling water nor cold 200 de-
grees below zero kills the sprout in some
seeds Professor Besquerel found three
seeds eighty-seven years old that
sprouted.
| F. S. Weinhold, of Brooksde Pa. last
season raised on twenty-five acres about
three thousand bushels of ear corn. Many
| of the ears were over sixteen inches in
length.
! For number of years Washington has
been far and away the largest lumber
producing state in the Union and it still
| is ahead: but last year Louisiana nearly
caught up with it.
Of the revenue accruing from the ma
tional forests in Colorado % per cent or
| SEQ, 600 is yearly turned over to the state
by the federal authorities for use on the
public roads and schools.-Outing.
| DR.. James Chritchton Browne. who is
the real authority behind most wseacres
| and oracles on feeding says: 1.-The
meat ration of the Japs in Manchuria
was the largest ever served in any army"
| The Population of Germany, apart from
| immigration and emigration. increased
| by 8S2,624 last year. In England, the
| births exceeded the deaths by 393.S21; in
Italy. by 357,17S: in Belgium. by ills: in
Holland by SS,156; in France, by 46411.
| In old Holland, when a couple applied
for divorce they were locked up in a
ore room, trying-out cabin with one dish
and one spoon. If. after a month, they
had not come to limerick they got the
writ which was seldom asked for after.
| this bundling.
1.-The sign read Children Under Five
| Years of Age Free" The conductor
looked at it mournfully. You may not
believe it, said he, but woman with
five children, all hers, got on the car
| the other day and convinced me that
none of them, was old enough to pay.
Somehow. 1 can't believe it yet."-New
| York Sun.
| A professor of English history was tell
ing his young men of the impressionable
age about the Elizabethan era, when
suddenly turning to one of the young men
who seemed to be in a dream, with
| PARKWAY gaze. said: "And how old was
| Elizabeth, Mr. Case?" Eighteen last
| birthday" came the instant reply.-Tit-
Bits
news item stating that Guatemala is
considering putting her monetary system
on a gold basis recalls a poker story
about four players with s1OOo.Oo0 (Guate-
malan) in the pot. which the winner ex-
changed for $500 american gold. but 1t
took him four days to do it. as 500 gold
was all the money changer would part
with at a time.
Horses seldom suffer from decayed
teeth, but because of the upper teeth
closing on the lower ones little on the
outside. points are sometimes Iouho
| which lacerate the cheek or penetrate
| the gums creating tenderness that'
prevents the proper mastication of food.
annoying the horse so much that he falls
away very rapidly.
| The fleet of the Graham & Morton Com
pany operating on the southern part Oh
Lake Michigan, is being equipped with
wireless telegraph instruments. There VII
will be an operator on each boat and also
one at each of the stations to be estap-
Ilished at Chicago. Holland and Benton
| Harbor This service is available tor
passengers and also for emergency.
Lord Lister. a discoverer of antiseps1s,
saw in 1857 near a hospital. an old cnoi-
era pit which emitted horrid stench
| as II was standing open for the next
corpses Walls were formed on three
sides of collins piled one upon another,
| and this was right under the hospital
window. There were five thousand such
cholera corpses in eighty pits in the hos
pital yard.
| In overhauling the seven submarine
cables between Italy and Messina several
of them were found to be badly damaged
by heat. the sheathing and layers OF ruo-
Der being burned and in some cases the
copper conductors fused. Owing to
great change in the floor of the strait
of Messina, one of the cables was SO
deeply buried that it was necessary TO
aba ndon it.
| One of the greatest works performed
by Americans in Korea was the making
of the Korean English dictionary This
was done by DR.. ]. S. Gale. Presbyter-
ain missionary. He began it In 1897 after
four years residence in the country,
and completed it within five years. Prior
to that there was mo means OF intercom-
muncation between the foreigners ana
the natives except through. the chinese
language.
There is a rumor that Hartford, Conn.,,
| intends to make bid for fame by es-
tab;shing an asylum for the treatment
of automobiles that have been worn out
in the service, and that society for the
prevention of cruelty to automobiles is
also under consideration. "A speed anti
toxin and method of injecting common
sense into chaffeurs might lessen the la
bors of the proposed institutions.-New
York Tribune.