Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-19
Odd Items Of Interest

There are now in England and
France several establishments where
butterflies are bred.
There are at present in the medical
schools of France 1890 French and SIG
foreign Students.
In some Norwegian schools cooking
is taught, and not only to girls, but to
boys, on the ground that many occa-
sions may arise in a mans life when
such knowledge is useful.
1t is proposed in Germany to have an
organization for providing old age and
disability pensions for bank officers
and bank clerks. annuities, for their
widows, and education for their or
phans.
Just forty years had elapsed on May
10 since the rails of the Union Pacific
moving westward met the rails of the
Central Pacific moving eastward at
Promontory Point, near Ogden, Utah,
and the first transcontinental railway
was completed.
AS Mongolia is rich in minerals and
foreigners have been casting longing
glances on it, the Chinese ministry
of agriculture, industry and commerce
contemplatcs forming a joint stock
mining company from subscriptions by
Chinese merchants in China and
abroad, SO as to retain profitable enter
prises in Chinese hands.
Epidemic cebro- spinal meningitis
used to be rare in France, occurring
chiefly in military centers. Now doc
tor is likely to meet with it in general
practice. If the Acknowledgements Sc
rum of DR.. Gopter of Wasscrmann is
used at an early stage the disease gen.
orally stops short and clears up in
two or three days without leaving any
traces.
Lord Kitchener will hand over his
command in India to General Sir o.
Moore Creagh early in August and at
once proceed to Japan. He proposes to
make long stay in that country and
will closely examine the military sys-
tenn and army organization in time of
peace. From Japan he proposes to go
to China, and he will traverse many of
the battlefields of Manchuria, with the
advantage of going over much Of the
ground with officers who took part in
the Russo Japanese war and who have
been placed at his disposal by the
n!ikado and the Japanese government.
Unoccupied places in the Chicago
StOckyardS are to be made to bloom.
Instead of unattractive lanes and pens
and roadways and great bare buildings
the yards are to present stretches of
flower beds, with here and there build
ings surrounded with shrubbery. The
scheme originated with j. Odgen Ar
mour, and the first fruits of his plan
may be seen at the general offices of
Armour & Co, where bright flowers are
in bloom all around the building. The
packers hope that the visitors to the
yards will find comfort in the flowers
and shrubbery after they have listened
to the thousand and one grating noises
which fill the air at all hours of the
day.
The German Society for the Proven
ton of Noise, which was founded in
1908 by DIR. Theodor Leasing, in Berlin
has in preparation lists for distribution
among the people who rent houses and
apartments. (which will contain infor-
nation as to rest-disturping noises
These lists will be printed on paper OF
various colors. One color will contain
the addresses of noiseless houses, one
where there is little noise, and still
another where much noise may be ex-
pected 1t will soon become known
when a house is classified with the
noisy ones and landlords will try to
improve conditions so that their house
may receive a good color"
The United Charities of Chicago and
the clty's health department have
Joined forces for a summer campaign
to save the lives of babies. Maps have
been prepared showing where every
baby died last year, and the efforts of
500 workers who will he in the field will
be especially directed to these districts
The progress through the early part OF