Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18
Odd Items of Interest

The actual cost of the Suez canal was
$780, 1000, 600.
The Persian gulf region holds the rec
| ord for heat.
The men of Australia outnumber the
women by 247,O00.
July 1, 1909, will begin the enforce
| ment of the new pure food law in
| Switzerland The American meat trade
| is largely interested, as some of the
restrictions are very stringent and the
inspection fees may be put far too high
San Diego, Cal, has wonderful
| clock with twenty dials which tell 81
| simultaneously the time in all parts OF
| the world, also the days of the week
| and the date and month. 1t stands
twenty-one feet high and four of its
dals are each four feet in diameter.
| Canton (China) merchants at home and
| abroad have formed navigation associa-
| ton with 81, 00O, 900 capital, to run steam
| ers, open a bank and an insurance COM
| pany.
| Although the drink called chocolate
| did not appear in England until 1861,
| it's restorative properties soon became
| generally known. Thus, on May "a,
| 1861, after an evening of carouslng,
Pepys worked in the morning, with
my head in a sad taking through the
last nights drink, which | am very
sorry for; 50 rose, and went out with
| Mr.. Greed to drink our morning draft,
which he did give me in chocolate to
settle my stomach"
Notice of pure food judgment No. so,
issued by the Washington authorities,
| reports the condemnation of the Fed
| eral Court in Tennessee of eiGhty-four
| sacks of coffee beans as having been
| "aululterated within the meaning of
Section I of the food and drugs acts In
| that the beans were coated with lead
I chromate a poisonous and deletcriOus
substance, whereby inferiority was
| concealed and the coffee rendered in
| furious to health"
British naval supremacy is said to
date from the time of Alfred the Great,
| who claimed and enforced for English
| ships Of war the right to be saluted
first Through the following centuries
| this claim was continuously disputed
and objected to until 1878, when the
Dutch agreed to strike their colors to
the English in British waters. Through
the same honor had long been extract
|
ly agreed to the same recognition in
1904.
| An interesting development of the
| use of flowers for food is recorded in
| the daily papers. says the London
| Globe. The use OF the candied petals
of the violet as swectmeat has long
been known but the practice is now
arising of preserving flowers whole.
| You may now buy bunch, say of vio-
| let's, for your buttonhole and afterwards
eat them AS a matter of fact, a num-
Der of flowers are habitually eaten.
| Gloves, capcrs, caulifloWerS and arti-
| chokcs are all flowers, or parts of flow
ers, before the blossoms have expanded.
| Jump short" pic was once eaten by
| the Rev. r. II. Barham, author of the
| "Iagoldsby Ledgends." He was visit
ing one of his parishioners, was asked
to dine and have some "jump-short'
| pie. He did so and made hearty meal.
| Its very nico-tastes like lamb; why
| the odd Nance" he asked. "Wcll, sir
said his host, lit is lamb. You see, the
| young lambs in the pasture try to get
over the drains; a good many of EN-
! Jump short, tumble in and get drowned.
| Then we hooks en- out and puts 'en
| into a pie Have another help. sir?"
| Barham declined
| Ar interesting experiment is being made
| in the higher education of women at
women at Kings college, London. The
idea is that there is just as much educa-
tional value in careful study of the
PRINCIPLES of managing the home and
young children as in the course usually
| read for the taking of degree
| An apparatus used in Berlin for train
| ing butchers apprentices in the killing
of animals by the hammer method is de-
| scrbed in Popular Mechanics The APP
| paratus has an indicator and scale which
| tells the force of the blow. so that the
| apprentices soon learn just the force they
| require to make the killing as humane as
possible.
| 1t has been demonstrated by numerous
experiments in Europe as we'll as in
America that the pulp possessing the best
fiber for paper, and the most practicable
to make is that derived from the wood
| of the spruce and fir
Tommaso Salvini has written his auto
biography, which is shortly to appear in
a book entitled Infancy and Youth of H.
lustrious Contemporary Italians" Sal
vini says that he could act a part well
even when he was boy.
Since 1903 there have been no imports
of live cattle to England from Argentina
on account of the foot-and-mouth dis
ease, but the imports of frozen beef from
that country amounted last year to 402,.
041.632 pounds, valued at $685. 1923.
| Miss Eliza hatb Cboccar 10, aa,,oxo,
last year to investigating the condition
of women prisoners in England. She de.
ciares that she found very few skilled
workers among them, the vast majority
being women without a trade or educa-
ton.
The teacher in room No. Z, Cadiz public
schools one day last week asked the class
in English to give some examples in COM