Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-04
Odd Items Of Interest

Indigo furnishes nearly fifty shade
of blue.
German soil feeds nine-tenths of he
people.
Half of the worlds zinc comes from
Prussia.
The dress of the japanese woman
shows her age.
The cats of Berlin are all registered
and wear tag.
The Arctic air is very favorable TO-
the transmission of sound.
Some of the cigars of the Philippines
are two and a half feet long.
This year Argentina has 3.35O.O0'
tons of grain and flour available fol
export The crop is put at 100000
tons, the largest ever.
All employees in the Netherlands who
are boarding with their employers are
entitled to medical treatment for a.
least six weeks.
A South African National Union has
been formed in London. and twelve
branches have been formed in South
Africa. The union is independent OF
politics and will develop trade and in
dustry.
For nearly thirty years of it's exist
ence the Social Democratic Federation
Of England can make but scanty show
ing. At the last general election il
polled a meager total of $3.50 votes
and secured the return of only one
representative in Parliament. A by
election in the House of Commons.
The Nelson river may be described
as one of the greatest rivers of the
world as regards the actual volume of
water discharged into the Hudson bay.
It's total length is approximately four
hundred miles, and the drainage area
is tremendous. 1t tributaries cover the
whole of Manitoba, the greater portion
of Alberta, Saskatchewan. North
Dakota and Ontario west of the Great
Lakes, where they also enter Montana
and Minnesota.
While easily stalked. the rhinoceros
is dangerous customer, as most men
will agree who have hunted him.
especially Benjamin Eastwood, chief
accountant of the Uganda railway,
who was nearly trampled to death by
one, with the actual loss of an arm
above the elbow. If the rhinoceros
gets ones scent. he almost invariably
charges, often, probably, from sheer
curiosity: but that does not make him
any the easier to dispose of-May
Century
A consular report calls attention to
the fact that the exports Of canaries
from Germany to the United States
were valued at s13OOOO in 1908. as
p inst 81Qe in
mated that there are now in this
country fully 100000 birds in cages.
and as the ordinary house canary will
eat in a year twenty-five pounds of
seed. costing $3.50. there is expended
on the pet gatherings s7,5OOOOO an
nually for food alone. What other ex-
penses for general care and medical
attention may attach to the keeping of
captive songsters can not be estimated
readily.
The book which is the very best sell
Ter in this country, outside the Bible,
has been the humble Webster Spelling
Book, it being computed that upward
of 100000 copies of this work have
been disposed of in the United States
Health Commissioner Darlington es-
timates that Greater New York had a
population of 4.422.685 on January 1
1909, which is an increase of 137.250 dur
ing 190S and there we're 4.145 more
births and 6,133 fewer deaths in 1905
than in 1907
Commencing the decision of the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Associa-
ton, of Chicago. to pace statue Of
the late President in Grant Park, the
Chicago Record Herald says the plan
is particularly appropriate, as IL was IA
the old exposition building on what is
now the park site that Mr. Cleveland
was first named for President. Eight
years later" adds the Record Herald,
"he was nominated for the third time
in the wigwam erected on the lake
front, just ncrth OF the site nccupie.l
by the exposition building. The two
ChicagO-made nominations marked the
two successes achieved at the polls by
Cleveland in his campaigns for the
presidency"
The Oldest living graduate of Yale
University is Chester Dutton, ninety
FIVE years Old. who was graduated from
New Haven in the class of 1888, and is
now living at Riverside homestead
eight miles from Concordia, Kas. Mr.
Dutts'n was notified by the college an
thorities Of the distinction which befel
him last sur1mer and he was speedily
overwhelmed with requests for his pic.
lures. Accordingly he started to drive
from his home to Concordia to sit for
his photograph at time when the Re-
publican river, which he had to cross,
was very high. The picture was duly
achieved, but on the return trip Mr.
Dutton and his wife. who is ninety
years old and blind, got caught in the
high water and very nearly lost their
lives.
Late London papers convey the in
formation, pleasing to Americans, that
the movement for placing John Bun
Won memorial window in Westminster
Abbey Is making progress. IA further
impetus meeting held IN the Jerusalum
cr"'-'hhr. at which the dean Of West
minister presided, supported by the
archbishop Of Canterbury, the Rev. DR..
Clifford, and others of equal promi-