Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-11
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Rusine IS League the most striking
story of financial success was that OF
Watt Terry, n young negro who III
400 went from Virginia to Brockton,
Massachusetts. with capital OF IL
cents He worked as coachman. JAM
for porter ard shoemaker and finally
became n real estate broker In the las-
named occupa ton his success has been
so great that at the present time he
reports that his income ranges from
Sc. Oee to $1,000 n month.
An armament trust in Europe con-
trolls the armor plate making business.
according to shipping Illustrated. It's
urofits have been so large that lit has
heen stated that the ordnance ana
arn,or Mate contractors could we'll al
| ford TO build battleships and engines
| for ,iothing. deducting the cost thereof
| from the profits on guns and armor.
The price of armor plate in this coun-
| ivy is said TO be much less than IN Eur
ono as attested by the awarding OF
various contracts.
! E,;yers Of antique furniture are ad-
| v;srd by House and Garden that 1t Is
| now almost Impossible to pick UP
| genuine antiques in this country, as
| The desirable specimens are nearly all
| i'm the bands of collectors or dealers.
| The best plan is to find rcilaple
| dealer and from him huy the pieces In
| the reugh',-that is. before any restof-
| atom has been done BY the ald oil
| naint. varnish, recarNing ete.-ior IL
! saorne that even the reliable deaiel
| sometimes succumbs to the temptation
| IN rutbish up inferior pieces.
| A government. says writer IN s.he
| twentieth Century Magazine, when
tells YOU how 10 carry your umpreit''
| vbict, forbids ladies who Wear loiis
hatp!ns to enter railway trans, Whie''
| 6nas ven If YOU throw cigar STUBS or
| nancrs on .,the street. which docs iio'
| ner,rit vour children 10 make Hois@
| ca that others arc disturbed-such
| .ovarnnent does restrict indlVlouai
| iibortv but Just as certainly 1T en-
| targas the common liberties and pleas
n,e II everybody. The government mus
| enlopigad is that of Germany. Whieh
| the writer quoted prefers 10 our GO
| as-y6,, please, system,
sometimes six policemen fenna ~
| impossible to overcome one me-
rhe fight wrecked nearly all the
saats.s This is not a description al II
| barr.enn row or of an outbreak III d
madhousc, but report ef the proceed
| ings at the recent opening of the mum
oarian parliamen. in Budapest.
schooner nearly hundred years
| old the Hiram. built in Biddeford, Me.
| in 1919 is to make the voyage aroohd
| came Horn To san Francisco for 'he
| Pacific exposition. With one
| execution. this is the oldest vessel "a
1 1tlT III she HdS
| haen IN active, service ever since Siie
/ was launched.
| Archery is showing signs Of revival
as n snort. The National ArehelY As
! soeiation at its tournament le"
| vnclts ago in Boston had the largest
attendance it has had for many yeirs'
| Several American archers are saiu !"
| hold records that have not for MY
| wears been eaualed in England, the OF
| iginal home of the sport.
| Housekeeping With denaturei aicoiloi
| IS advocated by a contemporaries. ~ IL
| claimed that for cooking it is cheaper
| and better than coal II present prices,
| and that much of the labor nnVolNeo
| I'm caring for oil lamps Is saved Wien
| alcohol is used as an llialninaht- Al
| alcohol radiator may also oe useu Sf''-
| jsfactorily for heating rooms IN spring
| and fall.
Sir George Reid. nigh commissioner
| for Australia is the ideal country for
| warknepen 1.-The climate he SAYS
.sis nerfect wages are high, every
workman gets a pension from the
/ st.itat and-2tf,is for the workingwom-
anL"tbe government now proposes a
of
with all these blessings Australia has
n population smaller than that oi New
York city.
This season has seen the centenary
of modern trousers. Yet the column
Of Ira ian shows a group of Sarna-
tians clothed in trousers that are just
like ours As early as A. ID. So
Roman general created great scandal
bv going to war in trousers. when
were regarded as barbarian When
the Bulgarian King Boris was con
verified to Christianity in the seventh
century, among the LOG questions ne
propounded to the pope was Whether
It was lawful for Christians to wear
trousers The explanation OF TINS ~
that the Bulgarans had long peeh
among the trousered peoples. but as
conversion was coming from the ilow-
ing robed Greeks they feared tha'
robes instead of trousers might be
essential to Christianity.
A unique timepieee has recently
been invented by Eugene Walser,
matchmaker in Los Angeles. -Four
years of work has peri ested clock
which keeps accurate time but IS
without a spring in its makeup. inc
motive power is gained by the clock.
rolling down an incline, regulated by
a wonderful arrangement of weights
on the inside of the clock. There is
no winding to be done. but every
thirty days the clock is lifted to the
top of the incline and begins to slide
downward. The dial does not re,
volve with the case. but remains as an
ordinary dial with the figure II at the
top. The incline is of polished wood,
sixteen inches long, with an l-3 per
cent. grade. There is no relation
between the wood and the clock: it is
simply a matter of properly adjusted
weights. which move the hands ana
control the downward motion of the.