Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-05-05

"A new All rile can SDoot sixty but
let's with single compression of, air
in its reservoir.
Pivoted at three points instead of
one. shears patented by New Yorker
are said to cut metal with half the
usual effort.
English mistresses who can afford II
are employing men instead of women
| for housework, as they find them more
satisfactory
The volume of the automobile busl-
ness and its allied accessories in this
country will amount to three billion
dollars during the present year.
TasGlania Is the first state of the
| e,smins NV aith tf Australia to extend
| the psincpie of providing free medical
tEeatla. NJ ior school children.
lie - estiiaSied that an investment
Of SS60.000,000 would be required to
! Produce mechanically as much nitro
gen as comes yearly from the nitrate
deposits of Peru.
Tungsten filaments for commercial
electric lamps are being made as small
as eight ten- n-thousandths of an inch il,
diameter.
By washing good coal out of the
thracite region more than fifty million
tons OF saiable. fuel have been oh +
tanned in the last twenty-five years.
Eminent English SCIENTISTS have deA
eided that the waters OF. Bath nor only
contain radium but give off radium
emanations in. as large quantities us
any other radioactive waters In the
world.
Artificial sponges said to equal in
usefulness the natural ones. are made
by treating paper pulp with chloride
of lime. adding common salt and dry
ing and pressing it in machines te
give IL the desired forms. ..aizrts.
The longest stretch of railway in
the world without a curve is in New
Zealand. where there is a line of rai'-
way part of which goes for a dis
tance OF 136 miles in perfectly
straight line. This fact is remarkable
when it is taken into consideration
that New Zealand is one of the most
difficult countries in the world for
railway construction, as it is very
mountainous. requiring sharp curves
and very heavy grades.
Boards were regarded as a sacred
Jews We're proud of their boards, and
wore them through the days of their
Egyptian bondage. although tie
Egyptians shaved. The Greeks and
Romans of the ancient days mostly
shaved, and the term "barbarous"
tbeard- -wearing) was applied for :.
long period to people who were re-
garded as out of the pale of polite So
ciety. Boards have been taxed oc-
casionally, as in Russia by Peter the
Great, and at an earlier date in Eng
land.
Possibly the most generous meal in
the world is at the railway halt be-
tween ST. Petersburg and Moscow. II
is about midnight. You walk into a
huge hall, spread with hot and cold
meats, tea, vegetables. fish of all Hlnds
to be sampled, vodka at hand. Ever
body walks round and takes what .Ie
wishes at the. moment. The train
sounds the departing note. The pas
sengers walk out and say at the door
what they have eaten and drunk. aaa
pay. Russia is said to be dishonese
country, but this system pays. The
Russian won't. cheat the people who
provide his supper.
Laundry cars have been built for the
Russian troops.
New York uses $4,000 worth of
postage stamps every day.
st. Paul is clamoring for a redue
tion in gas rates to S5 cents.
Brazil can accommodate many mil
lions of people without overcrowdins.
Only 25 per cent. of the land area f
the United States is improved farm
land.
Kansas City boasts a japanese BAN
tam chicken with tail feathers nine
feet long.
There are 10000 teachers in Ger
many, only $4,000 being women. The
salaries are from $500 to $3.50 4 year.
Dean George Hodges of Harvard
Theological school, says the world
never was socially better than it IS
now.
The longest pier in New York har-
Dor is nine hundred feet in length. The
Imperator, due at that port on May II,
is 919 feet long.
Educational methods in the United
States are being investigated by the
University of La Plata, Argentine.
j Ify are cOnceEHtu WIN hiotoAy - DAo-
ogy and the rural school problem.
There were approximately nineteen
billion acres of land under cultivation
in the prairie provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1sl 2.
From this area it is estimated tha.
5000, 100000 will be realized by the
farmers for their crops. ~.
The new money washing machine
has been installed in the Philadelphia
mint by Burgess Smith. its inventor.
1t weighs $500 pounds. has a capacity
of five thousand notes an hour, and
has two parts-one scrubs the note;
the second gives it a cold water bath.
The school board Of Paris, Mo-. af-
ter consulting a numer of dressmakers
C"modistes" they call them in Paris,
MOI will prescribe a regulation cos
tune to be worn by all girl graduates
of the public schools this spring. The
object of the rule will be to avoid
elaborateness and expensiveness.
The city of Glasgow. which now hes
population of more than one million
Is undoubtedly, all things considered
one of the best cleansed cities in ans
| country. 1t has an excellent up-to-
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