Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-02
Odd Items Of Interest

Some of the moons mountains are
SO 900 feet high.
Electric heating devices are success
fully employed for branding cigar
boxes.
1t is figured that a successful physi-
sian must have a clintele of $50
families, or about $50 persons.
| BY a vote of 81 to II the Oregon
Legislature has refused to abolish the
| whipping post for wife heaters,
1t is estimated that there are 2,000,-
| 900 horsepower in unused water
powers in the State of Wisconsin.
More than one-quarter of the
| tobacco consumed by the Spanish ma
ton comes from the United States.
German women are taking up box
| ing and there are a number of schools
| where the art of self-defense is taught.
Eighteen men were tied to the
whipping post in one day recently at
Wilmington, Del, and given a total of
| 255 lashes. This beats all previous
| records
|
rates under certain conditions for
| travel on it's passenger trains and the
change has resulted in enormously in
creased business and revenues.
The government of the British East
Africa protectorate has prohibited any
person experimenting with wireless
telegraphy without a license from the
governor.
| In fifteen months Alice Roosevelt at
tended 4OS dinners, 271 receptions, III
| balls $50 teas and shook hands with
| 80 900 people. After this strenuous
| season she was compelled to go to bed
| ill.
The town of Vallecas, in Spain. is al
most entirely built of meerschaum.
Vallecas has on it's outckirts- great
quarries OF a meerschaum too coarse
for pipemaking, and a meerschaum-
built town is the result-an ivory-white
town that shines in the Spanish sun.
The Lancet has been making an an
alysis of London snow on weekday
aud on a Sunday. The Sunday snow
showed roughly a fifth of the amount
of impurities present in the weekday
snow. But the most significant df-
ferance was that while the weekday
snow contained as much as 1856 grams
of suphuric acid in ten pounds. the
Sunday snow contained practically
none.
Siberia has the coolest weather
| known anywhere in the world. At
Verkhoyaonsk. Siberia. 90,4 degrees
below zero was observed in aJnuary,
1883, which goes below anything ever
| known in the world before or ever
since. At that point the average tenn
perature for January is nearly GA de-
| grees below zero. This town is $50
feet above the level of the sea. and
during the entire winter the weather
is calm and clear.-London Globe.
That even earthquakes have rivals
| is proved by an incident that occurred
at the time of the trembler at Charles
| ton, S. c., several years ago. A resi-
dent of the shaken city sent his six
year-old son out of the danger and
confusion to the youngsters grand
| father in New York Three days after
| the bows arrival the Charleston man
received this telegram from his father:
| Send us your earthquake and take
back your boy"
The city of Denver has gone INTO
the publishing business on a small
scale Denver Municipal Facts, an
illustrated weekly issued by the mu-
nicipality, is being distributed. 1t VIII
probably remind any New Yorker IN
to whose hands a copy may come oi
our own "City Record"-it is so DIFF
ferent. 1t ought to have good clrcu-
lation, as it's free. The leading aru-
Gle in the issue of last Saturday was
by the city forester, who gave citiIenS
detailed advice on how to beautiiy
their yards with shrubs. flowers ana
trees.-New York Tribune.
r. P. House, the dry farm plant ex-
perimenter, of Greeley, Colo. mas re-
ccjved from H. J. Sconce, of Sldell, Ill,
one seed of cobless corn grown by the
Illinois man. House asked for three
seeds to plant in a hill, but only one
could be spared and it will be carefully
tended. The cobless corn grown by
the illinois man resembles very closely
the primitive husk" corn. Each kernel
grows on parent stem and eacn
kernel is inclosed in it's own husk, all
being enveloped in one large husk.
The Illinois man has succeeded in
eliminating the stem and by taking
the very tiptop kernel of the present
variety expects ultimately to evolve a
perfect cobless corn. The Illinois
Agricultural College is fostering the
or5 hoIiovae iY, re