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

| Chicago has a skyscraper with golf
| course on it's twelfth floor.
| Annual salaries in Chicago average
| 81. 202. 55. Man daily wage. $l.s1.
| Imports to Bosnia Herzegovina now
! average about sSo.o0o,ooo annually.
| Frank Reeh found a safety pin in a
| boiled egg is Ashland, o. the other
day.
| Uruguay will establish public stock
| yard and nineteen public slaughter
| houses.
| The United States last year imported
| f5s 900, 900 pounds OF cocoa, the greatest
| amount on record.
| Coffee from the region around Oaxa-
| ca, central Mexico, is said by experts TO
| compare with the best Java.
A Frenchman has succeeded in flying
| with an aeroplane driven by Tapping
| wings instead of a propeller.
The construction of what Is known as
| No. lefty at Cape Town docks has
| been authorized at cost of 100000.
Don Pedro ROBBIE of Columbia, has IN
! vented typewriter capable of writing
| sylla bles instead of single letters.
Ore bride in ten in California is a
| dirorcee. Statistics compiled by state
statistiean Leslie show that the total
| number or brides in 1912 was 1926. or
| this number 1904 were divorces.
Francis y Matthew, oregon pioneer
| a 1912, and the man whose vote saved
| the oregon country to the United
| States. is seriously i'll at the home OF
his son, s. A. Matthew, in Portland,
oregon.
Judge George Lakin. of Phillips, Me-
| has the reputation that not one of his
| decisions has been reversed by the SUI
| prenle court during the forty-two years
| that he has acted as a trial judge.
1 Several American cereal companies
are complaining because the ir product
| is classified by the German customs
| house authorities as made by a spe'
| cial process" and as such is subject Il
| a high rate of duty.
Thirty thousand deer die in Califor-
mia each year. the victims of hunters
| and preying animals. according to
| report issued by the state fish and game
commission. OF this number about ter
| thousand are killed by hunters
| When w. W. Meredith. farmer al
| Woodland, Alberta, Canada, dressed
some ducks for the local markets h'
found the stomachs of several birds
filed with flake gold, seven OF tbs
pieces measuring from a. sixteenth Il
an eighth of an inch in diameter
DR.. Charles Wood of Washington
urging greater missionary activity ir
China, declares the republic will no,
endure unless the bulk of its people
become Christians.
Only the more important moving
. picture theaters of Frankfort on-the-
Main change their programs twice
week. Films showing typleally amer
lean subjects are popular.
To prevent the starched bosom OF
: dress shirt climbing out over a low
cut vest an inventor mas Drought ou'
a shirt that is combined with a pair Of
short drawers
Miss Kate Barnard will continue hel
work in the interests or men IN convic
mines and work places, in which sht
has become interested as commissions
of charities in Oklahoma
Kansas has $4,000 school children.
In 1911 there were 10S homocides II
St. Louis.
, Fireworks were originally made ant
Y used by the ancient Chinese.
The French grape crop is light ant
/
Basutoland has population of 404,
5O7, of whom 1886 are Europeans.
In the wooden trade during the las
: ten wears Great Britain has made
, nearly five times as much progress al
Germany. and fifteen times as much a!
France.
Dr. H. s. Frost, Superintendent o
! Boston's hospital for the insane, re
| in, no n
water baths in calming violent pa
( tents.
. An indianapolis citizen writes al
! earnest protest to a local editor: ;"
l wish to protest against teachers in ou
public schools inviting children undo
their care to engage in cantatas to b.
; given publicly for the benefit OF an!
religious sect" One might suppos
. that parents could determine TO
l themselves whether it was desirable
! to let Presbyterian child take par
: in Methodist, entertainment.
To enlarge it's course in petroleum
mining the university of Birmingham
!, England. is preparing to build add
= tional laboratories. The university ha
:, been giving the course for some time
and it has turned out some men VIII
\ have achieved high places in the in
: dustry, as well as in activities de
= pendent on petroleum products. II
! recognition of the value of the worl
I done a special degree hereafter is t
4 be granted.
' Philadelphia has increased the sal
: aries of public school teachers.
II The University Of Minnesota ha.
n added q course in agriculture for girls
: A large roof garden where resident