Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-08
Odd Items of Interest

A record of Az miles in four days
has been made by an Alaskan dog
| team.
| The first electric smelling plant in
| the world in which pig iron will be
produced on a commercial scale is
about to be installed in Norway.
While the bishop of Stepney was
walking in London the other day
newsboy came along crying "Winer,
| winner" Then, seeing the clergyman,
he at once altered his cries to Dread
full fire at Jerusalem
United States land areas still unap-
propriated and unreserved in 1908 were
54,S95,000 acres, of which 36S,O22,00o
acres were in Alaska, 61,117,000 in Ne
vada, 46, 532. 900 in Montana, A77S,00O In
New Mexico and 42,769,000 in Arizona.
Leprosy is singularly undemonsrat-
tive disease. Out of hundreds only a
few have a startling, not to say horri-
BILE, appearance. 1t is very mildly con-
tagious, and nurses and attendants
have spent ten, twenty, fifty years in
leper colonies without catching it.
At the close of a heightened and
bitter wrangle between judge and a
prominent counsel the former said:
"Well, sir, if you do not know how to
conduct yourself as gentleman i am
sure ] can't teach you" TO which the
barrister mildly replied: THAT Is so,
my lord
The battleships Massachusetts and
Indiana the armor of which was manu-
featured about 1895, carry main belt
of armor which contains plates eight
cen inches thick at the top edge. con-
tanning eighteen inches in thickness
to point below the water line. and
tapering from that point to eight in
ches thick at the bottom edge.
At the recent convention of the In
ternational Association of Chiefs of
Police, in Buffalo, the biggest man
present was Michael Regain. the head
of Buffalo's police department. Chief
Regain could easily qualify for New
York's crossing guards squad. as he
stands six feet four inches in his
stockings. He was elected vice-presi-
dent of the association.
The snow fall in central Europe last
winter broke all records for many
years, Germany probably receiving the
worst of it. For four days at time.
following each big storm. the streets
of Berlin were blocked to such an ex-
tent that the street department of the
German capital was taxed to the limit.
One snowstorm cost the city $4,000 to
clear away, automobile snow plows and
vans being used to a great extent in
the work.
"Dingoism," the new word introduced
into Australian politics by way of an
tithess to "jingoisnl,' is derived from
the name of the wild dog of the antipode
-dingo. Before the arrival of the whites
the Australian natives had trained the
dingoes to assist them in hunting. The
dingoes soon began to attack the white
mems sheep and so became an enemy to
be shot at sight. Real dingoes are
now very rare. except in the vast un-
settled areas of the north.
A curious Wagner souvenir in the
form of a silk handkerchief was sold
recently at Liepmann's, in Berlin, for
155 marks. On the handkerchief was
printed a poem and this introduction:
ITO Fraulein Minna Planer. on her
marriage to Musical Director Richard
Wagner, Konigsberg, November IA.
1886" Wagner was at that time twenty
four years old and the director of the
orchestra at the Konigsberger Stadt-
theater. His bride was Wilhelmne
L
pany
One of the leading railroads of the
eastern part of the United States has
recently adopted reinforced concrete
gin poles for use in heavy erection
work. For instance, such pole was
used recently in the placing of four
thirty-five-ton 109-foot Orders used in
building a bridge near Philadelphia. 1t
Id
character had been subjected to such
severe test, but the same pole was
used for all four Orders and its be-
havior was all that could be asked.
At the Rockefeller institute Flexner
and Carol proved that visible death is
not true somatic death; they grew into
live animals organs and tissues of ami
mails that had been in cold storage for
a month. In some cases certain func-
tions seem to continue in the grave
until every part of the man Is dead.
Hunter a century ago cut out OF ami
mails blood vessels tied up full of live
blood which lived for days. An old
chemical belief was that cadaverine,
product of decay stimulated the hair
growth, and some doctors tried cada-
VERNE as a hair restorer.
LII nine cases out OF ten SuHStTOke
or heat stroke simply means fainting.
fainting caused by sun or air heat act
ing on one whose resistance has been
lowered by disease. drunkenness or
fashionable dressing. 1t starts with a
giddy feeling, he may stagger and then
he falls, is pale, pulse small, weak
and fiuttery, breathing soft and sigh
ing, skin cold and clammy, he is part
ly or wholly unconscious. Usually he
RECEIVERS without treatment in a few
hours with splitting headache and
great weakness, but some cases fail
directly from fainting into death from
heart failure.--New York Press.