Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-14
Little Notes OF Great Doings.

Consul lift of Nuremberg reports
that he does not know of a single soda
fountain in Germany and that he has
never seen one there.
New Yorks sick list averages 1885,.
zoe names each day. or one person in
every 30, and within a year l,530,00o
cases of illness occur within the city
limits.
At recent Old Bailey trial. 1t was
stated that st. Augustine's Church,
Honor Park road, London, had been
broken into by burglars no fewer than
a times.
new pocket tool cleans insulation
from electric wires as 1t is drawn
along them and will separate without
injury two wires which may be twist
ed together.
Three thousand pieces of baggage
an hour can be handled by an eleetri-
cally driven belt conveyor recently in
stalled on New York pier to load
passenger steamers.
The Chinese Government is plan
ming TO extend its merchant feet of
Chinese steamers Of modern build in
thirty fast steamships.
DR.. Thomas c. Grove of Chicago.
official physician of Cook county, IL
linois, advocates a law that would
force landlords to provide fly screens
for all doors and windows.
Sixty-seven sackfuls of sticks have
been discovered on top of the tower oil
St Michaers church. Exeter, England.
They had been carried there by jack
DAVIS for nest building.
Orphan asylums are unknown IN
Australia. Every destitute orphan
child is sent 10 private fanny
which takes care of it until 1t is IA
wears of age and is remunerated by
the government. oo0
Barcelona, Spain, is to pay slL4'o'"''
for it's new water supply.
If there were but one potato In the
world careful cultivator might produce
10. 600 OOo,O eco from it in 10 years, and thus
supply the world with seed again.
Winter fishing in Manitoba is siren
uous occupation. The mercury oi,eh
touches 60 degrees below zero, ana nets
must be flshed several times each DAY.
Paris has 115 inhabitants to the
acre. while London has only 81.
Russia planted 240,4l9,396 acres IN
grain last year. the largest acreage III
Its history.
Ten cents a day is the amount ac-
tually required for food to sustain
human. The remainder of the money
| is spent for fiavoring.
In an electric fountain small enough
| for use as a table decoration that a
Boston man. has Invented the falling
water turns a wnael which changes
I the colors of the lights which illumi-
lnate il.
| Germany is much pleased with the
lcompletion of German submarine ca :
lble connecting the fatherland with
brazil and the German settlements IN
THAT republic The stretch from En-
lden to Teneriffe was laid in 1909. that
TO Monrovia in Liberia in 1910, ana
Inow the cable end has been landed at
lPernambuco.
At last we are to have statue OF
our British Columbus. Captain Cook,
land it is to be placed in appropriate
proximity to the new admiralty arch
way. But although London has been
unaccountably backward in honoring
our greatest navigator, there are a
dozen memorials of him scattered
Through the country At present Aus
ltralia possesses the finest statue OF
Cook. 1t is of bronze, by Woolner
The figure, fourteen feet in height
stands in Hyde Park, sydney.
Gray horses are the longest lived
cream colored ones the most easily at
fected by changes in temperature
/ man isn't necessarily straight be-
cause he follows the line of least re-
! sistanee. II is usually a pretty crook
ed road TO travel, and the most UNSAFE
Ever notice how a woman VII
iump from one topic of conversation
To another like lightning and zigzae
all over the lot, from Row to wash the
hair to wonan's ,snffragee, then irisf
crochet Ia, ii, a, smart woman IT y
lcharmins.
| What makes man so excited IN al
argument is he resolved at the star
mot to be.