Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-17
Odd Items of Interest

Fourteen apocryphal books of the Bible
are recorded.
OF the S25 gondolas in Venice, $50 belong
to private parties.
In the list of the imports of this coun-
try bananas stand twenty-fourth in point
OF value.
Trees bearing sour oranges have grown
Wild along Florida swamps for hundreds
of years.
The Swedish government is seriously
considering the establishment of a tobacco
monopoly.
In the state of Washington q per cent
of the area is still in reservations, the
greater extent being of forestry reserves
The south, with q per cent. of the total
area of the United States, contains about
AZ per cent. of the total forest area of the
country.
One of the exhibits at Seattle is model
of a house and stable, showing how rats,
the carriers of bubonic plague, can be
kept at a respectful distance.
DR.. Chamberlain, U. S. A., says that 60
per cent. of southern-bred soldiers have
hook worm disease, and of many new
recruits the percentage is at times as
high as IS. Southern recruits are less
well developed physically than northern
ones.
Nuremberg is the center Of the toy
trade of the world. More than half the
employees in the toy factories are women
and girls. The wages Of the female toy
makers are about cents an hour OF the
estimated German toy output of $23, 1000, 600
a year, about $19.O00.000 is exported, more
than half going to Great Britain and the
United States.
Miss N Edwars. of Coaley Glouster-
shire, is said to be the highest authority
in England on poultry. She has won over
one thousand prizes and exported poultry
into every country. Beginning in a small
way with only twenty fowls, her poultry
farm is now one of the largest in Eng
land. She not only raises chickens for the
general market, but sells eggs and stock
birds.
The new chancellor of the German en-
pire, who held the rank of lieutenant in
the imperial army when the new honor
came to him, has been promoted to the
rank of major This may seem to be an
empty distinction for the chancellor of
the realm" says a writer in a German
paper, but it will absolve the new major
from the obligations to salute lieutenants
and captains. His predecessor, Won Bue-
low, also held the rank of major and
never attained to any higher military dig
nifty
The international female nurses will
hold their first conference this month in
London. Japan will be represented by
Mrs. Take Hagwara and Mrs Nobu Mat
sudaira of the japanese Red Cross So
ciety. They are said to be the first Japa-
nese women to represent Japan in any
international women's gathering. Mrs.
Hagiwara is the fifth daughter of the
Marquis Nabeshima and now makes her
home in England. Mrs. Matsudaira ac-
companied the Warehouses Yamanouchi
on a tour through Europe several years
ago and is now living in Paris in the
suite of Prince and Princess Nashimoto.
Every year since the death of the Prince
imperial the former Empress Eugenia
spends a few weeks at Chiselhurst but
while resting there she seldom leaves the
exception and took a trip on the Killar-
ney lakes in a motor boat, accompanied
by a maid. the Princess Eugenia Bona
parte, who. it is generally supposed, will
be her heiress, and a soldierly, grizzled
man attendant, who has been in her SER
vice since the days before Sedan. AL
though she is in her eighty-third year the
former empress seemed to enjoy the trip
and spoke cheerfully OF coming again
next summer.
At the University of Missouri is the first
working school of journalism in the world
AS practical laboratory work, a daily
paper with telegraph reports is issued
Walter Williams, its dean. tells of the
vcssitudes he encounters in turning lay
men into journalists. student was sent
in haste to cover a railroad wreck at a
town few miles away. 1t was almost time
for the daily to go to press. and still no
word had been received from the young
man on the assignment In desperation
Dean Williams telegraphed. asking why
the story was not Forthcoming. The re-
ply was: TOO much excitement. Wait
till things quiet down."-Lippincott's
The Japanese have discovered a cheap
substitute for the mich COW in the form
of a tiny bean. The juice. which is ex-
tracted by a special process from the
bean, is said to be an excellent vegetable
milk. the properties of which render it
highly suitable for use in tropical coun-
tries. The preparation according to the
Java Times, is obtained from the sofa
bean. q member of the leguminous fam-
ly of plants, and popular article of food
among the poorer classes of Chinese and
Japanese. In making the vegetable milk
the beans are first of all softened by soak
ing and boiled in water. The resultant Ii
quor is exactly similar to cows milk in
appearance, but is entirely different in its
composition.
Lagniappe," a New Orleans CUSTOM
dies hard. year ago the retail groccrs
of that city agreed that they would re-
ffain from giving bonus or present to
customers, as it was burden they could
not support, but since then some two
hundred of the retailers have resumed the
practice. The others now say they will
boycott the wholesalers who sell to the
retailers who have violated the agree
ment. The seat of the trouble, however,
is in the habit of expectation that has
long been cultivated in the customers.
Give me my lagniappe" is regarded as
legitimate demand. and the lagniappe