Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-13
ODD ITEMS OF INTEREST.

African leguminous tree, are extensively
used for food, the pods and leaves form
an excellent cement when mixed with
crushed stone.
Mrs. Nancy NJ. Johnson, OF Washington,
was the first person to take out patent
on an ice cream freezer. She was the
wife of a naval officer. She took out the
patents in 1s43 and sold the rights for
$41,5o0.
| Lieutenant Commander Belknap, the
American naval attache in Berlin, is still
engaged in experimenting the relief
work on account of the earthquake at
Reggie, Italy, carried on by the United
States Government
| Vessels of the German navy have been
equipped with a novel life-saving appa-
ratus resembling a huge basket with its
sides made of rope ladders. Lowered
over the sides. several persons can climb
| 1t at the same time.
| The proprietor of one of the saloons
near Long Island cemetery with an eye
| to business, sends black bordered circu-
lars to houses from which there will be
| a funeral, stating that special attention
will be given to funeral parties and that
| private rooms nicely furnished, will be
reserved for chief mourners New York
Tribune
| The mill occupying the most northern
location in America is flour mill at Ver-
milion 700 miles north of the United
States boundary, and within 400 miles of
the arctic circle.
The United States now makes about
| $4,000 automobiles a year, Italy $4,000,
and France 10000.
A delicate woman with baby on her
arm and a little boy holding on to her
skirts, boarded a subway train at the
| Brooklyn bridge one evening recently
when the uptown rush was at it's height.
There were no seats vacant, and the wo-
man balanced herself as best she could
until at curve she fell forward, and was
saved from injury only by the crowd
which surrounded her. Instantly num-
Der of people rose and offered her a
place to sit down, but she refused and
| told the man next to whom she stood:
| Some people never help until the last
minute, when they are ashamed to do
otherwise. I'd rather stand than thank
one of them."-New York Tribune
An opinion given by the corporation
counsel of Chicago to the chief of police
ought to bring a bit of comfort to the
suffragettes. A woman employed by a
department store APPLIED to the chief for
appointment as a special police officer
with the right to carry a revolver and a
billy" The city's legal adviser has de-
cided that there is no express constitu-
tional disqualification of females, no af-
firmative statement of qualification
txr,l; oh o1,,lo
nothing in the duties imposed by statute
law or city ordinance upon a police off,
Ger which would imply the necessity or
intended exclusion of either SEX The
chief has made the appointment.
The production of white strawberry
which bears all the year round, instead
of at certain seasons only, is claimed by
Hugo H. Lilienthal, Berkeley horticul-
turist. He is a German, who has pro-
duced various creations of an unusual
kind in the way of fruit and flowers The
white strawberry, his most recent crea-
ton, is the result of a long series of ex-
periments with crossing varieties under
different conditions. Lilienthal claims to
have produced two distinct varieties of
berries, which will bear through the full
year, making a Christmas berry easily
obtainable. One of these is white, the
other red, and both are said to be of ex-
celent flavor.-Confectioner and Baker
Syracuse, Sicily. has according, to the
Giornale di Stella, the most snobbish
theater public in the world, and to illus
trate the contention that paper says:
"Catalanis opera, 'Wally,' founded on
Wilhelmina Won Hillern's Cater Wally,'
had it's first performance in Syracuse re-
Gently before an audience which filled
the theater to the doors. The impress
saric had invited a great many men and
women who belonged to the city's best
society. The next night, however, when
admission fees were required, the house
was empty. This was nothing new be-
cause people who belong to what is
Known as the better class, particularly the
women. will occupy only such places as are
in close proximity to those in which the
nobility sit. To be in the parquet. where
she might have as neighbor a tailor,
butcher or barber, would be unspeakable,
and to guard against such a contingency
the Syracuse woman denies herself the
pleasure of the drama and of the opera,
and this despite the ridicule in which the
papers have INDUCED on that account"
This acid destroys the germs of putre-
faction. For this reason sour milk and
| buttermilk are often beneficial in alimen-
tary disorders which are accompanied by
| bacterial infection. Sweet milk will not
serve because the sugar is promptly as
| simulated and the friendly germs are with
out sustenance. On the other hand. the
casein of the milk remains and in it the