Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-05-05
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
N exhibition of .'sweated Industries"

ratproof corn crib is made of con-
| crete and wire mesh, with tin roof.
Il Brussels. Belgium, educational eom-
miItee has founded trade union
tscl,ool.
In Lyons. France, all perambulating
| signs are subject to the traffic regula-
| tions.
stray animals are killed and cremat-
/ ed in Boston at the rate of six hundred
i week.
| Edward Bush taught sixty-cight
years in New York schools. Now he Is
| a pensioner-
| Portland, Ore, reports the case of n
| girl married at fourteen and divorced
at fifteen.
/ In Cradley Heath, Birmingham. Eng
| land. women blacksmiths make chains
| for cents a yard.
Bradford (England) city council has
decided to build two hundred work
mems houses, to be let at SLIP Il week
clear of taxes.
GERMANY ships twelve million or fif-
teen million "pips" or crowns" of Ill
| les of the valley to the United States
every year.
camel with an average load will
travel twenty-five miles day, and
| when unincumhered it will go ninety
miles a day sometimes.
THE government of Panama plans to
bui,d two schools of agriculture,
girls normal school and professional
school FOR women.
spnfiower seed is quoted at So one
hundred pounds in England, and there
IS an increasing demand for its manu-
facture into oil cake.
WINNIPEG has added to its list OF
municipal ownership a public bath and
has expended in the last year sen,coo
for buildings and mainteaance.
At the state experiment station, al
Wooster, the crops have averaged, Tor
a term of years about twice as much
to the acre as the usual yield of all
grain fields in Ohio.
JTrusuay's imports from the United
States for the first eleven months OF
1912 reached the record sum Of s6,to'-
600. while the previous year thev
reached only s5,953.S13. also record
year.
Five thousand copies of the Blnie
have been placed in the guest rooms OF
the hotels of Washington. ID. L.
through the efforts of the Gideons, or
Christian Commercial Travellers Oh
America.
The macerating machines at govern
ment headquarters in Washington de-
strcy sa.5e0,Oo0 daily. Charity workers
freouentIy write in and ask for the
condemned. paper money, citing uie
great good they could do with II.
The United States imports from the
orient, including ali of Asia ana an VI
oceania under the general title, snow
an increase of IS per cent IN the iast
ten years, and exports thereto an IN
crease of 100 per cent. in the same Pc
Rod
Until recently Leeds. England, occu-
nies a leading place in the produetioh
# leather but the trade is deeHhihs'
although many tanneries are sun III
operation. Two of the Oldest ana pese
known concerns went out of business
in 1912. ..s
The banking power of the oniteu
states has more than doubled IN the
last twelve years-the increase since
1900 has been Ill per cent In that siiiie
the number of banks increased loi PEI
cent. their total business 12I per cent.
The capital of eighteen of the natiohdi
banks is 1912 per cent. OF the totai.
ON arriving at wayside station be-
tween Sligo and Enniskiller the tfaN-
eIer remarked to the chief oHieiai. l
observe your service has impfoseo
lately" Cant see il, repiied the STA
tion master stoieally. cob. can, saiu
the traveller, your trains are aoie 10
whistle without stopping now.
The oldest Italian universities are
Bologna. founded in 1900; Padua, IL
Naples, 1924; Genoa, 12fs; fefusia'
1916: Nacerta, 1890. There were hiIic
more founded between 1900 ana i''v-
Italy was the greatest resort OF stun
erts for the higher education IN the
middle ages. riTnity college, Dupiiii.
was incorporated by royal chareef III
1891.
Wire was originally made by nam
mering. but is now produced py power
f,,l machinery which draws the heated
metal through a series OF hoies ol
gradually diminishing size Ine MS.
wire mill in England was set up at
Mortlake in 1868. Enormous qnahuties
of wire. of differing grades and sizes
are now used, ranging from thick-
ness difficult to bend to the iines.
thread.
New nroofs are constantly Dein3
found tending to show that the Ameri-
can Indian came to tE,s AeHiis.'i,clo
from Asia by wey of Alaska. II l'as
been pointed out lately. says the fa,p-
6nder that the Indians 'how is no.
CONTRACTION of the white mans now
dv,, or ..how do you do but tnat -
a pure indian word and means goou'
and il is also a pure Chinese Woi"'
meaning the same thing. ~
The trees which occupy the area "i
js4 square miles that was selected 'of
the site of Gatun lake at Panama were
left standing because il would have re-
auired an expedition of about TWO
million dollars to clear this large space.
AS a tree smotners when its roots are
covered with water for some tlme'
thousands of the trees in the lake al
ready are beginning to Ole, and II Is
probable that all of them will nave ue-
cayed and foated down stream wIthih
few years.
I'VE have no hesitancy in saying
| that the easiest money we ever earhea
was working ON the railroad" says Ell
mer Peterson. 1.-The work was on d
| gravel train and the force put IN from III
| ten to seventeen hours day at ~ Il