Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-03
Little Notes Of Great Doings.

More than 25o.00o electric fiat irons
have been sold within year in the
United States and Canada.
1t has been shown that nearly all the
failures of steel occur very early in its
history If a plate or bar Of mild steel
lasts for "a year in service it may be
trusted to last for many years.
The production of oil fields between
Tampieo and Tuxpan, Mexico. is 10000 to
llo,000 barrels daily, of which about 1900
are being lost for want of storage
facilities
\ shepherd in Russia has 100000
sheep To look after and handle them he
has 5000 dogs. probably the largest pack
| in the whole world
TIE population Of Buenos Ayres at
the beginning of this year exceeded l.
l34,06o
An expenditure of s25,oooOo0 for irriga-
ton Is planned by the Cuban congress.
! That lie can produce one horsepower
for each pound his engine weighs is the
claim of the French inventor Of a motor
depending upon the explosive force of
| eunpowder for power.
Berlin. the city which never sleeps. has
rivals as q city of night life. In addi-
ton to its all-night cafes, daybreak res
taurants and theaters which open their
doors only at midnight, Berlin has now
magnificent bathing establishment
which is open every hour in the a The
newly built Admirals- Bad. in the Fried
richstrasse. which has recently been
opened, is one of the finest bathing es-
adjustments in all Germany.
| Only one man in 200 is six feet in
height.
After more than fifty years service in
all parts of the world an American sail
! ing ship has been purchased by man
who will convert it into a floating can
merry for Alaska salmon.
| ON Nov / an international egg laying
match to last a year will begin in Con-
nectieut under the supervision of the
Connecticut Agricultural College This
country, Canada, Mexico, South America,
Europe and Japan are TO be represented.
Five hundred hens have been entered for
the race, four hens TO a team and each
team housed by itself in a separate pen.
In case of sickness a fifth bird can be
substituted
The mutton of the world is reckoned
at 4500oo-0o0 head of which Australia Is
credited with 100000. England ranks
next with one-third that number.
During last year the number of CHI
nese seamen engaged at Poplar for
British ships was 1904. of whom $50 We're
engaged on board ship
In one months collection in the Angeli-
can Cathedral at Likoma, Lake Nyasa
East Africa, We're included 167 coins, lI3
work tickets, pieces of soap, 6 brace
let's. necklaces. IS corneobs, 1870 pump
l1ins, baskets of cassava root 2 papais
fwhatever they may be-. melons, /
gourd, q eggs, chickens and l duck.
, An electrically driven machine has
been perfected that will seal 10000 en-
velopes an hour.
| England spends nine million dollars
a year to maintain her public roads.
t High cheek bones are said to indi-
cate great strength of character in
some direction.
1t is found by an Italian doctor that
| the excess of diversion in the lives of
; New York women is bound to bring
, upon them the miseries of neuras-
, thenia. This disease has, according 10
, the doctor, different ways of affecting
. different races. The Latins become
lirap with exhaustion, the pure Saxons
are dull and torpid and the American
| is merely everstmulated and tries to
, go faster and faster.
One hundred and seventeen persons
chiefly habitual criminals, We're ban
ished for life from Perak last year
OF these 90 were Chinese, Il of whom
had been convicted OF participating in
unlawful societies. 1t was discovered
that the number of prison offenses
varied in indirect ratio with the price
of tin When tin was high and the
industry accordingly prosperous In
ma ties of jails We're few and vice versa
In establishing plant of wireless
tolegraphy it is a matter of the great
est difficulty to ground it properly
: that is, to connect it with the ground
= Al the wireless station of Mauen. Ger
: Imaay. in order to make sure of proper
: connection with the earth, there arc
324 fingers which radate from th'
Z machine and penetrate the ground &c
7 a depth of So Feet The total Length
Of the wires or fingers SO buried Is
SO miles.