Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-14
Odd Items of Interest

vi the goose OF duck. IneS6 tney place
with aromatic herbs in slaked lime for
a period of several weeks. Under the in
| fiuence of time the yolk liquefies and
| takes dark green color. The white CO.
aguates and becomes green. The pro-
duct of the egs, which has a strong odor
| the Chinese eat as a side dish and it is
said to have the taste of lobster.
Brass helmets worn by English fire
fighters occasionally prove useful At a
recent fire fourteen tons of glass fell on
one mans head and completely buried
him, and when he had been dug out down
to his shoulders another shower OF glass
came down and buried him again He
was in hospital for four months and
glass was coming out of different parts
of his body for six months afterward, but
he is stin one of the best men of his
company.
Los Angeles county, in California, has
established divorce record for the first
five months of 1909 The figures indicate
that one divorce has been, granted sincs
January l for every four marriages cele-
brated This is an increase over the
ratio during 1908, when it was one to TX,
in San Francisco one to seven and - the
whole of the United States one to twelve.
Four hundred and sixty interlocutory and
2o2 final DEGREES have been granted at Los
Angeles in five months of the present
year.
WhiteIin the shade, red in the sun,
such is the two-fold character that has
given a name to the chameleon rose At
night or when it is carried into dark
nv1i NH;
This does not occur abruptly, but the
petals first pass through blush tint,
which rapidly changes into a very pale
rose, and finally ends by. becoming the
purest white. Then, if it is taken Into
bright sunlight. with the greatest rapidi-
ty it resumes the scarlet tint of the most
brilliant peony.s
AFFECT poverty is the condition of much
of Haitis population. There is a brisk
demand there for old condensed milk, pre-
serve, butter and lard cans, of which are
made practically all the cooking and table
utensils they use. Old condensed milk
cans have handles put on them and be-
come drinking mugs Cooking is done in
old five-pound butter and lard cans.
These latter are also the measures uni
versaly used for the sale of corn and
other grains and sirup. Petroleum, milk
and other liquids are sold by the bottle,
an ordinary quart wine bottle being used
Residents of miserable seaport on the
Persian gulf called their town Bushire
(Bcosheer). Its narrow, dirty, ili-payed
streets British tars are now patrolling In
the interests of Persian and British COM
merce. The city is visited by earthquakes
and simoons and stints its children of
wholesome air and fresh wafer It APP
pears, however, to have enjoyed high
repute among the ancient Elamites, who
have left buried about under moldering
heaps bricks with cuneiform inscriptions.
In summer the citizens of Bushire live
in heat that is almost unbearable.
1t was said by the Viscount d'Avenel,
in Paris, recently, that in 1909 France
finds herself ten times richer than she
was in the middle ages, and six times
richer than she was seventy-five years
ago. during the time of King Louis
Philippe. This wealth has been acquired
almost entirely during the last half CEN
fury, and is in the hands of the army of
small land owners who have taken the
place of the few owners of vast estates
which have been broken up. France has
large fortunes. Only 5000 have incomes
of $4,000 year There are barely ten
millionaires who enjoy incomes above
81, 100000 ~
When the death of George Meredith was
announced group of London newspaper
boys quarreled as to his identity. Ona
held that he was an amateur champion
cyclist, another maintained that he was
'the boss over the biscuit firm" but they
finally agreed to the argument of the
third, that he was the ''bloke what played
in the cup final at the Crystal palace
Bees return to their hives in a direct
line when they have been carried away
and liberated. up to two miles. This has
been supposed to be due either to the
sense of sight or smell, but the expert
ments of CASTOR Bomber have proved
that neither sight nor smell can serve the
purpose and that bees have a special
sense of direction This sense is not
in the antennae.
The skin of fish does not suggest IT.
self as suitable material for the making
of clothes. yet 1t is used for this purpose
by tribe Of Tartars In Manchuria.
They inhabit the banks of the Peony
river and live by fishing and hunting.
During the last hundred years they nave
become nearly extinct owing to the, In
vasion of their domain by agricultural
Chinese. They are known as Fish-skin
Tartars. The fish they use is thu. tamara.
a species of salmon. Both flesh and skin
of this fish are supposed to possess won
derful heat-giving properties
The main lesson Of leprosy Is somewhat
philosophic. All Europe for centuries
was covered with 1t, but the quick.
strong. reactive blood Of the white race
strangled the germs Of DEATH 80 IL is
doubtful If whites could ever be pestered
much again. Yellow races, Of slower.
weaker blood. are still slowly stawdng
with it.-New York Press.