Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-28
CURIOUS CONGREGATIONS.

| Two Los Angeles -chauffcurs have
| confe ssed To stealing thirty -one auto-
mobiles. valued at $4,000
Washington Will hereafter grade sal,
aries Of public school teachers accord
| ing to their experience.
New Yorks department Gf education
| last year employed 800 lecturers VINO
delivered 1858 lectures.
| Philadelphia PresLyterians are cam
paignihg to increase Sunday school at
tendance % per cent
Pr. Gal1riele Nahapetian, of Venice,
| wants 10 realfange the calend1. s, that
Easter VIII became f&ed da,e.
| In the densest parts Of Bombay there
| ere - persons 10 tho acre. Nv York
| has one thousand in the same area.
The worlds Whaling .rGHstrS. in l.11
resulted in obtaining about six hundred
: thousand barrels of oil, which was al
most double that of the Year before.
Mrs. Dora Quillon, age thrty-six OF
Whitesbure, KY, is the mother of thir-
teen children, including three sets Of
twins and one set of triplets all living
Mrs. Peter Yartz. WHO lives n a poor
little log cabir near Redwood Falls
MINI. has just fallen heir to $50, 00o
Size SAYS she will not leave her cabin.
The United States Steel Corporation
will this year expend s55,0d0,000 on con-
struction work. This does not include
expenditures for proposed Duluth and
Sandwich plants.
The chairman of the canary bird
sro,lp of an archaeological society IN
IGermany reioices in this title which
ornaments his visiting cards "Karna
uchtvereinseorstand.@
American competition in the British
Iautomobile trade is kecner nov than il
ever was before. There are now about
twenty five distinct American makes
on the British market
The highest wireless tower in the
| world is located at Nanef,. Germany Ii
is nearly thousand feet high and il
is expected that the company can send
| messages as far as from Berlin 10 chi
cago.
Railroad and industrial corporations
in the United States are now making
/ arrangements for securing funds with
which to take up maturing obligations
which. during the next eight months,
will total at least $3oo. Q04.
Ever since the Gordon riots in 1880
the Bank of England has had military
protection The military watch is set
every night AT O'clock II marches
with bayonets fixed from the head
. quarters of whichever guards regiment
las the duty fer the week.
one of the few funds, if not the only
one. left for charity by a President Of
the United states is used III Lancaster.
| l. 4 -. I L.,
poor at Christmas and FOL other good
uses The fund WAS left by President
Buchanan. who was a resident af Ian
caster, and the income now amounts 10
nbout $1,000 Il year.
Mrs John Records. of Gueda
Springs. Kas., daughter Of john Keir,
of Wellington, WAS awakened early III
, tie morning by dog scratching on her
front door. She discovered the family
dog of her father at the door and
thinking that something had gone
wrong, hurried IL Wellington, twenty
five miles away. She found that her
+ father was i'll.
Sydney smith once made an elaber-
: ate calculation as 10 the Nay pecple
/ apportion their time in the course Of !
| long NE. w men He WIS seventy t"t
he remarked to u girl he met: DO you
: ever reflect how You pass your life.
If you live to be my age, which | hope
: you may, your life is passed in the
following manner: Am hour Il day is
g three years. This makes twenty-seven
years sleeping: nine years dressing:
1 nine years walking: Zine years at
l table; six years playing with children;
nine years walking, drawing and Wis
itins: six years stopping. and three
years quarrel;ng."
In the personal laboratory OF Sir
William Ramsay. at University col
lege. London, is a new pair of scales
: so delicately adjusted that they Will
: weigh a seven millionth part of an
ounce. The room is in semi dark
ness. So delicate are these wonderful
scales that their balance is disturbed
by the turning of an electric light at
the other end of the room, The