Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-14
Odd Items Of Interest

No race is safe from cholera. It Isl
deadlest to negroes ~
Bees sometimes fly two miles from the
hive and find their way back without
difficulty.
Recent experiments seem to indicate
that bees have the homing instinct like
the pigeon.
Dogs. horses, cattle, mice. even fish
have cancer In Tunis and Ably ssinia
cancer is unknown.
Leprosy is the only exclusively human
germ disease 1t is impossible to give it
tC any other animal.
The British museum possesses chair
the throne of Queen Hatasu-which was
in use some $500 years ago.
Over three thousand pounds of rose
petals are used in the manufacture of one
pound of altar of roses perfume.
The Kohinoor diamond originally
weighed eight hundred karats. but by
successive cuttings it has been reduced
to LOG karats.
Liquid gas manufacture and commercial
utilization in Bavaria and Switzerland
is successful. according to consular
report.
After a long study of school children
in London, the Medical Record says. DR..
Hartman finds nothing to show that good
schooling hurts children's eyes.
Doctor ants do incredible cures-if they
were not vouched for by Huber, Lub-
book and others They battle and sun the
sick put them to bed and show more hu-
mainly than most folk
Children of the public schools in the
province of Ontario Canada, are to have
much cheaper school books, to be sup
piled by the provincial government under
a five year contract beginning August 1.
1909.
Baron Groto, minister of communca-
tons. is Investigating the ACCESSIBILITY Of
transporting mail by automobiles in the
principal cities of Japan, and also posi-
bly, to distant points where railway traffic
is not yet opened
At the Pekin Palace Dog Association
show, held in London, Mrs, Cross's China
dog Chu-Ear took Mr.. Pierpont Morgan's
prize of 100 guineas. Mrs. Cross refused
check for $4,000 down for the little
chink-about $500 an ounce. Plenty of dogs
in China, but this was perfect palace
pup,
Omsk. Siberia, now has an American
consulate, with Adolph f. Reinecke in
charge Heretofore there has been no
American consular representation in the
extensive Russian region between Mos
cow and Vladivostok, over five thousand
miles apart. N this territory are many
large cities and the country is showing
rapid agricultural developments. Last
fall five thousand Russian immigrants
passed through Omsk in twenty-four
hours.
The voices of the summer which make
sleep difficult for so many persons in
New York do not interfere with the repose
of one citizen. who is happy in the pos
session of an invention which deadens all
sound This is small metal ball which
fits into the canal of the ear and stops
it up. 1t is kept in place by a narrow rod
no thicker than pin which fits against
the shell of the ear. These deadeners of
sound are rare here but popular enough
in Europe, whence this one came.-New
York Sun.
After lying at the bottom of the sea
undisturbed for century and half one
of the guns of H. NJ S. Families, which
was wrecked near Bolt Tail, on the south
coast of Devon, has been recovered. one
side of the weapon has been worn away
with the action of pebbles and Single
washed over it by the tide to such an ex-
tent, says the London Chronicle, that at
the muzzle the thickness of iron Is very
little, and for it's whole length the metal
has the appearance of being gradually
fled away. Even the trunnions which
originally took it's weight on the gun
carriage, have been worn to spikes.
III satirical article entitled THE Nat
ural History of American Millionaires,
writer in the Beriner Tageblatt sys:
"They all came to New York, Chicago or
Philadelphia with one shirt and with one
cent in the pocket of the only other gar
ment All served as bootblacks, errand
boys or even in more humble positions
and in the second week had saved enough
to buy a waistcoat After one month
they appeared before their respective
employers clad in new clothes and to'o
them with imposing self-con -dence tnaI
the organization of their business was
defective and required reorganization
A year later the boy has become part
ner. in two years he has outstripped the
former boss in wealth, and year later
he has grown smart enough to Kill OIL
the benefactor of other days.
The effort of George Brandes to induce
the Norwegian government to purchase
and to preserve the Grimstad apothecary
shop is meeting with the Endorsement OF
many literary organizations all over Eu-
rope The little crumbling building In the
south of Norway was the scene OF Hen
rik Ibsen's earliest activity as a writer.
He was helper and then an apprentice
in the apothecary shop, and employed the
few idle hours at MS disposal by writ
ing. There" said Brandes in hi APP
peal, 'Ibson discovered himself. the
place had at that time about eight hun
bred inhabitants and the apothecary shop
was it's exchange, the congregating place
of the towns business leaders where
they discussed the events of the time.
There he wrote his poem TO Hungary
and Catalina and the place should Dc
preserved for all time"