Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-11
ODD ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dogs" remarked man who t avels
good deal on suburban railroads.
"have pretty easy time in New York,
but | never saw anything to equal the
soft trip that collie made the other
day in from East Hampton. A woman
came aSoad the train leading him on a
chain and settled him in the seat in
front Of her in the parlor car. When
the conductor came along he punched
two tickets, one for the woman and
the other for the dog. And the woman
paid the double price.-New York Sun.
The manager of a telephone exchange
is living alone during his wifes sum-
mering in the country and he had little
on his mind save the constant fear
that while he is away from the fiat
burglars will go through it. To alevi-
ate in measure his pangs of trepida-
ton he has given the exchange over
which he has charge standing orders
that the telephone in his fiat shall be
rung up once every half hour from s
O'Clock in the morning until at night.
He believes that the ringing of that
bell might some time startle q burglar
at work and drive him away.-New
York Sun.
Football is a game whose origin dates
back to the Danish invasion of Eng
land. In the year JS2 the citizens of
Chester captured a Dane, and after be-
heading him kicked his head about the
city for sport, which proved so attrac-
tive that it was repeated whenever the
head of an enemy could be got In af-
ter times, as it was not possible always
to obtain mans head for the purpose
of entertainment. the shoemakers OF
the city were bound by their charter to
provide "a bale of leather called a
footballe, of the value of four shill-
inges."
"A martyr in the cause of Italian H.
berry," says the Rome Gazette, ere
Gently died in that city. Annibale Lu-
catelli was eighty-five years old. In
the fifties he was active in many revo-
buttons against the church, having been
one of the ten hotheads who melted the
revolt of 1851, which failed. His broth
err Casare was executed, and he was
sentenced to the bagnio for life. To-
gether with a number of colleagues he
was pardoned in 1870, and received a
professorship at the Industrial museum,
where he was known as King Hum
bert's personal friend"
An ingenious fraud in the butter line
was brought to light recently in Eng
land. In that country the amount OF
moisture in butter is limited by law to
is per cent. Australian and New Zea-
land butter on the other hand, usually
contains only per cent. of water TAX
ing advantage of this fact, several
firms imported large quantities OF
these colonial buffers. to which pei
cent. of water was then added. thus
bringing them down to the British
standard AS the added water natural.
~ cost nothing and the product was
sold at the current butter price, sub.
stantial profit was made.
Kansas railroad commission has dis
covered that the law against drinking
strong waters on railroad trains l,
more honored in the breach than in the
observation, and has set out to enforce
it rigidly. The law makes it crime
for any person to drink Intoxicating H.
quors In street car is being used fol
the transportation of passengers. The
penalty is a fine of 500 or a thirty-day
Jail sentence. or both. The railroad
commissioners have ordered that 8
printed copy of the statue be posted
conspicuously in every passenger con-
veyance.
Some of the London (England) pa
perS are giving attention to an enor.
| nous magnet which has been patented
| in Germany, and the Berlin correspon.
dent of the Standard. speaking of what
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at the mouth of river or port, it is tc
| make scrap iron of all the iron ano
| steel of an enemy's neighboring Dread
| nought. throwing all the machinery out
| of gear and generally sending the mon
ster mad A smaller ship, it is hoped
| may even he drawn out of it's course
| altogether and swept into the port by
| the force of attraction. and a still
smaller one may be sucked right under
water.