Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-03
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There Is 4. great deal of fancy fuf used
in the world each year. but about 100000
humble pussy cats give up their hides to
help out the market.
A report has 1t that a new telephone
company is to start In Chicago. and that
its wires will be run through the freight
tunnels. 1t hopes to start business with
1000 Instruments.
The government efforts to establish
wireless communication between Califor-
mia and Japan by way of Hawaii have
proved rather unsuccessful. although a
few messages have been transmitted
Greece has come to the conclusion at
under perfect conditions.
last that she has been producing too
many currants for the good of the mar
ket. Now plan Is on foot to destroy
% per cent. of the stubby currant bushes,
and the owners are going to be REIN.
bursed in some way for their loss
An interesting discovery has been made
in boring tunnel at Riou, France. One
of the workmen found embedded in clay
the fossil of an animal believed to be a
stag, which is thought to have belonged
| to the Plocene period. 1t has been placed
| in the museum at Puy.
The surgeon who operated upon King
| Leopold of Belgium just before he died
took about ten minutes to do his work,
and it is said that he sent In a bill of &c.
900. Considering the wealth of the I'M
mourned king and the size of the fees re-
ceived by American surgeons. it doesn't
| seem large. ssSsss
Henry Savage Landor says that the
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dirty beyond description and every cruel.
yet appear to have the vices which are
the peculiar appe9nxe !. of civilization.
The women are supuios 70 the men and
show much more cqsi He says that
he saw but one god 1loking woman all
the time he was In Thf8ets
Discoveries of great Neurological i'm
portance made near 83ntH Victoria in
Sardinia and many expef4s aresnow gath-g
ering there The RUINS ~ an entire town
have been excavated add 4 nlsnber Of ara
tistic objects recovered a. of which tend
to show the discoverys Of q city which,
nourished in the bronze age The king or
Italy has subscribed $4,000 toward the
| expense of the work. 81 N sAqs*A
! Before the customer paid his bill tiie
| hotel stenographer tore several pages out
of her notebook and handed them to him.
| only the notes of his letters" she said
to the next customer. HE is one of the
cautious kind. There are not many Ike
him. About once in six months some
body comes along who keeps such -
watchful eye on his correspondence that
| he won't even let a stenographer keep his
notes Of course, it is nothing to us and
we always give them up when asfed to
don't know what the cautious folk do
with them. Destroy them, maybe. Any
how, there is no record of foolish utter
ances left in the stenographer's books.
| New York Sun. z s''sss. a..
| A New York woman just back from
Europe tells this story: "At Bad-Nau.
helm a physician told her that he had re-
Gently had an American from the 'far
West under treatment, who grew better
| under his care and was finally told that
| nothing more could be done for him. Tne
| family were about to depart, when the
young daughter became i'll and the same
physician was called in. After q weeks
trea ment he told the parents that the
chld's ailment was nervousness and nos
talgia Take her home and She will be
all right" IF she has nostalgia said
| the mother, "give me the name of some
European expert and we will have her
| cured. have no faith in our home ply
| sicians."
| Norway is a country rich in vast min
eral wealth. The richest iron mines are
situated in the northern part of the courf-
| try, as we'll as in the Trondjhemske. AZ
| has been calculated that the mines at
| Sydvarager contain 100,0O0,OOO tons, anu
| that the yearly production will be 600.OOo
| tons. Operations on these mines VIII
| probably commence next summer the
| work at the Dunderlandsdalen mines has
been stopped for some time, but 1t VIII %
| resumed in the near future. when the
| Swedish method of treating the ore VIII
be employed, with the hope that the
works will produce 100000 tons year.
II is estimated that the mines In The
| Tromsoe district contain about S0,0o0.W0
/ tons of ore. Machinery has lately been
erected in these mines. The yield will ba
| about 100000 tons per annum Severar
other mines in the north Indicate abund-s