Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-30
Odd Items Of Interest

| The bamboo tree does not bloom until
it's thirtieth year.
| A full-grown cat has thirty teeth, while
a dog has forty-two.
| A nursery for the children of patrons
is connected with a Glasgow theater.
| Twenty thousand dollors' worth of rose
leaves We're imported during the decade
ending 1908.
Germany, Great Britain and the United
States produce four-fifths of the worlds
supply of pig iron.
| French theaterS receiving government
subsidy are obliged to give a free per-
| Torrance every year.
Canada produces nearly one-half the
worlds supply of maple sugar, about 49,
900, 600 pounds annually.
| Guatemala now ranks next to Brazil in
Importance as the source of the supply of
coffee. Ecuador is rapidly expanding its
cocoa production.
About sixty miles from Melbourne,
Australia, there have been discovered on
government lands deposits of some 20,000,-
600 tons of good black coal
| A movement has been set on foot at
| Calcutta to erect a statue to Lord Kitch-
ener, in commemoration of his tenure of
office as commander-in-chie in India.
| There are valuable race horses in Eng
land which have teeth filled with gold. 1t
| is too risky to have such horses suffer,
and go off their feed when racing time
| approaches.
| These two battleships authorized by the
last congress, which will be laid down
next fall. will carry heavier batteries than
any other warships afloat or ordered by
any nation
According to official figures, the num-
Der of merchant marine steamers of ia
pan at the end of last year was 1,61S. OF
| these, 101 were steamers of more than
three thousand tons. .- =.
| An old Scotswoman was advised by her
minister to take snuff to keep herself
awake during the sermon. She ans
wered, briskly: why dinna ye put the
snuff in the sermon, mon?'
In 1905 the average daily prison popula-
| ton of Russia was 5000. Last Febru-
airy it had increased to 1S1,137. The great
majority of the inmates are political Of
tenders confined without trial or hope of
Icing heard.
| There are hard times ahead for Chica-
gos public school 'frats'' and sororites
| The president of the board of education,
despite the fact that he has a son and a
daughter who have belonged to them, de-
clares that he has no use for them, and
| the new superintendent of schools, Mrs
| Ella Flagg Young, is strong in her oppo-
sition.
| That the war on tuberculosis pays i'm
mediate dividends in human life is proved
by report of DR.. Bosely, health commits
sioner of Baltimore. In the monthly
health bulletin for July it is shown that
| the number of deaths from tuberculosis
| occurring in the city was ninety-two, as
compared with 123 for the same month
last year.
State Senator Ernest r. Alderman, of
New Jersey, who is now enjoying his an
nual trip abroad, is one of the best known
and most enthusiastic collectors of post
age stamps in this country So large is
his collection that he has set apart one
room in his home in Plainfeld as a stamp
room, in which are some of the rarest of
stamps, so dear to the heart of the phila-
ltelist.
| A woman who recently applied to the
| Lambeth guardians for relief said that
for the last three months she and her five
children had lived rent free by squat
| ting in the rooms of empty houses In
| Lambeth there are many such houses
which have reverted to the duchy of
Cornwall, and people are permitted to &C.
cupy the places until the premises are de-
molished.
1t is curious that the British naval au-
thorties should have abandoned oil fuel
at time when in foreign fleets it has
been decided to substitute oil for coal
The British empire has very limited re-
sources of oil fuel. and at present, the
navys supplies have to be imported
These supplies might be cut off in time Of
war, and it is probably for this reason
that oil fuel is being given up.
young man is bringing an action
against a graphologist in Paris for sub
stantial damages. A pretty heiress, to
whom he was engaged to be married,
showed specimen of his handwriting to
the graphologist and asked for informal
ton. This is the reply she got: If you
should meet the man who wrote these
lines upon your way through life avoid
him.. He Is an egoist and a fool. has a
bad temper and a despicable nature.
Ihe existence of the woman who has the
misfortune to marry him will be a Cal
vary The marriage has been broken
OFF, Hence the action.-London Express.
A farmer standing outside his farm
house saw pair of his pigeons fly away
shortly afterward he heard shot and
the pigeons did not return in the course
OF the afternoon, as he had expected
In the evening, however, the cock pig.
con returned in order to feed the young
and having seen to this, he again flew
away. The following forenoon, the same
pigeon returned. helped itself to some
corn strewn In the farm yard and again
disappeared Between and O'Clock in
the afternoon both pigeons returned, and
! 1t was then ascertained that the hen bire
had one wing badly hurt by shot, hui